Assignment 7 Growing Leaders

I read a post on Tim Elmore' Blog Growing leader (https://growingleaders.com/blog/) and it talks about how he had a friend who regretted taking on some interns cause they were too busy worrying about posting to social media rather than working and learning. And so Tim recommended to his friend that he should approach the internships next year differently, let them know it is essentially a long interview,w here you learn skills and learn how the environment is for after you graduate. The top qualities in an intern, is teach-ability (hungry for knowledge), initiative (doing not just watching), responsibility (owning what you do) and energy (high energy and always actively engaged). I've already tried to implement some of these while working, last week I was in the hematology department of the lab and even though most of the tests they run are automated, I asked questions. One of the lab personnel, explained to me the process of clotting and how the process is a y-shape, starting either extrinsically or intrinsically and I was able to then learning to what she had just explained extrapolate that a hemophiliac can clot, if they are affected by a factor before the two branches meet if the bleeding is caused by the other pathway where they do not have the genetic defect. I was asked to put away a bunch of reagents they had just gotten a shipment of in, and I did, I put them away and made sure to put them in the correct spot, I took responsibility of getting it done and doing it right. For me this seems like common sense, this is something you are supposed to do, expected of you, you signed up and accepted the job so you have to do your best even if it isn't something you want to do because you gave your word.