Preparing for Resiliency Class

Over the last week, my group and I have been preparing for our first class presentation on personal resilience. After watching our first classmates go last Monday, we had an idea of what was expected (great first presentation, guys!) and how we wanted to adapt the class to fit our topic.

From Management I last semester, to this semester, I have worked in multiple groups. However, I believe this semester the groups are much more intellectual and everyone is working hard together. I believe this group of classmates is much more dedicated to getting a good experience from this class! Last semester I felt that many students were not interested in topics or the group work we had to do. This semester, my group has been wonderful and accommodating for everyone! It has really been a good experience so far!

I believe the setup of Management II is really interesting. While it is hard to prepare a 70 minute presentation, I did enjoy it more than anticipated. Having the chance to prepare a presentation gave us insights on how to get our listeners interested and how to make a 90 minute class not feel excruciatingly long.

As a transferrable skill, everyone in management positions is expected to give presentations to supervisors as well as to the staff they oversee on a daily basis. Having interesting, interactive presentations is not only key to keeping everyone awake, it makes the material stick much better. People may not remember every definition from a presentation, but could remember an activity they did and what they learned from it. From this, we worked hard on coming up with good activities for our class and ways to get everyone talking.

A major plus to the students teaching the class is that many students who are not very interactive can find a way they feel comfortable to express their opinions. The fact that everyone needs to give these presentations and we all need to participate in everyone's class makes it much easier to talk about your opinions and thoughts on the topics that we cover. For myself, I tend to shy away from discussions with the class, but in such a small setting with a close group of classmates, it makes it not as anxiety-provoking.

With all of that, I really enjoyed putting together our first class and am looking forward to presenting it with my group! I believe we created a presentation that will be interesting and teach everyone about the importance of personal resilience. This is the key to success and sticking it out through hard times, and I hope everyone enjoys our presentation as much as we enjoyed making it!