Critical Reflection

When the trimester first kick-starts, the first assignment for the module is to write about my communication strengths, weaknesses and goals. I said to achieve two goals for myself, one is to improve on the areas where I am weak at while the other is to learn and equip with new communication skills that would enable myself to excel in school or even workplace in the near future.

Throughout the 12 weeks of the trimester, I have really great exposure to different types of communication skills. Peer-teaching was the very first opportunity for me to work on what I said to achieve in the first assignment as public speaking/presentation skills have been one of the weakest communication skills I have. However, I ended up doing really poorly, the flow of the presentation was not smooth, the content was not well-organized and pronunciations were off at some points of time. I found myself fortunate enough receive constructive feedback from my professor, Ms. Lim and also some of my peers. Those feedback have helped me better identified the areas in specific to work on.

On the other hand, I also had precious opportunities to observe and learn from my peers who are very capable of pulling off a great presentation showcase. Personally, I think I have yet to achieve what I said to do so at the beginning of the module but I am proud to say I am improving and I will eventually achieve the objectives in the near future.

In conclusion, despite falling short to the objectives I said to achieve at the beginning of the module, I have gained several communication skills that further enhance my ability to establish a good communication with my peers, colleagues as well as clients in the near future.