Report Activity No.2

Date: 30^th January 2021

Venue: Cisco Webex

Organizer: Jawatankuasa Kolej Mahasiswa Kolej 9 & 10 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru

1. Leadership and Teamworking skills

2. Communication skills

I have been appointed as a director of this program.

           This program is about mental health talk which is delivered by psychology officer from Pusat Kaunseling Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. This program purpose is to provide exposure to the importance of maintaining mental health in a new normative life and share a knowledge on how to maintain a mental health in a new normative life during this pandemic. This program also gives an awareness to erase the stigmas that related to our mental health. During this pandemic, students may have some distraction to going through with the online distance learning. So, this is the opportunity that students can grab to overcome the issues that arise such as stress, anxiety and depression. 

            One of the graduate attributes that are focused on in this program is leadership and teamworking skills. As a director of this program, I need to work as team. I need to delivered the instructions with clear so my committee will get understand and their work can be running well. This is my first experience to be a program director and I face a few challenges as a leader. Through this program, I learn a lot about the leadership and teamworking skills. I learn how to manage and solving the problems that arise in this program.

            In addition, communication skills. As a leader, I need to communicate with the committee and the speaker of this program. Dealing with them is not easy for me. I need to be a good listener to my committee if they having a problem and give proper feedback to their work. Communication skills can help me to avoid conflicts, misunderstanding and help in better decision making. A good communication also can improve and tighten the relationship between leader and the committee. Through this program, I can improve my communications skills that help me in my presentation.

            The content of this activities is focus on mental health issue that arise during pandemic Covid-19. As we know, having an online distance learning is not easy for every student. They may have a few problems such as data networking, family matters and others. This program has invited the experienced speaker to delivered some knowledge and motivation about mental health. There are has one session for the talk. The session has been running for two hours and has a Q&A session with the speaker. In this session, speaker has explained about the mental health issues that are arise among students. Then, the speaker shares a few ways how to manage that issues such as manage the stress. After that, we have a Q&A session that allowed students to ask any question that related to that topic and we having a photograph session

         Being a director of this program is not easy because we need to handle the whole things and make sure the program is running well. I challenge myself to be a leader even I have no experience to be a director but I made it. The program has going well. I learn many things including the skills that I have gain from this program. I also gain a knowledge about the mental health issues that arise during this pandemic. As a psychology student, I create this program to give an awareness about the importance to take good care of our mental health.

            I also having a problem through this online distance learning, but I need to motivate myself to face all of this problem with strong. I need to manage my stress and make sure there are no distraction in my studies. This program has help me a lot and other students to take care of their mental health. We also need to erase stigmas that arise in our judgemental society. Depression is not a joke, and we need to overcome that as soon as possible. By erasing that stigmas, we can help the students who having this problem with a proper way.