Be a team player

Hi everyone!

Handling client projects, meetings and planning/organizing functions is not easy at all. Sharing the workload is the best tool and being committed will result in well done job. I have learned that if everyone is involved in the planning and goal setting of the project, it is more likely that anyone can buy into the work to bring the fruition which makes delegation to be easier. Also, I have learned that before doing and getting involved everyone needs to know which way the responsibilities flows and who does what to who.

Through out the internship, my boss taught me powerful elements that will make one strong if he/she is a team player. He said this to me, a team player is valued in any organization and he continued by saying that a team player add more value to the company because effective team players enables a team to function and not just a few.
From that moment a learned that as a PR practitioner I have to consider these elements in order for me to excel well.
1.participation: I am not a person who likes to participate even in class I prefer to keep quite rather than to say something. However, today as I write here I have improved as now i can share my thoughts, opinions with other people and this has helped me a lot as during meetings when the boss ask me to comment there's no way I can hide from it. From this point, participation helps to brings new ideas into the table. Thinking about what the team is trying to accomplish brings ideas to help the team achieve its goals.
2.communication: I have learned and now trained to communicate my opinions and not to be afraid to talk.The reason I was afraid was that what will people say concerning my comments but now I am a free bull. This is because each person relies on the other to contribute to the team and do what is expected as the boss said we must trust each to accomplish the teams mission.
3.sharing:share knowledge, share power so that it enables others on for the team to succeed.
4.accepting criticism: As for the time I have spent at IPRM, I have accepted to work with all kinds of people willing. However, at some point when working on a project together, I had a problem of being criticized and from there, I will take that personally. As time goes on, I learned that a team player does not take it personally as these people are helping me to learn and gain something new from them.
5.flexibility: a sacrifice is needed when things gets tough to see the mission assigned accomplished. Having long hours meetings sometimes just brings boredom and causes loss of concentration.Therefore, patient is the weapon for more advanced better results.
From all the effective elements that I have discussed above, it really has took me some time, and still does to practice all of them. I do believe that by the time I complete my internship it will be 4 out 0f 5. This has helped me a lot as I can now feel free to participate, communicate and accept criticism from all people, not my workmates only. Fear is not my portion now, it has gone.

Thank you,

Tabona