July 21, 2010 was a tiring, yet wonderful day for us. We had our interpersonal skills seminar as a part of the requirement of the course, but it turned out to be a great event for us since we learned a lot.
The seminar was divided into two sessions, the AM session in which all of the talks were upheld, and the PM session where we performed the team building.
The enjoyable part was the PM session, but I also learned stuffs in the AM session. The speaker made us knowledgeable about how we interact with people. I discovered stuffs like the aggressive, assertive, and passive personalities; somehow I see myself in these personalities depending on the situation. Now I know that I have to be assertive and to be careful of the words that I utter because that may cause my friends to hate me.
Now let us see the great part, the team building! At first I was nervous because in my mind I somehow visualize our group to be very ineffective, in short, I underestimated our abilities. The first task for us was to make a jingle and present it in front, I thought we will not be able to present a good shout, but I have proven myself wrong. We adopted the spongebob tune and Monique did the choreography.
I’ve seen our team to be effective in a way that we would not make anything right, but then again, I have proven myself wrong. I saw how people share their ideas and how we collaborate to make all tasks a success. I have learned that you have to impart your ideas to the group and never be afraid of it. You have to practice your freedom in sharing your ideas and never think that your ideas would just make things worse, ‘cause who knows your ideas might be better than your leaders’. It is like what Sir Gamboa said, “If I have an idea and you have yours then we share, we have many ideas.”
I remember what my classmate told me when I was in high school, “Never get contented by being an audience, be a performer.” As a team, you should also impart something for the success of the group, don’t just watch it happen and never make you teammate feel that they are the only people working for the group because it will make the team unproductive. Make use of your abilities and think for the team, share whatever you can share. It is not important if you have the least to share, what matters is that you have something to share that you wholeheartedly give.
It is also of vital important to have a leader that is open minded and allow his teammates to speak their minds for the betterment of the group. Leaders should also consider the ideas of his teammates and never assume that as a leader, your teammates have to follow your commands. A good leader should also learn to think beyond the box.
It was a great experience. Now the interpersonal skills seminar is done! Few more and I’m done with the requirements, but the central part is I met new friends and learned! I will never forget this, done marking my calendar!
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