On Friday, April 27th , Lawline.com had another opportunity to team up with Big Brother Big Sisters and participate in the Youth Development Program again! Besides myself, we had a new team of mentors come and speak with high school seniors who were majoring in Marketing.
Here’s what some of the mentors had to say:
Trisha: It is so different from when I went to high school and I loved seeing how it has changed. I learned that the kids are really mature for their age and know a lot more then what I did at that age. I think I taught them what really happens in college and that they should prepare out what they want to do and be okay with change because it will happen. I really had a great time and wish I could have spent more time there and really got to learn more about the kids and the school.
Ryan: The best part of the program was getting the chance to meet every student as opposed to just a few of them. It really gave me an opportunity to see just how unique in their interests and yet how similar in their fears each of them were. I felt that many of them were fairly focused and set on what they wanted to do. I expected the students to be attentive, but not entirely enthusiastic about having strangers coming in and talking about their jobs. Instead they were happy to talk about everything, and were open about what was going on in their lives and receptive to any advice I could give, no matter how useful/useless. I’m impressed at how much more focused and driven the students are than I was at that age.
Corey: My favorite was just being able to be real with the students who are basically where I was 5 years ago. The hardest part was engaging with the students who were shy. I tried teaching them that it’s ok to explore your options. I think the enjoyment of it all exceeded my expectations.
Andrew: The best part of the program was how eager the students were to listen and absorb everything that I shared with them. it appeared they wanted to be there learning as much as I wanted to be there teaching. I was really impressed how mature the students were. I was fortunate that I did not have to work while in high school and could just concentrate on my studies. However, I do think entering the workforce while at school does have advantages. I stressed that It is important to get involved in activities and network ones self to meet as many people as you could. Networking is the most important skill in the work force today. It was an experience in which I felt great after I left because I felt that I positively impacted others which is something that I love to do.
Steph: There was this girl was dying to ask me about public relations and I was glad to be able to give her some advice on course work in college and internships. The hardest part was getting those who didn’t want to talk, to talk. I attempted varying the topics (school, friends, parties etc). I hope I taught them that change is okay! Especially changing your major, even schools. That it’s important to figure out what you don’t like as much as what you do like.
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When the sales team complained that many of the people on the Illinois list no longer worked at the firm Jeff took immediate action. Doing is usual working through late in the night he came up with a solution that the sales team can easily search the person in the firm and see if they still work there.
There are many many examples of how Rob takes the time to help other but for the sake not writing an essay, two examples are shared.
In the spirit of being driven, Alex took the initiative and implementing a California Paralegal market for our courses. Not only that, Alex touched on all core values! He took the time to help a potential customer who needed their paralegal credits, actively learned how we can accredit our courses for paralegals, found a creative solution to the potential client’s accreditation’s issue, and found a better way to make Lawline.com expand its market!
Last Friday, Brandon began his presentation by discussing a personal story involving purchasing a book on Amazon and dealing with the United States Post Office. In the story, everyone was able to see how two different customer service agencies handled customer service. Even though the end result was the same, the main message was that sometimes the process and the journey are more important than the end result.
The second part of the presentation involved an interactive game. In society, individuals usually judge each other based off of prejudices and stereotypes. Those impressions usually have a long lasting effect on how everyone views one another. The activity was that everyone had 3 minutes to develop a group of 3 to 4 people with something in common, not involving a prejudice or a stereotype. One group included people who enjoy movies while another one was a group of three who believe Pterodactyls are ancestors of a either a bird or a reptile.
decided to play a game wherein people would get pieces of paper with the name of an animal and, acting as that animal, would have to locate similar “animals” in the room.
Last week, Chris taught us how to dance Bachata. Bachata is music that originated in Dominican Republic. Recently, the music has become extreme popular. This was not always the case beause early on, Bachata was regarded as being solely for the lower class in Dominican Republic. These attitudes have since changed. The best thing about Bachata is that it is easy learn. A simple 1, 2, 3 Step and you got it down.
Janet: The video below was a project based on the idea from fiftypeopleonequestion.com in which it embraces the different cultures, different views, different experiences and thoughts of fifty people in one place in one day in one city. The reason I chose this video is not to focus on things that we may or may not regret but to bring to the forefront the idea that if we were to take a little time out of our lives, be it daily, annually or in blocks of years, it is in my true opinion something truly necessary to each of us. Necessary not just on a professional basis but more importantly on a personal basis.
Michael B : This morning, I chose to share this video with everyone because I believe it fits in perfectly with our core value, Driven To Find A Better Way.
You have 30 seconds to live and you need to relay to your children or loved ones the 3 most important things to living a happy and fulfilling life!
This morning, Trisha had the team play the Pulse game.
Jeff F(II): Today I asked the Lawline team to work through an exercise known as the traveler’s dilemma- a variant of the popular game theory thought exercise, the prisoner’s dilemma.
Two heads are better than one so many together would solve quicker, right? Last Friday, I put that theory to the test with some brain teasers called Dingbats.
Over the past month, Trisha has taken on a great amount of new responsibility in the Production Department. She has completely changed the way we moderate our live webcast courses. She brought to it the ability to resolve customer problems, provide insight to the content of the courses, engage customers, and provide a unique environment for our learning center. Further, she has began producing materials for courses, assuring the courses are completed on the admin, put together course playlists, and actively challenged the department to continue pushing further.
Ann launched the first Lawline sponsored charity event through Big Brothers Big Sisters in a Youth Development Program. She organized the event from start to finish, and set a platform for Lawline.com’s culture to grow through actively living out its Core Values within the community.
During a record-breaking attendance for a Lawline.com webcast, the production team encountered some technical difficulties. In its first ever 3-camera filming, the entire screen and audio went out – resulting in zero viewers able to watch the program.
The presentation this morning was all about taking risks.
transportation?” “Yellow Submarine, by The Beatles.” And then we go around in a circle and share our questions and answers. It’s a nice way of seeing what other people’s music tastes are and also the explanations that they give to song if the title doesn’t exactly answer the statement or question. One colleague received the question, “Who is your best friend?” and she responded with “Don’t Stop Believing, by Journey” because the song reminds her of her best friends and they always sing and enjoy that song together. The best part was that this game really displayed one of our core values, which is seeking creative solutions. We constantly have to find creative solutions for our questions, and in this case, we had to use song titles in order to get there.
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This Thursday morning, we were shown how we ourselves can define physical outcomes.
We had four teams and four decks of cards. Two teams formed an alliance with the task for one group to arrange all the shuffle cards in ascending order and the other in descending order. Each person were given random amount of cards face down in their hands. Chris mentioned what helped was that his group created a strategy before arranging. When his group were done, they helped their ally finish.
Micah has led the charge with our new PTZ camera – a camera that features remote directional and zoom control. In combination with Wirecast, the setup would allow a moderator to be located anywhere in the world while filming programs in our studio, and it would allow the moderator to have unique control over the camera’s functioning through the remote.