Some of the skills I brought to the YMCA had to do a lot with communication and cooperation. I have always enjoyed meeting new people and starting conversations with them. I am in the marketing department and that has a lot to do with communication and relationship building skills, something I feel really comfortable with. I have a lot of experience working with all types of people and I feel like I have been able to incorporate those skills and experience to my workplace. This has been really useful when it came to the events I attended to to promote the YMCA and try to get people to sign up. I also am always working in the front and I get to meet a lot of new people which is really cool because I am always seeing new faces. When I am not doing my head counts I am usually at the membership kiosk welcoming people in and signing them in to get access to the Y. During that time many people come up to me asking questions and I get to use my Sherlock skills to observe them and know how to approach them. It is overall something I am really satisfied in incorporating into the Y. I was assigned to make calls for our Hop the Gap campaign which was basically asking members and non members if they would like to donate any amount of money for the youth to achieve more this summer by providing them with camp, swim lessons and more. This was something pretty new to me because I have always been use to having face to face encounters and having a conversation in person. At first it was pretty scary because I had no idea what to expect since I didn't know them and I was just asking for money but someone told me to pretend as if I was talking to my grandma asking for money. As funny as that advice was it really helped me relieve some stress and made it easier for me to communicate with the person on the line. I became more comfortable the more calls I made and I was able to learn how to speak to others on the phone with much more ease than I use to.
I believe the project I am making with my mentor Tina will impact the Y a lot. We are creating a trafficking schedule so that staff and people who attend the Y are aware of what days and hours are the busiest throughout the whole week. I was told that the South Bay Family YMCA has never had a trafficking schedule but would come in very handy, I am very proud to say that I will be the first one to create a trafficking schedule for the whole facility with my mentor. I have been doing a head count around the whole facility and its buildings every single hour to help staff become ready for those crowded times and let people who attend the YMCA know when it would be best times and days to go for them. On the days and hours that aren't as crowded, my mentor and I plan on presenting a graph to the staff in order for them to come up with ideas on how they can have people come in at every single hour other than just the same hours everyone usually comes in at. It is a work in progress but I am almost done, I haven't even showed people but everyone is always wondering why I am writing in my journal and what I am planning to do. This motivates me a lot because I had never heard of a trafficking schedule or what its for and when my final piece is ready I will be very proud of what I have accomplished with the help of my mentor Tina and her previous experiences at different workplaces in the marketing department.
All this work for my internship has really helped me in my education. I have became more experienced on how the real world working field is like and the techniques they use to make their life more easier. Almost everyone tells me "Work smarter not harder." This is a really big thing for me because I am always over working myself focusing on all the little details and it really slows me down. I have learned how to become much more confident in my work and how to take on tasks that the staff members do. I will now be able to apply this to school and my life when ever I am assigned a problem or I encounter something new. My self advocacy has improved also in the sense that I am no longer timid to ask someone I don't know a question I need help with. I have also obtained the responsibility to make up for my own mistakes and any assignments my co workers give me. When I come to work I forget I attend high school and automatically change attitudes into my working mode. I was able to learn these skills by only experiencing a real life working experience at a professional place other than working at a fast food place or retail store. Even though I came in here not having one Idea of what exactly I was going to be doing I got to learn a lot of helpful advice from all my co workers and my daily experiences. I now can really understand the saying, " You learn something new every single day."
I believe the project I am making with my mentor Tina will impact the Y a lot. We are creating a trafficking schedule so that staff and people who attend the Y are aware of what days and hours are the busiest throughout the whole week. I was told that the South Bay Family YMCA has never had a trafficking schedule but would come in very handy, I am very proud to say that I will be the first one to create a trafficking schedule for the whole facility with my mentor. I have been doing a head count around the whole facility and its buildings every single hour to help staff become ready for those crowded times and let people who attend the YMCA know when it would be best times and days to go for them. On the days and hours that aren't as crowded, my mentor and I plan on presenting a graph to the staff in order for them to come up with ideas on how they can have people come in at every single hour other than just the same hours everyone usually comes in at. It is a work in progress but I am almost done, I haven't even showed people but everyone is always wondering why I am writing in my journal and what I am planning to do. This motivates me a lot because I had never heard of a trafficking schedule or what its for and when my final piece is ready I will be very proud of what I have accomplished with the help of my mentor Tina and her previous experiences at different workplaces in the marketing department.
All this work for my internship has really helped me in my education. I have became more experienced on how the real world working field is like and the techniques they use to make their life more easier. Almost everyone tells me "Work smarter not harder." This is a really big thing for me because I am always over working myself focusing on all the little details and it really slows me down. I have learned how to become much more confident in my work and how to take on tasks that the staff members do. I will now be able to apply this to school and my life when ever I am assigned a problem or I encounter something new. My self advocacy has improved also in the sense that I am no longer timid to ask someone I don't know a question I need help with. I have also obtained the responsibility to make up for my own mistakes and any assignments my co workers give me. When I come to work I forget I attend high school and automatically change attitudes into my working mode. I was able to learn these skills by only experiencing a real life working experience at a professional place other than working at a fast food place or retail store. Even though I came in here not having one Idea of what exactly I was going to be doing I got to learn a lot of helpful advice from all my co workers and my daily experiences. I now can really understand the saying, " You learn something new every single day."