Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Reflection on the teamwork and communication process througout CG1413
6 comments Posted by Cherlia at 9:12 AM
Picture: Various modes of communications.
Since primary school, or even since kindergarten, we have been well exposed to group work. Whether is it working together to solve a problem, cooperating to achieve a goal, I am sure projects and group work are not new to many of us.
However, what seems ironic is that even though we are all well exposed to doing projects, and interacting with people all the time, most of us never learnt through the classroom the basis of communication, or what it is to communicate with people. Most of us learnt by experience learning, by facing obstacles during communication, and learning to overcome them by trial and error, and by repeated attempts to be proficient in communicating with other people.
This is until we met CG1413, and our module tutor, Mr James.
Then we learnt the concrete ideas behind communication, like how does communication get deciphered and passed on, how we can avoid miscommunication by taking measures, learning how non-verbal cues help us interpret one's behavior.
All these skills help us re-enforce the ideas we gathered during experience learning all these years, and gave us a concept on the importance of communication, and what exactly does it encompass. This helped me to build a rapport with my team-mates when we met for meeting to discuss the projects, or worked together to accomplish the assignment. It helped me to understand that having an effective team was not as difficult and as arduous as it seems to be.
In my CG1102 group, these communication skills allowed my team to have debates about the project that had minimal conflict. To the best of our ability, we objectively described and explained our opinion and how it might be beneficial to our project. This allowed our group to have many interesting and beneficial concepts and ideas that might not have come about if there was not any form of active discussion. The effective part of this is that our group maintained cordial during discussions and we were all open to suggestions from everyone. This greatly minimized the amount of conflict that could have potentially appeared in group discussions.
Picture: Enjoyable meeting sessions. (:
In my CG1413 group, these communication skills allowed me to hone my skills in requesting for people to help in my surveys, to create clear and concise survey questions that can be beneficial to my project, and communicating with my group mates. It also gave me an extra chance to keep my presentation skills in check.
Picture: Extra chance to hone presentation skills.
Out of the classroom context, these skills I learnt allowed me to understand better how miscommunication occurs, and how to avoid it, not only in the school based environment, but at home, with my friends, with my family, or whenever communication occurs, which is everywhere.
Picture : This shows us that communication is part and parcel of our everyday life,
for every situation that requires us to open our mouths, or to show something.
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