Career Readiness
This first quarter I learned how to use leadership in a way that could help my company achieve our goals. I feel that as a part of the Sales and Marketing team I was able to work hard to develop a professional business plan. I was able to learn a lot about what goes into a business plan and how to explain certain topics of the company. When our chief marketing officer was absent I was left in charge to lead our team. I think I did a great job at helping others this quarter, whether they were in my department or not. Overall I believe that I can use my leadership quality to drive others to work as hard as I do. I found that after I worked hard for a few days on the business plan, others started to do the same thing.
As VP of sales I am expected to relay tasks from our CMO, Tanner, to my employees, Justin and Aaron. Aaron has been making posters to post on social media to promote our products and different things that go on during the week. Justin has been overseeing the Twitter and Cam had been doing the Instagram before he left. Justin and I have been promoting our products and trade shows using our social media accounts. I feel that I have done a great job of being a leader for our company. I help Tanner when he is overwhelmed and I also help out Chev and his group with their tasks. Overall I feel I have grown into a good leader which I did not think would happen at the beginning of this year.
As VP of sales I am expected to relay tasks from our CMO, Tanner, to my employees, Justin and Aaron. Aaron has been making posters to post on social media to promote our products and different things that go on during the week. Justin has been overseeing the Twitter and Cam had been doing the Instagram before he left. Justin and I have been promoting our products and trade shows using our social media accounts. I feel that I have done a great job of being a leader for our company. I help Tanner when he is overwhelmed and I also help out Chev and his group with their tasks. Overall I feel I have grown into a good leader which I did not think would happen at the beginning of this year.
During this past month I have been working on my own professional accountability to allow myself to act more professional everyday during this class. Sometimes I use my phone, which is a distraction that I must work on fixing going forward. Instead of treating it like I class, I think of it as my job. I do my best to eliminate distractions during the period because I want to respect others around me. I collaborate well with every department because of my positive attitude and my ability to listen to others. Within my own department, we collaborated and worked together to complete all of our party packages. We had to create these packages for our product line. I worked with Ben in accounting to come up with a Saturday's are for the Boys party. I support my classmates when they complete something for the company. This is important because when someone puts time and effort into something they deserve to be recognized for it. I have used this past month to bond with the other people in my company. I listened to a presentation for the Trade Show and I offered some constructive criticism on the speaking portions. Overall I believe that being professional in the workplace is a quality that everyone must have if a company is going to run smoothly. If everyone was unprofessional then no work would get done and the company would be run into the ground.
During the month of January I focused on core technology. I have been in charge of the social media accounts so I have been working with Aaron from the design department. We design flyers to post on social media to promote our products and new packages. I have learned more about Photoshop from Aaron and I have been improving my computer skills. At the start of the semester I did not know how to access the portal or buy things from my company and others. I have improved my skills so I can now access the portal, my bank account, and buy products from companies. I believe I can continue to improve by being more active on the social media accounts and posting more things, such as employee of the month or other accomplishments by people in our company. This is one of the flyers that Aaron and I made and posted for the Holiday promotion:
During the month of February I focused on being functional in the business place. I believe that I did a good job this month of completing tasks assigned to me and I felt that I was flexible while taking on different projects. I helped all different departments this month, and I also found a way to utilize my "employees". As VP of Sales and Marketing I decided to assign the Twitter account to Cam and the Instagram account to Justin. I had Aaron make different promotional posters for Cam and Justin to post on the social media accounts. I helped Aaron in Photoshop to make sure out promotional posts met a certain standard. For my artifact I decided to use the graduation post that Aaron and I worked on. Our next trade show booth will be graduation themed so it was important to promote this package for the end of the year.