Personal Best Example Report
TO: Professor Cross
FROM: Varun Malkani
DATE: 2/4/2013
SUBJECT: Personal Best Examples
I’m a member of the Filmmaker’s Society and recently had to take on a big leadership role at the end of last semester. As treasurer of the club I’m in charge of soliciting funding from the student council each semester and I have to attend a hearing to get our budget approved. Last semester, however, no one in our club was ever notified about the upcoming budget hearings until the day of. Since the budget had always been my duty, it was my responsibility to get the job done in a matter of hours before our hearing. Our budget basically consists of production equipment ranging from cameras to props and I had to go to many different officers in the club to get a sense of what we needed to out on our budget. I had quickly meet with the equipment manager, the president of the club, the officer in charge of running the film festival, and our social chair to figure what each one of them needed while still maintaining a lean budget. Overall, I was able to meet with 3 of them and tried to get as much of what they needed as possible. …show more content…
It was partially my fault that we had to scramble in the first place as I should have been more aware of the budget hearings and should have at least asked the student council about it instead of waiting for them to notify us. I definitely enabled others to act, however, by being as supportive of their budget needs as possible and giving them all the resources they needed in terms of student council budget guidelines and finding price estimated for whatever they needed. I did not really challenge the process, as the student council is pretty rid when it comes to their guidelines. Moreover, I don’t think I was able to inspire a shared vision for the club seeing as we were working on an extreme time crunch but I did show appreciation towards my fellow officers of the club after our budget was
FROM: Varun Malkani
DATE: 2/4/2013
SUBJECT: Personal Best Examples
I’m a member of the Filmmaker’s Society and recently had to take on a big leadership role at the end of last semester. As treasurer of the club I’m in charge of soliciting funding from the student council each semester and I have to attend a hearing to get our budget approved. Last semester, however, no one in our club was ever notified about the upcoming budget hearings until the day of. Since the budget had always been my duty, it was my responsibility to get the job done in a matter of hours before our hearing. Our budget basically consists of production equipment ranging from cameras to props and I had to go to many different officers in the club to get a sense of what we needed to out on our budget. I had quickly meet with the equipment manager, the president of the club, the officer in charge of running the film festival, and our social chair to figure what each one of them needed while still maintaining a lean budget. Overall, I was able to meet with 3 of them and tried to get as much of what they needed as possible. …show more content…
It was partially my fault that we had to scramble in the first place as I should have been more aware of the budget hearings and should have at least asked the student council about it instead of waiting for them to notify us. I definitely enabled others to act, however, by being as supportive of their budget needs as possible and giving them all the resources they needed in terms of student council budget guidelines and finding price estimated for whatever they needed. I did not really challenge the process, as the student council is pretty rid when it comes to their guidelines. Moreover, I don’t think I was able to inspire a shared vision for the club seeing as we were working on an extreme time crunch but I did show appreciation towards my fellow officers of the club after our budget was