hrh posted on November 26, 2011 19:06

The second journey was related to managing people and performance, one of the hottest but very lovely topics inside organisations. On the other side, I was very happy to see again my buddies, to discuss interesting things and to make some team exercises with my learning team. I got to meet my tutor also. A nice person, we had a discussion and she provided us good tips how to succeed and how to approach learning for an MBA. 
Dr Ann P. - Workshop professor- presented us a very structured material, with a lot of interaction and very actual cases during the 2 days workshop. It could be easy seen, she knows what it means dealing with people and performance every day. During the lunch, I had a very interesting discussion with her about performance in different organisations and the role of HR in promoting it. She made me proud when she told me that my company (she worked with) is very open and concerned in engaging people and promoting processes in improving performance.
I got back home with a lot of thoughts how to deal with the assignment. Because of a large context and many theories, I have to think wisely how to approach the work. I think I will take the first step to read the material and structure the knowledge on a separate paper, maybe commenting the main theories, afterwards taking care to draft the ideas for assignment. As elective, I have chosen the "Highly Effective Teams" because during my normal work I lead teams and I am interesting how can I exceed the expectations. About the idea of the assignment, I have some thoughts about it and I think I will deal with motivation, HR development strategy and globalization to one of my clients, all three factors that brought the company on the wrong track for further development in dealing with economical competitiveness (a fundamental problem for which I will propose drastical solutions). 

It is a lot of work but I need to plan it wisely to finish it in time and to bring it to the required quality. I feel I can do a good work here for which I can be proud also because the material and the very good explanations from inside can not invite you very much to do it wrong. I have just to give some attention and impose me some discipline, especially that the current MBA work has to find some place (besides normal business) among so nice winter holidays that are approaching. 

P.S. I have decided to prefix all titles with Henley, where are articles about my current MBA.


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hrh posted on November 8, 2011 16:02

My first assignment which, in fact, oficially declare the start of the journey. It was an useful experience because there is already some time since I have done my last assignment and I have lost a little bit from my "exercise". Never matter, I have to prepare and together with the feedback that I will get from the examinator, I want to say that I will improve myself to a level that should enable me a nice and useful journey.
There is some time since I made my reflection upon my career and set some objectives for the future. The role of this assignment was exactly this. And I can say, made me some thoughts in which direction should I go for long term. Of course, overall I made some thoughts but this exercise forced me to establish also some plan how to achieve it. I really enjoyed it, and the support of my learning team was gorgeuous. I also oficially thanks Patrick Galig for his advice how to structure my work  (http://www.galig.ch/blog/) based on his experience by Henley.
Just some learning points that I have developed as I worked for this assignment and which I should take care for the future:
1. Be sure that you understand exactly which are the requirements. Here, a discussion with the tutor or learning team can really help
2. Make your thoughts, ideas (mind manager?) and try to get some draft of text out of it. Structure your text until you get a main format which you will develop later.
3. Put a cover page, table of contents, header, pagination, exec summary, intro, conclusion, bibliography, etc.
4. Link every concept from the requirements text to a concept from theory. Try to develop it based on theory and, where possible, try to critisice it.
5. Use graphics as much as possible, it would help your examinator to understand your ideas better and for you to structure your thoughts.
6. Do not forget to declare the source of text where others sources are used: references are very important to be separate declared at the end
7. If you are not a native english - as me, cross-check your writings with a native speaker.
That is for now, eager to meet again my team at next workshop that starts already in 3 days :). See you, guys, in London.


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