A shorter entry this time!
How we are this close to Christmas is beyond me, I still have to start shopping and I don't think my printer at home will ever recover from the amount of use over the past couple of months!
Yet another Working with and Leading people hand-in, I am glad in a way we are blasting through these assignments, but the pace of work is quite frightening at times!
I feel my research skills have finally been honed (hooray!!) and I have just learnt to deal with my most focused state being at 3am in the morning! As long as it gets the work done, I am no longer worried!
Panic again has settled in the class with the hand in of Human Health and Nutrition before the end of term!
I have to say, my previous learning in this area was discovered and with that waves of help pleas flooded in.
I was only too happy to help after struggling with a few of the previous assignments myself.
I think it is great as a class we can work together towards the completion of this course as it definitely feels like you're not in it alone and you always get a laugh!!
It was also great to let our air down before we departed for the Christmas Holidays in the Linen Lounge for lunch with the whole class! Although after the Holidays there is a presentation for Personal Professional Development to look forward to...
Salon Management, Health and Safety, Working with and Leading People and Personal Professional Development.... assignments in virtually one after another!
The phrase 'it's crunch time!' springs to mind!!
As part of the Working with and Leading People assignment I had to both conduct an interview and be an interviewee. The nerves, the panic and stressing out were definitely not worth it! After vigorous preparations and several panic episodes, it definitely was no where near as bad as I had predicted!
In fact it really helped me in preparing for a real job interview I had for a Travel Money Advisor during Half Term - which I ended up being offered!
Again the schedule has had to be reconfigured to best manage my time for work training and fitting in time to do the ever increasing assignments!!
I never knew such a weight could be lifted off my shoulders in handing in 4 assignments - which also could not have been done with out the help and support of some of the girls in the class! Even just a chat about what the assignment entails helped me get started more times than enough.
In completing the Working with and Leading People assignment I definitely learnt how to assess myself critically and how to conduct an interview in real life. These are skills that I think will really help me develop as a person as they can be transferred in any area of work or personal life.
This year is really flying in, soon it will be Christmas!
AH! Actually really glad we have to complete one of these reflective diary/blog things as it is really helping me keep a track of what has happened! (its the first diary I have ever maintained past one entry...)
