{"id":1620,"date":"2018-07-10T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:37:02","slug":"flinchum-21-understands-the-importance-of-making-personal-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/2018\/07\/10\/flinchum-21-understands-the-importance-of-making-personal-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Flinchum &#8217;21 Understands The  Importance of Making Personal Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Flinchum \u201921 LABB Intern &#8211; Throughout this week we took part in our first two negotiations, regarding the case \u201cAdam Baxter vs. Local 190.\u201d Each negotiation consisted of two teams: a management and unionized worker team. Each intern was provided with a variety of different negotiating techniques, in order to strengthen his ability to reason and comprise particular deals. Along with these negotiations, we reviewed several cases, including Zip Car, Kate Spade, Cirque du Soleil, Starbuck\u2019s Delivering Customer Service, and San Francisco Coffee House. These cases allowed us to identify a multitude of business and marketing strategies that allowed each company to thrive in its given industry.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1621 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/flinchum-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/flinchum-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/flinchum-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/flinchum.png 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Friday, June 15, 2018, Rob Shook and Corey Egler came to share their experiences with the LABB interns. Rob Shook, executive at IBM, shared his unique story. Starting as a Wabash student, Shook climbed his way to the top of one of the most iconic technology corporations. As an openly gay employee, Shook shared the challenges he faced throughout his academic and professional career. He shared the importance of standing up for what one believes in, even if it is not the most popular stand. Along with this lesson, Shook taught us the importance of knowing one\u2019s personnel. It is critical for a leader or manager to know how to motivate each individual on his or her team. Shook shared these lessons and many more with our LABB team.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Shook, Corey Egler shared his story with us. As an individual involved in the military, Egler\u2019s decision could very well determine the outcome of an individual\u2019s life. Similar to Shook, Egler stressed the importance of knowing one\u2019s personnel, for knowing how they operate is crucial to the success of the overall team. He shared a story of man who needed \u201cspecial\u201d management due to problems at home and with alcohol. Egler was able to diffuse the situation and lead effectively. Week four was a very productive and knowledge week for every member of the LABB team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Flinchum \u201921 LABB Intern &#8211; Throughout this week we took part in our first two negotiations, regarding the case \u201cAdam Baxter vs. Local 190.\u201d Each negotiation consisted of two teams: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-summer-internships","category-cibe"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/flinchum.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}