I’d be interested to “hear”:mailto:p.smith@auckland.ac.nz from anyone in the class with regards to what they thought were the best parts of MGMT 301 (those things that shouldn’t be touched) and what were the least useful parts (those things that could go, or weren’t well understood).
!<^/images/quote_start.gif! p(()). I used to hate writing assignments but now I enjoy them. p(()). I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. p(()). With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report? p(()). “The dynamics of …
The teams gave their final presentations today. Here are some quotations (well, this is what I copied down) taken out of context — but the truth is out there. “We didn’t use what we learnt in the practise rollovers in the real rollovers” (Random Bikes) “We thought that everbody … thought like us” (Plan 9) …
Well it’s the last class of the semester for MGMT 301, and I’m really looking forward to it. Not because it is the last class, but because the teams present their stories to us (DPE) and the rest of the class. This is where a good portion of our learning takes place (and they are …
Lisa and I met up with Brownie & Vicki Brown, “Dennis & Kay Lally”:http://www.akc.quik.co.nz/dennisl/, and “Brodie Jones”:http://www.oldfriends.co.nz/oldfriends/member_profile.asp?oldfriends_member_id=3765 at Cafe Extreme in New Market. The common thread between us is that Brownie, Dennis, Brodie, and I all worked together at “Philips New Zealand”:http://www.philips.co.nz/. We meet every 6 months, well may each year, at the same place. …
Well I spent a happy hour from 4 to 5 yesterday collecting the assignments from Commerce B, checking them against the class list, checking the class list against the TurnItIn results, and sorting them into teams ready for marking. That should only take 20 minutes or so, but because some things are missing it takes …
As always, it was interesting to read this week’s “The wonderful world of Armi”:http://www.thereflectivepractitioner.org/armi/archives/000347.html. It does sound like he has had a real *aha* moment. Providing student’s with meaningful aha’s is very difficult. Here’s why. For me, learning can only be said to have occurred if behaviour changes. If people reflect on their time at …
I had an really good conversation with a student today about maps and incidents. Alas, he didn’t mention his name — and I forgot to ask, so the credit for much of this entry is due to the “un-named student”. What’s an incident? Well, basically it is an event. It has a point in time …
The final word in “Armi’s”:http://www.thereflectivepractitioner.org/armi/ “journal entry”:http://www.thereflectivepractitioner.org/armi/archives/000345.html was “ok”. That brought back some strong memories from last night’s psychodrama training. One group member, the protagonist, had just finished saying a rather long and deep piece, and at the end of it the director simply said “ok”. Well the trainer, probed to find out what was …
p. There have been a number of questions about the up coming assignment and especially about *critical incidents*. So, what is a critical incident. Well it isn’t what common sense might tell you. “Paul A. Twelker”:http://www.tiu.edu/psychology/Twelker/critical_incident_technique.htm has a pretty good definition of a critical incident: An “incident” is best thought as “any observable human activity …
It’s strange the things that stand out in this recent assignment. Firstly, many people chose to use the _360 degree feedback_ type of forms. This is fine, but a disproportionate number of people emphasised the topic of emotional intelligence field. My guess is that came from peoples previous experience with EI or EQ in MGMT …
I end up at a psychodrama class to night. I say _ended_ because I only popped in to drop off some books to the library at “ATCP”:http://www.psychodrama.org.nz/atcp.html. I’d had some confusing calls during the day about classes being on, so I went in just in case I was still confused (about the class being on …