A Few Thoughts On Juan

    There are three main issues this said Juan had leading his group. First, he apparently failed to address the mission he and his group were initially given, he came unprepared for the meetings, and he also seemed to never come to the meetings with any ideas.

    Juan tried to organize activities for the anniversary that did not stick to his original mission. According to students in his group, their mission was to "sponsor educational outreach and peer tutoring to chemistry majors". However, I fail to see how buying a bench or writing a musical number assessed this goal. Juan started out on the wrong foot. Instead of finding activities to encourage interest and assistance for chemistry, Juan tried to find methods of making the event entertaining. To make the event interesting is not a bad objective, in fact it would most likely benefit the activity's effectiveness if it were interesting. Still, the events Juan came up with were only interesting and not relevant to the purpose of the student organization.

    Juan also failed to come to the meetings fully prepared. It is imperative for event planning to consider financial assets. An event cannot be ratified without confirmation that said event is withing financial capabilities, knowing his financial limits would have helped Juan not waste his time. As the group leader, it was Juan's responsibility to inquire about the amount of money the event would have at their disposal.

    Juan also failed to come prepared with ideas to his meetings. A group is meant to collaborate and refine ideas, but a leader it is important to come prepared with ideas to bounce off of. A leader should not come to their group's meeting expecting other's to initiate for them. Collaboration works best with rough ideas to start out with, that other members can then smooth and polish out into better ideas. Juan should have done some of the brainstorming prior to the meetings. Perhaps the other's in the group became frustrated when Juan tried to "facilitate another brainstorming activity" instead of actually providing solutions to their problem.

 

-Arlen