Personal reflection

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From a young age, I had an interest in the arrangement of things. I always rearranged the house whenever my mother was not around. At the time, my mother believed that it was merely stubbornness, but with the progress, she realized my interest in interior design. In high school, I did not have any idea of the career I wanted to pursue. The only thing I was sure about was that I had an interest in planning spaces to my own liking. It is my urge of ensuring there furnishing in any space through the application of colour, texture, and lighting to create a pleasing environment that pushed me into art. Throughout my studies, I have been developing numerous skills applicable in the field of interior design and architecture. An example of my skills is screen printing different colours and also I have the capability of designing abstract images. This might be pertinent, but admission to a course leading to interior design and architecture will facilitate me to further my passion.

I am punctual, and my class attendance indicates the same. Good communication skills, understanding, and hard work allow me to collaborate with other effectively. I can work with groups efficiently and alone with minimum supervision. My desire is becoming an interior designer and architect, which will allow me to work on different projects in my career. I would like to design homes and interiors in a way that improves the environment of people. It is for previously stated reasons that I do apply for a course leading the a career in interior design and architecture. Given the records of this university, there are sufficient learning materials and tutors to help me further my ambition.

Apart from making appropriate time management plans, I also make work plans. These work plans are made in collaboration with the production manager as well as junior employees. This helps to objectively interrogate the company’s production targets within specific periods of time against the workforce’s capability. To meet these production targets I set production line targets and communicate them to the production line team. In order to ensure that the set production targets are met, I set personal and team short-term milestones whose achievements is evaluated at the end of every day. Even as I play a supervisory role in ensuring the employees work within the set work plan, I am aware that as a manager, I expect to play a central role in the achievement of the set production targets.

In order to ensure that everything is working right, I undertake evaluation drills to measure my performance and that of my team. This performance appraisal exercises normally take the form of surveys, where one-on-one interviews are conducted on all the team members. These interviews are conversational and employees are encouraged to make contributions on the best way of performing workplace tasks (Beardwell & Claydon, 2010). The results of these individual performance measurement drills are communicated back to the employees. In addition, I post the general observations on the notice board to allow for thought provocation and action (White, G. and Druker, 2008). Arguably, this form of performance measurement is important because it not only encourages employees to correct their past mistakes but it captures employee-opinions.