After an arduous 13 weeks, we’ve finally come to the end of the module. Though the journey has been tough and demanding with all the class works and assignments etc, I could safely say it has taught me many things; things not only pertaining to effective communication but also life skills like dealing with stress and managing expectations, both of mine and of others.
One of the more memorable event during the course of this module is in working on the research proposal, from the proposal brief, survey all the way to the oral presentation. Forming the ideas and content for the proposal was easy, however the challenge comes in trying to narrow down the scope and making the idea concrete and precise which took a lot of effort in thinking and discussing amongst my group. Luckily, we had other groups to evaluate and comment on our proposal which provided the means and ideas to refine our proposal and also to make it clearer and more concise when we finally handed it in. This taught me the importance of listening to opinions and feedbacks outside your working sphere as most of the time as a group we are too deep inside our ideas that so much so we are unable to see the loopholes that other people outside will see. To those of the other groups reading this, thanks for your invaluable feedbacks =).
Another lesson I learn during the course of this project is in knowing my own group members, knowing their strengths and their weaknesses and in turn giving them tasks that they are more suited to do. For Xin Ying, even though she is chinese educated and her command of the english language is not that strong, she is very meticulous in her work and being a biology student she has handled countless biodata and statistics before. Therefore, assigning her the role of compiling survey and interview results (and making sense of them) and basically almost all the administration of the team would utilize her gift to the full. Li Xian, like xinying, also had difficulties in the english language, but being an engineer she possess very good analytical and critical thinking skills, thus assigning her to do the benefits section of our proposal would be a wise choice. As for zhao chen, being a budding businessman, and possessing analytical skills, we assigned him to do the cost analysis for the team as he is suited to do the cost and risk assessment.
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