Organizing Your Brain- Ft. Ethan

Hey folks,

We will be going off the leadership track in this post and instead will be identifying another type of soft skill. The class is tasked with identifying a fellow peers blog post and topic, so I decided to choose my friend that sits right in front of me, Ethan Miller.

Ethan chose to write his blog about organization and planning, two aspects of life that I could improve on no doubt. In Ethan's first blog post he references the amount of time one can save a company just by having a good plan of what they want and need to do. Crossing this with my own topic, leadership, one could infer how important it could be to have a plan for your company if you held a higher position. An example for this is maybe to make a quota for the amount of products you want to produce within the period or even a monthly sales goal for your team to meet. Either way, when making a plan it helps the company as a whole stay on the same page. This is helpful because when a unit of 20 people works to accomplish one goal progress is much faster than if 20 people tried to achieve 20 goals.

Ethan provides an interesting example of where his own organization hindered him in a job he once had with an accounting firm. He states how “(he) noticed all the files and materials you needed to keep organized in file cabinets” (Miller). Expanding on this observation he states how if he would have used these cabinets more effectively, he likely would have been able to be more efficient. Mastering efficiency is detrimental to becoming not only a good employee, but a great manager as well. Being efficient is doing the most you can in the least amount of time it can take you. From a managerial standpoint this could be when analyzing an incoming bad situation, and solving it in the littlest amount of time with the smallest impact on the firm.

Ethan brings up good points that prove it is important to be organized. In the future I can hope to keep this in mind and keep a schedule for myself to keep, to know when I’m on track or not. Until then, my whole schedule seems to revolve around getting my degree.

Blog post from:

https://medium.com/ethan-miller/introduction-to-organizational-and-planning-soft-skills-450a8de96e4