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Energy Gain Determined by Aspiration Level

I hate how cheaper beds give less energy than more expensive ones, so I've used the same energy gain for any bed mod by Marhis for the longest time. But recently, I've started to feel like it's too cheaty. It makes my sims always sleep like logs!

So I came up with a solution that adds variation for all beds alike.

This mod entirely ties the energy gain to the sim's aspiration level. The lower the level is, the slower the energy bar will fill and vice versa; sims with their aspiration level well on the green side or above likely wake up refreshed.

Makes sense to me that happy sims sleep better than those close to the aspiration failure! The scale of the energy gain is about the same as between the cheapest and the most expensive maxis bed, so it's still well balanced too.

Just like Marhis' mod, this mod also makes children gain energy at a slower rate than older sims, to prevent them from waking up too early. Their aspiration level still affects the energy gain but the effect is smaller.

Download (SFS) (alternate)

Conflicts with the same energy gain for any bed mod and likely with any other mods that override the energy gain rate.

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WEEK 8

QUESTION#1

I have learned several lessons during the past three weeks including team development, critical thinking, followership, not knowing, communication skills, but the most important learning was the set of skills the leader needs to solve problems, as well as your team.

During the first Leadership Adventure Trail, the different strengths and skills of each member of team Optimus were extremely important at the moment to solve the case. For example, Kaus having the ability to identify detailed problems, Julia with her analytical skills and Bhav with communication leadership skills.

I wonder how managers, supervisors or political leaders do when they try to solve problems effectively. I picture all the things that go through the heads of the leaders when they are thinking about how to solve the problem. Solving problems is not as simple as you might think. It is something that leaders, at whatever level, are required to do. From a manager of a small convenience store, through the CEO of a large company to the mayor of a city, solving problems is an inherent activity of being a leader. The ability to solve problems is critical.

 Leaders' abilities to solve problems and their performance are usually affected by their ability to define the problem, collect information about that problem, and generate initial solutions to that. Also, leaders should be adept at considering the factors associated with their followers or led. However, it is not enough for leaders to be able to solve problems; they, too, must be creative when solving them.

In the future, I can use my leadership strength and abilities identified in the test to solve the most different types of problems, be it in the business world, working in the industry. Analyzing the content given in leadership classes, the templates used to analyze and solve problems are a great tool for a leader. From now on, when I'm in a situation where a problem needs to be solved, I will use it. This will be like my paperback.

 QUESTION#2

 The Leadership class gave me enough fuel to keep my journey to discover my leadership strengths, values, and preferences. The key lesson that I have learned about me personally is " if I wanna be an excellent leader, first of all, I need to know myself". I need to know what are my strengths and weakness. If I easily connect with people. If I am able to make complex ideas simple. If I am curious or not. If I can keep my word no matter what happens. If I a kind of person able to listen to people. If I am a person with empathy. These were just a few examples, among many others strengths and skills that a good leader may have and develop. With that, the leader is able to identify the talents into his team and favor the development of those involved.

Leadership is a journey that starts from the inside, so before starting leading others people I need to be a leader of myself. It looks easy but is not. All the knowledge absorbed with the leadership classes just gave me some ideas about my strengths and what I need to improve, but in reality what happens outside the class is something more complex. In order to improve my leadership ability, I will look for ways to strengthen my strengths and improve on what is essential for my career and personal life. When I am leading a team, I will try to find on them someone that have the abilities that I don’t have and learn with them. Also, I will seek an honest opinion of my employees and managers. In addition to helping me increase my leadership skills, these initiatives will help me to build relationships based on transparency, respect, and trust.

 QUESTION#3

After the presentation of Leadership Trail, I stopped to reflect on my presentation performance in an attempt to find why I was so nervous. Suddenly, in the middle of my reflection, the professor's voice comes into my head. I just listened to her saying "practice", "practice", and "practice". The professor came with the answer.

How can I become more confident? Well, I know that something needs to be done. The answer is becoming more competent. As I become more skilled at the task that I am performing, my fear shrinks and my confidence grows. And as my confidence grows, I get better.

In order to develop my competence, first of all, I will invest in my self-knowledge. When you know your strengths, qualities, know how to interpret people, you automatically feel more confident to deal with the challenges that come your way. I can not forget my essence and history. I have to keep in mind my achievements and stages won by me. As I have this clear in my head, I will automatically feel more prepared to face challenges and moments of uncertainty. I will try to feel good about myself, working on my self-esteem.

 QUESTION#4

 In the past three weeks, I have learned that communication skills are fundamental to every leader. Having it a leader can use the communication in his favor. Communication is the keyword for every process which we go through, whether in personal or professional life. Because of this, it is essential that all professionals have good skills in communicating. This rule would not be different with a leader. As the responsibility to guide and guide an entire team, knowing how to communicate is essential to express yourself well in conducting a meeting, to engage the team, to bring dissemination of knowledge among others. If the leader has difficulty to communicate, this will impact his leadership, from the basic understanding of a message by the employee to something bigger such as shaking the confidence of his team and the difficulty of accepting his management. (Bang, 2017)

During the presentations of Leadership Trail#1, the need to know how to communicate was evident. Being nervous, anxious and forgetting about the speech is likely to happen. However, for this there a solution. According to my professor of the leadership class, Dr. Carol, you will not have these problems if you “practice, practice, practice” and “practice, practice, practice” before speaking.

In my case, at the moment of my presentation, I was so nervous that I forgot a few words. In order to solve that problem, in my next presentation, I will do a presentation planning, which includes speaking with more confidence and balance, practice my speaking a lot of times before doing the presentation, breathe deep before talking, train connections to control the anxiety. Moreover, interact with the viewers. Preventing them from losing attention and engaging them in the subject matter.

  QUESTION#5

In order to prepare me for the next interview with a leader, all the knowledge and tools learned from the last Adventure Trail#1 will be put into practice. Mainly the problem-solving process, in which it serves as a guide to clarify the Core Leadership and operational issues through the situational analysis. In sequence, my team and I will meet to prepare a list of open-ended questions to be asked in the interview.

As a leader, I need to understand the general situation and leadership situation. For this happen, I will make a list that summarizes the key elements of the situation, try to understand what is going on and also get a sense of leadership situation. Identify what is the underlying goal to be achieved.

For all this to happen. Some questions are necessary, For example: “What is going on?”, “ What is the underlying goal to be achieved?”,   “ What is the key operational problem?”,  “What are all the leadership issues?”,  “What is the core leadership issue that needs to be addressed?”,  “What are all the leading ideas to solve the problem?”,  “What is the recommend solution?”, “ What is the implementation plan?”.

 REFERENCE:

Bang, H., & Midelfart, T. N. (2017). What Characterizes Effective Management Teams? A Research-Based Approach. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice & Research, 69(4), 334–359.