Reflection on principles of communication/teamwork on programming and problem-solution projects

Personally I feel that this course is very useful and inspiring in my four years of study in university as well as the life after graduation.I have learnt about the principles and skills of communication and teamwork during the tutorials.In addition,we have been given group projects for us to apply the communication and teamwork skills in real-life cases.

I strongly feel that after the programming and problem-solving projects I have greatly improved my communication skills.I am also having a better understanding of the importance of teamwork in today's world.

First of all,I have learnt about the 7C's of effective communication and have been practicing them throughout this course.During group discussion,I tried my best to make myself clear by speaking loudly and pronouncing correctly.I also kept my sentences short but concrete in order to achieve conciseness of effective communication.In fact,I think this is the part which I have improved the most.Other than 7C's of effective communication,I have also improved on my verbal and non-verbal communication skills.This can be seen from the two oral presentations.Before I took this module,I was very weak in presentations because I was a very quiet person and dared not to speak in front of people.However,I personally feel that my performances in the two oral presentations of this module were satisfying.I have improved my eye-contact with the audience.Other than that,I have been more confident during the presentation.I also tried to use appropriate hand gestures to capture the attention of the audience.However,there are still many skills that I need to practice and improve on.For example,I should be more confident in sharing my ideas during group discussion.Most of the time I was listening to my team members without speaking a word.I hope I can speak out and share as many ideas as possible during the group meeting in the future.

Throughout the programming project,my team managed to apply the skills of effective communication and teamwork to achieve as best result as possible.For example,one of my team members was not doing his part responsibly and always looked for excuses when he failed to accomplish his task.Although the other three members were feeling unhappy about his behaviour,they avoided having interpersonal conflicts with him.Instead,we tried our best to help him to resolve his problems and finish his part of the project.We even encouraged him to do his part as much as possible and told him that we would settle the rest as a team.Through all these actions,we managed to achieve effective teamwork throughout the project.Besides,we also saved the time spent on resolving conflicts for improving our program.

On the whole,I have improved my overall communication skills through this module.I also have a better understanding of myself since I have known my strengths and weaknesses better.I am sure there will be more opportunities for me to practice the communication skills taught in this module and they will help me to achieve as many successes as possible in the future.