The Final Push

This weeks post is close is an attempt to get all of the extra credit that is available, for this reason I have created a survey that everyone can take about MCom and our semester together. Here is a link to the survey that I created; https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D3GZS7Q.

I hope that everyone enjoys the survey, in addition i have uploaded a video that I made while I was on my mission in Mozambique, I hope that you all enjoy watching it. It is a video of a drunk Mozambican trying to read English and I swear that I have felt as if I sound that way sometimes when I wake up in the morning.

On a more serious not MCom has been a good class for me,I have learned a lot of things that will cary over to my career as I continue to communicate with the people around me. I feel that I have improved greatly int he area of presentations where at the beginning of the semester it seemed like something that would be insurmountable and when it came down to it I am not a terrible presenter like I thought I was.

I will for sure need to continue to practice both written and spoken communication so that I can be a pro, but more importantly so that I can communicate in a way that I am understood and not misunderstood.

Keeping Email Organized

This week we had day one of the MCOM mini conference there were a lot of interesting presentations that I was able to watch. I had the pleasure of watching instead of presenting, but i will be on the other end of things on Tuesday.

One of the presentations that particularly stuck out to me was about keeping your inbox for emails empty. I thought that I did a pretty decent job at keeping my email organized, but I learned that I have actually been off the mark the whole time.

Keeping your inbox clean will help in other aspects of your professional life as well such as being sure to get back to people who communicate with you in a timely fashion. One way that this can be done is to have separate folders can be created to keep track of where unread emails are and what sort of subject they have, whether it be school, work, networking, or some other subject that you can think of for emails could be appropriate.

The most important thing that I took away was that it really doesn't matter what you do to clean up your email inbox, what really matters is that you have a system that you are able to stay organized and on top of your emails. Additionally, as a result of hearing this presentation I am actually going to make these new folders and actually use them in a systematic way so that I will be able to organize my email and by extension organize my life.

As a reference this is a link to VoNique's blog, she is the one that made the presentation.