About the Content of the Chapter 13
For the presentation of the case studies, I read chapter 13 where Anna Mahr who led a health insurance company at the edge was described. Although I could not search and find visuals of the company for the presentation because the name of the company was a fictitious, I could understand and easily imagine the hard situation of the company. I really enjoyed reading about the WOMAN leader.
In my presentation, I summarized the story by explaining the problems and her strategies for the problems relating to Shackleton’s strategies. First, I explained briefly the fact that the health insurance company had serious service and finance problems and it would almost be forced to discontinue their business by SRA. Then, I introduced the details how Anna managed such a serious situation by showing the nine actions and recovered the business referring to Shackleton’s strategies.
Of course, every action that Anna took was effective to rebuild the company’s system, but I especially like the action that she had a party with ALL employees who participated in the process of national evaluation process. The party was held without status differences and held not based on the outcome (after the party they got the news that the company had been accredited for three years) but just for ending work off which attracted me the most.
About Skills and Impression of the Presentations
About my attitude to the presentation, I could use the skills such as eye contacts and using body effectively which I learned in LILTDY’s classes. Although it was difficult to present within the time and to use appropriate English, I enjoyed presenting the story after thinking the best way to convey it to my friends. In addition, it was interesting to listen to presentations of my friends. Although each situation was different, leadership and strategies carried out by the heads of the companies were impressive.
Hi Yoshika,
ReplyDeleteThank you for making this extra entry, and expressing yourself so well.
I wish your company and leader had not had fictitious names so you could have looked them up, but you seemed to have learned just as much.
Finally, I appreciate how much thought you put into preparing to present your case study, and that the exercise in general seemed so meaningful for you.
Ken