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 Interpersonal skills: Strengths& Weaknesses

For this task I will describe the types of interpersonal skills I used at the placement. I will describe my strengths and weaknesses that there was there, and how I could improve them at a future time, and also how well I used it for my strengths. I worked with the year 1’s and Year 2’s, however I also worked with the staff at the placement. I used the necessity skills that were suppose to be used to assist effective communication with the children and the staff, such things as eye contacting with the children. I used this very well, this was one of my strengths because the children they interacted and the conversations went well between us, it was a very powerful tool when used to communicate with someone. Below shows a number of interpersonal skills:

  • Speaking effectively
  • Listening
  • Motivating
  • Cooperating
  • Delegating with respect
  • Showing enthusiasm to achieve your goals
  • Body language
  • Eye contact
  • Facial expression

Weaknesses

Speaking effectively- I think this was one of my weaknesses. I think that for getting my points and opinions I needed to speak louder and clearer. This would have directed and made my feelings and opinions clearer to the person I was communicating with mainly with the staff. So I think that this I can learn from for the future and speak more effectively and louder to get my points across. Effective communication is also using and making this information to take children's individual knowledge, understanding, development and skills. This is a reason why effective communication within nursery for example is important. This is why I think I should learn from the mistakes of not using the communication between me and the staff appropriately.  

Eye contact – the use of eye contact is very important in the communication cycle. It’s a use for individuals to contact and communicate in different ways, eye contact gives out messages and so does body language. I think that the use of eye contact while at work experience wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be. I think that I should have used more eye contact with the staff, even if they weren’t at my age and I didn’t understand them as well. I think that I should have tried and understood them and carried on after communicating effectively using eye contact. This makes me think of how I can improve it by watching someone while they are talking, direct eye contact. This is also another way of the communicator knowing that you are listening to them.

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Delegating with respect- at times during my placement I did think that there was o point of me being there. This creates the sense of my supervisor treating me differently because I haven’t respected her in a way that I should, and not realized that the experience was valuable at times. I should have understood that the work places is everyday life for some individuals, this placement was a valuable experience in my life because I learnt that not everything you don’t enjoy or you think is a “Waste” is very important because you can learn from that and ...

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