Reflective Journal

Reflective Journal on Business Skill Development

Introduction

This reflective journal is written to reflect what I have learned from Business Skill Development. After taking this course, I have learned plenty of new knowledge and they are not only useful to my study, but also essential to my self-development. There are 3 cases that I could reflect from in this course.

ELC presentation

The first case is the ELC presentation. As the first part of the course is to sharpen our presentation skill, we are asked to form a group of 5 people and give a presentation. One thing I learned is to understand the others. Since all the members in my group are studying different majors, I could see that we all have different way of thinking. People usually reject the ideas that are different from or even against their thought. But as I university student, learning how to cooperate with different kind of people is a basic skill. Therefore, instead of rejecting their thought, I tried to understand why they think in that particular way and discuss with them. Then I express my view to them and finally we can come to an agreement on the presentation. Therefore, I think listen to others is the important skills I have learn from the ELC presentation project.

Book Presentation-Proactivity, culture, and herd

The second case is about the book presentation. There are only a few students who want to give a presentation as the beginning. But after the group of students has finished in presenting, it is amazing that plenty of students would like to give a walk-in presentation. After that, nearly all of the student in class would like to give a book presentation in the next lecture. I could see 2 significant issues in this case.

The first one is the proactivity. When the lecturer, Ken, announced the book presentation for bonus marks, there are only few people register to it. Those people are proactive and ambitious. I would like to become one of them but I did not. I did not register...