28\5\2013 Writing skills

In today's class we have done the daily work. Afterwards we started presenting. All the groups did pretty well. The ideas about writing skills were transmitted clearly.

We did not get enough time to continue with the interview. Thereby we decided to make them for the next class.

23\5\2013 Interview

After taking the attendence, the professor explained a new activity, which is some skills on writing. We got to have teams of three people and to highlight the most important things we consider important with respect to the topic that we have been assigned to. Moreover we got to prepare for the next day's presentation ( we got to present the things we highlighted ) but without using powerpoint ( any other tool except powerpoint ).

While we were working in the class the professor started to do the interviews explained on the previous post of the blog. My turn to do the interview came when the class has finished, therfore its going to be delayed till the next class.

21\5\2013 exam

In today's class we got to do an exam provided by professionals online. we did nothing more than the exam in the class. the exam is basically testing your abilities to communicate and to choose the best option amongest many ones. The professor was the secretary of the day. attendence wasn't taken as the exam could be done at home.

16/5/2013 SWOT analysis

In today's class after doing the daily work, we started to talk about new things. First the professor will talk to each one of the class members in the next week about his expectations about the course and the grade he expect to get. It is sort of negotiation, thereby if you really know how to communicate and to justify reasons you will win the case and you obtain the grade you expected, otherwise the professor will win the case and give you the grade she wants.

Second, we got to revise one's activities and to do the SWOT analysis about his activities. The selection process was random.

14/5/2013 Real situations (assertiveness)

In today's class after doing the daily work revieing the minute and an activity, we finished the last topic of assertiveness. We had to discuss some real positions of us in which assertiveness, passiveness, or aggressiveness was involved.

I said my case to the public which was requesting from a professor to advance the final exam for me due to some constriants. However she refused at the begining in an aggressive way even though I was so assertive and I didn't go aggressive as she was. She said that she is going to talk with the department about that. I was so sure that I will win the case. Indeed I won and my exam will be advanced.

Before the end of the classs, the professor provided us some disturbing positions. We got to see if any happened to us and to say to the class how we acted.

18/4/2013 New rules

It seems old the date of the post. However in the 9th of May the professor established new rule which is ( to pass the course you must have at least one post in the blog per class) thereby I must post this post even though it is late. In the 18th of April I didn't go to class due to some exams, and thereby I couldn't know what to do. I asked the professor and she said you can find the information in the minute of the missing class.

Basically what happened in that class is improving the quality of activity 3&4. I remind you that activity 3&4 were about wrting and correcting emails. Tereby in the class the professor suggested to write an introduction in making the report of the activity ( the statement ) in order to facilitate the work. Also to put the available resources if available.Finally in each activity we must write a conclusion to finlize the activity.

9/5/2013 New changes

In today's class the professor made new changes concerning the logo of the university. It's no longer UEM which stands for UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID. It is now just UE so the EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY.

Concerning the daily work, she has done some changes as well. we are no longer reviewing the wiki of the secretary each class. We will only review the blog of the last secretary, in addition to riviewing an activity of the current secretary.

8/5/2013 Assertive techniques

In today's class I was absent for some reasons. However the class talked about some assertive techniques and how to use them.

There was an activity to be done in groups. We got to search for some videos in the internet related to the techniques we have seen in the presentation of the teacher, and then to cite each link in a word document in a proper way. I hadn't got group as I was absent however I put myself into a group with a lower number of members in order to balance all the groups. I got some tasks to do and I performed them.

My personal reflections about the videos. The videos were useful and explained the techniques in a real way. Moreover for those who did not understand very well the styles I recommend them to watch some kind of videos in order to make things clear.

7/5/2013 Saying NO

In today's class we continued with the topic assertiveness. However we have seen some new styles of assertiveness. Those styles are how to say no in a constructive way. Suppose that you are an employee and your manager requests some work to be done in a very short period of time, and you haven't got sufficient time to fulfil the task successfully. In this case in order to be respectful with your manager and not to get fired, you got to say i can't but in a constructive style.

In the activity we have done in couples, I took the role of the manager while my class mate took the role of the employee to perform the excercise supposed above. My employee wasn't able to do the task on time and he was so respectful with me saying ( I can do the task but just indulge me some additional time as I have the project from the other department needs to be submitted within the same period ).

Being me the manager I appreciate his words and how he was good enough with his manager and not saying NO in a direct way.