Skills Gained

Throughout this course, I was able to broaden my skills and expertise. I did this through experience in a multitude of disciplines which I had not fully explored in previous classes. I also expanded upon multiple skills that I already possessed.

Event Planning

As part of the event planning team, the most obvious skill that I expanded was my skill and experience in event planning. I had participated in assisting with the planning of events before, but I had never done one with this long of a time span. Other events had also already been planned out, so I just had to execute them and build on what had previously done. With ALL INtegrity, however, we participated in every single step of the event planning process.

Teamwork

One of the skills that I expanded the most upon was my skills in working as a team. We had both small scale teams of our particular contribution as well as the large scale team of our entire class. Working with both and making them cohesive was particularly important to making the team successful. As my team's liaison to the rest of the class, I really had to work to make sure I communicated our ideas to the rest of the class.

Organizational

My organizational skills were greatly increased during work on the ALL INtegrity campaign. Because this was a semester long project, I really had to work to make sure I was correctly organized in order to get everything done on time and correctly. This was a drastic difference compared to studying for tests the night before. This also relates directly to the workforce because there I will be working on more long-term projects rather than short-term and must utilize impressive organizational skills.

Time Management

Something that was key to our success in this campaign was our time management. We had to make sure that things were happening effectively and at the right moment. This was particularly important because of the long-term nature of the campaign. We had to make sure we did not wait until last minute to get things completed because we had to both inform the rest of the class about our decisions as well as make sure things got done.

Branding

Branding was an important aspect that we had to explore and utilize during this campaign. With so many people in our class doing so many different things, it was difficult at times to keep the same consistent brand message present in everything we did. We worked hard to make this consistent over all realms: social media, the event, the Facebook, etc. Working on this made me understand the importance of making these things cohesive as well as how to do so.

Self-Motivation

Everyone in the class really had to work on their self-motivation. With no tests or assignments, all the planning was up to us. In order to have a successful event, we had to put the time and effort in ourselves. This was drastically different than the traditional classroom setting. We were encouraged to do what we wanted and expand our knowledge as much as we individually chose to. Expanding on this skill was important for my future career because I must be self-motivated in order to be successful in the workplace.