“I never knew that little things like your e-mail (address) could effect your job,” Coker said following a communication and social network discussion.
Sonoraville High and Gordon Central High School juniors and seniors participated in the Career, Technical and Agricture (CTAE) field trip that focused on having students learn about professionalism in the workplace.
The Rising Professional day was spearheaded by Shaw Learning Academy (SLA), Trinity Baptist Church and the Gordon County School system.
Coker was also surprised to learn that any employer could use photos posted by friends on her Facebook page as grounds for termination.
“I think I’ll be more cautious about what other people do,” she said.
SLA speaker Keyla Manning told students that text message lingo isn’t appropriate for work e-mail.
“Don’t use the shorthand of text in an e-mail. If you have it on the same device (email and cell phone capability), remember when you are ‘texting’ and when you’re replying to an e-mail,” she said.
Students were divided into five different groups and attended five 40-minute sessions, including interviewing skills, communication and social networking, seven habits of highly effective people, teambuilding and money talk.
In the seven habits session, students hovered around tiny-size Lego blocks of all shapes and colors.
Their instructions were to build a Lego tower a replica of the group leader’s tower.
Beforehand, SLA leader Andy McPheters allowed one person in each group of three to look at the model. The challenge was replicating the structure as a team, but only allowing one person to be the connection to the end design.
McPheters explained to students that the Lego tower was an activity that demonstrated the importance of having a clear vision in the workplace.
“If the vision is not clear you’ll waste time and money,” he said.
McPheters confessed that a great deal of stress he faced in college was not having a clear vision.
“I changed my major four times. I was in college for six years instead of four,” he said.
He encouraged them to be thoughtful about their goals.
“A lot of people do things on a daily basis that they don’t want to do. Remember it’s your life,” he reminded them.
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