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I remember so clearly reflecting on how thankful I was that this was to be an easy week. “Just feedback,” I thought. “I only need to collect feedback.”
Silly, silly woman…
On Tuesday, I met with the supervisor of the project. He was very pleased with my work. I have worked for this man for three years and this is truly the most praise I have ever received. I was still walking on sunshine at this point.
“I want you to present this to the executive leadership team.” He said. Still riding high… “Then I want you to get this in front of business partners to make sure they would hire students validated in these skills.” He said. Still riding high…
Let’s fast forward to Friday when I presented to the executive leadership team. This crew represents the head of finance, marketing, program operations and the company as a whole. I wasn’t worried. These are fantastic people whom I know very well. (Yep, still riding high.)
Enter the President of our organization, “How soon could you put together a small module to take to the Kern Family Foundation with all of your research? They WILL fund this initiative.” The Kern Family Foundation is the second largest philanthropic organization in the state of Wisconsin. Their charitable giving assets exceed half of a billion dollars. As a non-profit organization, GPS (where I work), we rely on continuously thinning school budgets to fund a large part of our work.
I am going to have to alter my schedule to include the build out of a demo.
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Originally, I planned on spending this upcoming week creating a curriculum outline out of all the necessary lessons, activities and assessments. Instead, I will pick one trait to create the curriculum outline, identify content sources and/or create content, develop application activities, and create assessments. I also have to create mock data reports to demonstrate how a student’s work might be reported AND make my research pretty enough to share and organized enough to clearly validate my work. AHH! Clearly, I feel a little stressed about this.
Luckily, I am a resilient beast. My plan for success includes creating a clean task list with estimated deadlines and then communicating a reasonable timeline adjustment with the customer. I can do this! I just need to pick up the pace from a nice steady hike to a full out run!
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