Monday, November 05, 2007

"Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays."

If you have never seen the movie Office Space, you need to! Well today I spent the day rating songs on iTunes. Yeah the student's had class today, but all I had to do was sit in the back and play on my laptop. I love it when we have Outside training! It is fun to sit back and watch everyone interact with those around them.

That's where this post seems to want to go so, I will talk about people watching. How many of you sit in restaurants and watch everyone around you go through their meals and lives, as if you were a fly on the wall? I find it amazing to look in from the outside. You can learn alot about a person just by watching them for a while, especially when they don't realize that they are being watched.

Part of what I do is evaluate my students leadership, and in order to do that, I have to watch them all the time, the entire time they are here for school. Leadership is not something that you turn on and off, so I have to keep my eyes on them at all times. It gets fun at times, because you can see problems between people start to brew almost weeks before it explodes, and they start getting upset with each other. The one's that have these issues always wonder why I don't give them a better rating. They always come here thinking that they know how to lead, but so often, they m