Rudy!

OB:
I had to laugh at today's outcome. I don't think Brother Holt had these comments in mind when he prepared his lesson. He couldn't bring back the true point of Rudy very well.

Today our Rudy papers were due. A few of us have started to look at Rudy differently before we watched the movie and after watching it, our thoughts were confirmed. Most people look at Rudy as a great motivational movie about enduring to the end and pursuing your dreams. Well a few of us (especially those that have read Strengths Finder 2.0) noticed that the lesson was, you can acheive your goals even if you're not good at it, if you stick to it. Plus, some goals are really stupid to want to reach. The example that Brooke brought up was, "If your life's ambitions is to get the highest score at Halo, what good does that do for a person?" Brother Holt tried to tel us a friend of his now works for Nintendo creating games, but it didn't work very well. Oh well. Poor Brother Holt, but at the same time it was fun to watch a professor try to bring us back to the point that had obviously been lost and quite frankly DROPPED! and considered rubbish.

Here are my notes on the rest of class:
"Bednar thinks Covey just took Church principles and made a book out of ‘em."
Motivated by video: (pretty good movie, old but good points)
Recognition
Affiliation
Order & Clarity
Physiological
Monetary Reward
Safety & Security

Influential stages
Decision
Awareness
Feasibility
Commitment – ask what they can do and when
Be specific
Actions
Competence
Approach
Resources available
Results
Praise
Satisfaction
Dissatisfaction –vent
Final evaluation

In each step reevaluate
Reassess the commitments
Reassign commitment in casual way
Provide incentives
FEEDBACK
Keep individual needs in mind

Empower people by giving them the option to come up with the answer themselves

Two minute Management:
Life’s little lessons (funny slides)

Leadership:
Drive
Leadership motivation
Honesty and Integrity
Self Confidence
Cognitive ability
Knowledge of the business

HOMEWORK:
Write to 20 people
What traits do I have to become a great leader? (I posted onto Facebook)


Finance:
Today we started to work on an assignment as a group, but our minds were pretty much fried from OB. Oh well, we have a couple of days to work on it. Most of us are just glad all the other assignments are done, but we still have our Marketing thing to do next week.

Let Your Light So Shine

OB:

Before class we were to have read: "Let Your Light So Shine" and we commented on that a bit. Then we went back to the powerpoint. Here it is finally for those waiting for it.
Here are some notes I took during class:
Motivational plan notes:
Unsatisfied need --> Tension --> Drives --> Search behavior --> Satisfied Need --> Reduction of Tension

Where am I on the “Maslow’s hierarchy of needs”?

Giving up agency by not practicing piano = giving up the choice to play or not to play.

"My fear is to come to the other side and see how we were before we came to earth and see what we could have been. And find that a bit of pride, a bit of selfishness got in the way." -Brother Holt

That was about as much as I got out of class for today. If you got more, please comment.

Hank Kolb

Supply chain:

(So I lied, I wasn't going to post the powerpoint today, since it was supply chain and finance today, I'll put it up tomorrow when there is OB.)

Today we spoke mostly of what we thought of the Hank Kolb case and if we would have fired Wayne or not. I said that he was just doing what he was told to do and that quality wasn't a big deal from the company. Well in actuality, they did fire him, so if you take the poll, fire his sorry bottom and make him an example. I think for firing him, they did do a good job. They canned him and then called a company meeting right away to talk about quality. Here are the notes we took on the board about the case, if you are interested. There were only a few in our class that would have fired him.
We also went over some ways to chart problems. The Ishikawa (or fish) diagram helps us do that by asking 5 why's. Here are some pics of our diagrams and the four (M's) major contributors: Man, Machine, Method, Material. I hope you enjoy the pics for these.

Finance:
Today we talked more on personal finance and how we should invest. It was such a quick explanation, I think we were more confused than anything. I would love to take the full classes on this sometime. I doubt I will have the time to fit it into my schedules. Oh well.

That was about as much as I got out of class for today. If you got more, please comment.

Demotivational

OB:
Demotivational is almost how I feel about this class right now. I have so much homework to do. I started on the "Good to Great" book report. I have come to some really shocking realizations about myself. Oh well, I'll leave those to... well, sorry, but not to you. We started off class with a series of Demotivational Posters. I have actually worked at a place that had one of these on their wall. Not many companies want to put these up, but this one was to actually motivate us. And it did. Go to the website to view and purchase your own. or just view the funny things they offer. Despair.com

We then started a powerpoint about motivation. I'll make a link tomorrow for that. There are some really great things int there that are worth rereading.

Then we talked about one of the other many things due this week. Evaluations. We are to evaluate each other. It sounds easy enough. We also went over a few things about how to evaluate:

4 points to evaluate
1) Emphasize strengths – positivity helps improve productivity
2) Avoid suggestions involving the changing of traits, but rather suggest more acceptable ways of acting – blue in the face to change traits, but “doctrine will change people faster”
3) Concentrate on opportunities for growth – not weaknesses
4) Limit plans for growth to a few important items – don’t try to do it all at once

Evaluate – up and down,

That was about as much as I got out of class for today. If you got more, please comment.

Anchor Your Life

OB:
Today we took a quiz. I was going to write up every question and answer right here, but this is a John Culter's Run. I am going to let you figure out the answers. What I will tell you is that if you know good jokes/riddles you may know the answers to some of these. I missed one question because I wasn't listening well enough. the rest I got right. But you have to take into consideration... I am old man and have been around the block a couple times. Most of these questions didn't stump me at all. Oh wait! none of them stumped me. Brother Holt did think I was cheating once, but I was actually checking the guy's paper next to me to see if he got the simple question right. That's right I was judging him to see how smart he was. I can promise the guy on the other side of me wasn't cheating, he got maybe 7 out of the 22 questions.

We got some more info on how to work on our Rudy Paper. I am not going to give you all you need to know to write that by Friday, but I will tell you it really isn't that hard and it doesn't matter how many times you've seen the movie, watch it again.

Supply Chain:
We went over the exam we took and he said something that really helped in understanding how to work the supply chain stuff, plus it was a really good life lesson. He said that we should adjust for whatever the anchor (standard deviation) is. Then he brought it back to the gospel aspect, that we should always adjust to our personal anchor. “Anchor your life to anything that is black and white.” I really like that. Some things, if not most things, are Black and white and we can make sure that our lives match those principles. The rest of class was focusing on starting Littlefield Technologies Part II.

That was about as much as I got out of class for today. If you got more, please comment.