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It seems time past so fast that now it’s getting towards to the third week. I need to develop my leadership plan by challenging my self to talk more with my groups and during the class.  During the second week of the class,  I substantively learned much more new knowledge, such as group communication, design thinking, and group activity.

First of all, for the group communication, I finally got to meet my group member outside of the class, and all of us seemed getting along very well with each other. We have contributed our own thoughts and understanding about the class and how we should be prepared for the rest of the term. This is a good start! As I mentioned from my first week post, I hope this is not going to be any of my other groups that everybody ended up pushing their task further and further. Although I got along well with them, I feel a communication barrier between us because I am an international student and English is not my first language. There must be a different culture context involved so I couldn’t understand what their daily college life would be. My goal is to learn something that they all interested such as Football or Facebook, so at the beginning of every meeting, I will be able to participate the conversation with them to build a good relationship. However, I have one concern that my group members don’t have as high expectation of performance as I do in the class. I need to think about how to balance our expectations.

In the class, I have learned some helpful concepts about the design thinking. I had no idea how I can think differently than I ever can be. I was especially fascinating about how I should think out-side-of the box and how improvising is based on observation around me not just think something out of my own mind. As I mentioned in my leadership development plan, for 20 years of my life living in China, I feel like I can’t  think on my own and everything must follow a rigid rule. Now, it is my opportunity to learn and use my creative ideas that will in turn help our group project progress.

Also, for the group project, I agreed that not to find the solution unless we really understood the problem. However, we seemed unable to observe sufficient problems that LCB has. All of our observation is to improve the practical experience at LCB. I have proposed a couple of other ideas such as improving business students with their daily needs like set up a cafeteria, or a small library for students to have a quiet room to study instead of studying in the computer lab. But I need to do more research on whether it is feasible or it is indeed what students need.