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I spent today at the "Creating a High Performing Team" offsite/workshop with the other 70+ members of my division. It was a good day, the more so for all the positive strokes I received. The newsletter received several spontaneous kudos. My department declared that getting my boss and I onto the team was one of the three top accomplishments of 2004. My boss's boss told me that my stepping up to be the communications person has been "a lifeline" for the division, and that there is no way that we would have made so much progress during the last six months without my contributions in that area -- not just on the newsletter but the other projects and ideas I've had. One of the senior leadership team told me that I needed to stop minimizing my contributions and being apologetic about speaking up in staff meetings; I'm a member of the team, and I should act like it -- which is a repeat of the feedback I received back in October about not playing small. My boss told me that she appreciates the fact that I'm a "partner" -- and when a VP says that her admin, it's something special. During our 10 minute free-for-all of mixing and giving appreciative feedback, I received a lot of positive words from people across the division.
Then I got home and found my final paper from Hebrew Scriptures in the mail. It wasn't graded, but it had positive comments throughout, including "wonderfully engaging stuff" about my close reading of the story of the prophecy of Sarah having a child.
Grades were posted today. I received an A in Contemporary Christian Prayer and Spirituality, and an A- in Hebrew Scriptures. Unfortunately, the registrar takes pluses and minuses into account, so it doesn't qualify as a 4.0 -- but this prof is tough, so I'm pleased to have made it into the A range at all. In four quarters of this program I have received 4 A's, an A- and a C -- and I only got the C because I gave in to being bored silly in the special seminar and didn't come back after lunch, nor did I go to the church service the next day at which the "Great Theologian" was speaking. My own damn fault. I didn't realize the course was being graded. I thought it was just Pass/Fail, with no GPA impact.
Then I got home and found my final paper from Hebrew Scriptures in the mail. It wasn't graded, but it had positive comments throughout, including "wonderfully engaging stuff" about my close reading of the story of the prophecy of Sarah having a child.
Grades were posted today. I received an A in Contemporary Christian Prayer and Spirituality, and an A- in Hebrew Scriptures. Unfortunately, the registrar takes pluses and minuses into account, so it doesn't qualify as a 4.0 -- but this prof is tough, so I'm pleased to have made it into the A range at all. In four quarters of this program I have received 4 A's, an A- and a C -- and I only got the C because I gave in to being bored silly in the special seminar and didn't come back after lunch, nor did I go to the church service the next day at which the "Great Theologian" was speaking. My own damn fault. I didn't realize the course was being graded. I thought it was just Pass/Fail, with no GPA impact.
