It was time to go through everything one more time to look for any errors and to make sure everything was good to go. It was time consuming to read through everything but having gone through the power points and questions separately previously made things a little easier. There were some minor tweaks to be made that were previously overlooked. I also was uncertain about some formatting items in the power points as I contemplated makes some changes. It was good to go through everything one last time to make sure everything was good to go. Then it was time to ensure everything was sent off and all set to go. It was good to close the final chapter on everything!
Today was the time to go back through all of the chapters and apply the objectives to each of the questions. As mentioned I had already done this for chapter 13 and it was a challenge. It was a challenge as well for chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11 as well! I am not sure why it is so difficult for me but it takes me back to my undergrad days and writing lesson plans and having to match objectives or whatever they have changed them to now. At times I really had to think about the topic and other times just having the subject really gave away what the objective had to be or seemed to be anyway. After going through everything I felt very challenged. By far this was the hardest part of the entire process. You would not think it would be as difficult as you may think but for me it was a challenge. I hope that I was correct in my thought process with matching the objectives.
It was time to try and finish up everything for chapter 13 with creating the questions. I am not sure why chapter 13 again gave me some troubles in creating questions as well but it was a bit difficult for this chapter I did look at matching the headings and objective with the questions which took some time as I need to go back to all chapters and match the objectives. It turned out to be a bit of trying process. Creating the questions for the chapters were not as challenging sometimes as matching the objectives. I am hoping doing it with this chapter will prepare me for doing the rest of the chapters. Not sure if it was the best to save this for the end or not. Anyway on to the questions specific to chapter 13. I was able to go through and create many questions regarding the career stages in the sports industry. The same goes for internal and external candidates as well. I found it difficult to create questions based on certificate programs. Either way I was able to get all the questions complete with the subject or heading and what I think it the appropriate objective.
Another Chapter was receive in the form of chapter 13. Once again it was back to reading to go through the chapter and read it to find out and pull out all the key information to create the power points and questions. Chapter 13 was an interesting chapter as well. The stages of a career were broken down and I never really looked at a career in such a way. It was very interesting to see. I think in the late stage of peoples career it is very much the complacent stage. Many people stop really trying late in their professional career. Many are just working to work and not to grow anything other than there bank roll. Looking at coaches, mentors and sponsors was a good topic as well. Creating the power point was a bit of challenge for this chapter for me for some reason. Much of the information I pulled out came from the four career stages especially the exploration and entry phase.
Continuing on the Chapter 3 power point I was still involved with many different topics like equal employment and harassment. The chapter actually worked out really well on slides because there seemed to be a good balance of information on the slides because there were many different topics to address on each. Keeping it simple on the slides are always key. It is all about hitting the key points. I then moved on to creating some questions. Today I was setting out to try and complete as much as possible with this new chapter. Creating the questions were challenging at times because it seemed like the questions were only hitting certain areas. It was easy to try and confuse some of the types of discrimination since there were so many it is easy to see how you could confuse them I tried to take full advantage of that part. The true / false questions always were a bit easier to come up with still a challenge which held through again here. I was also able to create many questions based on employees as well since that is what human resources are all about.
I just recently received information for chapter 3 therefore it was time to get to reading the chapter to break down all the information. Chapter 3 dealt with Human Resources which is always interesting to talk about. It was interesting to break the chapter down as there was a lot of good information in the chapter. Discrimination was the main area of focus that was talked about. All types of discrimination. I never knew there were so many! It was great to learn when all of these Acts came into play as well. After I had all of the information pulled out. I then began working on the formatting of the power point and putting some information on some slides to get a head start on things. This chapter is shaping up to have a lot of slides based on all the different items.
Today I went through all the power points I had completed and checked for mistakes. It was a nit of a process to read through all of the power points in search of mistakes or changes that needed to be made. The amount of content on each slide was contemplated a lot. It is important not to have to much information on one slide just as much as you do not want to have too little information. Striking the correct balance for each topic was a trying task at times. Some chapters were easy to break parts up onto the slides and then others it was hard to decide just how much to put on each slide based on the topic. Formatting the bullet points or numbers were interesting as well. For some slides I started with a bullet and some I did not if it was the only topic on the slide with other information below it. However, I am not sure that created the best consistency overall. After looking at the chapters it was good again to review them. Chapters 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10 were pretty much done. One more look will probably be needed.
Chapter 11 again dealt with the tricky subject of terminating employees. Something no manager or supervisor really wants to do. Questions about discipline were interesting as well. Counterproductive behavior and employee behavior styles were an interesting topic to make questions on since then can be slightly confusing in to some. While creating the true / false questions it was fun switching terms in attempt to trick some people into believing them. Or you are trying to see if they will hold on to there same thoughts.
After the change I took sometime to format the rest of the chapters a bit to assist in setting up the remaining chapters.
Chapter 9 was another interesting chapter to go through and create questions for. The functions, skills and roles of managers and supervisors are very interesting to discuss. The leadership styles made me think more about what type of leader I was. The traits discussed made me think more about myself as a coach. Creating the questions were interesting to look at each of the leadership theories. Staff Meetings were broken down nicely into things to do before, during and after the meetings. Chapter 10 was a good chapter to create questions for as well because it death with motivation. These days it is hard to find many intrinsically motivated workers. If you do find them you want to keep them. The questions some people need to be sure to read so they can find out what being intrinsically motivated really means. The multiple choice questions could be based a lot around the different theories that were presented in the chapter. The performance management cycle created and opportunity to make some good questions as well. In speaking with Dr. Tiell I learned that there were come changes made to the formatting of the questions. I no longer needed fill in the blank questions or short answer questions. Therefore, I had to go back and edit my questions for chapters 2, 4, 5 and 8. Only True /False and multiple choice questions were necessary. I had to go back and change some questions in order to hit some topics. I had to go back and create a few new questions as well to make everything workout. It was good to go back and look at some questions again anyway.
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AuthorMatt Procopio, AFC Cleveland, Team Liaison. Assistant Men's Soccer Coach at Tiffin University. Daily Time sheet
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