Reflective Practice

This whiteboard animation belongs to a series of 14 topic areas designed to help students (and managers) better prepare for their next job placement (internship / job rotation / during university coursework). They provide a novel take on how to be successful during your new job assignment (and/or during university coursework), especially when you find yourself in a situation where you are required to deal with complex unsolved problems, issues and challenges. For more details of the FOCUSED Project, please check out our official website https://www.focused-polyu.com/ The 14 topics are designed to provide you with a more holistic take and go beyond traditional and conventional pre-training. Taken together, they will enable you to learn BETTER, learn FASTER and learn MORE than you are used to. Each of the main topics covered provides you with (1) a brief background to set the scene; (2) what the topic is about; (3) three examples illustrating how to use the topic; (4) why it is important; (5) a brief “homework” exercise for you to apply. The topics range from: 1. What is “Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D.” framework? 2. Develop a complicated understanding 3. Using metaphors to make the unfamiliar familiar 4. Re-framing and the importance problem-setting using positive “re” words 5. Situation awareness (making sense of context) 6. Current taken-for-granted assumptions 7. Integrative thinking 8. Reflective practice 9. Persuasive skills 10. Critical incidents 11. Improvising skills 12. Relevate: make the irrelevant relevant 13. Evidence-based management 14. The value of “good” theory and research These whiteboard animations are part of a $HK9.7M FOCUSED Project and generously funded by the University Grants Committee (UGC) of the Hong Kong Government. © FOCUSED Project, All rights reserved Supervised by July Rongjiao ZHU, Directed by Bobo Ho Yan TO, Produced by Moria Lanlan ZHANG and Heidi Hoi Yi FOO