21/02/2014
– Friday
Self-Development Video Assignment
Assignments, assignments and assignments.
In high-school, teacher gives us ‘homework’ for us to practice our knowledge on
their subjects. Homework is annoying and boring. Honestly, I prefer doing my
own homework (revision) rather than doing the homework given by the teachers. The
difference is that I can go according to my own pace and not being rushed by
the teachers in school. The homework that was given by my teachers are troublesome because I would get scolded, criticized and threatened if I did not
complete them within the given time. On
the contrary, my own homework does not have any punishment if I procrastinated
on them.
Anyways, in college, instead of getting
homework, we got assignments instead. Since assignments would be part of my
subject mark, they will be compulsory for me to complete them within the given
time. It may seem worse than homework but surprisingly, they are not.
Assignments are much more fun and less boring compared to homework. For
example, in college, my ‘Fundamentals of Business Management’s’ assignment
would be an individual presentation which would amount to 20% for my overall
subject mark. Whereas, in school, I get the usual ‘do question 1 to 5 for Add
Maths’ homework which is so dull to me.
Normally, people would prefer doing homework than facing a crowd of people during
presentation but since I’m an unusual person, presentation as assignment suits
me fine.
Besides that, recently I have received a new
assignment from one of my subjects which is ‘Self-Development Skills’. This
assignment requires us(my classmates and I) to form a team of 10-12 people to
produce a video related to self-development and team-development. Initially, I just wanted to work with a team
of 10 people (the minimum amount of people in a team). In my opinion, the less
people I work with, the better because it’s easier to communicate. Although, I
somehow joined a team that consists of 13 people and I just have to reluctantly
accept that quietly. “Don’t ask me how that happened, it just did”, would be my
thoughts.
We are all equals in the team. There is no
higher or lower positions in that team but since no one seemed to be interested
in taking charge, I took the lead. I never said that I’m better at leading than
anyone else, but someone has to initiate the plan. All our marks are on the
line, including mine after all. So, we discussed about our plans, I tried
convincing everyone to chip in their ideas to contribute to the team and at the
same time, to avoid them from feeling left out.
On the following week, we started dividing our
work load so that everyone would contribute a certain amount of effort to the
assignment. As I’ve learned in Business Management, conflicts will certainly
arise in any organization due to various personalities, attitudes and opinions.
In our situation, even if it was just a team that consists of 13 people trying
to achieve a certain goal, inner conflicts within the team was unavoidable.
Some of us had ideas of our own, some of us could not be bothered with the
assignment, some of us complained about their given task, some of us were absent
during discussions and the list goes on.
Despite all that, I dare say all of us managed
to set our differences aside and had fun completing the assignment. The process
of making the video was fun as each one of us chipped in our ideas and acted as
different people in the video.
“What is my last remark for this assignment?”
You can say I enjoyed doing my self-development assignment with the team I was
assigned to.
-The End-
Written by,
Bryan Yeong
(Cold-HeartedMe)
Group discussion.
Fuyoh's turn to hold the camera.
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