Reflection On Meeting 1 (CG1102 Project)

For our CG1102 project, we had to videotape ourselves. We had our first meeting on Thursday 11thFeb, at the central library, discussion room 6. As it was our first time doing this, we were a bit unsure and nervous about how it would go. Our group consisted of Alden, Geck Keat and me. We decided that we would just be natural during the taping.
I felt that the main purpose of us having to videotape ourselves was to look back at it and see where we could actually improve on and what were the points that we had missed out on. During the meeting, we strictly tried to follow our agenda although we went a bit off too.

Teamwork was a very important factor during such meetings. Being a team, all of us had to work together and share our ideas with each other and decide on the best among all the designs that we came up with. Alden was our leader and I felt that he did a good job by making sure that all of us contributed towards the project and put out our ideas without being afraid. He also made sure that all of us engaged in the discussion by asking questions like what do you think of this design, why not this, etc. We were stuck at some parts of the questions and so decided to ask our lab tutor for help.

We were able to manage our time well and actually completed everything that we had on our agenda. I felt that the meeting was really productive and we could come up with a rough idea of how we were going to design our project.

Resolving Interpersonal Conflict

It was during your junior college days when this incident took place. An inter college dance competition was about to take place. A few of your classmates were taking part in it. Amongst them were Rinita and Nikita. Both of them very close friends. They rarely quarreled between themselves and were always friendly to everyone around them.
One day all the participants including Rinita and Nikita were rehearsing for the auditions that were going to be held later that day hoping that they would be selected for the final competition. Then the teachers in charge of the program came to see their performances. They had to select the best three among all the students from that college. Everyone did their best and in the end Rinita, and two other girls were selected. Rinita was very happy that she got selected but at the same time felt sorry for Nikita. Nikita too was very depressed and she sat at the corner wanting to be all by herself. At the end of the auditions, all the students were climbing down the stairs.



Then a very unexpected thing happens. Some students were racing down the stairs and they accidentally pushed Nikita and she, unknowingly, went and pushed Rinita. Rinita fell down the stairs and fractured her hand. She thought that Nikita purposely pushed her down the stairs, as she felt jealous that Rinita was selected. But she did not know what actually happened. As a result of her fracture, Rinita could not participate in the competition anymore. Nikita tried explaining to her many times that she did not do it on purpose and that someone actually pushed her from behind but Rinita just would not listen to her. She really wanted to participate in the competition and felt that Nikita was responsible for whatever happened. Since that incident, Rinita was not talking with Nikita.

What should be done to solve this situation?

Observation of Team Behaviour: Intercultural and Interpersonal communication

The world today is characterized by an ever-growing number of contacts resulting in communication between people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. We have many different relationships with people. For example, interacting with a sales clerk in a store is different from the relationship we have with our friends and family members.
I once remembered an incident where my friend, who is Singaporean, came with me to India during the holidays for a visit. There I introduced her to my grandmother. So the first thing she did was to give out her hand to shake hands with her. But my grandmother didn’t shake hands with her. Instead she folded their hands in the cultural way and said namaste. Seeing this my friend was shocked as shaking hands here in Singapore is very common but I explained to her that people in India do not shake their hands but fold them and instead. So from then onwards, whenever she met people there, she knew that shaking hands was wrong and so started folding hands instead.
In a nutshell the main purpose of following such theories is to earn respect from other people’s culture.
Interpersonal communication is the process of sending and receiving information between people and interaction between members of different groups, who differ from each other in respect of the knowledge shared by them and in respect of their linguistic forms of symbolic behaviour. Once my friend and I went for a movie and she was coming by MRT to the theater. I was waiting for her at the station. I messaged her saying that I was at the ticketing counter and asked her to meet me there. She thought that I meant the ticketing counter at the theater and went there instead. Then, I realized and thought that I should have mentioned ticketing counter at the MRT instead. This indicates how interpersonal communication plays a role in our life.

Communication and Teamwork: why are they important to me?

Communication is the exchange of thoughts and ideas through gestures, signs, signals, speech or writing. Basically, communication is sharing information, whether in writing or orally. Effective communication is a two way process- sending the right message and also it being correctly received and understood by the audience. The ability to communicate effectively is an art that can be used in many areas of your life, from employment and education to parenting and relationships. Today’s increasingly global economy places a premium on teamwork in the workplace.
In today’s world, communication plays a key role in everybody’s lives. A person with lots of knowledge should be able to put out his ideas through good communication skills but if he fails to do so he would be considered equal to a person with no knowledge. So, getting great ideas is not important, what really matters is the ability to portray those ideas in a way that others can understand. Nowadays when we go for interviews, what they look for is people with good communication skills and only after that will they look at that person’s qualifications.
Teamwork is the process of working collaboratively with a group of people, in order to achieve a goal. It is a crucial part of a business, as it is often necessary for colleagues to work well together, trying their best in any circumstance. Teamwork means that people will try to cooperate, using their individual skills and providing constructive feedback, despite any personal conflict between individuals.
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Students are also encouraged to work collaboratively on academic projects and in competitions such as the Lego League robotics competition. These projects aid students in developing the essential skills that they will need when they enter the working world. A team project is when members of the teamwork work interdependently towards the same goal. It is not hard to explain why team projects always surpass group projects or individual work. When working in teams, there will be more people and so there will be more new ideas and obviously the result would be much better compared to the same task done individually.