Dayspring Reflection Paper

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Playing to win and creating a culture that fosters the mentality of one team, candor, trust, confronting reality and working with conviction to achieve goals while striving to continuously improve has been my attitude since first starting to work in Project Management in August. Working as the Project Coordinator for DaySpring has given me the unique opportunity to work with multiple departments and programs as I status skus on an individual level as well as set up programs, help manage the creation of new schedules, workflow projections and individual problems as they arise. Early on I took responsibility for Tuesday/Thursday Standup meetings to help give all areas of the workflow a view into the DaySpring process, programs and problems to better improve handoffs along the workflow …show more content…

As a result of fostering these relationships and brining different departments together to solve problems we've solved multiple A-3 Problem cards together totaling $35,000.00 conservatively in savings for the company. Confronting reality we addressed that multiple design errors were being delivered by DaySpring causing kickbacks in the workflow and multiple hours of employee’s time at different steps in the workflow. Working with our DaySpring Partners, DWT and Product Integrity we discovered Freelance artists hired by DaySpring didn't have access to Hallmark design requirements and our employees at corporate didn't have a DaySpring contact to be able to streamline problem solving as they came up. By working with these we were able to put in place standardized training materials for freelance artists as well as solidify a contact at DaySpring and ensure future training practices for new DaySpring employees in this role to ensure sustainability moving

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