Blog 8: Research and Working EQ

1. What is your working EQ? & 2. What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format.

EQ: What does it take to effectively operate a music store?

• Organization and coordination. Each record of sales, of new items coming in, of student paying for a new term in lessons, etc. is carefully kept for future reference. Also take care to keep the schedule of classes for each teacher up to date. This will limit future problems of conflicting information (such as class time) between the store, the teachers, and the client, which is important when half of the business essentially deals in people's time.
• Backbone. As with operating most businesses, there will be people out there who'd try to take advantage of you. Don't let them.
• Knowledge. Know the store's system well. Know the discount programs for the students or the procedure that needs to be done whenever there is a sale, or the procedure when signing up new students. Know basic maintenance of the store's rental instruments. Know basic knowledge of the instruments and accessories that the store sells in order to be able to help the customers more.

3. What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ? 

My summer mentorship + regular mentorship (which will happen in the same place as my summer one).

4. Who is your mentor, or where are you volunteering, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?

My mentor is Gene Iacono, and for my project, I've been volunteering in his store, the Music Store, which doubles as a store providing sales and rentals of instruments and a music school. My mentorship puts me exactly where my topic is and gives me the frontline view of how things work in a music store works.