‘Tame your temper’ has been a big lesson for us on project management, team work, and anger management. Following explain specifically our challenges and how we have overcome them.
First is the selection of a theme. Many members came up with equivalently interesting ideas, like soft skills teaching and overloaded course works in Vietnam. In the end, anger management, with convincing facts and figures, and high execution potential, was chosen.
The next step is our selection of a core concept to execute this theme. At first, the concept ‘Shift your focus’ was loved by all of our members. However, as we analyzed its practicality and comprehensiveness for execution, a few pieces were problematic. Then, our current project leader thought of ‘Tame your temper’, which effectively fixes the troubles for ‘Shift your focus’, and has lead our project successfully ever since. Debates lead to arguments. Nevertheless, by open yet respectful conversations, we have learned to acknowledge our differences, compromise, and cooperate efficiently.
Third is the perfectioning of our materials. We purchased a new cloth closet to create the cage. However, after 7 hours of hard work, the cage turned out to be too small and inflexible. Therefore, we had to rebuild another cage for 9 hours using water pipes. Meanwhile, our art director and copywriter were advised to fix our works many times. Still, we understand quality is the most important and keep working with Winston Churchill’s quotation “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”.
Before the showcase, we spent another 7 hours decorating, redecorating, and decorating our booth again. Thanks to the ingenuity our project leader, we managed to get an acceptable perfection for everyone.
We received 100 notes of feedback from visitors, 6 of which from RMIT lecturers. 97 contain positive comments, with the words ‘love’, ‘really like’, ‘creative’, ‘great’, and ‘awesome’ most seen respectively. Other comments are conflicting, like ‘There should be more than just 10 questions in the animals quiz’, and ‘There are too many questions, which makes me tired’. However, 46 out of 50 players were fine with the number of the questions. They were pleased to have our enthusiastic help. Many visitors enjoy taking part in our interactive activities, like saying tongue-twisters, drinking water in 10 seconds, punching, balloons-popping, funny dancing, funny singing, and taking photos. We have learned that having a booth is not enough. The people and their enthusiasm is what really counts.
All lecturers give us positive comments. One noticeable note comes from Melanie Brown: she suggests more demonstration on the possible consequences of aggression and more appeal to Westerners. While our target audience is Vietnamese youth, and was described specifically in the Background information cork board, we learned that our booth has to show visitors more clearly our exact target audience.
Overall, our team has shown a great spirit before, during, and after the showcase. We worked extremely hard, invested our maximums, and are truly loved by almost all visitors.
First is the selection of a theme. Many members came up with equivalently interesting ideas, like soft skills teaching and overloaded course works in Vietnam. In the end, anger management, with convincing facts and figures, and high execution potential, was chosen.
The next step is our selection of a core concept to execute this theme. At first, the concept ‘Shift your focus’ was loved by all of our members. However, as we analyzed its practicality and comprehensiveness for execution, a few pieces were problematic. Then, our current project leader thought of ‘Tame your temper’, which effectively fixes the troubles for ‘Shift your focus’, and has lead our project successfully ever since. Debates lead to arguments. Nevertheless, by open yet respectful conversations, we have learned to acknowledge our differences, compromise, and cooperate efficiently.
Third is the perfectioning of our materials. We purchased a new cloth closet to create the cage. However, after 7 hours of hard work, the cage turned out to be too small and inflexible. Therefore, we had to rebuild another cage for 9 hours using water pipes. Meanwhile, our art director and copywriter were advised to fix our works many times. Still, we understand quality is the most important and keep working with Winston Churchill’s quotation “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”.
Before the showcase, we spent another 7 hours decorating, redecorating, and decorating our booth again. Thanks to the ingenuity our project leader, we managed to get an acceptable perfection for everyone.
We received 100 notes of feedback from visitors, 6 of which from RMIT lecturers. 97 contain positive comments, with the words ‘love’, ‘really like’, ‘creative’, ‘great’, and ‘awesome’ most seen respectively. Other comments are conflicting, like ‘There should be more than just 10 questions in the animals quiz’, and ‘There are too many questions, which makes me tired’. However, 46 out of 50 players were fine with the number of the questions. They were pleased to have our enthusiastic help. Many visitors enjoy taking part in our interactive activities, like saying tongue-twisters, drinking water in 10 seconds, punching, balloons-popping, funny dancing, funny singing, and taking photos. We have learned that having a booth is not enough. The people and their enthusiasm is what really counts.
All lecturers give us positive comments. One noticeable note comes from Melanie Brown: she suggests more demonstration on the possible consequences of aggression and more appeal to Westerners. While our target audience is Vietnamese youth, and was described specifically in the Background information cork board, we learned that our booth has to show visitors more clearly our exact target audience.
Overall, our team has shown a great spirit before, during, and after the showcase. We worked extremely hard, invested our maximums, and are truly loved by almost all visitors.