Content: Second Day
The sessions at the conference which began the next morning were absolutely great and featured a Shinerama legend, Drew Dudley. Drew has years of experience and insight around what we can do to put on great events as well as tips to succeed in our year with the Students’ Association. I felt as though Drew was a master VP Campus Life who has moved on and grew on so many levels. From changing what might be weighing your organization down, to risk management, idea generating, to life advice; I really enjoyed Drew’s speech and thought he was the perfect person to have speaking at Leaders Hall.
One session which was met with a bit of controversy was an info session/workshop on four different personality types. The session was put on by Steve Pilot from People First HR. In his workshop Steve was letting us know about 4 different personality types, the ponderer, commander, harmonizer, and elaborator.
I was an elaborator, which means I’m always excited about a bigger and brighter tomorrow. I contribute great ideas and am usually the life of the party. Now my weaknesses are that I’m usually all over the place with my ideas. I can bring awesome ideas but move on and bounce all over the place. In all honesty, that pretty much sums me up in a nutshell. I know that might be a bad thing, but recognizing our strengths and weaknesses was, in my opinion a huge reason why we attended this conference.
So what does that mean moving forward? I need to find a ponderer to balance my attention span out. The ponderer does, pretty much what his title suggests, which is ponder. Always thinking about the possible outcomes and thoroughly weighing the options before committing to an answer. The ponderer usually pays attention to the details and takes pride in their work. Basically I was told that I should surround my self with at least another ponderer so that they can insure the ideas we come up with are followed through. Because its like I said, I have a hard time finishing.
Now one thing I noticed is that our team, the NAITSA team only had Govind and I in the elaborators group. I can’t remember where Tessa was but I know Tim was in the ponderer group so I think that means Tim and I should be working together on some things, well by some things I mean I should go to Tim for some advice when it comes to some of my crazy ideas because I think his insight may actually be crucial to my year being successful, we’ll have to see.