Monday, February 23, 2009

How would I describe the culture of the organization where I am working?

The work environment of the Ronald McDonald house is very laid back. My supervisor is very nice and personable. She is flexible with my schedule and is easy to talk to. My supervisor is a graduate student and also was a undergrad Professional writing and editing student. Everyone at RMHC dresses comfortably. The dress code is jeans and t-shirts. Many of the volunteers are work study students.

Everyone seems to get along well. But, sometimes I feel like I'm in the way because everyone is always busy with other projects and guest who check into the House. I really don't have my own work space and I have to bring my own laptop because the computers at the House doesn't have the software I need to do the work.

On Friday, I went to the House for a few hours. I just recently bought a Mac and I believe that Indesign is much easier to use on the Mac OS. I showed my supervisor the projects that I had been working on and she liked the page designs and offered some constructive criticism on how to improve the designs.

I have completed 2 flyer designs and still working on making edits to the volunteer handbook. For the handbook I am brainstorming designs that will improve the previous design.