By joining this program as a director, it gives me a whole new experience of being a leader. I have become more conscious of my position and the responsibility that I had to carry when acquiring this position. I believe the experience gave me the ability to improve my leadership and teamworking skills. To add on, as the program gave exposure on how the situation was during the internship period, I am able to prepare myself for the upcoming internship period.
In my opinion, my self strength towards this program is that I have a prior experience in becoming a director. It is my third time becoming a director and because of the past experience, I believe I had done a good job running this program. Even though I had an experience becoming the program director, there are still some areas that I am still lacking such as I am not able to distribute the work properly because I am afraid that my committee will become burden by all the works, however in this program, I got to improve this situation as I had learned the importance of team working. Because of that, I saw that this program can run smoothly compared to other programs I had handled.
One of the challenges that arise in this program is time management. The program was held after mid semester break which is around the time that I need to submit my assignment. As I was the leader, I needed to supervise each of the works that my committee did and it consumed a lot of time and energy to check all of it. Because of it, I find it hard to do my assignment as I had used all my attention and energy to make sure this program ran smoothly. For me it is the biggest challenge because in everything I do, I will make sure that I do it perfectly whether it is an assignment or program. With the time constraint, I find it hard to do a good job in both the program and the assignment. However, I overcome this challenge by making a to-do list everyday. I will list all the things that I should do for that day and try to complete all of it. By doing it, I can manage my time more wisely and I can do more things in one day. Not only I can check my progress on my task but I am also able to do all the work in the given deadline.