Improves your basic judgement and professionally enables you to apply skills to the personal development cycle. How reflective practice contributes to improving the quality of service provision? Contributes to improving the quality of service provision as the care worker constantly revises the policies and procedures and new standards that are being constantly set. Being up to date on the relevant new policies and procedures help the care workers to do their job and maintain of what is expected from them. How standards can be used to help care worker reflect on their practice?
Discuss how reflection can develop professional practice through critically analysing two different models/theories of reflection in this module. The definition of reflection has been defined differently by various authors. Cottrell (2010) suggests that reflection is a type of thinking that is linked to gaining a better understanding of something and that it is also an important part of the learning experience and where we can make sense of the experience. This can be related to Boyd and Fales (1983) who suggest that reflection is a process which can be used to examine and explore an area of concern and which could potentially end in a changed perspective. These views can be compared to Boud et al.
A good listener and a communicator, it is important to acquire information from your clients. Evaluate the information by asking the client appropriate questions. Let the client feel you are attentive to them, also be able to share, instruct and communicate with your clients well. You have a desire of assisting other and seeing the successes and if you are sincere and genuine the clients will be drawn to you. Also have lifestyle.
* List places where you can research information. * Do your research. Step 2: Drafting Write * Put the information you researched into your own words. * Write sentences and paragraphs even if they are not perfect. * Read what you have written and judge if it says what you mean.
Over time the information will give us a good picture of how our practice has developed, what we use over and over again that seems to guarantee results and where we are struggling. From this we can identify any possible further training that could help, feel confident in the areas that are working well and be able to pass any useful methods onto others. Feedback from others is invaluable as often you see more when you are on the outside and it can often help to have another’s point of view. Feedback from others may come as a result of a performance review, a class observation or a general observation by a colleague. Reflective practice is essential to personal development and the goals and targets put in place at performance reviews can help to focus you and give you a renewed sense of ability to succeed and achieve.
PROJECT 1. In my opinion things that would make me a good role model are things like being desirable, have high energy, being able to prioritize, being courageous showing that I am committed and I am dedicated to hard work, I am creative, and I have goal orientations and I am enthusiastic and I am dedicated to helping others grow and succeed. Traits of effective leaders that I have are focus, passionate, decisive, and honest. I can develop these traits by focussing on them and practicing them every day. How I can ensure that my work goals will fit in with the organisations is to find out what the organisations goals and plans are and then to match them to my goals and plans.
I was also identified as cooperating, I love working in an environment where I can work and collaborate with others. Another one of my competencies was leading, I like effective leading a team to greatness. In my current role I am a manager which leads into my next competencies; coping with pressure, and adapting to change. In order to lead, strategize, and cooperate with others I have to be able to cope with pressure and adapt to change. After completing the Work
As a manager, I can help foster a good climate in several ways. First, I should always make my expectations of your team members clear. Secondly, when delegating, always empower each team member. Making sure I give the team member the authority to make and carry out decisions that are required. Furthermore, I will always support and back up the decisions made by the team member.
Knowing your own strengths and weaknesses and those of your employees, taking the time to know your employees is vital for a strong and cohesive team environment and will enable you to be able to bring the best out of your team because you understand their strengths and weaknesses and you know the person. Being motivated, energised, focused, positive and loving what you do is a great example to lead by and I would ensure I always acted in a manner that reflected my values and work ethic and to be fair and firm in all my dealings, that is how I would measure my performance. There is so much more though to being an effective leader and good role model; you need to be able to set clear and defined personal and work goals, plans and activities that reflect the plans of your business and your own responsibilities and accountabilities. To measure my personal performance I would set performance based goals rather than goals based on outcome because with performance based goals you have control over how and when you achieve them and satisfaction when you do complete them. With outcome based goals you are
Characteristics that a role model possesses includes high moral values, confidence, who is hardworking, respectful, has an optimistic outlook on life and can find creative solutions to their problems in the workplace. To ensure that I acted as a role model for the employees I would supervise, I would make sure that I possess all the previously said qualities and use them to my advantage. I would always show a positive attitude, be enthusiastic and involved within the workplace, and always accept responsibility of my actions if any mistakes happen on my behalf. I would also understand myself; referring to my learning style, characteristics, behaviours, and learning preferences. I would also learn to understand others and to value diversity in the workplace.