Semi-formal Summary

Yousif AlAmer showed a stunning performance in his semi-presentation last week, he made other speakers seem less good, he introduced his topic in the common, classic, college way, most of the students used the asking a question to attract the students into there topics, it worked, but its not very creative. Yousif seemed very organized, he looked in no doubt, 'sure' he knew what he was talking about, his voice was heard and it showed confident in him. Although Yousif had a few glances into his notes or maybe peeked his slide, but no one would disagree that Yousif's eye-contact was brilliant, every one felt he was looking at them individually, his posture helped him a lot, especially the way he stood tall where every one can see. He was very creative in his power point, the background was white, text was dark and clear, the visuals were very relating and most importantly, the animations and transitions, he didn't put any, which was very clever because transitions would waste time, and it doesn't help when working alone. He didn't conclude his topic very clearly, or else we didn't know he was concluding. But overall his presentation was terrific and attracting, he choose a very nice topic, although it wasn't my field of interest, but the way he introduced it, made it seem nice.

Meeting Reflection

I had a meeting with some of my classmates on October, we discussed life at ADMC and could we improve things for students that come from outside of AbuDhabi. I was the Chairman to, Ali, who was the note-taker, we were joined as well with two attendees, Adnan and Awad. the meeting was very exiting, our introuduction wasn't but excellent, we discussed the points at the Agenda very elegantly and professional with idea sharing and a very organised, polite discussion. Our conclusion was very relating and recalling, but forgot to tell them when would the next meeting be although the action plan was stated clearly. I've learned too many from this amazing experience, I've learned organizing an agenda, sharing discussion and most importantly, 'punctuality,' it might not be related to the meeting very much, but coming on time, finishing on time, does save a lot of time in our every day, 'busy life style.'  I have read a few books on managing meeting, one had a very interesting method the writer called it the Six Hats Method, its very long to describe but it saves more time and its amazingly efficient, it was suggested by Edward De Bono, the author of the best seller Lateral Thinking, i think in my future meetings i would be using his method.

Abdullah A. AlHosani

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 -photo: new tunnel in Yas island 2/8/2010