- Communication Skills
Being a committee means communication is very essential. The event consists of competitions that require us to communicate with participants to ensure they understand the guidelines of the competition. Moreover, there are also people outside of the organization that needs to be contacted for example professional juries to evaluate the photos and videos for the competition as well as panels for forums and sharing sessions. Apart from that, we also need to communicate a lot with our teammates in order to complete tasks before the given time. All the communicating had helped me a lot in enhancing my social skills.
- Thinking Skills
As a committee, there was a lot of thinking to be done especially when there are last-minute changes to be done or if there are any unexpected problems that occur. Because of that, we had to act fast, not wanting to make the audience wait. This required a lot of brainstorming among the team members like making the marking rubric for the competition evaluation. This was to make sure the criteria and marks are fair. Therefore, this has helped enhance my thinking skills in many ways.
- Leadership and Teamworking Skills
As I was the person in charge of the video competition, I was the leader of the activity. Because of that, I had to make sure to take into account everyone’s opinions before proceeding with the decision. This is to avoid any misunderstandings and any unnecessary problems occurring. Although organizing and distributing tasks may seem easy, I had to divide tasks with the fact that I should not burden my teammates too much in mind since every individual have their own activities they are responsible for. At times, it was easier to take matters into my own hands. There were a lot of thoughts and considerations to be done before actually completing a task. But ultimately, it was just a matter of great teamwork skills and the success of the event proved how our leadership and teamwork skills had improved greatly.