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Monday, April 12, 2010
Reflection on own teamwork and communication throughout the semester
Monday, March 29, 2010
Reflection on the oral presentation 2
The second oral presentation came as an end to our one-month-old campaign on spreading awareness about the link between ones diet and global warming. Our team was the last to present our ideas and solutions to the problem we had come up with. We presented last Thursday. This gave us a lot of time to prepare for the presentation.While compiling the presentation slides, we realized how much work we had done in this one month time, as there was so much to present on. There was a large number of slides, compiled together only after the assent of all the group members. This made our slides interesting enough to attract the audience's attention and the flow came out pretty well while presenting.
The presentation went well. I could clearly see an improvement over the first presentation in all my group mates. Kai Ren was our leader throughout the campaign. He is a vegan himself and is extremely passionate about diet related issues that are responsible for the warming of the earth. He convinced each one of us that there is a link between ones diet and global warming before we started our work. This gave us a belief in the project which could be seen while we were presenting our ideas and solutions to the problem. We managed to answer all the questions that were put before us by the panel of judges confidently.
We practiced each person's part as a group only once and this might have been the reason why there was a problem in switching presenters every time. I strongly believe that each one of us is capable of doing much better if we improve on areas like grammatical errors in speech.
Comparing with the others groups I felt that our presentation exceeded the time limit of 20 minutes by only a few minutes while others took over 45 minutes to finish. I hope we get some benefit for this!
I am very proud of all my group mates for their dedication and commitment that made this project possible. We bonded well during the construction of the displays and conducting interviews and came to know each other well. I think this helped in the division of the slides among us as we knew each other's strengths and weaknesses.
Seeing my individual performance, I feel that I became more nervous when I faced the class than I was before. I managed to present but I know that it was not my best. I was carrying cards to remember the points during the presentation and in reading from the cards, I forgot to change the slides on time as I did not look at the screen at all.These small errors made me even more nervous while presenting but there was one thing I managed to remember which was to "keep talking", as Ms Brenda always tell us.
Sadly, there is no CG1413 for the cows shown in the left!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Reflection on the first group meeting
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Resolving interpersonal conflict
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Observation of team behaviour: intercultural and interpersonal communication
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Teamwork and Communication
Arguments occur as a result of miscommunication. A broken communication worsens the problem through misunderstandings and often leads to final termination of relationships. But as they say, where there is a problem there is a solution too, a polite communication can restore the previous harmony of the relationship. This is the beauty of communication.
POOR COMMUNICATION
Teamwork is important to pursue a carrier in today’s world. A well co-ordinated team has committed members who respect each other’s opinion. I believe that true team spirit comes from the belief that ‘none of us is as smart as all of us’. There may be weak links, backbiting and gossip mongering that hampers the working process. It is the job of the leader to ensure that none of the above comes in the way of task completion.
TEAMWORK AT ITS BEST!
My first public speaking experience was a thanksgiving speech in my school. I still remember how nervous I was and had prepared very hard for that 5 minutes talk. Apart from quizzes, I had no experience of teamwork until our previous two sessions with Brenda at CG1413 class. She divided us into teams. Our team was asked to present our ideas on ‘letters’. Brenda analysed our flaws and appreciated our good points in the feedback. It was highly encouraging. I hope this module will bring out the effective communicator and leader in me.