When working on my project throughout the summer, I can happily say I was somewhat a project manager. I was given a task and a project, and independently hosted meetings and strategy sessions to complete it. A very large part of the project was documentation, but in order to document what was needed, I needed to clearly explain and communicate what I was looking for. Meeting with “strangers” around Texas Instruments for the first time and communicating the issue and what was needed from them was rather challenging. Presumably, these employees I needed to meet with would notice the meeting requests I send out and they didn’t really know what the meeting was about or who I was. In fact, I had people who didn’t even show up to the meetings I scheduled with them! But, later on, I would reschedule it and they would eventually show up. It just took patience and persistence.
Not only during my meetings were my communication skills enhanced, but during networking events as well. Texas Instruments held many intern and networking occasions where we were advised to network with other individuals. As a slight introvert, I found these networking events to be awkward at first, but they got easier and easier down the road. Eventually, I gathered and now hold many connections within and throughout Texas Instruments.
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Texas Instruments utilizes the power of Microsoft Outlook for all the above. Before the internship, I remember using Outlook about ten years ago. Back then, I remember connecting my Yahoo! email address and exploiting the basic email functionalities. Besides that, that was about it. At Texas Instruments, everything revolving time management, calendar, and meetings circles Microsoft