Before I begin my normal post, I wanted to share a product review I have done on the ASUS eee PC.  I am a big fan of being mobile and accomplishing the same tasks I would normally get done when I am not mobile.  I have solved a great dilemma in being able to get some school work done without having to be tied to a desktop computer or lug my desktop-replacement laptop around.  I would suggest that everyone get one of these.

Now on to school.  I have three weeks left in this class.  The workload has increased, the urgency has been amplified.  Three major projects are due over the next three Saturdays, and it will take all of my energy to get them done.  A new challenge is presenting itself, as my child has probably passed the flu on to me, as I feel the symptoms coming on rapidly.  If there was something I didn’t need right now, it’s the flu.

We had last week off from school.  It was the “mandatory week off”.  Coming back this week and getting a grip on the workload is rough.  It’s been hard to crack the books, but I need to just suck it up and make it happen.  I am maintaining a 90 in this class, and I don’t want to drop that any lower.

When they told us that each week builds upon the previous weeks, they were not kidding.  This individual assignment that is due on Saturday includes a statement of the most important strategic process within my area of expertise at my place of employment, the strategic job families which I believe are most important in realizing and supporting this particular strategic process and three or four proposed learning and growth perspective objectives, initiatives, and measurements needed to support the strategic job families.

I am glad I work where I do.  A lot of the things I have been doing as a manager over the past seven years fits in so well with the course material at Norwich.  While nothing in the class has been “easy”, I do feel fortunate to have a great point if reference in meshing my job with the assignments.

Moving forward.