Mastery journey timeline

Mastery: Personal Development and Leadership Week 4: Mastery Journey Time Line

Mastery: Personal Development and Leadership • Discover my strength and weakness • Read Mastery by Robert Greene and reflect the stories of previous masters to identify my strengths and weaknesses.

• Develop my writing skills to better improve my mastery journey • Make appointments with the Writing Center.

• Be better at organizing my time to meet deadlines • Balancing my time between work, personal life and studies. Create a time management in order work at least a two hours for reading, studying and/or completing assignments.

Defining Client Needs • Create a strong social base with clients • Asking the right questions to better understand the clients needs and wants.

• Gain better understanding to design strategies • See chats, conventions or videos for guidance.

• Find people that have the same interests or passions • Join one of the groups or clubs at the Full Sail Connect.

Brand Development • To create beautiful artistic design that resembles the identity of a company

• Preform a well tough out research that support the implementations of the design.

• Discover the new tools in today’s Graphic Design trends

• Strategy - Read article “Top Graphic Design Trends 2018: The Ultimate Guide” on graphicmama.com (graphicmama.com, 2017)

• Meat my fellow classmates that are in the same journey in Media Design • Engage positive conversation to find similar interests and develop strong bonds.

Effective Copywriting • Improve writing skills • Dedicate at least two hours of reading and writing daily.

• Make appointments with the Writing Center at the Full Sail platform.

• Fluently presenting my ideas in both speaking and writing • Practice and rehearsing presentations daily in order to clearly communicate my goals and ideas.

• Get better acquainted with the Full Sail Library • Visit Library at least once a day to read articles for better copy writing.

Design Research • Become more familiarized with search engines in order to find website with reliable sources • Find more websites like behance.net that has a strong community share and debate ideas and concepts.

• Make visual designs that works with working copy of the project • Read similar articles or subjects to gain hints and tricks for ideas.

• Participate in group activities to better improve research strategies.

• Attend GPS workshop: strategies for effective research at the Full Sail Connect.

Organizational Structure • Sharpen my analytical skills to gather proper information in a time-efficient cycle.

• By doing reading and writing exercises that focus on my creative projects and expand my view on design research.

• Create a system that allows me to organize my research process as a designer when creating with coworkers or working with individual clients.

• Explore different organizational structures and establish a project management system that fits my current client base and keeps my agency work on track.

• Collaborate with class peers to receive constructive criticism that helps me grow as a designer, specifically in the way I evaluate information.

• Throw my ideas into the discussion board so I can learn from others and follow new possibilities in the research model

Design Strategies and Motivation • Find new design strategies and methodologies to apply for future projects.

• Research within the Full Sail Library sources both print and digital, inside and outside of the design field that can effectively contribute to my skills as a designer and communicator.

• Combine traditional communication tactics with 21st Century models to develop my own style approach.

• Take a look back at the ways generations turned communication into an effective tool for society and use the essence of that mindset to explore and apply on my work.

• Use this class to establish new goals as a student and professional for my design career.

• Take everything above and fresh look into the future of my career with ambition.

Design Integration • Develop my creativity further to embrace new and different design projects.

• Embrace the new tools and resources offered so I can expand my portfolio with different directions. Showing prospective clients I am open to explore multiple projects and styles.

• Put myself in critique environments to experience a process of artistic collaboration.

• Connect with local and digital communities for creative clusters and events that push collaboration and critique to a different level.

• Finish the course with a wider vision of the media design journey, and what steps I need to continuously incorporate into my process.

• Divide the four weeks into specific goals, based on the above remarks, to define and create a professional design experience for both new clients and myself.

Multi-Platform Delivery • Understand the elements of the different types of media channels and their use as it applies to the design field.

• Research the latest trends and behaviors in media channels to understand how audiences consume and react design today and why.

• Explore new programs and strategies that can be applied to current and prospective work.

• Take inventory of my projects and narrow down at least four programs or resources that I haven’t used. Focus on using those as part of my go-to action plan.

• Finish the course with a multi-platform project delivery that shows versatility.

• Implement the above trends and programs into a new project into my design portfolio, for proven record of a multi-platform design professional.

Measuring Design Effectiveness • Look into websites that has new articles for strategic marketing subjects.

• Spend two hours a day in the Full Sail library to find the latest articles in marketing.

• Take online courses to better improve my creative skills.

• Attend SkillShare.com courses to discover better design solutions.

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• Collaborate with class peers to receive constructive criticism to evaluate researched information from the weeks lesson.

• Throw my ideas into the discussion board so I can discover new angles that might miss in the research model.

Thesis Presentation • Find out subject of interest for thesis presentation.

• Maintain strong communication with instructor and peers to to share ideas for the final project.

• Find strategies and methodologies to apply for final project.

• Research within the Full Sail Library, interview and web media sources for both print and digital, inside and outside of the design field that can effectively contribute to my thesis.

• Maintain professionalism and dedication to pass the course.

• Establish a study schedule dedicate a respectable amount of time to do research on the desired subject.

Professional Practice • Take a deeper look into the legal elements that are part of the design profession in order to gain clarity of professional relationships and processes.

• Investigate and understand the system of contracts and the specifications of creative work deliverables for both print and digital copyrights.

• Launch my personal website to position myself as a creative professional in the field.

• Use all the materials, experiences and lessons from the past classes to define my style and goals for the next year, translating all that into a personal website that shows my aesthetic.

• Establish strong connections within the design community for future collaborations and creative projects in the South Florida area.

• Pursue and connect with the design community by events, volunteering opportunities and design pitches within the creative community in my local area.

Clubs and Organizations

Innovative Companies and Heroes Plan I choose Tesla because in a world where there are new startups emerging every week, Tesla has managed to stay true to its vision of being a technology company. Although the media has expressed their strategy wouldn’t be successful, Tesla stayed focused on creating emerging technology, which is now being followed by others in the market. It goes to show that you don’t have to be the first or even the best, but someone who is 100% focused.

Full Sail Groups One thing that I did when I started my master was to look for clubs or groups that is related with networking skills. The IGDA caught my eye and decided to join the group. I look forward to participate on group workshops in order to learn more from world renounce industries.

Characteristics of a Mentor • One key characteristic of mentor is that he/she needs to have same love of the subject that chose to pursue. Marie Curie is a perfect example for this characteristic Greene, R. (2011, pp.30) “In order to a master a field, you must love the subject and a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.”

• A second characteristic is to have an understanding from the people that surrounds you and gain their trust. Robert Greene mentions Benjamin Franklin life experience. At the beginning Benjamin Franklyn had a trouble with the people around him. Being smart as he was people would tend to take advantage of his emotions and in result he would be gravelly affected as the master writer that he was. At time he learned to control that and in return he gained patience's and learned a new way of thinking. He managed to create a character that helped him to an advantage and gain the trust of others to his favor. Greene, R. (2011, pp.127-132)