Management
Educational Game: CLUE the Germy Mystery
"Clue: Solve the Germy Mystery" is a playable educational game created by my class management group (called Realize) made in order to teach newly hired Food Service employees about food-borne illness to pass a ServSafe exam. The premise follows the traditional game of Clue: suspects (such a Colonel E-Coli) commit crimes using weapons (such a cantaloupe) in areas of the kitchen susceptible to contamination (such as on cutting boards). The players have fun attempting to figure out "who did it, with what, and where" while simultaneously learning about safe food handling skills.This interactive game includes a commercial kitchen themed playing board, suspect check-off sheets, and two playing die. It also includes informational playing cards and instruction in both English and Spanish to reach a wider audience. After finishing this project, our Realize group created a sales pitch and marketed our game to another management group in the class.
Budget Assignment
For this scenario-based assignment, we were assigned to be the Food Service Director of a 150 bed hospital. In a group of three, we created a department mission statement and long & short term objectives. With the record of last years budget statement, we used our best judgement to prepare a budget accounting for income, staffing needs, PTO (personal time off), benefits, insurance, food expenses, supplies, minor equipment, and continuing education. As a group, we brainstormed how to allocate resources, cut costs, and improve department performance while maintaining high moral. This experience required high level of critical thinking and provided a real-life situation of budgeting and managing a department in a hospital.
Management & Leadership Handbook
As a group, classmates and I created a management and leadership an interactive handbook designed for up-and-coming managers to use as a resource for guidance. For this assignment, each member of the group studied a management and leadership theory and created a brief and education write up. We then added these theories as separate chapters and applied interactive questionnaires to help a reader apply the theories to their own workplace. Our handbook is clear, cohesive, and concise. This experience taught me a great deal about management and leading.
Reading Journals
Over the course of one semester I completed 16 reading journals that summarized and applied what I had learned from assigned reading material for a management class. Reading journals involve taking highly effective notes over the material read. Each reading journals promoted attentive reading as well as critical thinking as I applied each topic of reading to real life situations. This experience provided me with opportunities to ask my professor questions of clarification, structure my own thoughts, make connections between topics, and provide a study tool at the end of the semester to review what I had learned.
Reading Journal #1
Reading Journal #2
Reading Journal #1
Reading Journal #2