This internship is unique as I was quickly thrown into the work. This is not the normal internship, there are no coffee runs, there are no copies being made, I am truly in the thick of the work along side my co-workers. However, with this responsibility comes the added struggle of knowing when to be vocal versus when to sit back and learn as the “intern.” This is a task that I have come to struggle with as my internship progresses at Now What.<\/p>\n
This is not to say that I am not learning a lot. I have learned how to put together a beautiful proposal, manage the large incoming research methods, as well as create a deck and deliverables that bring together the message I want to display. This is where it gets tricky. In the beginning, I was struggling with knowing when to speak up with my ideas.\u00a0 <\/span>I often felt myself disagreeing with key ideas, but instead of saying anything and risking a poor image of the new girl, I kept my mouth shut. As of recently, however, this has changed. I\u2019ve learned that altering ideas actually spark a conversation. Whether or not we decide to run with the disagreement, speaking up allows for a more in-depth look into the topic. Many times when I actually voice my ideas, the topic alters or improves. I’ve learned that a title does not mean your ideas are not worthy. In fact, it could even mean that your fresh perspective is exactly what was needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This internship is unique as I was quickly thrown into the work. This is not the normal internship, there are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[76627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solving-problems-improving-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}