Communication
I feel confident in communicating my thoughts and ideas. Writing articles and doing presentations is something that I really like to do. This semester I learnt that good communication is a way to get high-quality feedback. By adapting the presentables to the audience communication helps experts to better understand ideas and related challenges.
“You are an accomplished writer, so what you write is coherent and easy to understand.”a
J.B.O.S. Martens, coach
“The presentation of your design (figure 1) is really nice. By putting it on a little table-like pedestal people can see its unique selling point. They can play around with it, or touch it. The slideshow on the iPad next to it shows good looking pictures of your process and inspiration. I see that this is well prepared.”b
B.J. Hengeveld, assignor
Thinking visually is something I am able to do for presentations, but this aspect can be improved in future project reports. The report now was mainly textual, while we could have integrated a more visual approach in an earlier stage.
Another aspect of this competence that I developed in was communicating with outside stakeholders. For example going to an expert to get information about electronics, for which I learnt that a good preparation is key for getting good feedback. And communicating with a primary school teacher for an observation, and keeping in touch during the project to have extra input on our ideas that followed from the observation. These things helped in getting a professional attitude.