Critical Reflection

In my introduction letter, I mentioned my strengths, weaknesses and goals that I had set myself to achieve. In this reflection essay, we will discuss our progress throughout this module. This will split up into two segments, Module Learning and Project Learning.

Module Learning

We previously noted that my main strength is my presentation skills. I also did mention that I want to improve it further by “bring[ing] it to the next level”. I did not go too deep into the specifics of what this theoretical level is. This was so that I did not colour my thoughts on improving my presentation skills in one specific area. After attending this module, I can say that I was truly humbled by this experience. This module was able to expose my biggest flaw in my strength, which was to improvise along as I presented my slides. From this, I learned to cut out that habit and make it a point to do mock presentations before the actual presentation.

Secondly, my other goal was to be able to find the appropriate tone when sending out emails. This module improved my emailing skills, as we are constantly replying and sending out emails to our professor. Our professor has instilled us good emailing ethics and habits that I will be using in the future. Being able to strike the right tone and emailing others confidently, I can safely say, is my biggest learning outcome from this module.

Project Learning

The biggest highlight of this module was the research project aspect. I hold this project close in regard as was a personal project of mine that I currently undertaking. Being able to present this idea that I had previously kept as a secret, felt very empowering. It gave me the confidence to continue grinding through it. The biggest achievement in the module was presenting this idea to the Mapletree Challenge. It was that leap of faith that brought me to where I currently stand today. To be able to present this idea, to a panel of judges and industry experts, is something that I did not expect when I first started this module. Through this entire ordeal, my team has their presentation skills and their ability to think on their feet. We also learned skills outside the scope of our course. We learned what makes a company successful, how to sell the idea and how to do a business plan. These are some skills that we would not have learnt if we did not sign up for this challenge in the first place. Its amazing and humbling to see how something so simple, such as signing up our names on the registration website, will bring us to places we previously had thought to be far-fetched or simply impossible.

 It is this learning outcome, that I hope my teammates will bring along with them as they go on with their lives.

*Acknowledgments:

I would like to thank my teammates Hilmi, Yong Xun and Yong Wei for being with me on this journey. And lastly to Professor Brad Blackstone, for pushing and motivating us to join the competition.

Thank you