{"id":1762,"date":"2013-12-09T16:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T22:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2013-12-09T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T22:23:19","slug":"the-powerful-advantage-of-shadowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2013\/12\/09\/the-powerful-advantage-of-shadowing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Powerful Advantage of Shadowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COBA&#8217;s Amy Morris had the opportunity to shadow COBA alum Chad Baker, Executive Vice President and Regional Director of Jones Lang La Salle, for two weeks this past summer.\u00a0She was able to\u00a0gain hands on experience by attending meetings, conference calls, and strategic development sessions with Chad.\u00a0Amy learned\u00a0several things about the commercial real estate business,\u00a0 but more valuable than that, she learned how to conduct herself humbly and honorably in tough business positions. She explains how true character truly reveals itself in those hard\u00a0circumstances dealing with different people and that until you are actually out in the world and experiencing this hands on, you do not have a good feel for how to handle certain situations.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Baker strongly believes in the shadowing concept and how it can give students a vision for their career choice. &#8220;I believe young adults can utilize the shadowing concept to obtain a vision (or glimpse) of various professions\/professionals and to begin internalizing the path to pursue in their lives today which would lead to fulfilling their respective vision&#8230;with God&#8217;s blessing and favor.&#8221; As students begin to start their journey in the workplace, shadowing older and mature believers and leaders in the business world is the perfect way to see how students can start to discover and utilize their God-given gifts in whichever career path they choose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2013\/09\/amy-morris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1766\" alt=\"amy morris\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2013\/09\/amy-morris-221x300.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2013\/09\/amy-morris-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2013\/09\/amy-morris-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2013\/09\/amy-morris-361x490.jpg 361w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2013\/09\/amy-morris.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;I was so blessed by my experience with Chad, and I would encourage others to find an opportunity to find and shadow a mentor.\u00a0I have\u00a0discovered\u00a0that many professionals are eager to share their knowledge with college students; all we have to do is ask! There are few substitutes for real life experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COBA&#8217;s Amy Morris had the opportunity to shadow COBA alum Chad Baker, Executive Vice President and Regional Director of Jones Lang La Salle, for two weeks this past summer.\u00a0She was able to\u00a0gain hands on experience by attending meetings, conference calls, and strategic development sessions with Chad.\u00a0Amy learned\u00a0several things about the commercial real estate business,\u00a0 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2749,2750,626],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers-in","category-current-students","category-internships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}