1st Mentor Meeting

1st Mentor Meeting

1st meeting with our mentor -- Jo'Anne
Date: Monday, Week 2, 29/07/2019
Time: 10:00 - 11:00

Venue: Room 524, Hartley Teakle Building (83)
Attendance:
Mentor: Jo’Anne Langham 
Team Members （6/8）Hester, Carol, Elsie, Betty, Kenny, Troy

Main activities

1. Know each other

Firstly, every team members made a brief self-introduction to known each other very well. And then Jo’Anne Langham introduced herself to us. She has worked in the field of public policy and we are deeply impressed by her experienced independent consultant experience. She specializes in people-centric design, statistical data analysis, and public management. She has a strong consulting professional ability, her strong industry background can give us effective advice and help. Most important, Jo’Anne gave us great confidence and encouragement to help us to do a good job in the following days.


2. Determine team communication leader
We choose our team leader and communication leader after discussion. Tao Wang and Xin An were elected as the team leader and the communication leader respectively.

3. Build a good team
Jo’Anne told us about the importance of a good team to the success of a project and how it should be transformed into a better team from these following aspects
1) Clear objective
2) Balance roles
3) Effective processes
4) Good communication
5) Support and trust
6) Mutual cooperation


4. Learn how we can better prepare for the client meeting Jo’Anne provided us following key advice about the meeting with clients:
1) Formal dressing and polite language 2) Arrive at the meeting place in advance 3) Feel of confidence 4) Pay attention to time management 5) Do background research and prepare a list of questions 6) Team job allocation, everyone clear and responsible for own task
                             


  Our team leader is on the way here(#^.^#)  


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