Brandon and I reviewed the week's readings to prepare for his discussion posts. He responded to two peer posts and then created an original post on one of the four topics presented.

Brandon and I read through chapters 5 and 6 in his Human Resource Development course. Afterwards, we watched the instructor assigned video, and Brandon submitted one of four discussion board posts.

Brandon and I worked on the essay due for Human Resource Management. He completed several body paragraphs and added some of the concepts from his textbook. He has a solid understanding of all of the course concepts, and the paper is running along smoothly.

Brandon continued to polish and expand upon his insight on the upcoming HRM paper, due today. Brandon walked through each of the 6-steps of the performance management model, recommending how Dunkin' can improve its practices and promote innovative management tools in the workplace.

Brandon and I worked through several pages of his HRM paper, discussing Dunkin's various performance management practices so that we can later suggest avenues for improvement. I was surprised at the different measures Brandon explained for Dunkin's employee monitoring, and he wrote about three solid pages.

Brandon and I worked through several chapter reading assignments for his Human Resource Management class. We then completed one of his follow-up discussion board responses.

Brandon has a 6-page midterm due on Friday of this week, so we began an outline based on the assignment requirements. For this paper, Brandon must analyze the performance management strategies of an organization for which he works, discussing its weaknesses to propose new avenues for improvement. We started with the first body paragraph and will add an introduction once he has a feel for the rest of the paper.

Brandon wasn't able to finish the exercises for Financial Accounting on his own this weekend, so we started with them first so he does not lose points on the assignment. In his defense, the syllabus indicated that assignments were posted a week early for the next week, but this did not include the first set of assignments. We finished those exercises and Brandon submitted them at the end of our class.

Brandon and I read through his course readings to prepare him for his discussion post. He talked about the various roles human resource managers play and the tasks he did not know they were responsible for coordinating. We then moved on to his Financial Accounting course, making sure that he understood the course concepts to effectively address the discussion board post about debt. We then moved on to the text exercises that were assigned and found that we could finish most of them easily.

Brandon and I began reading the assigned chapters for the week (chapters 1 and 3) in his Human Resources Management course. We learned a lot about the different job responsibilities for HRMs, and Brandon noted some of these to begin his discussion post.