Miscommunication in the Workplace

I work in the equipment room at Jervey along with 15 other students and several full-time employees so communication is never anyones main concern. What I mean by that is everybody assumes that someone knows something already, while the other person is waiting on what to do. This does not happen all the time, but miscommunication happens a lot even when nobody really notices it.
One example of when miscommunication occured is when we are on the football field for practice and a coach needs something. For the most part we are all assigned a coach, so we always make sure our coach has what he needs. There was one instance where one of us had no possible way of doing his normal job that day because he was taking care of another problem, but he did not tell anyone to make sure someone covered his coach. The lack of communication caused one coach to not have anyone help him for over 20 minutes which really ticked him off.
Lack of communication in the workplace is very common, but it is something that should not happen at all. It is so easy to communicate, especially with the people you work with. People do not communicate when they are in a hurry, get lazy, or they are apathetic.
We fixed our problem by making sure each manager had certain jobs, but also had something that could help do if someone was not there. It is our job to communicate when we need help at practice, so we have to take the time to let others know.
Communicating is a simple thing that does not get done in the right way in any workplace. But in a workplace it is very important and we must recognize this. A workplace is 100X better when there is solid communication.

Job Interview

I thought my job interview went extremely well considering that it was my first practice or real job interview. I think that this practice job interview will help me out greatly in the long run as I do actual job interviews. Now at least I know what to expect to a certain extent when I do a job interview.
I thought that I would be a little nervous because I really did not know what to expect, but for some reason I was very confident in my interview which surprised me in a way. I think it helped that I was interviewing for a job that I know so much about. Hopefully being comfortable with what I am interviewing for will happen when I interview for a real job.
There was one question and moment in the interview that caught me off guard and that was when I was asked at the very end if I had any questions. I am sure that in a longer interview I would, but at that moment I really didnt know what to say. I know now that it is important to at least have one legitimate question you would like to ask.
I really felt prepared for my interview and I think that if I could do it all again I would do it the same. I would at least have something in mind to ask the person who is interviewing me.
All in all, my first job interview seemed to be a success. Hopefully I can use this experience to help me out down the road, when the interview isnt just for a daily grade in Business Writing.

Great Presentations

I thought everybody did a great job this week on the presentations. Every single presentation was really creative and well thought out. It was weird that everybody went but me, I feel like I missed out on all the fun....haha. But it was fun to watch everybody do so well.
The three presentations that I thought were interesting were Barbara's presentation on the Polish dance and the delicious cake, Meredith's presentation on rowing, and Jamie's presentation on Gatorade.
Barbara's presentation was interesting because it was about something that I had never heard of and it provided everybody a traditional dance to learn if they wanted to. The cake was very good as well. I could easily have eaten the whole cake.
Meredith's presentation was neat because it provided information on a sport that a lot of people might not know about. There were some interesting things about rowing that I learned from her presentation. Really any type of sport is going to draw my full attention.
Jamie's presentation was good, as well. He presented for Gatorade like he really was a spokesperson for Gatorade. His attitude was very good for the part of presenting on Gatorade. It was a neat way of presenting the information. For not knowing what to do until the last minute Jamie did a good job....haha
All in all, everybody did a great job, I hope mine can be as good as everybody elses.