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<\/a>\u201cAs much as people in leadership roles might be able to think they can do it all, they can\u2019t,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd you definitely get a sense that you don\u2019t have all the awareness you could use\u2014the people around you really inform the decisions you make.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Innovativecommunities.org Foundation, Kaplan was responsible for recruiting new members, creating presentations, and defining job responsibilities for others. The responsibilities were situational, as was dealing with members of his team not being engaged how he would like them to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes I might have an idea of what I think somebody should be working on, but I realize there\u2019s something else they want to be working on\u2026 And a lot of the time, after sitting down and talking with them, well, there\u2019s a reason why they think there\u2019s something else they should be working on,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd a lot of the time, they\u2019re right.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a leadership role, says Kaplan, he may not know what\u2019s going on as well as the people he\u2019s leading, as they\u2019re the ones handling the day-to-day tasks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn their area, they might know more,\u201d he says<\/p>\n
If someone\u2019s not engaged the way Kaplan likes them to be, he tries to learn more about the situation before he tells them what to do. Most of the time, says Kaplan, the solution\u2019s obvious once you have the information to see it. Being in that leadership role has always come quite naturally to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven in situations where I\u2019m not necessarily the leader, I end up taking on some leadership responsibility,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve noticed that a lot through my time at school and a lot through my work experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kaplan says he loves specializing, which is a term he heard people use a lot at school in conversations about post-grad employment. He found appeal in being an expert on a specific topic and knowing all the ins and outs of it, but he says the variety a generalist role like project management offers kept his days fresh and exciting. He wasn\u2019t just working on one particular area of a discipline\u2014he was going between projects that required him to handle many different facets of his field.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe variety helps makes things more interesting. For me, at least,\u201d he says. \u201cI find it\u2019s less repetitive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kaplan worked on a comprehensive engagement plan for one of his projects during his time with the engagement and communications group that’s \u201ca plan on how the organization interacts with people and different groups.\u201d He says that was interesting and fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of the time, it takes a lot of thinking,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to make judgment calls; there\u2019s not really a set playbook for every situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Camosun, Kaplan\u2019s plan is to see what fits rather than forcing a specific job, he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think things tend to work out the way they should,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m going to leave school with an open mind, and see what opportunities cross my path that are suited to me and that seem like something I enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Camosun fourth-year Business Administration student Dylan Kaplan has received the 2020 Yvonne Thompson Page Co-op\/Internship Student of the Year Award. The award recognizes an outstanding Co-operative Education or internship student at Camosun. Kaplan, who is majoring in human resources and leadership management, started his work experience as support coordinator for the engagement and communications group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20677,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions\/20677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}