REPORT ACTIVITY NO 1

Date: 24 April 2021

Venue: Online Platform, Cisco Webex and Facebook Live

Organizer: Psychology Interactive Club (PSYCHIC), Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

1. Communication Skills

2. Leadership and Teamworking Skills 

I am assigned as the Deputy Director. My role is to assist Program Director in handling the role of other exco and making sure everyone play their role in order for the program to run smoothly. 

Program "I Am A Fighter" is a program that giving exposure to people out there on how to handle patient with cancer from emotion and physical aspect. The reason why I joined this program is because I am very interested to let people out there to know what cancer patient need. Some patient may not in need of financially support but they need someone that they could hold their hope to continue living. By joining this program, I can learn various ways on how to manage with cancer patient emotionally and physically. It is really giving me an exposure and useful information that I may be need in future. 

One of the graduate attributes that are related with this program is communication skills. As i am being assign as Deputy Director, communication skills are vital in order for me to receive and giving information from other exco. Thus, by joining this program I am able to enhance my communication skills by communication with other members in most understanding way. This attributes teach me that when communication is done effectively, everyone could understand each of the information given and the program could run smoothly. 

The second graduate attribute that related to this program is leadership and teamworking skills. By joining this program, I could learn on how to lead effectively. Good leading will contribute to good members that will possibly paid off. Teamworking also is important in order for the program to run smoothly. When everyone know their roles and having a great teamwork, this program could achieve it objective. 

Program "I Am A Fighter" is a charity program that give useful information on how to handle cancer patient. We invited the speaker from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia which are an anthropology and was a volunteer for Perth Cancer Care Career Community (2018). We also raise fund from the public to be given to cancer patient in Hospital Sultan Ismail. 

This program is so challenging yet so fun to handle. In addition to the current Covid-19 situation, we should change the entire program planning from the date, venue and tentative. However, with the good teamworking from all members, we manage to run the program smoothly. The process of giving and receiving information on this situation also might be challenging. However, it still enable us to improve our communication skills in this pandemic situation. Communication without face to face really need a good comprehension in order to smoothen the process of giving and receiving information. As the result, program could run smoothly on the event day. 

By joining this program, exposure on handling cancer patient really interest me. The speaker of the program told us that we may be the bridge for the patient on their need. This is because, we may not be able to support them financially or their other need, but we could channel them to other source that could benefit them. This program giving so much knowledge that could be use in future. I may not know that may be one day I should deal with my family members or friends who are dealing with cancer. Thus, the information got from this program is very useful. 

The challenges to run this program is basically on technical. Me and other exco really need to plan effective platform in order for the program to reach out many people. This is because, this program was initially plan to be held physically but since Covid-19 situation occur, we need to change the platform. However, we could manage this challenge by performing rehearsal on the platform to make sure everything is on track on the program day.