Friday, April 15, 2016

Critical Reflection on SEM2902

Interpersonal and Work Communication, this course has helped me to improve my oral presentation, my communication skill and my writing skill

Initially, i was not aware that communication involves different concepts and applications that helped me in communication. Communication is the act of transferring information from one place to another. Although this is a simple definition, if i were to think about how two people may communicate the subject becomes more complex. There are different categories of communication and the ones that we learned in class were verbal and non-verbal communication. Verbal communication refer any exchange of words through to face-to-face, telephone, radio and other media while non-verbal communication refer to body languages, gestures and how we dress or act. I learnt that non-verbal communication is important based on first-impression . One example would be a interview. I remembered that we had a class activity where Jia Sheng and I were interviewers and Marcus was the interviewee. As a interviewer, i realized that Marcus did not give me a good first impression as he was not dressed for the occasion and he did not greet us before he sat down. I felt that I would not want to hire him. Hence, through this experience, i realized that non-verbal communication is important to set a good impersonation on someone.

We did our presentation on week 13 of this course. I made mistakes such as, too much speech pauses, example such as "um, like" which is very bad reflection of my capability as a speaker. Moreover, I felt that, during my presentation, i rely too much on my notes, it shows poor management of my speech. Hence, from the advice of my teacher, Brad, and my classmates, I know where are my weakness and I will further strengthen it.

One last improvement/feedback that i would take back from this course is my writing skill. Even though, i passed my 'O' level english exam, i always felt that english was my weakest subject.
During my three years of diploma education, gradually, I did not attempt to improve my writing skills. Eventually, through the module, I felt the need to improve my writing skills as my blog post consist of numerous broken sentence structures and grammatical errors. Hence, with the feedback by Brad, i was able to spot the more apparent mistakes that i made and i will further improve on it.







Saturday, April 9, 2016

Critical Reflection on Project Learning

Our Project title was "Interpersonal Conflict On Social Media Among Singapore Teens: Resolution"
I will be focusing on talking about the third party interference in a interpersonal conflict with two people.

In our presentation, we talked about the ideal solutions to solve a interpersonal conflict between two people. However, in reality, it is hard to achieve the ideal solution when both parties are not in good term with each other, The solutions that we researched in conflict resolution mention that reflection, such as reflect on the conflict or discussion of the situation with someone which forces you to reflect on your action. Eventually, reflection is recommended to have a better conclusion with your conflict.

I introduced the introduction of our slides and gave a background research and reasoning on why we chose our topic. I felt that the content that I explained was related to our topic title and elaborated on some background research on why we chose our topic and able to project myself well, with good eye contact and voice. However, I notice that I had the tendency to repeat my sentences, rely too much on my notes and i was not formal enough while i was presenting. I felt that my notes was not re liable for me as it was in paragraph. One of my classmates, Kok Zheng, advised that i should have my note in point form so that it was easier for me to refer. I felt that it was because i was nervous that it result to my tenancy to repeat myself. Moreover, I felt that i was too informal with my speech, mainly because the audience was my classmates.

Through this presentation, I learned that I need to take case the choice of words when i was presenting. For example, I used pauses fillers such as "um and like" too much that affect my flow of speech. I would phrase my notes better and in point form so that it is easier to refer.

Updated 15th April 2016