Entrepreneurship for the Public Good Internship Prompts
Prompts, Clues or Cues leading to Friday Internship Journal Entries, Paper and Portfolio (Entries for each day are bundled together on Fridays and submitted by 6:00 pm)
[Concepts or Constructs for prompts or cues to the EPG Ability for each day are bolded]
Day 10 Can I see how small group conversations, and how (online) research documents are used to advance the creditability and verifiability of interesting ideas and strengthen them into good ideas? Might a conversation with your DFE site supervisor be valuable? Why or why not? Please apply the Reflective Discernment Model to articulate your learning: I learned that. I learned that when. …
Day 9 Can I see and understand the group decision making patterns and levels of individual participation that contribute to effective and ineffective small group decision in the organization? Please apply the Reflective Discernment Model to articulate your learning: I learned that. I learned that when. This learning matters because. In light of this learning I learned that the group decision-making…
Day 8 Can I see, understand and interpret patterns and sources of values and ethical fiber that surround the social and professional activity within my immediate peers at the internship site? Please apply the Reflective Discernment Model to articulate your learning: I learned that I learned that when. This learning matters because. In light of this learning I learned that there is…
Day 7 Can I use field research (observations) to determine the key critical elements in my internship that require and produce high performance in this organization? Might a conversation with your DFE site supervisor be valuable? Please apply the Reflective Discernment Model to articulate your learning: I learned that. I learned that when. This learning matters because…. In light of this learning…
Day 6 Can I identify the electronic email messages, how they are structured, length, tone, or scope that are used to advance early stages interesting ideas that become the next good idea? Are there formal training procedures to electronic messaging? I learned that the email structure inside the office is almost written as if in shorthand. I learned that Josh…
Day 4 Can I describe how the internship executives, managers or personnel identify ideas, screen ideas, criteria to assess ideas or “wide ideas” into worthy ideas, and then how do individuals discuss and delete ideas of little or no value? What criteria are used? How do people in the organization learn those criteria? [RO] Please apply the DEAL-based Internship Experience…
Day 3 Have I witnessed or observed small groups or work groups operating in this workplace effectively or ineffectively and if so why? How is the setting different from the first summer facilitation of small groups? (FGD] Please apply the DEAL-based Internship Experience Reflection Framework and describe a internship experience (objectively and in some detail) articulating your learning about how…
EPG Prompts Day 1 The jointing up process – Can I describe key components of the complex cultural contexts (organizational structure with charts, community mapping, supply chain analysis, structure of the local economy, nonprofit organizational analysis – vision, mission and strategies) that shape this internship organization? Provide specific examples of the tools and skills you have enlisted to learn about…
Can I describe a specific organizational values/ company norms/ and ethical arrangement (an example is the concept Ethical Fiber used and applied as a selection criteria in the Ashoka organization) in my internship organization? Have I have planned my entire summer production schedule for both the internship assignments and the production of journals and Skype face-to-face conferences with your faculty…