Damien talks about what he has done at work with internal meetings, Indigenous business members and Corporate Partner meetings. He has submitted his Social Responsibility and Ethics assignment, submitted his weekly Data Analysis prior to tomorrow nights class, done the Managing People quiz and has yet to complete the self reflection question.

Damien also talks about his registering with several MBS Clubs as the MBS Startup Club, MBS Consulting Club as well as other Alumni clubs as EY and Australia Post. Damien has registered for ‘Coffee Roulette’ where he will be matched with other students from other industry and experience backgrounds to share stories and knowledge.

Damien talks about Indigenous Business Month which is a legacy of the Murra Program which Melbourne Business School runs. Damien in his role as Relationship Manager with Kinaway Victorian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and the video he is working on. He discusses his interaction with another student on the Social Responsibility and Ethics assignment and his finding another resource from Brown University.

The Managing People class was an information overload lecture. Damien found the class information intensive in the slides and content. There were class exercises around how we use past experience and knowledge/ heuristics to solve problems (one of the exercise problems was on Die Hard With a Vengeance in the park).

The takeaway from the class were the modern Motivation Theories which are Goals Theory, Consequence Theory, Justice Theory and Self Determination Theory. These now supercede the old Motivation theories as Maslows Heirarchy of Needs. He learns what Negative Reinforcement is where it is about taking away a negative impact on performance.

The Self Reflection was how in the workplace we ourselves or another employee performed poorly and how that was approached around feedback. The most notable reasoning most went to was it being the result of extrinsic reasons as to intrinsic reasons.

The Syndicate work has a Project due on the 26 November but we need to have our topic in as soon as possible, but then also have a mid term assignment due in week 6. We also discussed what technology we will be using as a team for the assignment. It was agreed by the Syndicate we use Slack for communications and Google Docs for document control.

Damien discusses the reading he did for Managing People which looks at the use of reward systems and how they don’t necessarily result in the desired outcome they were hoping to achieve. He discusses the work he needs to do for Data Analysis where he has the question to do before class on Thursday. He talks about his day at work having phone meetings with members of Kinaway, Victorian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and his upcoming Business Review meetings with members and potential Corporate Partner meetings. He also has an overdue library book of Gareth Evans Politcal Memoirs.

A Framework For Making Ethical Decisions

Damien talks about completing his Social Responsibility and Ethics assignment as well as a recap of his weekend. He talk about his submission of his Managing People survey password, and completing the self reflection question, where he broke the self reflection into three components- Himself, his direct reports as individuals and as a team and the organisation. He has yet to do his Data Analysis class work for week 2, which he will commence after completing his Managing People readings. He also talks about his keeping up with his social life by retaining contact with his friends by phone and for brunch.

Damien discusses his first class for Data Analysis. He starts with a review of his last couple of days doing the Social Responsibility and Ethics assignment, the Leadership assignment, interview Will Henderson. Then his day at work speaking with Kinaway’s Victorian Indigenous business members and presenting to a potential Corporate Partner. That night he had the Data Analysis class and Damien realised he needs to do more self study in using Excel and Pivot Tables. He talked with a Managing People Syndicate member who showed him to connect to their Slack team for communicating with the team. He also talks about the self reflection of the Managing People class. He then discusses his goals for the weekend being to complete his Social Responsibility and Ethics assignment, self study on Excel and Pivot Tables, completing his readings for Managing People, doing his Managing People Self Reflection response and the survey password submission. He will socialise tonight and catch up with his Doctor friend from Brisbane doing his Fellow studies. Today is an AFL Grand Final Day public holiday in Victoria.

Damien interviews Will who is an aeronautical engineer by day and part time MBA student at the Melbourne Business School by night. Will talks about his life growing up in Tasmania, moving to Melbourne to study at university and doing additional studies before getting a job at an engineering firm that works on aircrafts such as helicopters and jets. Will also does probono work for 180 Degrees Consulting, a probono consulting organisation that services the not for profit sector. Will talks about his experience of the MBA and why he decided to study at Melbourne Business School. He talks about his takeaways from the course in our brief 2 weeks to date.

Damien walks you through his day from waking up at 6am to hit the gym, traveling to work by tram and starting at 8:30am at Kinaway Victorian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce, having meetings with Corporates as part of Meereeng 50 at PWC with PWC Indigenous Consulting, Lend Lease, University of Melbourne, talking to Indigenous businesses and having internal meetings. Leaving work at 5pm to walk to the Melbourne Business school to start class at 6pm to finish after 9pm and leave at 10pm and be home by around 10:30pm. Do some more work before going to bed by 12am.

Damien takes you through the reading summaries for the subject ‘Managing People’. He talks on the articles he has read about business books, best practice and leadership and management being based on scientific evidence.