Internship @ Brillante Music

Communication is key to success when two person works together.

During my internship, I see how both communication and miscommunication can caused.

In this new age world we rely heavily on the new media and technology to communicate with each other. We slowly forgotten the importance of the traditional communication methods.

As I am typing this blog, I have to keep reminding myself that I am not suppose to use short forms or abbreviations this is one of the impact of technology. We all try our best to squeeze in 140 characters into a message while we are writing a message on our phone.

I had a painful lesson learnt during my internship when i receive a message from my boss instructing me to carry out a task. As he used too much abbreviations i misread it as he wanting to keep me updated instead of instructions. One miscommunication led to the other and at the end of the day, I was to blame for the process. Although I was not punished for that matter, I felt that the whole matter would have been different if traditional method of communication was used.

Liyan

13552170

Curtin Singapore

Internship @ Brillante Music Pte Ltd

Time management has become one of the major challenge during my internship. As i have also to fulfill all other tasks besides those within my job scope. I'm often needed to complete multiple task by the same deadline, where at time it is impossible to meet these deadlines as the I cannot be physically present to do so.

I had listed down the things needed to be completed for the days, but its just impossible to complete them during the work hours. It often stretches into the night.

Over the weeks I've learnt to better organised my time and priority to make sure that as much as possible to meet all the deadlines set. Planning is the key to success. Now i spent 30minutes after my day end to start planning for the next day, this way i will not waste any bit of my time to think what am i suppose to do next.

Liyan

13552170

Curtin Singapore

Internship @ Brillante Music Pte Ltd - Special Projects

This is my second time I'm sharing my experience with all of you.

I feel like I'm lacking behind as compared to the rest of my classmates and agree with one of the post here about time management factor. It is important to keep me on track. Its been 8 weeks into the module and I've been given a few special projects while I'm doing my internship.

The most recent event that I'm involved in is the Annual General Meeting for the Band Directors' Association (Singapore) where my boss is serving as a President. I was to assist with the renewal of membership administration preceding to the event itself. It required me to send out official invitation to the current members to invite them for the event. At the same time, I was tasked to come up with a cost saving method to renew the membership card of the current members. This has allowed me to communicate with the stakeholders of the association and gain insights to the industry. As this involves the association that my boss is serving at, I was requested to mention briefly in my report and details are not allowed.

Currently I am working on writing a Company Profile for a new company that my boss that has set up. This company is in the same industry but providing the hardware for the industry. This company profile is for the suppliers that we will be meeting in the upcoming exhibition. In our industry, besides the big players, most of the company do not have a decent company profile or information to communicate with the suppliers. In order for us to better communicate with the prospect stakeholders, I am also preparing on the same information for the corporate website to make our web presence prominent.

Recently I have noted a few issues that will affect or affecting the company. I hope to share more with you in my next post.

Thank you

Liyan
13552170
Curtin Singapore

Internship @ Brillante Music Pte Ltd

Hi Everybody,

This is Liyan from Curtin Singapore. I'm glad to be sharing my experience here in my current company Brillante Music.

This is my 2nd week of internship and I was involved in one of the annual event of company. The Junior Band Festival 2009. This event used to be an event where our young musicians get to showcase what they had learnt over the past 6 months. This year to allow the parents to have a better understanding of what their children are learning during their band practices, I've proposed to get the parents of these young musicians addressed during the concert.

As music is a interest that will take up quite a bit of time of our young musicians, they will need strong parents support to continue in this journey. Thus I wrote up a script for the emcee to get some the senior musicians involved to share their experience in bands to give the parents an idea of what is to come for the parents.

With the idea of making the whole event light-hearted, engaging and truthful, I did not inform any of the senior musicians. The result of this pilot test seems to have achieved its objective as parents came to us during intermission and after the concert to find out more about their children progress and involvement in band.

My next event in tomorrow evening an Annual General Meeting for the association where my boss is serving as a President.

I'll share more about the event in my following post.

Thank you

Liyan
13552170
Curtin Singapore