What I learned from my PR class (1-30-12)

A. When I was accepted into Robert Morris I knew that my main focus and love was business management. But i knew that i wanted to become a more global individual not only for myself but for the profession i want to get into. I thought about pursuing my minor and gave it plenty of thought before acting upon. So here I am, a public relations newbie practitioner in training! I want to become a better speaker and overall individual and this being my second public relations class ever taken, I feel a comfort level already in this field of study. I admit i don't know much about public relations or its core concepts, but what i do know is that it is a very detailed and demanding field. You must be a good communicator with a warming personality that is focused and has high ambitions to persuade others. The tasks that i would like to acquire mostly is to become a better speaker and to learn new concepts on how to lead and motivate others to get the best out of themselves.

B. Getting the plan and details about the meat of our project tonight helped me clarify some doubt i had in the beginning of the semester. This builders project seems to be very demanding, but a challenge that has high rewards. The biggest rewards i gained from tonight's class understanding the material better, and finally getting this project underway. I can already tell that my group will be a delightful one to be apart as we each have great personalities and wonderful work ethics (a sense i gained when talking to each of my group members individually). This to me thus far has been the biggest reward because you are only as good as the rest of your group members, as I have learned from previous group projects!As we get into this project in more depth as time passes, and i will hopefully be a avid blogger now, I will update my blog after each class to help update my audience about the progress of myself and my team.

C. My team is great! Touching on this subject in my previous question, I feel like we will be the team to get our feature story published out of all the teams, and I truly feel this way. So far we have exchanged e-mails and phone numbers to make ourselves more accessible to one another. We are meeting this Friday (2-3-12) to go over our logo and to divide the responsibilities among-st each other to help get the best results possible. Our strengths up until this point, it being early, is our communication, commitment, and diverse areas of strengths among each group member. My own areas of strength are my organization, attentiveness, commitment, and determination. Over the course of our builders project, more strengths will come to fruition, and some strengths we thought were strengths might not be such the case.