ANDULAN, Mina Minorka B.

Reflection Paper #1
BUS849M - G01 Nov. 07. 2020

Making recommendations and decisions are part of my daily work routine as a member
of my team’s Data Interpretation Team (DIT). As a DIT person, my key responsibility is to
advise which approach or methodology should be applied to different company analyses that our
team is currently working on and ensuring that these approaches and methodologies are
consistent with our company’s corporate governance policies and our client’s preferences. In
order to come up with the most appropriate recommendations and decisions, the following steps
should be followed: gather and collate all the available information that a specific company has,
do a background check of the company’s previous analyses (if applicable), and search database
for similar cases. After doing the aforementioned steps, I would then need to ultimately decide
on whether the information we have is sufficient to choose the appropriate approach or further
scrutinization is still warranted, hence, should be vetted to a more experienced DIT member.
Moreover, together with my colleagues, I am also involved in making decisions regarding people
allocation on a daily basis. Our team is structured in a way that there are three different tasks that
should be accomplished daily and depending on the business needs of each task, there will be
times when members of the team would need to rotate and be asked to do different tasks daily.
Because of this, my colleagues and I would always have to look at the business needs and
demands every morning and decide how many and who should be allocated to a certain task. In
doing this, we always consider the weight of the task, individual’s availability, expertise and
experience.

Aside from the responsibilities I’ve mentioned above, I also started to handle training for
our new hires and the one decision that I am particularly proud of is when I decided to gamble
and change the training program drastically. Despite having really put so much thought into it, I
still called it a gamble because the current program in place is working effectively and there were
already so many changes that’s happening during that time which make it seems like changing
the effective training program is unnecessary but that is exactly the reason why I want to make
changes. It started as an intuitive-backed decision only but then I started consulting colleagues
with experience in the training field, compared their training program to ours and finally decided
that a change is indeed beneficial to our team. Fortunately, the new training program works and
the new hire’s efficiency improved.