Reflection On The Transition To Professional Life Module

In this report, I will be outlining a rather large learning curve which occurred for me when we were given a group presentation to complete our transition to professional life module and thus the critical incident I choose. The prompt for the presentation was to market our course to potential students on a university open day and we were told to focus on the four P’s; Plan, Prepare, Practice, Present. There were four people in my group and we all came up with a plan to delegate the workload evenly each of us taking a two-minute part of the talk to prepare and present.
I took up the role of introducing the talk and done out a short PowerPoint introduction detailing small snippets of the university's history and a brief overview of why I as …show more content…
I was worried what they would think and because of this, I refrained from answering any questions directed at our group over the course of the feedback something which immediately regretted afterwards. I often refrain from answering in class due to the same fears and it was always something that popped up in notes from my previous teachers, but I never felt like it was a problem, in college I carried the same pattern, but it is definitely something I am going to work on. I also realised that the feedback we received was genuinely constructive, looking back on the slides that we did have they failed to get to the point of the presentation, why choose to study our course and instead gave an unfocused view of the university as a whole. The whole situation was generally new to me being a good enough student in secondary school and never really receiving many corrections. Despite the fact that understood that they were doing this to make future my future work better I still felt very uncomfortable and couldn’t wait to leave the …show more content…
The feedback has also made me increasingly aware of focused on my assignments, I know do another two additional readings of each assignment I write to make sure I have made my focus clear and answered the question put before me which I feel has greatly improved my work as a whole.
Overall, I think the incident really helped me to understand some aspects of not only my academic habits that I need to change but also my perspectives. I now realise that I am not alone in my fears and they are not rooted in any reason but more in self-consciousness and this is a train of thought that I intend to