Sunday, January 16, 2011

Fifth week at BeST


Monday 3/1/2011 & Tuesday 4/1/2011
Creative thinking
During two days class training, we are continuing about creative thinking.  Class is very interesting because we enjoyed many activities. We were cooking Beriani rice and bread by ourselves. It was so interesting. We were also doing drawing with our unconscious mind. For me this module is very interesting.

Wednesday 5/1/2011
Industrial visit
Today, we have an industrial visit to two biotech companies, Innobio and Stellagen Company. I got to go to Stellagen Company which located at Gombak, Selangor. Mr Nurhilmy was explained to us about this company, he was the chief operating officer of this company. After that, we are divided to three groups to get more explanation about the process of production.  My group was conducted by Mr. Azim, he was the mechanical engineer in this company. His role is to control the mechanical process. The first part is about the water controlled system which is water that used to system and also production. The second part is laboratory, he show us the laboratory for research and development about the product.  The third part is bioreactors for production. There are two bioreactors such as 1500 L and 70 L bioreactor. Then, it is followed by centrifugation and freeze drying. Lastly the product is mixed with bulking agent, packaging and store at 4 C. This company’s product is StellarLac probiotic. It is an alternative product to antibiotic growth product. I was so happy for this industrial visit. The company’s activities is related to what I’ve learn during study. I also found that one of my ex- course mate is working here. I hope I can get the opportunity to working like this company.

Thursday 6/1/2011 & Friday 7/1/2011
Principle of creative and innovation
The class was expanded class on creative thinking.  We were learned about NABC value proposition NABC stand for Need, Approach, Benefits, and Competitor.  To sharpen our value proposition we are suggest to answer the following four questions:
1. What is the important customer and market Need?
2. What is the unique Approach for addressing this need?
3. What are the specific Benefits per costs that result from this approach?
4. How are the benefits per costs superior to the Competition’s and the alternatives?

Before that, we need to consider whether our Idea is important or interesting. Some ideas is important but not interesting, some ideas is interesting but not important. The best thing is the idea should be important and interesting. We are thinking critically to get idea that is important and interesting. Something invented can be innovative and creative. BUT IS BETTER FOR IT TO HELP PEOPLE AND MAKING MONEY

Monday, January 3, 2011

Forth week at BeST PROGRAM

Monday, 27/12/2010


             Neuro Linguistik Programming(NLP)


           Neuro Linguistic programming is about how to understand ourself from soul. Without realize everyday we use our unconcious mind in doing something. with knowledge in NLP we can read what people thing, can know what is our potential or talent. For example are we more in auditation( good in hearing), or kinetician (Good in touch) or visualization (good in seeing). Then, we can used it to built up our talent. For example I good in hearing, I will use to hear rather than seeing or touching.
         All of us is busy to about tomorrow, tomorrow is the last day of our first month for communication skill. But we need to present our business proposal to our trainer, friends and also representative from SEED. Trainer is helping us how to built up our confident. Today is fun , because we do many activities and also we learn new things which is NLP. But the nervourness for tomorrow still have.


Tuesday, 28/12/2010


           Now is the day, we need to present our business proposal. My group's title of proposal is artificial petroleum. Do you think it is possible to create artificial petroleum from agricultural waste. It was not. our group has prove it , by research on some articel and also modified the previous project from other inventor. The principle is same like to be the artificial diamond. the machine can provide high pressure and temperature to change coal to diamond. so as natural petroleum from waste that naturally process in about million years,  we provide same pressure and temperature like natural petroleum to artificial petroleum. what we propose is to produce artificial petroleum with reduce time consume, back up plan if our natural resource petroleum is diminished and also to reduce the pollution. I hope this can be happen. It hard to believe but believeeee it.
      
29/12/2010  Wednesday
A wonderful day.
Today, our session was on creative thinking. I learned something new in my life. The principle is ALL NEW IDEAS =GOOD IDEAS =CREATIVE IDEA.  We should have 5 quotients which is Intellectual Quotient (IQ), Emotional Quotient (EQ), Spiritual Quotient (SQ), Creative Quotient (CQ), Entrepreneurship Quotient (PQ). Everyone has intellectual quotient because it come from heredity, emotional quotient is important for leaders, all of us are leaders. Spiritual is about our believe. Creative quotient is something like our talent of creativity. As we heard about using left or right mind, creative is more on using right mind. Creative is a combination of three words, knowledge, imagination and evaluation. That was a very interesting day for me because I’ve seen something that I never seen before. Trainer shows us a few things that created by inventor such as spectacles that can function as camera, has walkman. I really want that thing. Others are pen that has camera, magic soup that made from metal and screw driver with unique form and function.

30/12/2010 Thursday
We continued our session with creative thinking again. Trainer lectures about principle of 7 hats. I have heard it before but not sure the meaning of all hat. First hat is white hat, people with white hat always thing about facts, red hat things using their emotions, yellow hat things in positive thinking, black hat things in negative ways, blue hat things about system, green hat things in creative thinking, grey hat things in religious way. We are given a task to state a problem and discuss about 7 hats related on our topic. We chose Early Marriage topic. All of class interested to our topic.
Tomorrow is public holiday because our Malaysia football team had won the battle at Indonesia.  Happy new year =)

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Third week at BeST Program

Time is Gold

That was what I have learned this week, on Monday we were having mock interview, I got some tips from Mr. Abdullah about to manage ourself during interview. During interview we need to nock the door before enter, greet the interviewer, don't forget to smile and get their permission to sit. We also must be confident during speak, control the eye contact , don't always look at the ceiling or floor, it look like we don't have confident or we are cheating something. I thing this session is very beneficial to me because I will use it for the real interview.

For Tuesday and Wednesday I have taken leave because I have test to enter an  interview at Johor.

Thursday was a surprise when I need to do public peaking, I thought I was excepting because public speaking should be on Tuesday.  I was not preparing very well. I just wrote the skrip on the midnight before the day. Fortunately I can controlled myself and I can do the public speaking. For me it was ok rather I loss my confident and skip the class. From that I learned to be prepared in whatever situation and always thing positive.

Friday, we continued our class of negotiation skill, I thought it was so boring because it also about communication. But after that I thing this is a wonderfull class that I had been through. Trainer instructs interested activities inside it. For example we need to create situation about negotiation skill and then choose our friends to act the situation. Although its look like joking , full of laughing when see our friends acting, but it contain something that we can learn from it,,, its about negotiation.

Sunday and Saturday

I hate the word ' last minute'
That was the words that I'd learned. I always do my job in last minute, but after this I will not . I'll change myself because for me 'last minute' means killing myself. When Allah order us to do the prayer on time , it has the meaning. Thats what we need to practice on our daily life, on doing everything must on time.

smile always.. to be continued...

Sunday, December 19, 2010

second week at BeST programme

13 December 2010
Business proposal
A business proposal is a formal attempts to convince someone to approve, sponsor agree to or a project or an idea. For example when we an idea to run a project, we need investor to give fund to our company. So we need to prepare a quality business proposal to convince the investor.  There are two types of business proposal which are solicited and unsolicited. Solicited proposals must have request for proposal (FRP).  We also learned about the component of proposal which contains:
1.       Copy of RPF
2.       Letter of transmittal
3.       Executive summary
4.       Title page
5.       Table of contents
6.       List of figures
Furthermore, we need to prepare text of the proposal which contained:
1.       Introduction
2.       Background, problem, purpose
3.       Schedule
4.       Staffing
5.       Budget
6.       Appendix
All this kind of contents had been explained by the trainer during the class. This session gives me more knowledge about this topic. Before this, I just did business proposal without using the right format.  I hope after this I can do my own business proposal very effectively.
14 and 15 December 2010
Powerful presentation skill
An effective communication skill must have strategy consist of:
1.       The event
2.       The site
3.       The speech
4.       The audience
 Our presentation must satisfy our criteria:
1.       Get attention from the audience
2.       Meaningful to them
3.       Memorable
4.       Activating
During the class we were giving the opportunity to practice the right way to present or communicate. For the first time we have to talk with passive thing about our family, I chose my note to speak. I feel like a crazy woman when speak like that. Then, we have to speak between two friend and lastly to all group members. It is quite difficult to talk what we were not prepared.  We also realized that we need to improve ourselves on intellectual thinking, about world history and also current issue.
During presentation the important thing is the presenter followed by the appearance and the content.  Body language as well as appearance speaks much lauder than words. This session is very interesting for me because it was not boring and we do practice rather than learning theory.
16 December 2010
Communication for leader
GREAT COMMUNICATORS ARE NOT BORN, THEY ARE MADE.
Anyone can be a leader but not everyone can be a good leader. Leadership means controlled people, purposeful transfer of meaning by which leader influence people.  Someone that can influence people have the characteristics of a leader.  Influencing people not just by our talk or speech only but how we talk and what is the content. There are also person that not talk much but many people can follow him.
Trainer used the example from world leaders to describe how characteristics as a leader for example George Bush, Obama and J.F Kennedy. At Malaysia we also have good speaker like Dr. Mahathir and Anwar Ibrahim.  Task given to us is to identify one leader that we are inspired who used effective communication skills to inspire people or subordinates. We had chose Ahmad Deedat as the effective leader. He was a muslim writer and public speaker Indian South African.  He was a debater in inter-religous public debate with evangelical Christian. The approach that he used is focus by providing muslims with theological tools for defending. He also used English to get his message.  As a muslim, I’m very impressed with him on how he delivered Islam to people.

17 December 2010
                Grooming
                ‘Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming and encouraging your greatest asset’      by Tom Hopkins
                Grooming is how we set up our image. A person must groom himself neat and tidy. When we have an interview we need to groom ourselves. The interviewer can know our character by looking on our appearance. During this class session, we learned how to groom ourselves by clothing and make up our face. Everyone looks different people with different perception. But grooming is needed as long as it is not too much and exceeds the law of Islam for the muslim.
                Lastly we also learned about table etiquette and how to be manners during attend a function. This practice session enriched us the knowledge of etiquette and I hope I can practise it when it is needed.
That’s all for this week.. Thank you=)

Sunday, December 12, 2010

First week at Best Program

8 December 2010

         We learned about the art of public speaking by Mr. Hisyam and Ms. Hanani as the trainers. Class was so cheerful and we enjoyed the subject along the class. This is about interpersonal skill that I already learned since years ago. But I still cannot improve myself to be a very good speaker. I have tried and still try, sometimes I feel down when talk with people who are very fluent in english. For me public speaking is a talent that not all people will posses it. But I still believe that one day I will be a good public speaker. It need much effort and more practice from me. They are many things in public speaking we need to learn. When speak one sentences for example ' i like you' the different word that we stress gives different meaning. We also need to know the right word with the right spelling, in english words , there are many words that have different spelling but have same pronounciation. From this class session, I got many knowledge about public speaking, I also have been given a task to do a pbulic speaking about youth social problem for 21 december 2010. So I need to have well preparation to present a good public speaking.


9 December 2010

          We've learned how to conduct an effective meeting. Our trainer told us what to do and don't in conducting a meeting. Some thing that we are missing, when conduct  a meeting chairman should not talk much, but before this the condition that happen is chairman always be the person who talk much.  According to the law of meeting, a meeting can be one person or more. Actually one person can only be given to talk for one time but nowadays meeting is very different where all members of the meeting always want to talk much and few times. that make the meeting take too long time and not very effective. Trainer gave us a few example of notice of meeting, from that we know what types of notice that will be given for us to attend a meeting. We got many information from trainer about the law of meeting. I hope we can practice what we have learned when conducting a meeting.

10 December 2010

          Effective resume writing..A good resume writing must have four characteristics. Firstly neatness, our resume must not look messy otherwise employer will difficult to read it. Then , it must be accuracy, if we give the wrong information , they will totally reject our application. It also must be simple and honest. Because they will only have 45 seconds to read our resume and honesty is very important to show our good attitude. Today we were given long time to do our resume and cover letter. Before that Madam Norliza and Madam Farahiyah explained to us how to do a good resume. They tell us the fallacies about resume which one of them is our resume will be read carefully and thoroughly by interested employer in a myth. Its true because employer doesn't have much time to read carefully our resume. Resume is like catalog to present ourself in other word to sell ourself to be employed. Good tips from the trainers give us more skill to develop our resume.

Monday, December 6, 2010

How to reach an audience through blogging

            
Blogging is one of the ways to publish information and expand our knowledge to audience. Nowadays people can express their opinion and perspectives on their blog. Everyone can know other people progress on blog also. Although many people in the world have blog, but how many of their blog can reach audience. People that may have popular blog can be a popular blogger too. It may be happen to influenced people like politicians and popular writers. Therefore how the other blogger can reach their audience through blogging.
              Firstly, we must know our target audience and we must narrow it down. Make it clearly and we will easily know how to write our articles. For example, our target audience is teenagers or student, we should write about what is attracted for them. May be about playing football, what should and shouldn't by teenagers or may be about love. People can choose whether they like or not through our article's title.
             Besides, blogging is one of the methods to develop our business. We can sell our product through blog. No wonder there are person who making money only from blogging. So how they reach their clients?? The most important thing is attraction. The products must be attractive to the audience to buy it. For example if our blog's appearance is like childish, it is more to attract children or students, it is unsuitable to be a business blog. Our blog must be professional and attractive.
             Furthermore, we must keep the contents updated, of course our follower want to know our blog's progress. The best blog is the one that have been updated daily. It is for someone that write about news and knowledge. At least we should update our blog twice per week. Having many follower will show that we have many audience. So, people who want to be a good blogger can develop their opinion and knowledge and publish it.
             Moreover, our blog must also form functionally. We can write and put widget whatever we want as long as its function properly. We must focus on our blog’s look and shape and also how its work to our audience. If we have playlist on our blog, make sure that it is sound properly and suitable to be heard by your target audience .
            Lastly, there are many ways to reach an audience through blogging. As long as we have our willingness and always want to try new things in our life. But we should realize that once we publish our blog, it will be read by anyone who we permitted to, and so mind our word to not hurt by somebody. So lets enjoyed your writing and lets together reaching to the sky...


Biotechnology entrepreneurship Special Training Programme

First day at BeST Programme, I was learned how to create my own blog.
My blog's name is fly away because I just fly from my hometown to KL.
I just arrived here last night. Fly from my previous programme.. emm it shouldn't be right..
Actually it was not, I have finished my task there and my boss also permitted me to go.
I've got new friend, her name is Vonyi, she was a very nice person. She came from bandar sunway and I'm from Johor, So we met together at BeST.
I hope to get  more new friends here and enjoyed my days...Insyaallah.