The week after..the week before...

The previous week; beginning from Monday up until Friday was specifically marked for our co-presentation assessments. Pity though, we did not know when in one of those days of the week it would fall into. With Marina not well; it certainly put the whole exercise into almost absolute disarray, since even Wesley had so much filling his hands that he could not facilitate that.

But Mr Jo Enslin came to our rescue to assume the caretaking role and we all got to take turns in presenting a module of our choice. It is never so easy to present under surveillance; I guess you get the idea, more so when being assessed. Well, giving the credit where it is due; I believe Reece Khan is to blame for all our competent performance. For having us all each cruising through their presentation sessions because we were so optimistically ready let alone confident.

He prepared us the week before the actual presentation assessments took place. I am of the idea that there is still much to learn in this area; by espousing some more other presentation skills to add on what we have already acquired.

The next on my list to look forward to is the BIT project, in which we will be attending training for a week, relating to Hotazel site visit practicals. This will be preparing us to undertake practical exercises based on what we would have learned from the week-long BIT training.

WE'RE MEETING TOGETHER AGAIN...

It is interesting to learn from our past mistakes as a people; more than showing-off how much we know to others. This week alone, I sat under my peer's presentations under a very interactive atmosphere where we happened to critique each other's presentations too. I learned a lot from it though in addition to presetations we attended. I thus feel the more I used the opportunity to apply what I have learned in those meetings into refining those mistakes worked better for me.

This however does not mean we are the only world's all-there-is in presentations; yet we have for a fact accumulated what no-one can take away from us guaranteed. Hence we're ready to share it with the world; learning everytime when we meet together always...with each PDP member...feels like we're meeting for the very first time during presentations. The reason is simply because we learn a new thing about presenting ourselves better and other things within the programme on how to do those things better.

I would have not achieved an ounce of learning without my peers and Reece Khan; for this reason, this is for you guys: love you lots...the way Jan Loubser explained in the BBS presentations this week (not the other way around).

And I am saying this more specifically for you Wesley...no touching!

PDP Assignments

I've been writing procedures for the Gap analysis and templates for our health and safety management system. With that, I had to add up a lot of information in the form of checklists and also naming all the necessary forms. That included at a later stage that I should add to that with incident and accident report and documents and records management procedures also.

I was tasked with preparing a presentation regarding a proposal to Exco together with other PDP members to motivate for the continuation of a health and safety system once we the PDP members have established it officially. So all that, leads towards assessing how we would establish an efficient health and safety management system, pitch it at management level and market it by singing its benefits to management for its cost-effectiveness and easy of maintenance.

The thing is, I believe in the implementation approach the system has to take; more so I am only left with demonstrating such faith in the product to Exco.

More will I share on these and others after the presentation in order to recap on the outcome of these assessments.