http://jgjoyce.edublogs.org Adventures in Graduate School at Virginia Commonwealth University Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:37:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's hard to believe that it has been more than a year since I posted to this blog. A lot has happened in that time. To begin with, shortly after that last blog post, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Happily, it was in the early stages (Stage II) and I ... http://jgjoyce.edublogs.org/2009/11/07/flash-forward-a-year-later/ I feel like now I'm in full swing with the semester. Lots going on both in this class and STAT 508 as well as work and family. I feel like the guy on the Ed Sullivan show spinning the plates on sticks (Ok, so I'm showing my age again). Got ... http://jgjoyce.edublogs.org/2008/11/02/getting-serious-now/ Had a great class on recognizing and dealing with resistance this past week. Pam and Megan took us through Block's steps to recognizing, naming and countering resistance. I thought remembering the names was tough and sometimes I still find it difficult to fit the situation into the proper category. Then ... http://jgjoyce.edublogs.org/2008/10/24/finding-the-words/ We talked about the Johari window in class tonight and worked through an exercise. It was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. I did little web research and came across the following website: http://kevan.org/johari. It it an interactive Johari window ... http://jgjoyce.edublogs.org/2008/10/14/johari-window/ Class last night focused on Block's chapters on contracting. BTW, Peter Block's Flawless Consulting is one of our texts and I really like it. Very pragmatic - humorous at time. On a side note, I bought it from Audible.com (one of my favorite websites; I'll have to write a post ... http://jgjoyce.edublogs.org/2008/09/30/consulting-and-contracting/ As I continue to read about the business of consulting another of my previous notions of consultants bites the dust. I have always through of the consultants (since we were assuming the role of expert) to be someone from outside the organization. How many times have I heard/told the old ... http://jgjoyce.edublogs.org/2008/09/28/internal-vs-external-consultants/ Oh Wow! Oh Boy! Oh AWESOME! Can you tell I'm excited about this? I figured out how to add WebWidgets that aren't the ones typically associated with Edublogs. This is VERY cool and has FAR REACHING consequences for blogging in a community of practice, I topic I'm quite interested in and ... http://jgjoyce.edublogs.org/2008/09/21/trying-to-add-a-webwigit/ Clearly, my view of consulting prior to taking this course, was primarily the doctor-patient model whereby the consultant swooped in and because of his/her expertise, told the client what was wrong and how to fix it; end of story. In hindsight, however, I see that I have observed, and even ... http://jgjoyce.edublogs.org/2008/09/20/what-im-learning-about-consulting/ So much to blog about - this was one CRAZY Monday. Two specialty classes at the academy - one was LE Spanish: Traffic Stops and Field Sobriety. Fortunately my instructors are awesome and very low maintenance. The other an amazing week-long class for detectives, prosecutors and cps workers on interviewing ... http://jgjoyce.edublogs.org/2008/09/16/a-crazy-monday/ This is one of those before I forget things. First of all, I was late. I HATE being late. I was late getting out of the office because the links didn't work on the email I sent to 600 police employees so I had to recall the message AND field ... http://jgjoyce.edublogs.org/2008/09/08/tonights-class/