I had worked as the Dietary Director at an Skilled Nursing Home for a short period of time. As the departments director, I was required to manage staffing, supplies, and overall functions of the department.
What I most enjoyed about the job was, being able to interact with people and sit down with them to go over their needs. Teaching the staff new and more proficient ways to compete tasks was also something I enjoyed quite a bit. As well as meeting with the families of my residents to go over their loved ones specific improvements or declines and ways that we could change their diets and needs to help their over all quality of life.
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Having a shortage of supplies do to a cut in budgeting was also something that had me at a “road block” so to speak. Most of all the things that I least enjoyed about the job was staff turn over. I hated when I lost good people and had to make a change to my work flow when I brought someone new and less experienced into the kitchen.
I can see now that when it came to my least enjoyable moment at my past job my largest struggle was my high use to sequence. When it came to random change or something that disrupted my organization and order that was in place, it was harder for me to get back on track. Though with running the department there was not room for down time, and I can see now that I was able to intensify my use of confluence to over come the random changes. I used my confluence to take some risks, change my original plans, and just do what needed to be done so that my residents did go with out anything.
After looking back with my knowledge of my Learning Patterns and how I have FIT them to my life experiences. I can see now how with each thing that I have ether excelled at or had to over come I was using my learning patterns, and FITing them along the way to over come obstacles that I