Program Information
Date: 24th of April 2021
Venue: Facebook Live
Organiser: Persatuan Mahasiswa Sains Komputer (PERSAKA) UTM
Graduate Success Attribute
- Communication
- Leadership & Team Working
- Adaptability
Position: Head of Multimedia and Committee
Reflection
- Impact of the activities on the development of students' Graduate Attribute
In the event, one of the Graduate Attributes that was focused on was the communication skills, especially the “communication skills” in the USR’21 committees. Basically after the first meeting of presenting “Program Proposal”. I tried to always communicate with the program director, give my opinions and suggestions related to the program. I always contact with the program director about any updated task that I made and I tried to make sure the information that I get is same with other committees. The event has also trained the “leadership and team working” skill of each committee member. As previously mentioned, the committee members needed to communicate with each other to make this event run smoothly. The fact is team working is not focused in one unit, I as the head of multimedia need to always keep in touch with other units then the information that I get will be shared to my multimedia group. In addition, the head of multimedia trained their leadership skills by guiding and directing other committee members and crews before, during and after the event. Lastly, the event trained the “adaptability skills”. Normally in many events we still will encountered the technical problems, last minutes’ decisions, many work and need to submit it in rush. Therefore, each committee will need to adapt and handle any tasks that they have not expected or not experience before.
- Self strength/advantage towards the activities
In this event, I have my best confidence to give some new ideas and opinions during the meeting program. I easily make friends with new people in the crew. During the crew recruitment day I didn't noticed that there is a student from international will be part of my crew. I have no problem speaks in English to that international student which probably wouldn't understand if I speaks in Malay language. I use this opportunity to enhance my communication skills. Next, although the time management is very packed at that time, I still can manage my time wisely to focus in study and event tasks. I usually divide the task earlier with my team so they can predict when my crew can finish the tasks despite in the hectic week.
- Challenges and how to overcome
The biggest challenge i faced was the task that already submit has several corrections in the last minutes time requested by director of program. Next, sometime i was unable to speak English fluently and make it conversation longer. It is quite hard for me to explain the requirement in English language to my crew who is an international student. So, to overcome i need to always turn on WhatsApp notification so i will not miss or receive late the information from the other committees or the program director. And to improve my language i always search the word in dictionary first and then practice it a lot to enhance my speaking fluency.