Jose Luis Canto

  Blog #5 The first session this week our magnificent profesor Christopher talked to us about “Basic Administrative Functions”. Basically, there are four functions: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. We will go into detail of each an every one of them in a second. Well, a second has passed, let’s talk about planning. Planning  c onsiders with the organization's goals and the way we will achieve the m There are three main reasons why managers tend to plan : 1.       To establish objectives 2.       To identify resources 3.       To decide activities The second function is organizing. Organizing is the  p rocedure that considers from which part of the organization, decisions will be taken, the right people that will take certain positions in the organization, tasks that might be requested and who will depend or who.  Organizing also implies the creation of a structure of departments ...

  Blog #4 In the second class this week we talked about the types of leadrship, we even did an activity for the first time. But we’re not here to talk about how we don’t work in our business class, we’re here to talk about the types of leaderships. First, let’s start talking about what a leader is: a leader is someone who has the ability to manage and influence other people to achieve a single goal. There are quite a few qualities that a leader should have , but the main ones are: adaptation, comunication, trust. There are three main types of leaders: ·         Autocratic :  An autocratic leader is a leader who gives orders and doesn’t care about what everyone else thinks. This type of leader can be useful when no one in the team has the initiative to do any of the work. Autocratic leaders rarely accept advice from the rest of the group ·         Democratic :  A democratic leader is a leader that usuall...

  Blog #3 In the first class of the week we talked about time management, well, we didn’t really talk, Cristopher just spoke and we kind of listened. But that’s not the point, the point is that time management is really important to live an organized life. But time is not the only important thing for managing your life, there are other aspects to that. For example, money is another important thing for managing your life, because if you have more resources you can do more things and buy more things to help you with your work or with other aspects of your life. Paying your debts can also be helped with money, and you should always pay your debts so people are not bugging you to pay them. We also saw what a competence was, a competence is the combination   of   knowledge, abilities,   behaviors   and attitudes   that   contribute   to   the   business. That is all we saw in the class, thank you.