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.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Month of March blog post
So the month of March was the final conclusion of my two month long study for my P & C licensing test. Although I did fail my first time around on that test I was able to gladly walk out of the testing center knowing that I bombed the test with a 50%. The reason why I was able to do this was because I managed to do 52 hours of online study for the test while juggling school and a job! Of course I'm extremely exhausted and honestly I need a chance to recover because these 6 hour late night sleeps are really starting to affect me. On top of that I'm starting to fall heavily behind research checks so for now I'm going to put a pause to getting licensed for Property and casualty and I'm hoping to focus a bit more on research checks and the senior presentation as a whole now. Then maybe once May or if I'm lucky April comes around I'll be able to take the test once again but this time passing with flying colors.
The place I took my two day crash course.
The place I took my two day crash course.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Blog 18 Third Answer
Content:
EQ
-What is the best way to motivate an insurance team to a profitable end?
Answer #3
- Giving each and every employee affirmation and the satisfaction of knowing that they did a good job.
Examples
- If an employee knows that they are doing good with the business they will keep on trying harder than what is expected of them.
-When an employee is doing something above and beyond for example taking tests like P & C licensing courses on their own time try giving bonuses when bonuses are deserved.
- Always try understanding where the employee is coming from and never try overwhelming the employee, as long as they know you are doing a good job they will continue to benefit the business.
Thesis Statement
- The best way to motivate an insurance team to a profitable end is by distributing affirmation amongst your employees because if your employees know that you approve of their work they will only try harder to make sure success is being brought to the business.
EQ
-What is the best way to motivate an insurance team to a profitable end?
Answer #3
- Giving each and every employee affirmation and the satisfaction of knowing that they did a good job.
Examples
- If an employee knows that they are doing good with the business they will keep on trying harder than what is expected of them.
-When an employee is doing something above and beyond for example taking tests like P & C licensing courses on their own time try giving bonuses when bonuses are deserved.
- Always try understanding where the employee is coming from and never try overwhelming the employee, as long as they know you are doing a good job they will continue to benefit the business.
Thesis Statement
- The best way to motivate an insurance team to a profitable end is by distributing affirmation amongst your employees because if your employees know that you approve of their work they will only try harder to make sure success is being brought to the business.
Monday, March 3, 2014
Fourth Interview Questions
Content:
Post 20 open-ended questions for approval you want to ask an expert in the field of your senior project. The focus of your questions should be on your many answers.
1. What is the best way to motivate an insurance team to a profitable end?
2. Do you feel as if the monthly scheduling helped you reach your goals?
3. What approach do you usually take in ensuring that your employees finish the job that needs to get done?
4. How do you reward your employees on a job well done?
5. If an employee is behind multiple tasks how do you get them to work harder to catch up to those tasks?
6. How do you organize the way you run things in the office?
7. What have you found helps you make your company move forward into success?
8. What do you feel helps you stay focused when working?
9. How can having a vision in mind help drive ones focus to ensuring the company becomes better than what it already is?
10. What long term/ short term goals have you set for your business?
11. What do you consider exceeding expectations?
12. As a leader how do handle a situation where an employee makes a minor/major mistake?
13. How do you usually help your employees when there is a problem involved?
14. How do you get your employees to see the same vision you have in mind?
15. How do you usually communicate with your employees on what needs to get done?
16. When you walk into the office each day how do you usually plan what needs to get done throughout the day>
17. How important is it for you to understand the differences of your employees?
18. As of today what do you feel you need to work on with your employees to keep the business moving forward?
19. What hardships did you endure to get to where you are now?
20. Do you consider yourself an effective leader why or why not?
Post 20 open-ended questions for approval you want to ask an expert in the field of your senior project. The focus of your questions should be on your many answers.
1. What is the best way to motivate an insurance team to a profitable end?
2. Do you feel as if the monthly scheduling helped you reach your goals?
3. What approach do you usually take in ensuring that your employees finish the job that needs to get done?
4. How do you reward your employees on a job well done?
5. If an employee is behind multiple tasks how do you get them to work harder to catch up to those tasks?
6. How do you organize the way you run things in the office?
7. What have you found helps you make your company move forward into success?
8. What do you feel helps you stay focused when working?
9. How can having a vision in mind help drive ones focus to ensuring the company becomes better than what it already is?
10. What long term/ short term goals have you set for your business?
11. What do you consider exceeding expectations?
12. As a leader how do handle a situation where an employee makes a minor/major mistake?
13. How do you usually help your employees when there is a problem involved?
14. How do you get your employees to see the same vision you have in mind?
15. How do you usually communicate with your employees on what needs to get done?
16. When you walk into the office each day how do you usually plan what needs to get done throughout the day>
17. How important is it for you to understand the differences of your employees?
18. As of today what do you feel you need to work on with your employees to keep the business moving forward?
19. What hardships did you endure to get to where you are now?
20. Do you consider yourself an effective leader why or why not?
Friday, February 28, 2014
Month of February blog update
So the month of February was extremely long and difficult for me me to get through but here I am continuing with this post. So what have I achieved this month? well I started my Insurance classes and now I am currently only 3 hours from finishing! a good feeling it is that's for sure. Unfortunately though, the crash course lessons were all booked for the next two weekends and the next open sessions were the 15th, and 16th. Then the following Monday I plan on taking the test but this is all for the month of March soon to come at least. Anyways the only thing I really did accomplish this month was the starting and finishing of my Insurance classes. so until the start of March begins I won't have much more to say.
The excitement in my eyes says it all.
The excitement in my eyes says it all.
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