SECTION 1: ESTABLISH PERSONAL WORK GOALS ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Activity 1 * 1 What characteristics do you believe a positive role model in the workplace should demonstrate? Bottom of Form 2 Describe a person you have looked up to as a positive role model. What qualities in them did you admire? What made them a suitable role model? What did you learn from them?
It provides opportunities to learn from your experience and develop your working practice. It is both a tool to help you analyse specific interactions or incidents that have occurred at work, as well as a method of working in the moment that is mindful and self-aware. 1.2. Explain the importance of reflective practice in continuously improving the quality of service provided? Reflecting on your practise is important as it can help you to focus on what you have done well and identify areas you may need to improve I.e.
I want to lead or supervise a team of technicians. I found an article explaining on how we choose our career path Perspectives on Career Development Career development can be understood as one of the many aspects of socialization that combine to create human development; in this case the focus is on occupational or work socialization. In psychological terms, the individual acquires motivation to act in certain ways related to his or her beliefs about personal self-efficacy to achieve in particular work domains, to the likelihood that certain valued outcomes will occur from some choices and not others, and to the salience of My Life
Human Service Worker Competencies Response Paper The job of a human service worker is to meet the needs of the client, focus on prevention, and remedy problems and also to assist their clients with living a better, happier existence. Human service workers work a variety of different people, in a variety of different ways at different stages in their lives. It takes dedication, an open mind and selflessness to be in this profession. At times human service workers face ethical dilemmas while doing their job. In this paper I will rebut the justices concerns about the competencies of human service workers.
It can assist people in a circle of support to re-frame their views of the person it is focused on. It can help a group to solve difficult problems. Person-centered planning can help to create new lifestyles, find the right living enviroment and jobs, diverse kinds of support (informal and formal)and new social relationships. There are four main approaches to person centred practice, “Pathway” planning, “Maps” planning, “Person centred portfolios” and “Personal Future Planning.” Discussion will prove that each shares characteristics that explicitly emphasise the personal empowerment of service users, in which the principal direction for support generates from those for whom planning is being carried
McLeod also suggests that counselling skills can be used in a range of self help groups such as sliming groups or Alcohics Anonymous or in life coaching – although this focuses on the promotion of positive effectiveness or achievement. Users of counselling skills often have dual responsibilities both to the recipient of their skills and the organisation that they are operating within. (Stokes in Aldridge and Rigby). This can be a cause of conflict. Counsellors can avoid this conflict by starting the counselling relationship with a contract that ensures confidentiality and helps create a safe environment that supports a client by setting down guidelines for a working/ professional relationship that includes boundaries, conduct, timekeeping.
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Kristina Stemple Liberty University Abstract Abraham Maslow is known for his humanistic views as well as his hierarchy of human needs which was conceptualized based on his theory on motivation. The hierarchy of needs is an organized set of human needs which infers that lower needs are met before individuals advance to next higher need, eventually leading to the final need for self-actualization. The hierarchy needs has raised some questions and challenges, however, it has established some reliability. Maslow’s theory on motivation has been an influence on employees within the workplace as well as with learning systems. His humanistic views and his concepts continue to be relevant in motivating employees and learning.
Positive working practices can have different impacts on service users for example, it can build self-esteem, promote rights of individuals and empower them to have control Positive working practices can include: anti-discriminatory practice, empowerment, assessments of need and person centred planning. Anti-discriminatory practice can occur when and if a professional assumes that people with the same additional needs need the same amount of care which is stereotyping. The anti-discriminatory practice ensures that you avoid the assumptions, stereotyping and any other type of discrimination. Empowering is about the service user being able to make their own choices and for the professionals to ensure individuals with additional needs that they
Having employees positively motivated is a key aspect that managers strive to achieve. Not only does motivation create employees to desire to accomplish more, but it also encourages employees to be the best, as well as stimulates better interpersonal relationships. Social Psychology looks at the struggles some employees face with creating motivation, and attempts to discover how to explain the different types of motivation, as well as how employers can be advised to achieve a higher level of motivation from their employees. This essay will explore the different elements of motivation, and how it is achieved. Some of the more specific aspects being analyzed are Goal Setting Theory, empowerment, and Social Motivational Training as scrutinized by various researchers.
2) - Fostering of transformational learning that is the critical reflection is defined as the historical, geographical and cultural reasons for one’s own needs, wants and interests. 3) - Promotion of emancipatory learning and social actions. In a workplace environment, it combats with dysfunctionality and taken for granted assumptions and therefore, enhance their work performance in unproblematic manner. Reflective thinking that directs on the concept of knowledge critically helps people in improving organizations financial bottom