Thursday, 11 July 2013
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Day 1: First Impressions
Day 1: Written Commentary
On the first day of the anticipated Academy Business Challenge, we were assigned to our teams, to which our team ( Team Four) consists of the members; Cara Alexandrou, Ben Davis, Layla Rawson, Ben Riddock, Josh Mitchell and Aman Heer, and together, we have decided on the Team title of 'Team Crossways'.
After the informative lecture on what we will be expecting in the upcoming fortnight, on our first day of being 'Team Crossways', putting awkward-ness to one side, we got on with the first task which was to start creating a Blogger account in order to update it on a daily basis on how Team Crossway's progress through the ABC is going, to start creating a website to which we will publish live to the public which will behold a organized account of our progress, in addition, our team also has to undertake our first mini challenge of the ABC process which is to at some point during the first week (we have decided on Friday 5th July) to present some form of a presentation to a tutor group (BR13) around the topic of the ABC. Moreover, we found that it is essential not to down the 'Death by Powerpoint' route and make sure no matter what, we base our presentation around these 4 priorities:
1. Keep it fun.
2. Keep it confident.
3. Use audience involvement. (Competition?)
4. Keep it informative.
Further throughout the day, we then all came to the part of the day where we involved ourselves in a obstacle of different sport activities as a group in order to build together our personalities as a team. After the long couple of hours of taking part in these team-building exercises, we all agreed at the end of the day that it definitely made us bond as a team and took away that 'awkward-ness' we initially had at the start of the day as we all really got to know each others diverse personalities. Additionally, we also got a decent score of a average 21.5!
Finally, at the end of the day, we completed a brief video blog of how the first day of the Academy Business Challenge went & agreed on meeting at a certain place at 10am the next day, therefore beholding organization skills within the group in order to be successful throughout the competition.
After the informative lecture on what we will be expecting in the upcoming fortnight, on our first day of being 'Team Crossways', putting awkward-ness to one side, we got on with the first task which was to start creating a Blogger account in order to update it on a daily basis on how Team Crossway's progress through the ABC is going, to start creating a website to which we will publish live to the public which will behold a organized account of our progress, in addition, our team also has to undertake our first mini challenge of the ABC process which is to at some point during the first week (we have decided on Friday 5th July) to present some form of a presentation to a tutor group (BR13) around the topic of the ABC. Moreover, we found that it is essential not to down the 'Death by Powerpoint' route and make sure no matter what, we base our presentation around these 4 priorities:
1. Keep it fun.
2. Keep it confident.
3. Use audience involvement. (Competition?)
4. Keep it informative.
Further throughout the day, we then all came to the part of the day where we involved ourselves in a obstacle of different sport activities as a group in order to build together our personalities as a team. After the long couple of hours of taking part in these team-building exercises, we all agreed at the end of the day that it definitely made us bond as a team and took away that 'awkward-ness' we initially had at the start of the day as we all really got to know each others diverse personalities. Additionally, we also got a decent score of a average 21.5!
Finally, at the end of the day, we completed a brief video blog of how the first day of the Academy Business Challenge went & agreed on meeting at a certain place at 10am the next day, therefore beholding organization skills within the group in order to be successful throughout the competition.
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