Placement Review Presentation
Presentation Structure
• TWDC & Placement Background
-Strategy
- Brand
- SPRA Introduction
• Context & Contribution
- Challenges
- Responsibility development
- Fulfilment of job role
- Things to improve
• Reflective Development
- General experience
- Skills generated & key learning's
- Further reflection
- Future career
• Conclusion
The Walt Disney Company & Placement Background
Annual Revenues FY10 - $38 billion.
Presence in 44 Countries.
135,000 employees worldwide.
Most recognisable entertainment
company in the world.
The Walt Disney Company & Placement Background
- the Brand.
• Disney is the world’s most valuable entertainment brand.
Source: Interbrand, 2010
• Disney is the most admired entertainment company in the world.
Among entertainment companies Disney is #1 in:
Innovation
Social Responsibility
Quality of Product/Services
Global Competitiveness
Source: Fortune Magazine’s “The World’s Most Admired Companies”, 2009
The Walt Disney Company & Placement Background
No entertainment company has as many vibrant creative engines as Disney,
or the ability to leverage content across so many businesses…
The Walt Disney Company & Placement Background
Sales Planning & Retail Analytics
To deliver the insight, tools and processes to the UK Retail
Group
in order to
generate and surpass customer and category sales targets.
Context & Contribution
Context & Contribution - Contribution to TWDC
Responsibility Development
• Began with large responsibility at the start of placement.
• Charts, Dashboards, Databases – key communications.
• Presenting → Technology Piece → Gadget Show.
• Projects – Pricing/Reviews – Direct to me.
• Sole responsibility.
• Taken projects on without guidance – RIO.
• Representative of SPRA.
• Recruitment.
• Project Management.
• Strategic insight provider.
Reflective Development – Skills Gained & Key Learning's
Skills Gained & Key Learning
Kolb’s Learning Style Cycle
Concrete
Experience
Feeling
Accommodating
Diverging
Feel & Do
Feel & Watch
Active
Experimentation
Reflective
Observation
Doing
Watching
Converging
Assimilating
Think & Do
Think & Watch
Abstract
Conceptualisation
Thinking
(Kolb, 1984)
Reflective Development – Future Plans
Further Development/Reflection
• Placement has allowed me to develop my skills across all areas.
• Skills audit has seen an improvement across the board.
• Skills will help me to focus and apply myself in final year.
• Portfolio to review learnings in the future.
• Theory into context.
• Now have grounds to challenge theory.
• Have worked across multiple markets.
• Dealt with varying levels of management.
Reflective Development – Future Plans
Future Career
Ensure Effectiveness in Next Job by:
- Research the company.
- Assess living circumstances.
- Network as much as possible.
- Set objectives – both business/personal.
- Always ensure self-motivation.
- Create time to assess/review work.
- Review situation/happiness regularly.
Build On Experiences
Learn from Placement
Take experience into
new role.
Placement is a gateway to
future career.
References
• Daft, R. et al (2010). Organisation Theory & Design, Hampshire, Cengage Learning EMEA.
• Boone, L. & Kurtz, D (2007). Contemporary Business, Hampshire, Cengage Learning EMEA.
• Noer (1993) cited in Cameron & Green (2004). Making Sense Of Change Management, London, Kogan Page Ltd.
• Kolb (1984) cited in Crook, G. & Waterhouse, M. (1995). Management & Business Skills in the Built Environment, London, E & FN Spon.