Personal Learning Paper – 2
Submitted By
Aanchal Madan
FT 14201
Section 2
My first class of Organizational Behavior left me clueless I had expected to have an analytical analysis of corporates and organizations but as the classes passed by I realized that Organization behavior is a little more than how Organization’s behave, it also includes how “I” behave and how I have to be resilient to certain conditions or situations. A list of moving exercises during the lectures made me aware of myself, of those things which I completely ignored.
As an Information Technology person I thought Technical skills are one which must be 80% of a human and rest 20% should be soft skills. The Organizational Behavior classes wronged me and I realized how I must have a paradigm shift of 80% to 20% in Technical skills and rest 80% in Behavioral skills. Only now I realized that knowledge is not of appropriate use if not presented in a correct way and without talking a holistic approach.
My biggest take away from the classes is the increase in my confidence. Now I know after leaving Great Lakes when I enter corporate war zone I will be having a development plan to weigh my emotions and other’s responses and evaluate situations accordingly. Though I realize that situational learning is different from learning that comes by reading, and I might behave differently in certain situations; but now I that I have started to know myself, I have enough time to polish myself and learn more of the behavioral patterns before going out in the real world.
There are a number of things which I discovered about myself and I have started noting them down so as to improve on them. Below I mentioned some of them which I related with the chapter on Positive Organizational Behavior and Psychological Capital.
Resiliency is one thing that I lacked and I didn’t realize it until I was made to think about it in class. I had the attitude of “I am like this only and you have to