CHEM-E0105 - Academic Learning Community, Lecture, 18.9.2023-26.4.2024
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Final Assignment
One excellent work-life skill is the ability and habit to reflect various learning opportunitities from a personal perspective, and this way to develop a individual insight on matters that may be useful for the future. After listening to the episode write a 1-2 page reflection essay addressing at least the below questions, or you can also write in your very own style.
1. Which episone did you choose and why? What was the the episode about? Add a link to the episode as part of your submission.
2. What was particularly interesting in the story, or did something annoy you? Please elaborate and justify you opinions.
3. How could you potentially benefit from some of the insights discussed in the company or leadership story, please give examples of your personal learnings or thoughts provoked by the podcast.
Return your reflection as a PDF document with "option1_lastname.pdf" to the enclosed submission box.
Within this option your task is to arrange and conduct one conversation or "interview" with someone, who is already working in a company, NGO or as an entrepreneur. This may be someone you already know like a friend or a member of a faculty, or alternatively some one working for a company where you would like to work some day, or perhaps open a dialogue for a summer job opportunity.
The rather informal conversation / interview guideline would be to address the following questions about Entrepreneural Mindset at Workplace:
- How does your conversation partner personally understand the notion of "entrepreneurial mindset" and what does it mean to him/her ?
- How would your interviewee identify it in the behaviour, thinking or actions of another person?
- How are entrepreneurial mindset or entrepreneurial ways of working present in your respondents workplace in general, as well as in some particular function like research, business development or sales? How should it be visible?
- Ask for a couple of concrete examples
2. Ask also for examples of 3-5 skills that your discussion partner regards as important in the workplace ?
- What tips would your interviewee give for searching for a summer job or a Master's Thesis placement in general, and what advise would he/she give in getting the best out of a summer job or the first job?
You could ask for a 15-30 minute opportunity for this conversation to take place, and for your background here is how Aalto sees Entrepreneurial Mindset and why it is a useful overall working life skill. https://www.aalto.fi/en/our-strategy/entrepreneurial-mindset
After your conversation please write a 1-2 page reflection essay describing your dialogue on the above issues and what thoughts the discussion sparked for you. Return your reflections as a PDF document with "option2_lastname.pdf" to the enclosed submission box.