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Using presenting skills in practice

Nov 1

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The best learning experience of this week is presenting in class. The class is half way done, but this is the first time I have chance to using learned skills and see the feedbacks. Not only the process of presenting is funny, the process of preparing presentation is also a experience. After several meeting, I think I can talk without nervousness in the group discussion. I started to tell more ideas and question. I definitely think this will be a great asset of me.

The other thing I learned from presentation is how to response to questions from audience. After we presenting, professor questioned us the nature of our solutions, saying it is a pushing strategy instead of a pulling strategy. Honestly, I was totally scared, because that is a question I never prepared. But my teammates look very calm and gave the answer immediately. Even though professor seems not completely convinced  at the end, but those kind of abilities of adapting oneself to changing circumstance really impressed me.

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Learning new presenting skills

Oct 25

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This week, the most impressive part of class is to figure out a ideal solution that can meet our need. Different from what I have done in most of class, in this class, we are required to draw our ideas silently instead of speaking. This is the first time I notice that the benefit of silent team work. It helps everyone to express ideas instead of let one or two people dominate the conversation, even though nobody in our group tried to do that. Also, it can let us materialize the idea into image that we can know exactly what group members’ idea when we discuss.

The other thing that helped me a lot is the comparison of two LED talk. Before I watched these two video, I was the kind of person that will try to make a presentation as informative as possible. However, this comparison shows that overwhelming information in a short presentation can barely impress audiences. I really liked the way second guy presenting. And it improved my presenting skill in two aspects. First, no matter what a presenter’s first language is, speaking more slowly is much better than condense a presentation into 3 minutes. Second,  a good hook is important. It help get audiences’ attention and it can perfectly fit in a topic.

I am going to present in the class 5A. and our group will have group meeting on the weekend. I am practicing see if I can apply some of skills in my presentation.

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Interviewing with friends opened up my horizon

Oct 18

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This week, I learned a lot in the process of researching for proposal. Starting with interviewing classmates, our group found out a list of thing that can enrich LCB students’ experience and several things demanded by LCB students. Then we generated a list of interviewing questions that can help us know LCB students more.

After the first class of week 3, I spent some time with my friends and done the interview. I learned from professor that goal of an interview is more than just ask questions and write down everything interviewee said. It is more important to look for insight during the process. So I tried to be more specific and more insightful when I ask questions. It is actually a difficult thing to do, because I never thought how to be as insightful as possible before. What I did is to keep asking “why” when interviewee gave answer.

I know this is just a start, but I do think I learned a lot by going deeper. For example, one of our interviewing question is “what company do you admire?” two of three interviewee answered “Nike”. But when I ask the reason, both of them respond that because Nike’s products instead of the company itself. Again, I asked “why not Adidas or Under Armor?” They said because Nike’s founder father was graduated from UO. In this way, I started to understand what interviewee truly knows and what the things they said are but they do not really mean.

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Starting to talk more in a discussion

Oct 11

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This week, my great experience in BA352 class is I started to talk more in a discussion. The two reading for this week is really impressive, because it teaches me that being a good leader need do some more than just one’s own job. A real leader will have to frequently got in touch with group members, come up with creative idea, and inspire him/her and teammates at the same time. There are so much work to do to be a good leader, and this week, I am trying to do one of them, talking more.

I used to be a person that cares about people’s view of me very much, and the effect is I cannot talk when I do not have a good plan. But during this week, I tried to talk when all teammates have no idea about what this project or activity is going to be. I start to get a feeling that teammates are really nice and do not care about my influent English and weakness in my idea. They give compliment when even there is only little portion of my idea is correct.

One thing impressed me mostly is the design thinking project of this week. My partner is a guy call Max. The activity is actually a little difficult for both of us, because both of us are poor painter, and creating a backpack can satisfy all partner’s needs is a thing we never have done before. But as I talk more and more, our communication became more effective. Therefore, we both got what an ideal backpack would be. This is the best experience of communication in this class so far.

Besides communication skills, my writing skills have improved in this week. The writing assignment 1 is pretty useful in business.

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