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Sunday, April 21, 2019 {0+}

For the initial stage, the lecturer conducted the first meeting to choose the higher committees. After everyone finished introducing themselves, we decided to select a leader (director) to lead the discussion to be smoother and clearer.


Everyone was gave a chance to suggest their ideas about our future project. Our goal was to produce as many ideas as possible and we listened to all the ideas carefully, categorized and examined them. Then we choose some ideas among all of them. We were asked to vote for the best ideas and rank the ideas in priority order and then finalized them. "Programming Workshop" had the highest votes which mean it is going to be our main project for Social Engagement this semester.

Under Human Resource department, facilitators were chosen. We need to volunteer ourselves if we want to join any departments under Human Resource. They are total of 12 people volunteer including me. I volunteered to join this team because I really like Programming and eager to share my knowledge to the students. Besides, I like to interact with people and teaching them. These will somehow increase my communication skills and also improve my knowledge.

POSITIVE CHARACTERISTICS

• Me
  
  - As I was assigned as the Head of Facilitators, my task is to monitor and distribute works together with Er Jia Xin to the members. We have to make sure the tasks finished and submitted on time. By doing this, we can ensure the smoothness of the project and let every members know their roles.
  
  - Answer every questions asked by the group members in detail. Some of them have messaged me personally to ask regarding their tasks whether or not they can do this and that. Before answer them, I will discuss first with Er Jia Xin and if we are not sure we will direct to Jason. After he approved then we will proceed.
  
  - Listen to others' feedback and opinions. When they gave any suggestions or ideas to improve the task, we will discuss and if it is relevant, we will accept and add more if relevant.

• Others
  
  - Give suggestions to improve the notes. When we have finalized the notes, they will check if there's anything to add to ensure the contents are right and suitable for the students. They will check anything if needed and also added some graphics to make the notes and the slides more colorful and cheerful for the students.
  
  - Immediately do their tasks when assigned. Right after Er Jia Xin assigned every members to each topics, they immediately do without any question.
  
  - Director (Jason) monitor the work progress and push us to follow the deadline. He also planned the work accordingly. This is the example of a good leader.
  

NEGATIVE CHARACTERISTICS

• Me
  
  - Late distributing the tasks to the group members. This is because, we chose the heads a bit late. From this I learnt that the leaders' role is very important to ensure every tasks assigned to that small groups.

• Others
  
  - Late submitting the assigned tasks. I have learnt that if one person dos not complete their part, the whole group suffers and therefore it is important that each person fulfill their role according to the deadline given.
  
  - Do not give respond when asked. Sometimes, when someone asked any something especially Jason, no one respond to it including me. That's because we do not know the answer to his question. This is not good, left someone hanging. Instead of not answering, we should at least say we do not know.
  
  - Not make use of whatsapp group. As we chose the head a bit late, which near to the deadline, everything seems a bit mess at first. The whatsapp group was so silent until Jason start pushing us to start doing the tasks. Right after we distribute the works, everyone seems to start reacting to any messages send. 

OPINIONS ABOUT POSITIVE CHARACTERISTICS THAT SHOULD BE PRACTICED


In my opinions, the first positive characteristic is complement others' skills. An important characteristic of an effective team work is the shared capacity. Every members has their own strength and weak spots. A good team leader and team member should provide some unique skills or knowledge that can always move the team forward. This will somehow boost one spirit to keep doing their tasks and ask for more. 

Secondly, shares the load. A good team member helps each other when needed. We can also help others when we are done with our task. By doing this, the work process can be done faster and finish early.

Thirdly, communicate with each other more often. As we know, communication is crucial to build a sense of camaraderie between members. Put simply, the more freely we talk to our fellow team members, the more comfortable we are in sharing insights and ideas. Therefore, we should make full use of social media especially Whatsapp where most discussion being held there. Don't just be a silent reader and left someone hanging when they ask something.

WHETHER OR NOT CHANGE IN ATTITUDE REQUIRE

Yes. This is because, some people including me somehow do not know our tasks in detail and how the project going to be at the first place. If we are clueless, we should immediately meet the higher committees and ask for a short brief about the project's detail. We shouldn't just sit there doing nothing and wait to be assigned to any works but ask for any works to help instead. After each people had been assigned to specific task, they finally start to move and asked if there is any confusion. We also helped each other to ease everyone tasks.

As for the facilitators group, during the first meeting Jason has told us to choose 2 heads to lead the team and conduct a lecture during the event, but we did not discuss anything on the whatsapp group. Thus, Jason had to push us and he chosed the heads himself. This thing shouldn't be done at the first place. Because we late choose the heads, the tasks also late being submitted for Jason to go through and check. If we start early, we can finish early and add more but still fortunately, we managed to finish the given tasks before the deadline.