Monday, April 28, 2014
Month of April Blog Post
So the month of April is now slowly but surely becoming the climactic point to my senior project. Some highlight of what happened this month however was that I am no longer as behind as I was earlier in the month of March, mostly because of the fact I have finally changed my hours with work and no longer have to worry about my licensing process until I graduate. However on another note I was able to help out another classmate with some hours since he was relatively behind. Fortunately for me however I had a few folders to take care of and it was nice to have the help at the time. The only thing I'm worried about now for the time being is finally getting this entire senior presentation up and running as soon as possible.
Exit Interview
Content:
(1) - EQ: What is the best way to motivate an insurance team to a profitable end?
Answer 1:Ensure employees are adhering to their time management schedules.
Answer 2:To have employees work toward individual goals and a company vision.
Answer 3:Affirmation is the best way to motivate an insurance team to profit towards their visions and goals.
- My best answer is "to have employees work toward individual goals and a company vision", and the reason why this is my best answer is because typically as human beings we see growth and within growth there is typically much more going on. If we keep on doing the same thing over and over we're not challenging your employees or making them work harder for the success of the business. To really challenge your employee is to unlock their full potential.
(2) - The process I took to arrive at this answer was a few interviews with Alex outside of the mandatory ones and research I had picked up out of the office.
(3) - The main problem I had with any of my answers really was the wording of them because for some reason they always seemed somewhat off one way or another. So the way I had this problem fixed was by talking to my advisory house teach about the issue and he was able to help.
(4) - My two main sources that were used to answer my essential question were both mentor-ship and a book I have been reading called "the Ultimate Sales Machine". The reason why I used these two sources the most was because mentor-ship served as a personal experience that seemed relatively profitable, and as for the book the author was already a billionaire to begin with so if was able to truly make his corporations rise up it would be wise to learn from a billionaires mistakes.
(1) - EQ: What is the best way to motivate an insurance team to a profitable end?
Answer 1:Ensure employees are adhering to their time management schedules.
Answer 2:To have employees work toward individual goals and a company vision.
Answer 3:Affirmation is the best way to motivate an insurance team to profit towards their visions and goals.
- My best answer is "to have employees work toward individual goals and a company vision", and the reason why this is my best answer is because typically as human beings we see growth and within growth there is typically much more going on. If we keep on doing the same thing over and over we're not challenging your employees or making them work harder for the success of the business. To really challenge your employee is to unlock their full potential.
(2) - The process I took to arrive at this answer was a few interviews with Alex outside of the mandatory ones and research I had picked up out of the office.
(3) - The main problem I had with any of my answers really was the wording of them because for some reason they always seemed somewhat off one way or another. So the way I had this problem fixed was by talking to my advisory house teach about the issue and he was able to help.
(4) - My two main sources that were used to answer my essential question were both mentor-ship and a book I have been reading called "the Ultimate Sales Machine". The reason why I used these two sources the most was because mentor-ship served as a personal experience that seemed relatively profitable, and as for the book the author was already a billionaire to begin with so if was able to truly make his corporations rise up it would be wise to learn from a billionaires mistakes.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Independent Component #2
Literal
(A) "I Marco Gonzalez affirm that I completed my Independent component which represents 30 hours of work."
(B) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component
Glendenning, G. William., and Robert B. Holtom. Personal Lines Underwriting. 1st ed. Malvern, PA: Insurance Institute of America, 1982. Print.
(C) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours). Post it next to your mentorship log.
INTERPRETIVE
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work. Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.
APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.
This was around my halfway point for my P&C courses.
During the lessons I had to watch a few videos just to get a better understanding on what the differences between commercial lines and personal lines were and how they interact with one another.
This was actually really interesting to me because it showed the different licenses that are out there and could be achieved. Of course the higher ranking licenses take much more time and effort to achieve however.
The happiest day of my life when I had finally finished my 52 hours of online courses.
This was the place I took my two day crash course unfortunately the instructor didn't allow me to take pictures of her while she was teaching.
However she didn't say anything about the classroom.
When taking the actual test they didn't allow me to take in a cell phone or even a jacket for cheating purposes but I was finally able to take the test however I did end up failing with a 50%. 10% away from passing so close.
APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.
- This component helped me answer my EQ because "the best way to motivate an insurance team to a profitable end", is education and in order to properly educate an employee there has to be a vision for success because without a vision your employee is just going to assume the business really isn't going anywhere and may eventually quite. Education also plays a huge role in my answer #1 time management schedule because no matter how open you may think you are if you scramble all of your to do's together your just going to over stress yourself and eventually your employees will catch this. Affirmation also plays a huge role because if your employees are never rewarded for their hard work chances are they're going to assume their just there to make them money and not for the actually group effort of trying to make the company really strive for success.
(A) "I Marco Gonzalez affirm that I completed my Independent component which represents 30 hours of work."
(B) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component
Glendenning, G. William., and Robert B. Holtom. Personal Lines Underwriting. 1st ed. Malvern, PA: Insurance Institute of America, 1982. Print.
(C) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours). Post it next to your mentorship log.
INTERPRETIVE
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work. Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.
APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.
This was around my halfway point for my P&C courses.
During the lessons I had to watch a few videos just to get a better understanding on what the differences between commercial lines and personal lines were and how they interact with one another.
This was actually really interesting to me because it showed the different licenses that are out there and could be achieved. Of course the higher ranking licenses take much more time and effort to achieve however.
The happiest day of my life when I had finally finished my 52 hours of online courses.
This was the place I took my two day crash course unfortunately the instructor didn't allow me to take pictures of her while she was teaching.
However she didn't say anything about the classroom.
When taking the actual test they didn't allow me to take in a cell phone or even a jacket for cheating purposes but I was finally able to take the test however I did end up failing with a 50%. 10% away from passing so close.
APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.
- This component helped me answer my EQ because "the best way to motivate an insurance team to a profitable end", is education and in order to properly educate an employee there has to be a vision for success because without a vision your employee is just going to assume the business really isn't going anywhere and may eventually quite. Education also plays a huge role in my answer #1 time management schedule because no matter how open you may think you are if you scramble all of your to do's together your just going to over stress yourself and eventually your employees will catch this. Affirmation also plays a huge role because if your employees are never rewarded for their hard work chances are they're going to assume their just there to make them money and not for the actually group effort of trying to make the company really strive for success.
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