Summarising the session
Task 1
Was about discussing and mapping our knowledge of BAPP. Two questions were asked
· What I needed to know to be a professional practitioner?
· What I needed to know to be a successful professional practitioner?
These questions were a starting point then we were asked to think within our whole profession and represent our thoughts and findings graphically.
Building blocks for my professional practice as an
Events design manager
SPECIALIZED
ADAPTABLE
GENERIC
GENERIC-This felt to be the foundation for a professional practitioner and was named. Within this block i included skills and knowledge that are required whatever practice I was a BAPP pursued.
ADAPTABLE- as a candidate my feeling suggested that practitioners should relate to having these skills and knowledge but depending on each individuals professional practice these sub headings would be developed and used differently. I.E. PROMOTION / FIND CLIENTS, these can be done by advertising yourself, doing work for free to get well known and also finding agencies and many more.
SPECIALIZED -This is the top block and this helps define my professional practice as an Events design Manager. It is called “Specialized” as it includes very specific skills and knowledge associated and needed to succeed in our chosen field.
By developing this block design we could now easily distinguish the skills and knowledge we required to be successful. We could use it as a tool to individually start to recognize the things we were capable of and competent at and the things we needed to acquire or refine.
A skill is something you acquire and become competent at, but knowledge is never ending. There is always more unknown than can ever be known.
This lead nicely on to more stimulating questions.
*What do you know?
*What do you yet know?
*What do you want to know?
*What are your big professional questions? (Starting to produce thoughts for inquiry)
As a group we proposed and discussed “Big questions” trying to stimulate ideas for our individual lines of inquiry. Unfortunately I am yet to stumble upon anything that I may wish to inquire but I will use the above questions over the next few days to hopefully generate a clearer idea.
To once again disect our individual professional practice we were asked
*Within your professional practice what are your personal advantages and what are your challenges?
Here are my thoughts
CHALLENGES | ADVANTAGES |
Not becoming stereotyped | My developing knowledge |
Establishing new contacts & clients | My age and experience |
Maintaining status | My previous career as a performer |
Staying current | Business has been established for 5yrs |
Finding suitable committed employees | Recommendations |
Networking | Being in a partnership |
Funding |
I was very interested to discover that what was an advantage to one profession actually challenged another.
I.E The older I have become whilst being an event supervisor manager the more respect I seem to gain from my colleagues, staff etc and clients as they seem to know and have confident that I have the skills, knowledge and run a successful event. Where as a Graphic designer i felt challenged by my works although more experience are required
The final part of the day was focused on Special Interest Groups (SIG), working to develop a strategy that worked best for all participants of BAPP Module 3835
Here is a brief outline of what was proposed
• A closed BAPP Module 3835 group would be created by Paula Nottingham on Facebook
• Everybody on this module would be invited to join
• Threads would be started by individuals wishing to discuss aspects / questions relevant to their professional practice
• Few Bapp students would comment and reply to threads that they were interested / knowledgeable in
• There ain’t no limit to the amount of threads you can involve yourself in
• If there was a thread in which particularly you were interested in then you are encouraged to blog about your thoughts
• The person who started the thread should evaluate it on their blog and post this to the group
• At some point (Time frame to be discussed on a separate thread) more specific groups would be created to go further and deeper into discussions thus creating a more concentrated membership
• You wouldn’t be limited to the number of core groups you join
• These new core groups would also be closed and include students on the module but also invite industry professional relevant to the groups topics.
• These professionals would hopefully inject useful questions, knowledge, proposals etc to help us BAPP students to progress with our own development in our chosen professional practice.
Reference
Nicole Louise Geddes
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