This week I did not spend a lot of time on my project due to demands from other classes. Although I did spend some time working on the budget with Jessica and trying to figure out how we are going to have four speakers. We were adding up the cost for our four speakers and were a bit frustrated to see we did not have enough left for books, food, and advertising. We decided that instead of getting everyone a book we would cut it down to only giving the first 25 or so to register a book, and then have them as prizes for drawings too. I am bummed about this but it will all work out.
We did later receive bad news, yet good news in disguise. One of our speakers, Kylee Larson cannot make it to our event now. I really liked talking to her and felt she had a lot to share with us, but if it helps us organize our event and open up our budget more then I guess it's okay. I did write her back and asked if maybe she'd like to write a short letter to us with anything she would like us to know about ministry. I would then email it out as part of our advertising possibly. It would give them a little taste of what will be happening at the event.
I am still waiting on our advertising graphic design but we did get to pick out a logo for our group which we named WoMin (women in ministry). This really made me more excited about forming this group, just knowing we have a name and a logo. You can see a picture of it up top. Hopefully we can start advertising this next week.
One struggle in leadership this week was letting Jessica do the tasks I delegated to her. I just want to get things done, but she is busy as well and has put it off a bit. I am learning to keep others accountable though. But it is still hard because I also need the hours, so when I could be adding hours working on her stuff its hard to sit and wait. But I have restrained and am trusting that I will get the amount of hours I need.
Questions: What do you think of our logo? Do you have any other ideas as to how to include the books? Do you have any suggestions on how to keep delegating but still getting my hours?
Becky,
ReplyDeleteI think the logo is pretty cool! Concerning the books, maybe you could put the money towards a discount for every person who buys a book. Like maybe $5 dollars off for everyone who wants to buy one. As far as delegating tasks, maybe you need to do less delegating and more things yourself to make sure you get your hours in.
I like your logo and I would agree with TJ about getting hours in. I mean, if you feel like you aren't doing enough and are worried about hours then don't delegate as much or maybe you could work with Jessica on some things. Two heads are usually better than one.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy your logo. I think it fits well with your project. I think that giving the books to the first 25 people is also a very solid idea. Then include TJ's idea of taking a certain amount off for the people that would like to purchase a book.
ReplyDeleteBecky,
ReplyDeleteThe logo looks great and I like that name, thats very creative! And the graphic is really sweet too, I bet that makes you feel like things are shaping up better! As far as the books go, yes I like the idea of the first 25 people and then if you have some left after that to use them as door prizes for something. If you are going to do an activity or something, it could be a prize for that as well! I think as far as delegating tasks to people, and your worried about your hours, I would keep track of them to make sure you will have 90 by the end. But other than that, for me I don't really like to give other people tasks to do without helping them or something. I know me and TJ in our project tend to do things and then send it to each other to look at and give input and that helps us alot. Well good luck!