Final reflection

Eissa Ahmed Ali AlHammadi - H00280533



 

 

Services and support provided by a person or a group to promote the goodness and well being of general public are termed as community services. It may be volunteering performed by a person or an organization. There are many benefits of volunteer performing community services. The summary below describes comprehensively analyzes the prospects of my volunteering experience performing community services.

In the giving essay, Volunteering of community service is explained with the help of Formula 1 race event. In this event, I write my experiences of this event as a volunteer.

 

 

 Management of this event especially focused on community services to promote the word. Local volunteers were selected to perform community services which include guiding people, resolving their problems, addressing their issues and satisfying their concerns and answering their questions regarding event and local norms.

To exhibit these functions, volunteers must have strong understanding of relevant skills including expectable ways communicating, disaggregating tasks from teams to individuals and appropriate behavior within team and with participants.

To address this issue management organized the tasks around teams and select a team leader for every to manage teams well. Management also trained all the volunteers with lectures and visuals to promote effective functioning of community services. Volunteers are provided training on almost daily basis in which they learn how to be creative, exhibit problem solving skill and successful in addressing people’s problems. 

To improve the volunteers’ motivation management introduced contests and games for participants and volunteers and different gifts were awarded to the winners. Though I and my team didn't win any gift or reward but we enjoy it as a fun to participate in those games and contests.

Every day we entered into different areas covered by the event. Every stand was different than the other and we was enjoying in covering such a diverse event. Dancing, games, concerts and other activities were a prime part of that event.

The other day, our team leader could not attend the event and replaced by another member of the team.  We have no problems with the change of leaders because of understanding between the new leader and the team.

Volunteering refers to provide support or service to people without expecting anything tangible from them in return for such services. It is not only advantageous for people to whom support or services are provided, but it is also beneficial for volunteers as well. It has many positive benefits including skill development, improvement in communication skills and enjoyment in personality.

 

Finally this event was a great learning experience. I was involved in different activities and tasks throughout that event. The first thing I learned by answering all the questions of the participants that how to deal, talk, behave and resolve the queries of people from different backgrounds. They have different problems and concerns, and dealing with them all adds a lot to my personal skills. My problem solving skills have improved by participating in this group. Other learning experiences including that I learned to utilize time and resources by seeing how our leader organize different tasks around team members by keeping in view the motivational aspect of the team members as well.               

Participating in similar events as a volunteer would definitely enhance my knowledge. It would provide my learning experience of working in different fields and also augment the social aspect of my life by participate the events.