July | 2016 | F.M. Kirby Experiential Learning Stipend Recipient Blogs

Week 9: Leadership

Leadership involves inspiring initiative in a group. During my internship with Addison Whitney, I’ve learned that leadership is more than just being in charge. It involves collaboration and compromise within a group. A good leader listens to and takes cues from members of the group. Within the verbal department, each project has a verbal leader….

Week 11: Training and Formatting

This is the prompt from week 8, as I previously completed the week 9 prompt and am not yet on my final week. One of my co-workers has resigned, and will be leaving next week. I will be doing a portion of her work until the NWRA fills her position. So, she trained me all…

Week 8: Professional Leadership

Overall, I would call myself a natural leader. I think a lot of Wake Forest students are, and I definitely think all of the F. M. Kirby Experiential Learning Grant recipients are strong leaders. That’s why we’re here, trying out job experiences in our chosen hopeful-career fields. We are all candidates that showed strong enough…

Week 8: Nearing the End

It is crazy that I only have two weeks left at Addison Whitney this summer! As I’ve said before, it’s truly a bittersweet feeling. I’ve learned an unbelievable amount about the branding world in my time at AW and I hope to squeeze in as much learning as possible with my short time left. The…

Week 8: Uncharted Waters

I can’t believe it’s already week 8 of this project! The summer is flying by. I came into my internship with limited knowledge about branding, and I now feel as though I have a solid understanding of the inner workings within a branding firm. For the past seven weeks, I have shadowed the verbal branding…

Week 10: Lesson from Ayn Rand

This is the prompt from Week 9. Leadership is a balance. There is self leadership and team leadership. You must balance your leadership between the two. Although highly controversial, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged brings up a good point–you must be selfish, to a point. Putting yourself first in your career is important. After all, it…

Week 7: Work Enviornment

Jeez. What a week. Over the course of the summer I have been putting together a research project, which culminated in a poster, which was supposed to be printed this morning, so that I could present it at NIH poster day a week from tomorrow. Supposed to. Not quite how it happened. Let it suffice…

Week 7: Working Environment

As mentioned in some of my earlier posts, Addison Whitney is made up of different departments and teams. There are four main teams that offer different services to clients: verbal, visual, brand strategy, and market research. AW also has a project management team and a marketing team outside of the four service teams. Within all…

Week 7: Team Work

Addison Whitney has several departments that provide different services to clients, yet they still collaborate together. These departments are verbal branding, visual branding, brand strategy, and research and analysis. Above these four branches, there is the project management team which works more closely with clients and arranges schedules. Within each department, everyone works individually on…

Week 6: Campus Culture

The NIH is huge. The building I’ve circled in this photo is the Clinical Center on the Bethesda campus; that’s where I work. Remember from previous posts? Over 8,000 research employees, including students, work in this building alone. Look at how big the rests of campus is! PLUS, there are campuses across five states. Can…