Oh Boy, Oh Boy! It’s going to snow
next week. But seriously, there is a disturbance building somewhere and could
head this way. However, it’s a week away! So please don’t buy up all the milk
in the store today (leave some for my son).
In the bizarre event a snow flake
does fall next week please do not assume it would be a good day to sleep in. A
safe rule of thumb is; if the BT is running so is VT. However, that isn’t
always the case as it takes some time to get all the buses off the road. So,
your best option is to call the VT weather line at 540.231.6686. An
announcement will be made here before the alert is sent to your
phone.
Important Dates
November 22 – Last day to request to
reschedule an exam if you have 3 or more in 24 hours.
November 30 – spring web add/drop
begins
December 6 – last day to apply for a
withdrawal
December 6 – summer course request
begins
December 11 – last day of classes
December 13-19 – Finals
Helpful Tools
A recap:
- We form management teams, recommendation teams, and development teams.
- Teams should have a common purpose, specific goal, members should be accountable.
- Members should have 9 different characteristics. No one member should have all 9!
- There are 12 different roles that need to be carried out for the team to move forward.
- Finally, there are 5 common warning signs of a dysfunctional team.
Let’s assume we have this team and
things are not clicking, tasks are not getting done and there’s a lot of finger
pointing. What to do?
It takes one person, not necessarily
the ‘team leader’ but just one person to interrupt a meeting and say ‘our
dysfunction is not fun’ or maybe something more professional like ‘we are not
working as well as we should. Let’s take time to get our team back on track.’
One such exercise help everyone get
back on track is to have everyone respond on paper to these 5 questions.
- In earlier teams you’ve worked on, what you did that you felt made an impact on the team’s work
- What are you accountable for on this team?
- What do you see standing in your way?
- What are your ideas for addressing these challenges?
- What’s going to make you proud when this project is completed?
The important part of this exercise
is that everyone is free and open to share their responses with the group without
judgment or ridicule. These reflections should not be personal attacks but
statements to the project. Use this shared information to improve the team
communication and move forward.
Random
Turkeys
have heart attacks. The United States Air Force was doing test runs and
breaking the sound barrier. Nearby turkeys dropped dead with heart attacks.
Ut Prosim
Serving others never gets old; take Jim
Cummings for example. Mr. Cummings is the voice
of Winnie The Pooh and Tigger. He gives by volunteering with The Make-A-Wish
Foundation. In character, he calls sick children stuck in hospital rooms.
Cummings recalls a child whom he
spoke to, a little boy with autism: "He asked me to do all the voices,
even small parts that I had done -- extraneous characters. Then his mother,
crying, got on the phone and said, 'He doesn't speak.' I said, 'He's been speaking
for over an hour.' And she said, 'No, my son doesn't speak -- he's never spoken
this much before.' I videotaped this for his doctor."
Sandbox
My
Schedule
Scheduled
meeting times are available 10-11:30 & 1:30-4.
To schedule a meeting please log into your
Scholar account. Under the MSE Undergraduate Advising Tab use the
sign-in tool to select a meeting time. Please know it will be necessary to
click on “expand all recurring meetings” to see all available dates, then click
on the date you would like to schedule a meeting and the available times will
show. Currently, meeting times are available through November 22.
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