#internship2014

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Future career and skills gained

How has my internship been a benefit to my career as a health practitioner?

Based on my experience with this internship I can see myself working as a health advocate or health consultant for families, communities, and for businesses. The drive for such a career comes from wanting to help others and promote health for individuals, so they can achieve a higher level of life-quality through healthy lifestyle changes.

  Being a personal trainer adds to my professional career of being a health practitioner by letting me being very hands on with individuals seeking to achieve their goals. It motivates to motivate others and through the GNH education (module 5&6) I have learned many great coaching theories and concepts that I use in my work as a personal trainer. (this doesn’t have anything to do with my internship, but thought it was worth mentioning)

  Project management – my internship (Trelleborg in 2014 and Nordea in 2013) has given me the opportunity to facilitate and initiate my own projects and this has really given me the confidence and self-efficacy (belief in one’s ability to complete a task) to manage projects innovatively and professionally. Module 10 and 11 has particularly provided me with the skills and knowledge for proper project management.

  Interning alone made me gain insight that in my future workplace I want to work with a partner or in a team of health professionals. I do not wish to be working alone on a project. This is because I feel that I work more effectively with a partner 

Further studies:  Possible Master/candidate degrees I have been considering to apply to:

MscSocSc in Organisational Innovation and Entrepreneurship  at CBS http://www.cbs.dk/uddannelse/kandidatuddannelser/candsoc-msc-in-social-science/mscsocsc-in-organisational-innovation-and-entrepreneurship

Global Studies at Københavns Universitet http://www.ug.dk/Uddannelser/universitetsuddannelser/kandidatuddannelser/sundhedsvidenskabeligekandidatuddannelser/global_sundhed.aspx

Msc in Coaching Psychology at the University of East London https://www.uel.ac.uk/psychology/consultancy/coaching/msc-coaching/

International Master in Entrepreneurship, Education and Training at Aarhus University https://www.ug.dk/programmes/masterprogrammes/socialscienceandeconomics/international-master-entrepreneurship-education-and-training-imeet#fold6 

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A specific challenge

During my internship I have faced many challenges, some bigger than others. One specific change has been to find out what to use my time and focus on – because I wanted to use my time on the right project/tasks. I felt like a lot of time went to waste by figuring this out.

To handle the problem, I planned a meeting with the director of the company and my internship host, and introduced a “list of ideas for task/ projects” in a PowerPoint for them. I did this to give me a better sense of direction with my ideas – what was possible and what wasn’t. The projects/ tasks varied in: target group, whom it would benefit, if an outcome could be measured, financing and workload involved.

The specific challenge was to: identify the “right” target group, and find the appropriate intervention for this target group, and be able to measure some kind of results that I could use for my BA thesis.

After having talked with my BA and internship supervisor, and my internship host, we came to the conclusion that it would be most appropriate to target night shift workers. 

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Midnight Fitness

A short video of what I'm currently doing at my internship.  I started it last week and I have 2 weeks to go. It's MIDNIGHT FITNESS!!

Project health is the name of the whole health intervention at my internship and there are two parts to it; 1) The Midnight Fitness 2) The Extended fruit scheme (more info will come)  This video shows me instructing the 15 minutes fitness class

I am measuring the effectiveness of the fitness class through an employee satisfaction survey. One survey given before the start of the intervention and one that will be given after the intervention (26th October)

A class typically looks like this:  2 minutes    Warm up 6 minutes    Workout #1 6 minutes    Workout #2 1 minutes    Stretching 

Midnight Fitness class is offered to 16 of the 50 employees working night shift. This is because the class is only an experiment and would be very expensive for Trelleborg to allow all 50 night shift workers to attend the class due to loss in production output. However, hopefully I will be able to track some great results from this experiment. The best results would be that the employees show improved production output, higher concentration levels, fewer sick days (long term result), significantly increased work satisfaction (well-being) and express feeling encouraged to be more physically active during their day.  As it is now, Midnight Fitness is what I look most forward to at the start of each shift.

ENJOY!

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PROJECT HEALTH

This is the acutally intervention that I am currently doing. It includes an extended fruit scheme and some midnight fitness. 3 weeks (12 working days). 

Fruit scheme: increase fruit availability by placing fruit in the working area - Nudging for behavior change.

The problem:                        Workers (especially night shift workers) often buy sweets and cakes during working hours in the canteen. The canteen is the only place to buy fruit

The solution:                        Give workers a (free) alternative to sweets and cake: fruit and nuts! To increase likelihood of intended behavior, the free fruit and nuts are placed in the work area near their working stations.

                                            Bon appetite! 

Midnight fitness Workers from 2 of the 4 working sectors attend fitness break (15 min.) to decrease physical pains from strenuous work, increase employee satisfaction and decrease likelihood of work-related injury through increase concentration.

The problem:                      Many sick leaves and work-related injuries. Generally unsatisfied employees  (night shift) due to the feeling of seclusion.

The solution:                      Provide a 15 minutes fitness break for employees in two of the working sectors. Making exercise equipment available to the other two working sectors. 

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Knowledge Sharing

I was very aware that the organization I am working with focuses on community empowerment. Since then, I have been so curious how empowerment will be done.

One of the important highlights I was able to do was to investigate those tools about Participatory Rural Appraisal. I knew it by word and by theory only. I had searched other organizations who have been working using this method and how using such approaches augment the result of their community intervention. One of those is The International Institute for Environment (http://www.iied.org/). The have been using this tool for participatory learning and action for more than 2 decades (http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/14620IIED.pdf). In pursuing to find something I can grasp, I checked if these tools are available in FAO. Fortunately, I have found good links on this with a very concise way of handling every tool. These tools can be use according to cultural sensitivity and local context of the community. Here is the link, http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/ad424e/ad424e03.htm

 I came across few tools I have read from this link in my classroom classes before. However, doing it was a challenge to me. I talked to my supervisor with regards to my competency. She responded positively in my inquiries and offers her help for actual application of the tools.  

This tool is very flexible. Knowledge gathering might take some time but using people’s knowledge and developing their ownership towards the opportunities’ is much more rewarding. I have read how participation increases the success of action research projects from different parts of the world. As well as how time contributes to it. It is a rigorous job and to maintain a good motivation can be very challenging.  With this, the role of researchers or facilitators can be vital. Researchers must acknowledge their role as co-learner along with people.

  Source: FAO, Participatory Processes towards Co-Management of Natural Resources in Pastoral Areas of the Middle East.  Available Online at < http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/ad424e/ad424e03.htm> Accessed 17 of June 2014

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The Problem:  Surprisingly many employees did not know what kind of sporting activities Trelleborg offers and the discounts they can get.  Perhaps due to the poor publicity of the sporting activities?

The Solution: 

Redesign and update the bulletin board! Making it look more attractive and giving it structure making it easier for employees to see what sporting activities Trelleborg actually offers!

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INTERNSHIP LEARNING OBJECTIVES

My learning objectives coming into the internship were as follows:

Assist in the daily operations and running of The Greenside Cafe and Über Vegan health food store.

Assist in developing vegan food products for the Über Vegan health food store and off-site distribution.

Contact potential distributors for vegan food products.

Improve the Greenside Cafe facebook page.

Produce research (interviews and questionnaire) to establish consumer needs.

Eating whilst driving... ;) yum...

Eating whilst working...

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