Week 5 the 10th of April

Today it is ‘Good Friday’ meaning I will have to help my mom in the kitchen prepare way too many dishes for the entire weekend to come. It also means that most people are off from work. I have rather chosen to have a look at all that needs to be done for this week regarding my internship so I can prepare the end week report to my supervisor. I was a bit stressed since I know my mom can stay up till very late/early to finish all the food for the Easter, and knows how to manipulate me to help her with cooking all day and night until everything is finished. Since my sister left yesterday to hr boyfriend and will not be back until Sunday to help out. 

I believe to have gathered some valuable and reliable data for the single-family office event. I have had a brief look back at the financial courses I assigned myself to a couple of days ago to continue where I left things off. I have to confess it would be a much better idea to continue working on those days by day instead of taking a break of a few days and restarting again because it is hard to get on the same track. 

I have also made progress in communicating with my supervisor in my mother language. I have added Polish to my keyboard so now every time I am texting with my supervisor I switch it to prevent any errors and see where I made the mistakes. My supervisor insisted on communicating with me in Polish, which I actually really like because it is beneficial for me to maintain a professional level of the Polish language. Not to misunderstand together we have had a crisis management meeting via video chat, during which we all speak English since another employee is German (Sacha) and my supervisor’s business partner Spanish.

During today’s meeting we have discussed progress made by the current employees and interns and loss of productivity we did so through looking how does the delivered work differ from work that is delivered from the office, overall employee accessibility from 8:30 till 16:00 from Monday till Friday and hours spend on the companies server on average.

See the picture below for my WhatsApp conversation with my supervisor in Polish.

After the meeting on teams, I have come up with a great idea for PLO2 in which I demonstrate 5 instances where I communicate effectively and persuasively. I will do it a little differently than I first intended to, however, most of the PLOs will have to face some kind of creative solution to this unexpectedly changing environment. For example, for the use of appropriate body language as stated on my PLP I will use video chat as a tool to provide a clear description and documented evidence.