Personal Evaluation

Well last and final blog post for the Enterprise activity and I am glad to say the least, it was an enjoyable unit and I did have fun but my gosh do I stress over things that I shouldn't have? Yes!! However stressful it was I did enjoy it, getting together with level 4 was also a great idea as it wasn't like normal subjects. We had more imaginations so double the brain power right?

The initial idea of the event was what I enjoyed most, sitting with my team and talking about what ideas we did have and what was plausible for us to do. I also enjoy the main event on the day, even though we never had many people playing along with the treasure hunt it was still an enjoyable day setting everything up and actually hosting the event was a blast. You could tell that even know we didn't have the most customers or players, this was truly enjoyed by us all. Helping with the other stalls and teams when they needed us was also enjoyable, as we all got together and worked our hardest for the full event. The least enjoyable part of the activity was just how far it got strung out at the beginning weeks, although I do understand there was reason behind these other activities but however did find this took a lot of the time away from the actual planning.

The main thing I did hope to achieve whilst doing the enterprise activity was to become easily adjustable within a group and I did achieve this, due to the way this activity was set out this year we were mingled with the level 4's and this helped me learn the skill to be adjustable within a group that I am unfamiliar with. I am taking that skill away with me from the enterprise activity as this has made me more comfortable around the "unknown" as I know it will get used in the workplace. The role I was given as Marketing for the team was a good role and something I did want to improve upon and get more of an insight into, however I feel that because of my experience in leading a team in this type of activity I would have best suited team leader I did though want to allow someone else to have the chance to develop their skills in team leading.

I had a great time doing the enterprise activity and really enjoyed working with such a good team, what a great way to end the college year 😊😊

Individual Evaluation and Personal Reflection - Greg Donaldson

Individual Evaluation

My main strengths.

I was given the IT role thanks to my IT literacy and know how when using a computer, I was also instructed to create a poster as I was the only member of the group capable of creating a more advanced poster with creation applications that I have used before.

My main weaknesses.

I feel that my sudden introduction to the group and task left me flustered at times leaving me to think of what was actually going on. Although it was swiftly dealt with once I mentioned it to the rest of my group who filled me in and let me know what had been planned.

How will you use this experience to help you in future projects?

I will use my newly acquired skills when working with future groups that I am instructed to work with as I progress down the line of education that I choose. 

How will you use this experience to help you in the workplace?

I can use these skills when working in the future as employers will find someone with marketing talents to be useful and might ask me to help with something down the line.  

How will you use this experience to help you in other social situations?

I can use the talents that I have improved on when socialising as a friend might ask me to design flyers or something for them to post on their Facebook page.

Personal Reflection

What was the main thing you hoped to achieve from the enterprise activity
I was hoping to gain some new skills as well as learn some new skills to add to my current set of skills and from doing this event I have, it has allowed me to use my skills in a realistic work like scenario.


Did you manage to achieve this? 
Yes, I worked on several skills and even learned some new skills that I can use in future. I am especially happy with what I developed when improving on my current skill set.

Do you feel you worked in the best role for current skills during the project?
Yes, I think that using my IT skills I was able to bring what my team needed and I was able to create what they asked for in good time and make sure that It was applicable and presentable. 

Reflection Sandraa

Individually:
a) What were your main strengths during the activity?
My strengths during the project were :

- Communication: I was communicate with my team and others effectively.

- IT: I was good in IT by doing the blog posts and by creating Facebook page for the event.

- Organisation: I also was good in organisation all the stuff for the event e.g. the winner prize and getting the rooms for the photos etc.
b) What were your main weaknesses during the activity?I think my weakness is that I'm still a bit shy but it is now much better than it was at the beginning

c) How will you use this experience to help you in future projects?I will know how to start a project now e.g. how to give roles, how to plan an event or any other projects and how important is time keeping 


d) How will you use this experience to help you in the workplace?I think this will help me in team work and communication with others e.g. customers, suppliers and other people in your workplace.
e) How will you use this experience to help you in other social situations?This will help me in everyday life because you need to be able to communicate with others all the time and solve different kinds of problems.
Reflection:
a) What was the main thing you hoped to achieve from the enterprise activity?I wanted to improve my communication skills during the project by communicate more with other because I'm quite a shy person.
b) Did you manage to archive this?Yes I archive my goal because I been communicate with others all the time in person and by emails.
c) Do you feel you worked in the best role for your current skills during the project?Yes I did because I'm quite good in communication with other but I also been improving my communication skills, IT skills and my confidence during the project.

Individually:

What were your main strengths during the activity?

I think of the strength of my activity is organisation and focused on what I do and to achieve my task.


-What were your weaknesses during the activity?

I think that my English is not good enough because this is problem more with communication with others.


-How will you use this experience to help you in future projects?

It was a good experience because it has taught me how to organise and what is needed to organise all the other necessary thing to the project and how to communicate with other people.


-How will you use this experience to help you in the workplace?

These experience can help at work because many employers look for experience and more can work with such people and they knows have a good communication and organisation what can help for business. I believe that  this experience will help with teamwork and how to co-operate with my colleagues.


-How will you use this experience to help you in other social situations?

I think that this experience will help me with other social situation because I have improve my confidence and self-steam which will help me to communicate more actively.

Reflection:

-What was the main thing you hoped to achieve from the enterprise activity ?

I was hoping that in this project I will develop new skills such as organising, planning and communicate with other team members. I was hoping that I will improve my IT skills and learn some new techniques from class mates from level5.


-Did you manage to achieve this?

I believe that I have achieved this, because I have worked well within the team. I have bought the costume for the college cowboy and also I have prepared all the equipment needed to complete this project.

-Do you feel you worked in the best role for current skills during the project?

Yes, I feel that I have worked as good as I could. During this project I have learn many new skills and techniques which will help me with future projects.

Group Evaluation Post

Well this is the final piece of writing to be completed for the Enterprise unit, an overall reflection and evaluation of the unit. Spending time this morning to reflect back on the past 11 weeks of this Enterprise activity, it has been a mixture of emotions within this unit.

As a team I believe we all worked to the best of our abilities and all used our key skills within the 11 weeks. Whilst planning our activity for the event, we really did need our thinking caps on and careful consideration whilst planning the treasure hunt. Due to the nature of our event we did have some health and safety elements that we had to worry about, for example we wanted the cowboy to be in different departments during the hunt however due to health and safety we couldn't allow people playing the treasure hunt to be in and out of the classrooms. So we decided that the people playing would not have to look in rooms for the cowboy but just the department corridors etc. The first week when we got organised into our groups, as a team we all went and sat outside and spoke allowing the ideas to flow, this I feel was beneficial and as a team we could have done this more however due to management meetings each week we felt as a team we didn't get too much time with our team member to discuss things properly about what we were doing each week. Although the lack of team member being there, we as a group did our best and helped each other assist in areas that needed help. I believe that I did have to modify my behaviour at certain times as I am used to playing the role of leader/team leader and at times I did have to remember that it wasn't always my duty to keep on top of everything.

reflection (hayleigh)

What was the main thing you hoped to achieve

During the activity I hoped to achieve new communication skills and some confidence in going up to people and talk to them to advertise the event. Another thing i hoped to achieve was control over my anger while working in a group.

Did you manage to achieve this

I achieved a bit of it I have managed to get my confidence up when speaking to people about joining in the event or talking to the lectures or staff to get a prize for the winner. I had to talk to the catering staff about getting a free lunch prize for the winner of the college cowboy hunt. I did not really manage to control my anger in the group as there were people in the group that was a bit too much for me and aggravated me a lot. a certain group member was just too much for me to handle as they were very loud and never did any work

Do you feel you worked in the best role

I do feel that I was a good role for achieving communication skills and gaining confidence in talking. for controlling my anger I was not in a good role as I did not really talk to lots of people outside of the group which aggravated me a lot as I was wanting to try and boost my confidence and communication skills.

individual

what were your main strengths?

my main strengths during the activity is that I was full of energy and wanted to raise a good amount of money for jak's den and bring some fun to the college campus. another strength is that I'm a good talker and once I start I can talk for ages and convince people to join in and participate.

what were your main weaknesses?

My weakness is that I can sometimes get shy and not want to talk to at all I would just sit there smiling. Another weakness is that I can get angry very easily it does not take much to set me off the edge and get me angry.

how will you use this experience to help you in future projects?

the way I will use this experience is I have learned that you should always come up with a back up plan when planning a big event like that, if you have a back up plan then if something goes wrong or you cant go through with what you have planned then at least you have something to fall back to so that you can still have your event.

how will you use this experience to help you in the workplace?

I will use this experience to help with team working when I go into the workplace. learning how to work well in a team was handy as I don't usually handle working with other people very well but learning these skills during this unit has been very helpful and I can use it when I go into the workplace.

how will you use this experience to help you in other social situations?

For future social situations this experience will come in very handy. If I have to do something like this again then I can do it as I have learned how to go up to people and talk to them and try to get them interested in participating in the event and donate money to a good cause.