Strengths
I feel I work well within teams as I’m able to communicate ideas constructively as well as sorting out various tasks. When it came to the Flux One presentation work, I felt I had an authoritative role which is good but I don’t want to be fully responsible for a lot of things when it’s essentially a group where everyone should be working equally. I feel this is something to definitely improve on when it comes to the next group presentation.
I also feel confident when it comes to presenting to small or large audiences and I feel my work experience at my local radio station over the summer greatly helped in this. I’ve always had a passion for drawing for a number of years and I feel this skill is extremely useful for creating marker drawing ideas and finals as this can be done quickly.
Weaknesses
I feel a big constant weakness for me is time management. I always end up biting more than I can chew and having to sort out more tasks nearer the deadline rather than pacing it out. This project has been okay but in the first year, it was quite bad. I still feel this an issue which needs ironing out. A way in which I can feel this can be sorted out is by writing out an action plan on my wall when the deadline is while noting how many hours I’m doing each week on the projects to ensure I don’t fall behind and play catch up.
Another weakness I feel I have is having the confidence to speak up when something urgently needs to be addressed, however I need to be careful not to be too opinionated otherwise nothing will get done. Working in such a strong team environment all the time, you need to be constantly making sure the balance is right.
Finally, I need to make sure I keep things simple. Having some general feedback from Mel, she mentioned that the campaign at times got quite complicated which was noted by me and Ryan. When it comes to the future modules, I will always keep the KISS thought in mind (Keep It Simple Stupid!)
Organisation
When it came to this first module, I feel me and Ryan have worked well as a team together. Although where there has been a couple times of struggle to find ideas essentially, we have pulled through thanks to constant feedback from Mel and I feel we now have a strong campaign. There has been times where external commitments such as Ryan’s football and my work at the Student Union can get in the way but as a whole if something needs to get done, we make the best effort we can to ensure that box is ticked. However, I feel this ethos can be improved by having a better time management system where we continue to do chunks bit by week in comparison to doing a larger amount when it comes to the near end of the project.
I feel I am a fairly organised person, I write down dates for all events and keep a general tab on things. However, I feel this isn’t strong enough as of yet, especially as there are a lot of things to think about within advertising which needs to be regularly looked at.
