ORG 304 Week 6 Journal Assignment

  ORG 304 Week 6 Journal Assignment | Wilmington University

Week 6 Journal

Over the last 5 weeks, you have worked on your Action Plan to identify the interpersonal job-related skills that you wanted/needed to develop.  In Week 1, you were asked to "assess reality" where you talked to relevant individuals (i.e., those who have observed your performance) to acquire specific feedback from them regarding your performance on those skills.  Their feedback, along with the assessments taken during Week 1 of the course, assisted you in developing your Action Plan goals.

Now that you have had some time to work on the goals that you included in your Action Plan, by practicing the skills that needed development, it is time for you to go back to those same relevant individuals or others to determine whether they have seen any improvement(s) in your use of the skills. Once you have talked with these individuals, answer the following questions in a journal entry for this week.

• Have you improved in any specific area related to any of the skills you have chosen to work on in your Action Plan?  Which ones? 
• How have you improved?  
• Does any of the feedback you received surprise you? 
• What is your overall feelings about the feedback that you have received?  

Don't expect great gains in a matter of 5 weeks!  Your Action Plan is "living document" that you will continue to work on long after the class is over.  These 5 weeks will only give you a "glimpse" of how you are beginning to develop your skills, your use of your Action Plan over time will give you a much more realistic picture of your progress.  Do not get discouraged if the feedback that you get this week is not that good. Rome wasn't built in a day!  Keep pushing forward and realize that hard work will pay off in the long run if you persist in this skill development process!