Sunday, 10 November 2013

1514 Business Communication - Reflective Journal

  In this Business Communication group assignment, I do learn some knowledge and experience from my group members.
   Before we start on this assignment, I expect that this assignment will be difficult and I was worried that we can't finish all the things before the due date. Since I know well about my group members for this Business Communication group assignment so I expect it will be quite easy when we communicate to each other. Besides that, I also expect that interview needed in this group assignment will be do in formal way as this time will be my second time to interview someone for the assignment.          
  Some of my expectations do fulfill but some are not. After this group assignment, I found that this assignment not that difficult as what I expect before I start to do on it. This is because as I am a leader, i had separated the parts to each member before October, and asked them to pass back to me two days before the dateline. Thus, everything had done on time and submits it before the due date. Next, we had done our interview which needed in the group assignment. The interview is not that hard and formal way as I expected before. This is because our interviewee is quite a nice and funny person. It makes the interview process more like friend chatting instead of traditional formal way of interview. Through this interview, we took a lot of information from our interviewee.
  The main issue that I faced would be the juggling of the other assignments that I had to do at the same time as I was doing this assignment with my group mates. My group mates and I also faced problems with going to the premises to interview the owner as some of us have got transport problems and we are also separated by a difference in timetables. These issues made it difficult for us also to meet for group discussions and so on because when some of us would be free, others' will either be in classes, they may have transport problems or they would be busy either in the handing up of or the doing of other assignments for the other subjects that we are taking this semester. The solution that we found as a team to our problems would be to use our group  chat in Facebook and find a time that is suitable for everyone to meet for our discussions. We also rearranged our schedules so that we could meet for a discussion. As for the transport problems, my group mates decided to car pool and I met them at my friends premise as I arrived there by car pooling with another friend of mine as he stays close by to me.
  In my opinion, I personally feel that this is the best and most organized group assignment that I have done so far in this semester. I found everyone are cooperative , team-spirited and helpful. I do not think that I would do anything differently. In conclusion, I think that what I would be able to take away from the experience of doing this assignment with this group is that it is important for me to choose group members who take the initiative to do the work necessary in order to achieve a common goal.

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