Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

Successful Interview 3.

• 1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
• I learned that in order to have a successful business, you don't JUST need customer satisfaction, but you should also learn how to work as a team and know how to have good communication between one another. You can't have a restaurant running how it should if you cant get along with your staff. 
• 2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
• I believe it has changed. Maybe not by a lot, but I feel more comfortable asking "harder questions", but I also believe that my mentoring has a lot to do with feeling more comfortable because I feel I learned how to communicate within my mentoring(caterings or with staff members). I adapted communication skills and that is needed in life. 

Blog 16 - Independent Component 2 Approval

IC #2.. I am ready for you. 

• 1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
• What I plan to do is be able to attend more caterings with my mentor in order for me to learn more how to work as a team, how to communicate. For the actual Independent Component 2 I plan on organizing and running another social gathering or a "party". In order to do that I need to make sure I get everyone's opinion on food, location, etc. I will be in charge of making sure everything is running smoothly and everyone has what they need. 
• 2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
• I plan on going to mentor ship as usual, attend different caterings and allowing myself to get more communication skills. I will record all my outings on my google docs and will/can check in with my teacher and give them any new ideas or suggestions I come up with in order to help better my project. 
• 3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
• It will help me explore my topic more because management is all about working as a team and exceeding customer satisfaction. If I am able to plan another gathering "party", I will be able to see how many people i please and if I am able to please a few people at a party I will learn how to keep many customers happy in order for any business to succeed. 
• 4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.
• You got it. 

(P.S. any other idea will be noted, thank you)

Lesson 2 Reflection

Done with Lesson 2

                      

                           

• What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
• I am proud that people got engaged by my hook. But not only that, they participated well when told to. I felt I had good control over the classroom and I had their attention. Like, they weren't "bored" you can say.
•  What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?
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•    Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
• Because I feel I met all the "P standards". I presented, did my activity, and engaged the audience, but i also did more research that showed in my presentation because I did over 20  min. I also believed I was well prepared by thoroughly explaining what I had to say

• 3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
• Having a power point. It worked well because I had something to refer back to and allowed me to give everyone else more accurate information. Time was also another factor. I was able to meet time and go above the 20 expected
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  4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
• Practiced more to try to get rid of all the "likes, and umms" I used.
• 5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
• I believe my second answer can be prices. You have to make sure you price everything at a reasonable amount because if you over price your food, your customers can simply find somewhere else to go eat the same thing.

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) I, Leslie Torres, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 33 hours of work.
• (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.    
• My mentor Ms.Bernal is the one who guided me through my IC#1 by taking me to caterings, allowing me to help with her Christmas celebration and allowing me to work around the restaurant. 
• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• Updated Hours 
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
• I was able to complete the task of organizing our house Christmas Party with the help of my mentor. 
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
• You might not think throwing a party is difficult, but when you get involved in "Party planning" you see it can be a hassle. I had to keep everyone's opinion open to try and please as many people as I could have. It is very important you go out and learn how to communicate with others, and that is exactly what I did.  (Pics below) I didn't personally take any pictures at our House Party, but I have pictures of events I was able to attend.
• APPLIED
  My independent component helped me understand my topic better because while mentoring I learned customer satisfaction is going to get you where you need to be and because I was able to experience that I learned that if I wanted to continue down this path all I have to do is have a controlled staff in order to gain customers. My independent component was all about communication as well as satisfying everyone, and in the food industry you need to make sure you are communicating with everyone in order for your consumer to be happy and refer you to others. I communicated with everyone by asking them what the thought would be a better main dish to bring in and what type of desserts they would prefer. By appreciating everyone's thoughts it is sure that more people will enjoy the outcome of any given scenario

A catering a attended to that helped me with my IC#1

                                                         A catering I attended leading into my IC                                                               

                                                                   

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This is another piece of evidence regarding my IC#1

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Blog 14 - Third Interview Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

• I plan to interview Mrs. Selene Bernal , sisters with my mentor, aka my mom. She has been working in the restaurant business for over 15 years and has worked her way up to manage a restaurant which is also located in Riverside. 

2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 

• My interview can honestly be done as soon as I am prepared to ask Mrs. Bernal my interview questions.

3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.

• When looking at the different variables that make up your profit, which one do you believe is the most important? 

4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).

• What are some new techniques you might want to use in the future to better your clientele and how will you accomplish them?
• Ex: New advertisement? New specials? Giveaways of food?

5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ.

• Does time and dedication determine how well your restaurant does/will do financially?
• Do you have words of advice for anyone thinking about opening a restaurant in order for them to have a profitable business?

(I don't have my new eq. I will input it in my header as soon as I check in with Ortega or Holt.)

Blog 13 - 10 Hour Mentorship Check-in

Hello! It's 2016. Get as many hours in as you can.

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?

• I am currently doing all my Mentorship hours at a restaurant located in Riverside called Mi Lindo Apatzingan. 

2.   Who is your contact?  What makes this person an expert?

• My contact is my current mentor Ms. Bernal. What qualifies my mentor as an expert in what she does is that she has been in the business industry with her family for over 15 years. That period of time has allowed her to manage a business due to al her experience. 

3.   How many  hours have you done during the school year? (Summer Mentorship Hours and Mentorship Hours should be reflected separately in your Senior Project Hours log located on the right hand side of your blog).

• I currently have 12 hours in total during the school year, but will be doing more in the future. 

4.   Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours.

• I have done a variety of things at my Mentorship; from paperwork to going out and participating in caterings. What I believe I do the most is help organize the restaurant schedule so Ms. Bernal is able to fit in meetings with employees in order to introduce new ideas she may have regarding the restaurant. The way I plan to finish my hours is by doing more of what I do now, but can hopefully go out to a few more caterings to help better my people skills. 

*You need 50 hours plus the original 10 in the summer by May.   The original 10 from the summer do not count toward the 50.  By the end of the year, you will have 60 hours counting that original 10.

Blog 12 - Holiday Project Update

It's not at all like this during holidays. Got to work harder. 

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?

• Over break I went only a couple of times which was to help organize bills, but to also help my mentor organize a Christmas party for the workers. I helped her with the visual decorations of the party, but also helped her decide on the gifts, and food being given to the employees for their hard work.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

• I learned that organizing a special event isn't always the easiest because you try to please everyone as best you can because as manager you need to know how to give a little bit of something to everyone. For example our house Christmas party. We have to try and please everyone's needs. I honestly learned to communicate well with others with the help of not only my mentor but everyone who works there. I get experience with talking to the customers and trying to do as much as I can with the staff.

3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?

• I plan to get two sides of the story hopefully. A managers view of how to manage a restaurant and an employers view of how they believe a restaurant should be managed. If I am not able to interview these two people I will definitely interview the manager of a family friend's restuarant.