Professional Practise - Secondary goal - post 1

My secondary goal for the week was "Level of listening". Given that I had planned to improve on my main goal by setting up meetings with Lisa and Ben to discuss how they felt their roles should function in the TVC project, I felt that the "level of listening" goal was an appropriate focus on this occasion.

I felt that I was successful in terms of listening to my collaborators this week. I focused on asking them questions, so that I would hear what their thoughts were before talking about my own. I also asked clarifying questions, to make sure I had understood them properly. Blogging for the TVC assessment also helped, as it meant that I spent time thinking about the meetings later, so that the things we discussed were further cemented in my brain by the time spent reflecting.

Apart from the two meetings I have already written about in my TVC posts, I also had a particularly good brainstorming session with Ben, which I will write about in more detail in other posts. In terms of listening, I think I did well; I made sure to note down all of his observations and suggestions along with my own, and I paused and took the time to discuss the suggestions he made that were new to me. When we finished I had a very strong feeling that we are now on the same wave length about the project and much less likely to have misunderstandings than if we had not had the session.

Despite doing well with listening this week, I think this skill will be tested more, and differently, in the future. This time around I only had to test my listening abilities in a one-on-one meeting context, which is comparitively easy compared with either a group meeting or an on-set context, when it will become much more difficult, and at least as important if not more so.

For this week coming, my secondary goal will be punctuality, since I was late for a class last week and don't want that to happen this week. This goal may present a challenge since time management may be somewhat difficult this week, as I have a lot on.