This workshop focussed on project management and how to effectively collaborate with team members. It was presented by Rob Moore who was an engaging and experienced presenter who could relate his material to real-world examples. I had no knowledge of the programs Slack or Trello prior to this workshop but have now learnt that they are very useful tools when trying to manage people in group projects!

 

We were seated in groups that we later found would be our groups for the IET projects and events, these being the IET Quiz Night, Present Around the World (PATW), World Record Breaker and the Can Structure challenge. Groups were organised based on our Myer-Briggs results and mixed a range of different personality types. This will no doubt be an opportunity to put into action what we all learnt from the Myer-Briggs workshop.

 

Overall the workshop ran smoothly thanks to the support from our mentors Tynan Schweitzer, Ghazel Monir, Ben Arazo and Allaine Lopez as well as Israa Elsayed from the IET YP. They were all very willing to answer questions we had about our assigned group projects and provided useful insight into how we could go about organising ourselves to achieve our tasks.

 

I am looking forward to the third workshop as it will be the first time our groups are meeting after being assigned our projects, hopefully we can all make progress!


Oliver

Leadership Program 2017 Candidate