Week 3. Post 2.

 Describe how your team members communicate their perspectives, and whether this is similar/different from how you communicate your perspective.

Today at my internship I worked on my first demo presentation, which we have every Friday where we present our reports on what we have accomplished during the week. After the demo presentations, we have a so-called "Retrospective meeting", where we talk about the previous week from a retrospective perspective. In the shared Google Docs, we divide columns into 4: happy face, frowny face, ideas, and flowers. In each column, everyone writes any comments related to that field; for example, in the column "Happy Face" my co-worker wrote:" Working together really helped to solve problems". They also give kudos or shoutouts to each other in the "Flowers" column and I was happy to see my mentor writing the following: "S (me) & T (my co-worker - Great job on working together."

It is my first time seeing this kind of approach to communicating their perspective to the whole team. I reflected on the way we did it and I realized that I like this approach. It was very helpful for me to look back at the week we have been working and highlight the things that we have done good and wrong. I have never used to sit down and reflect on my work at the end of the week - I would always just keep moving on. But I realized that even 30 minutes of reflecting on the work you have been doing for the last week can significantly improve your performance in the future. Now I want to make it my habit as I found it very valuable to realize my strengths and weaknesses during each week; this way, I will be trying to focus on positive aspects of myself more and work on the weak points in the next weeks which will increase my efficiency at work.