http://jennk.edublogs.org hope. faith. love. luck. On My Journey Through Adult Learning Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:21:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This semester opened up a new door of challenges and surprises. Challenge #1 happened the first night, when Dr. Carter asked us about our expertise. What I learned just by this question, and through our consulting project, is that I do have expertise in many things. This is one of ... http://jennk.edublogs.org/2009/12/02/consulting-skills-final-reflection/ What is my ethical standing when acting as a consultant and how does that translate into my personal life? I think the class facilitation helped to point out the importance in ethics, values and morals, and how these things do play a large role in the consulting world. How were ... http://jennk.edublogs.org/2009/11/28/reflections-for-my-mirror-consulting-skills-6-ethics-in-consulting/ The weeks are flying by and I am trying to keep up my pace. I know the whole class chimes in week after week that we can't believe the semester is almost over, but I really can't. The past few weeks have been very empowering, and have reminded me why ... http://jennk.edublogs.org/2009/11/19/reflections-for-my-mirror-consulting-skills-5-power-of-the-circle/ It's been a very busy week and I got a little behind on my writing my post. However, I was thinking back to our conversation in class last week and remembered one topic that had caught my attention. We were discussing our organizational culture paper, and Dr. Carter described an ... http://jennk.edublogs.org/2009/11/02/reflections-for-my-mirror-organizational-learning-5/ Coming into an organization as a consultant can be difficult, and trying to pick apart and understand what is happening within that organization is challenging. When I hear the word discovery, I think of learning new information, realizing what the attitudes and opinions are of employees, and finding different ways ... http://jennk.edublogs.org/2009/10/25/reflections-for-my-mirror-consulting-skills-4-discovery/ We learned through Schein’s text that culture and leadership are intertwined, so what happens when you have a defined culture but very little leadership? This is the situation I find myself in right now. I have explained in past posts that my department has a huge lack of leadership (which ... http://jennk.edublogs.org/2009/10/19/reflections-for-my-mirror-organizational-learning-4-the-ins-and-outs-of-culture/ Happy October! Now it finally feels like Fall and I couldn't be happier. I'm excited about pumpkins, sweatshirts and dinners in the crock-pot! October signifies, to me, the middle of the semester, and I start to think a lot about where I stand. I feel optimistic about our client for the ... http://jennk.edublogs.org/2009/10/01/reflections-for-my-mirror-consulting-skills-3-where-i-stand/ This past week passed over me quite quickly. I was there, but it seemed like things were happening around me at a different pace and I couldn't catch up. I felt off. The latter end of the week I was busy with a potential candidate visiting VCU for a second ... http://jennk.edublogs.org/2009/09/27/reflections-for-my-mirror-organizational-learning-3/ I never thought about the important of the contracting step during a consulting project. I had thought of the contract itself, but hadn't taken into consideration the many clients and contacts involved. The readings this week and the exercise we had to complete helped me pin-point who some of these ... http://jennk.edublogs.org/2009/09/20/reflections-for-my-mirror-consulting-skills-2-contracting-clients-and-communication/ I normally don't read the VCU TelegRAM when it pops through my email every morning. However, this past week, for some reason, I decided to open it and take a peek. My hope was to find out information on the free flu shots the university offers faculty/staff each year, but ... http://jennk.edublogs.org/2009/09/12/reflections-for-my-mirror-organizational-learning-2-what-the-telegram-taught-me/