Peer Teaching Review: Good/Bad News Messages, Email
This blog post is about my individual reflections based on my group's peer teaching topic: The 7CS of effective communication and how to write and deliver good/bad news messages via letters or an email. Honestly, I was really very worried and scared of the presentation as it been nearly half a semester since I last had a official presentation. But I am really glad that along with my group mates William and Amy we managed to pull off our presentation really well. As a team we were able to cooperate with one another well which enabled us to work effectively as a team.Thank you, William and Amy for being such awesome team mates that I enjoy working together with! And not forgetting to thank my classmates for being active participants whom provided us with constant feedback during our presentation and activity time.
While preparing for this peer teaching presentation, I challenged myself not to write any form of speeches for me to memorize. Instead, I ensured I was familiar with my entire group's slide and particularly my content that I had to cover during the presentation. Although, I was nervous in the beginning of my presentation I tried to maintain eye contact with my classmates that somehow chase away my anxiety and fear. The more I maintain eye contact and using my hands to emphasize important points, the more comfortable I felt. This peer teaching, provided me with a good platform to practice on my presentation skills as well as being able to speak confidently and comfortably to an audience whom I had no prior experience presenting with.
The feedback provided by my classmates, gave me an overall view on how effective my group was able to deliver our intended content to our audience. This included feedback in areas such as presentation slide, oral presentation skills and our prepared handouts as well as our ability to conduct activity without any major hiccups. I believe we did a good job after collecting responses from our classmates as well as from our own personal sense of satisfaction.
In a conclusion, this peer teaching gave me the opportunity to understand how important knowing your content well can allow you to be more confident during presentation. It showed me that maintaining constant eye contact is an important aspect for effective communication. Finally, I also gain insights to learning how to deliver good/bad news messages using the 7Cs of communication.
Hope everyone enjoyed our peer teaching and gain useful insights to writing a good/bad news message. If you wish to read about our group's reflections, please click here. If you have any questions, feel free to approach any one of us!
Regards
Farhanah
Monday, 25 February 2013
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Blk 49 #12-215
Email:rinaftrish@yahoo.com.sg
19th February 2013
1 Jalan Tan Tock Seng
Department of Rheumatology,
Allergy and Immuonlogy
Dear Sir/Madam
Application for the position of Research Assistant
at Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
I am writing to convey my
interest in applying for the position as a Research Assistant at the Department
of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology. I came across this job advertisement
through the job search portal, STJOBS. I am currently pursuing my third year,
final semester degree programme in Life Sciences at the National University of
Singapore and will be expecting to graduate in May 2013.
Being a young and energetic
graduate, I am highly interested in embarking my career in the field of clinical
research especially in one of Singapore ’s
largest and prestigious multidisciplinary hospital providing quality medical
and developmental care more than 160 years.
Studying Biomedical Science, for
nearly 6 years in my polytechnic and university, I have developed and acquired
relevant skills that is essential in laboratory based research studies. For
instance, I was an intern at the System’s Biology Lab based in the Genome Institute
of Singapore where I was assigned to conduct experiments to study the effects
on cells after heat shock. In addition, I had first hand experience in carrying
out a final year research project to the study the effects of Piper nigrum
extracts on breast cancer cells under. Having to prepare many reports and
presentations, I have effectively learnt to use Microsoft Excel for data
management and representation along with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. These
laboratory experiences for a year allowed me to develop my confidence and
skills in carrying out research work.
Besides these skills and
knowledge, I believe being an effective team player is vital in a workplace.
Being an active participant in my institutions activities such as taking part
in the Youth Expedition Programme, involving in Polytechnic Open House and
charity bazaars, I have developed my skills as an effective communicator and a
team player. I manage to develop strong and effective relationships further
through my tutoring interest where I had to work with my co-teachers,
administrative staff and boss to ensure fun and effective learning among our
students.
With my relevant work and
interpersonal skills, I will strive to be a valuable member in this research
group should I be given the opportunity. Thank you for your time spent on
reviewing my application. My resume and testimonials are enclosed for your kind
consideration. I will be looking forward for an interview with great
anticipation to provide an opportunity to discuss my suitability for this
position. I can be contacted at +6590765389 or via my email,
rinaftrish@yahoo.com.sg.
Yours Sincerely
Nur Farhanah
Monday, 11 February 2013
Resolving Interpersonal Conflicts
Firstly I would like to wish all my friends celebrating Chinese New Year a happy
and prosperous new year. And to all others a happy long holiday. Sorry for uploading my post past the deadline. I just got back from holiday where I had no excess to Internet.
Conflicts that arise between two people could be taken on a positive or a negative note. At times these conflicts can strengthen the bond between two people or it could end up breaking the bond that they share.
This interpersonal conflict that I am going to share was a real life scenario that I had encountered. So it all begins with these two people X and Y. X and had a friend A and Y had a friend B. However, A and B had their own disagreements and did not see eye to eye. Sadly despite X and Y knowing that A and B had their own misunderstanding they never shared with each other the extent of how bad their relationship was. During a event organised by X and Y they invited all their friends to come over for a party. During the party, friends of A when to express their concerns over to X about the issue that B never acknowledged the presence of their group of them including A. While Y was busy with the party food preparation, X approached Y and demanded Y for a reason for B's behaviour towards his friends. Y got mad and raised her voice. Y replied to X that despite knowing the situation why did you ask me, you should have asked your friends to confront B herself instead. This situation was worsen when Y and X got into a greater heated argument. In the end the party was called off and everyone was ashamed of their act.
The feelings involved in this situation was a very intense one indeed. However, what made this whole conflict enter a whole new level was the failure for all the parties involve to realise that the situation was not appropriate to bring address an issue that needed space and time. They felt to realised a party scenario is not an ideal environment for one to discuss sensitive issue. Beside this, the people involved in this conflict lack emotional intelligence. They displayed no restrain in managing their emotions and did not try to calm their thoughts.
This scenario showed how important self awareness and self honesty is. We need to recognize our emotions and how it can be misunderstood as a sign of anger in a crowd. We must be honest with our own weaknesses and accept it instead of trying to denying it all the time.
With that my dear friends, I would like to leave you guys a question. If suppose you were in person's X/Y shoes how differently would you have reacted to the situation as described above? The choice of X or Y is yours to make.
Signing Off,
Farhanah
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