Reflection of Week 3 (ECU lecturer)

Today was our 3rd lesson which was conducted by Linda who is our ECU coordinator. In the beginning, she gave a short introduction about herself. Followed by which, she briefed us a bit on what actually negotiation is though our lecturer, Ms Suma had gone through with us in the previous lesson. Actually since we had a negotiation test the next day, just like MS Suma, she also made us play some games regarding Negotiation.
The first activity was that we had to form a group of four people and each group was given a particular paragraph to read, understand and then one representative from the group to go to other groups and explain the meaning of the paragraph that out group was assigned to do. In my group, we were Willow, Jessica, Brain and me. Brian was our group representative.
Followed by was break time. After the break, we had another activity. It was based on the negotiation. Before that, we were instructed to stand in a line according to our birth date. In that way, we were grouped into three. In my group, we had Edah, Tom, Joyce and me. Tom and me carried out the negotiation while Edah and Joyce were our mediators. I was playing the role of the boss while Tom was playing the role of the employee. The scenario went like Tom, an employee who always came back late from the lunch break. I was supposed to negotiate with him to make him come back on time after the lunch break. At the end of the negotiation, I managed to convince him to come on time with the deal that the employees will get a tea break of 15mins. So that ended our conversation. We both came with a win-win situation. Later on, Edah and Joyce were to point out our good and bad points.
Later after this, we had another one more example to work on how to do the negotiation test for the next day and the class was dismissed. It was an interesting class.