{"id":42,"date":"2018-04-25T00:29:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/?p=42"},"modified":"2018-04-25T00:29:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:29:01","slug":"narrating-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/2018\/04\/25\/narrating-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrating U"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I put pen to paper and started this exercise by brainstorming all the reasons I decided to return to school. Once I had a mess of words I organized them into some common themes and choose a few to focus on.\u00a0My greatest motivation is to learn more about leadership and grow my personal management skills so that I can lead an amazing kitchen. I work with a lot of young students (ages 14-22), individuals who are just entering the workforce for the first time, that come from a variety of backgrounds. This creates many exciting challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Currently I have my menu set up with the following sections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heart of House: The heart of a restaurant is the kitchen which is why its called the Heart of House. I want to investigate the environmental issues that affect Heart of House leadership that are specific to the restaurant industry.<\/li>\n<li>Engagement: An issue everywhere. How do you keep youth excited about cooking food for people they will never see? How do I engage prep cooks that don&#8217;t even make a full plate of food?<\/li>\n<li>Motivation: What incentives can I provide as leader to improve job satisfaction? What motivates employees to stay engaged?<\/li>\n<li>Development: How do &#8216;B&#8217; players become &#8216;A&#8217; players? How can I train more efficiently? How do I promote a culture of growth and continuous improvement?<\/li>\n<li>Real Life: This might seem out of place but one topic of conversation that comes up daily in the kitchen is &#8220;real life&#8221;. High school students are always bringing up things like &#8220;once I have a real job&#8221;&#8230; I will show up on time&#8230; I will do my responsibilities better&#8230; I will be happier&#8230; It will be different. I try to find ways to focus on showing them that there are lots of skill that can be learned in an after school job and applied later in life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For now I&#8217;ve decided to go with a simple concept and use the menu to organize the blog posts. Then I can use tags to further break down the concepts as time moves on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put pen to paper and started this exercise by brainstorming all the reasons I decided to return to school. Once I had a mess of words I organized them into some common themes and choose a few to focus on.\u00a0My greatest motivation is to learn more about leadership and grow my personal management skills &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/2018\/04\/25\/narrating-u\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-skills","category-narrating-u","category-twu-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/maddisonolson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}