Critical Reflection

When I heard about ‘Effective communication’ as one of the modules that I was going to learn for trimester one, I had mixed feelings or worries and excitement. I was worried that I would not excel in this module as communication had always been one of my weaker assets. At the same time, I was excited as I could look forward in improving my communication.

I had mentioned in my first blog post, “The goals for this module for me would be to develop a strong confidence to be able to communicate with ease to anyone at any time”, with the additional takeaways such as report and e-mail writings. After these three months, I would be proud to say that my initial goals that were set for this module was achieved. Through effective communication, I was able to converse even better as compared to when I was before. Besides that, the various assignments have allowed me to practice more on report and e-mail writing which will be essential as part of my work life in the future.

Presentation skills is another takeaway that I feel is one the main components to communicate effectively. Through various presentation practices such as peer teaching, mock presentation and the final presentation for the technical report, I was able to be understand the fundamentals of presentations and delivering effective presentation to the audience.

With all that being said, the journey to communicate effectively will not end here. I believe that everyone still has rooms for improvement because nobody is born perfect and I am no exception as well. I will continue on this journey to seek for more improvements and further polish my communication skills.

Lastly, I would like to thank Miss Lim for being such a wonderful and helpful teacher for the past three months while teaching the class for ‘effective communication’.