Welcome to the end of your This PowerPoint will guide you through Everything should be linked in your consultancy. Now it’s time to look your reflection. Your reflection can PowerPoint for organizational back on your experience and identify take on any choice of medium that purposes. For size purposes, all what made it so great and challenging. works for you…or a mixture. videos should be linked as online media and not inserted directly into the PowerPoint. SENIOR CONSULTANCY BIO INFO • Estephanie Martinez Mendez • Progress Chaser • City of Norcross • My role in the team was to manage our progress and keeping track of when assignments were due. So I created a spreadsheet called “assignment tracker” where I would list out all the assignments due on a daily basis and due dates and who turned it in just so everyone had a place to check. By me creating this sheet we managed to turn in all our things on time and knowing who was responsible for turning things in and overall our solution was a team collaboration I suggested we used hashtags so we made sure to include that in our final presentation. SENIOR CONSULTANCY THE SIX COMPETENCIES
• Tell us about a time when you used each of A time I used creativity and innovation the six competencies. was when brainstorming potential ideas for our final presentation and I Creativity & Innovation remember thinking and saying how Critical & Analytical Thinking hashtags would be such a great Cultural Agility improvement for social media Engaging Communication engagement since many social media Effective Collaboration apps use hashtags.The reason why I thought it was such a great idea was • Minimum of three stories because I was listing out all the apps that I had used hashtags in and how • Maximum of six stories popular they were in video and photo • Stories can be written, or they can be engagement. As a team we did a lot of recorded (provide links) research on if they used hashtags in the past and how many and we ended up using that idea as a final solution. SENIOR CONSULTANCY THE SIX COMPETENCIES
A time I used engaging communication was A time I used critical and analytical when I would ask my fellow teammates thinking within my consultancy project about their ideas and how we would go was when I was analyzing the problem about the project. I remember bringing up given to us and what City of Norcross that there was a huge spanish speaking needed our help with so I would go population in Norcross and how important back and review the problem and see it was for them to be able to understand and get involved with the City of Norcross and what the possible solutions would that way they get more engagement they solve the problem and also point back probably weren't getting before since it was to the consultancy question we were all their posts were in English so we tasked with. By using critical and differently wanted that to be apart of our analytical thinking, it helped me make final solution. Engaging communication sure everything tied back to the task with my teammates on zoom made that we were given, which was the everything so much smoother especially for ultimate key at the end of the day me since I would always find a way to because I wanted to make sure our communicate. solution was amazing and that it would What is the biggest lesson you learned on this consultancy? How? The biggest lesson I learned on this consultancy was team collaboration because it was such an important skill to have in order for a team to be successful. My team and I communicated politely and friendly through zoom, it helped us get our work done and provide our coach with an amazing solution at the end since we all worked so hard together.
SENIOR CONSULTANCY LESSONS LEARNED
SENIOR CONSULTANCY IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME…
• If I had the opportunity to do this The only thing that I’d do
consultancy again, the one thing I’d do differently is… differently is coming up with a • And why? different way of explaining the slides I was given and explained them in more detail so that our audience could better grasp our final solutions. Even though I felt confident in the way I presented, I felt like there was a little more room for improvement since I am always trying to improve my presentation skills. SENIOR CONSULTANCY MID-YEAR COLLEGE/CAREER UPDATE
• What do you know? I’ve applied to 8 schools in total I
• What are you waiting to know? might apply to another during spring break. I am still waiting to hear back. I applied for FAFSA back in October and it was successfully processed just waiting to see how much I qualified for each school. SENIOR CONSULTANCY CAREER REFLECTION
• Has this experience inspired you to learn No, but it was very interesting to more about a specific industry or career path? learn about how the City of • If so, elaborate on your new interests. Norcross is doing about sustainability and making sure they stay a green city. It was definitely a good consultancy to be apart of I learned so much but I am still set on my original career paths and the sustainability industry is not really in my interests right now for what I see myself doing.
