WGU MBA-HM first impressions and ongoing comments

[dposborne]

Congrats on starting. I started back in February. So far I knocked out E-Business, HR, Supply Chain, Financial Analysis, and I am half way through Decision Analysis. I decided along with my mentor to go for the longer more difficult classes first so that my second term should be pretty non eventful. I would really like to just concentrate on Leadership and the Capstone (the 2 team classes) second term and be done with it.

Some advice, don't stress over the papers. You can never get the time back you lose by trying to perfect them. Just be direct and to the point. In some cases you can pretty much bullet point your submissions. I have noticed that the Taskstream graders are pretty much just scanning the papers to make sure you include sufficient information to satisfy the task. They really aren't looking at grammar, punctuation or even proper sentence structure. Sad to say but that's what you get with contract graders I guess.

I have found that there are 2 ways to approach the WGU MBA. The "I want to learn and take the time to absorb the information" approach or the "I want a check in the box so I want to get it done as fast as possible" approach. The first approach you pretty much read the material take notes or use OneNote as one student suggested in the communities. The second approach you can pretty much google a lot of the information you need to satisfy the tasks (not actual papers, but topics in the tasks) and write your papers out accordingly. I personally am going with both approaches. On topics that I know a lot about already I use approach 2 and on topics I'm not strong on I use approach 1. Looking over the material though I can see how one can do this MBA in 3.5 months as one student posted about in the communities.

I know that the HM tract may be a little different than the standard MBA tract but some classes are the same, if you need any help please let me know.