MSLD 511 Personal Blog

Common restraints that I have placed on myself within my workplace are self-doubt and apathy. Examples of self-doubt would be questioning myself on a specific work procedure or information I share with a potential student or holding back an idea I have during a team meeting. Throughout my last year and a half in the admission department, I am aware that I am sharing the correct answers to common questions and how to complete my work tasks throughout the day. My two managers have informed me that they believe I have excelled greatly and am one of their strongest counselors, however I continue to doubt and question throughout the entire day. The second constraint, apathy; often when work is slow, or I feel as though I am not flourishing within my office, I am unmotivated to complete the simplest office tasks. These are two common restraints that I know I need to destroy in order to engage in problem solving with my team and individually. The constraint of apathy has prevented me in...

At first, the thought of spending ten minutes a day doing nothing made me a little stressed and anxious, as I feel as though my “to do” list is never ending. My initial thought was, “why not use those ten minutes to work on my Fall travel or start on homework?” However, throughout the last 4-5 months, I have learned and am learning the art of taking time to reflect and take time out of school and work to do things that I love. Taking ten minutes a day doing nothing helped me to learn that ten minutes can fly by and I learned that some of my stress is self-induced.   After listening to Puddicombe’s talk, he made multiple statements that stood out to me about stress and resting our minds. He states, “we are no longer present in the work in which we live and we miss out on things most important to us” (2012). With the influx of work and school lately this is true for my life. When I am trying to enjoy time with family, I am thinking about all the work that needs to be done bef...

In January of this year, I started the journey of my Masters in Management with a concentration in leadership. After completing and passing my first course, I was given full access to take any of my management and leadership courses. I embarked on my first leadership course while simultaneously taking a management course, which I was quite timid to start. Having had little experience with leadership and never studying it before, it seemed like a very tall mountain to climb. After the second week in that class, it was by far my favorite in my academic career thus far. Dissecting leadership skills and how a leader can be formed and can form people was extremely inspiring. I was tasked with completing self-assessment tests about my own leadership qualities, which was very eye opening. It helped me to be more self-aware in every aspect of how I carry myself in my office to how I do my daily office tasks. Whetten and Cameron state that the five most critical areas of self-awareness in man...