This week you will begin a journal on the materials you study and learn each week. Writing in the journal should be drawn from the chapter readings, exercises, discussion boards, and assignments. As journals are a personal construction, your journal entries should reflect what you have learned that you feel was important to your growth as a manager. You can relate this to personal experience and/or to your expectations of what it will be like to manage a department.

This is a graded activity and you will receive the grade just for recording in your journal provided I can see that you have treated the activity seriously. Journals are not right or wrong but simply a reflection of you beliefs based on learning and experience.

Review the Introduction and the first part of Module 1 and think about the key points that jumped out at you and how they are relevant to your management practice or could be,

Some suggestion and thinks to think about for journaling this week are:

-Of the various Management Models that have evolved which do you work under now and an is it well suited for your organization? How would you change it to make it more productive?

-When you examine the competing Values Framework what does it tell you about your managerial strengths and weaknesses?

-Do you have a good understanding of yourself? Is it better or worse than you understanding of co-workers, subordinates and supervisors?

-Are your communication and listening skills satisfactory?

-Are you a good Team member or facilitator?