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Learning Beyong the Classroom. For my second LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
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For my second LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM experience, I had volunteered at “The Rinx at Hidden Pond Park” in Hauppauge, New York where I helped a children’s coach run practices and help out on the bench of a hockey program which has given a lot to me; as I played there as a youth. The program helped me develop myself as a growing adult in many ways. One way in which I feel I grew as an individual, is in regards to my expanding patience. I was able to connect my found patience to a Cross-Cultural Management class that I took while studying abroad at Bond University in Australia. I was also able to link my evolving leadership skills to BUS 450 class, Business Management, which I am currently enrolled in at Western New England College. Filling in at practices when the coach was unable to attend because of other engagements allowed me to take control of the situation at hand and apply my hockey skills which I had previously learned from people just like myself.
The Cross-Cultural Management class I took while attending Bond University allowed me to gain the importance of patience. When you are doing business in various countries, one must have extreme patience because of many barriers including language and cultural. My LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM experience was very similar to doing business in a foreign country; many of the players did not have the level of comprehension that I currently posses as they were ten years younger than me. I had to think about what I wanted to do and what I wanted to say and verbalize myself in a fashion that a ten and eleven year old would understand. At times it was frustrating when they did not understand what I was trying to portray to them; but that is where my experience in my Cross-Cultural Management came in handy. I had to step back for a second and remember that not everyone is that same and that different people understand things differently. If one of two kids did not understand what I was trying to say to...
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