Cardiff BusinessSchool
COURSEWORK COVER SHEET 2014/2015
Section 1 (to be completed by the student)
Student Name:
Xiao Lin
Student Number:
1413665
Module Code:
BST123
Module Title:
Electronic Commerce and IT
Coursework Title:
Self-reflective …show more content…
However, after having several discussions, I found that I do not have enough capability to be a good leader because I am lacking of professional knowledge and cannot able to coordinate the internal conflict. As a result, we select a new leader, and my job is to search the information of UK express companies and also responsible for marketing part in presentation.
Through this group assignment, I really learned much. First, I realize that I should learn more about finance and accounting .when talking about the last part in presentation during discussion, I cannot participate in the debate, and even do not know what they said when comes some proper nouns. Although my major is logistics, it is good for me to learn more about other subject knowledge such as finance and management. Second is although we had discussion many times, we were inefficient and wasted much time. We supposed to have a target or task for each discussion, and leader need to coordinate the meeting. In addition, democracy does not work every time in small group, everyone has a different idea and wants to persuade others, which is the reason that a good leader is very important for a team, so that I should start to train leadership skills. Third is that unity and cooperation are essential to a good team. Team members need to work for …show more content…
First of all, during preparation, i will plan the date and frequency of meetings. Not like this time, during the Christmas, team members went travelling in different date, so we had to have meeting a week before new semester, which lead to everything is in a hurry. Then, when allocate individual task, I should choose a more challenging task or not very familiar aspect. In this way, I would be more active to learn new things. This time I choose marketing part because I learned this course in undergraduate, so it is easy for me to do my own work, but lost a good opportunity to access to new knowledge. As for the presentation, we were given 1 hour to record, but half an hour wasted in the adjusting the projector and the computer, as a result we only recorded twice. In addition, 3 minutes presentation is not long, but I supposed to write a draft and recite it to ensure a fluent speech. But fact is I did not prepare a draft and the content might a slight different in two recordings and also not fluent. Last one is next time we need to wear suit to make it more professional, not in casual clothes, which is uncomfortable for the