The BA 352 course gave me the favorable place to improve my collaboration skills. A lot of team work required in this class. I not only needed to discuss with my team during the class time, but also required to meet with them every week to complete assignments together. The process of working with team, writing the proposal and preparing for presentations contributed a lot to my LDP.

At the early of this term, I didn’t have enough confidence for this class, because all of my teammates are native English speakers, and it’s make me too shy to talk in front of them. I worried about they couldn’t understand me and even worried they may laughed at my accent. However, Professor Ron talked about how to get out of comfortable zone in one day class. I realized that I have to overtake the problem and show my work in front of my teammates. However, I did prepare job before the group meetings, but I didn’t talk much about them, so that my teammates don’t get my ideas, and I felt excluded. A teammate, Emily, talk to me for several minutes during a group meeting. She tell me that I had some good ideas and encouraged me to speak more. I really appreciate this kind of support. I talked about some issues from international student perspective, and my teammates thought these were important for our proposal.

After I feel there is no need to nervous when speak with native speakers. Through the cooperation with fours teammates, I felt that they want to know more about international students and want to hear my opinions. They understood I was not as good as them on writing and speaking. All of them would like to help me to edit my individual part of proposal when I finished them.

And for the final presentation, I made many efforts to find an interesting video for the hook and created 5 good ppt slides.  I think those achievements not only by myself, but also with everybody’s contribution.

The improved of my abilities of leadership and communication during this team appreciated to teamwork. However, my communication skills become good, but I still need to focus on my leadership skills in the future. That is, I will need to be more influential and competent to lead my team based on the common goals.