The reason this is important is so you can make changes to how you work that lead to continuous improvement in the way you provide services. Reflective practice can be an important tool in practice based professional learning settings where individuals learning from their own professional experiences, rather than from formal teaching or knowledge transfer, may be the most important source of personal professional development improvement. It is extremely important for individuals to reflect on the care that is given to always improve the quality of care given to service users. This makes sure
Principles of personal development in adult social care setting Task A Ai) a) Reflective practice is when you look back at a moment in time, in the case of care you would look back at a call you did and evaluate it. b) This method is a very useful training tool as when you reflect on call you can see if any aspect of the call can be improved, if there can be improvement’s made a good carer may be able to transfer these new skills to another clients thus improving more than once clients care. c) As already mentioned in the second part of this question reflective practice is important as it can show ways of improving care provided and once a new skill has been fount it is easy to transfer it to other clients, you can also pass the skill on to your colleagues, thus the whole work force can benefit from one session of good reflective practice. d) Good reflective practice is a tool that can used during supervisions and team meetings, high standards of training provided during these reflective practice sessions will mean that the care has all the training and knowledge needed to provide the high standard of care expected not only by our company but the client and their families. Aii) a) It is important for a care worker to seek feedback so that they may improve the care they give, either by learning new skills or by learning how the manage their timing better when caring out the tasks need for the clients call.
Thinking about what happened is a part of being human however the difference between casual thinking and a reflective practice is that reflective practice takes a conscious effort to think about events/ behaviours and develop insight into them? Why is reflective Practice important? Through reflective Practice, developing a better insight and understanding of people you support and yourself will ultimately mean that you will provide a better service! How reflective practice contributes to improving the quality of service provisions. Using reflective Practice you will be able to contribute to your service provision by being able to reflect .process, evaluate and achieve progress through your better understanding of client group/user.
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?
332 2.1 The Importance of Reflective Practice Reflective Practice is the opportunity to review what has been done, what worked well and what didn't work so well. From this you can identify areas that need to change or develop so as we can constantly strive to improve our teaching practice. Reflective practice can also be applied on a personal level so as we are better able to identify what we are doing well, how we need to improve or develop and how our knowledge and current practice may benefit the team within which we are working. Reflective practice can be carried out by keeping a reflective journal to record our experiences. 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.
Sometimes an employee may not fully understand a particular task and what is expected of them. Constructive criticism can be the perfect form of communication for explaining the details about what the employee was doing wrong. It can also be used to explain the necessary steps needed to get them going in the right direction. An important part of explaining criticism to someone is not to pick out personality flaws. The action that needs to be corrected or behavior that is being displayed is the issue.
How people can react on constructive feedback or criticism : React : • People may react defensively. •They may counterattack. •They may flee or become emotional. •They may reluctantly accept the reprimand and promise to improve. •They may
Adding something during a conversation process can make the listener to miss some important parts of the message leading to wrong interpretation of information. A listener should make comments when the speaker has finished talking. During this time, the listener may opt to repeat what the speaker said using his or her own words to enable the speaker clarify any information that the listener got wrongly. If possible, people should observe active listening in all situations where communication is taking place. Effective communication is very important especially when the listener hopes to achieve an excellent work and personal relationship.
However, if your group does not identify with you, it is difficult to get them to follow you. Yes, a good leader would have the skills to see that she might have to communicate with people differently to get them involved in the process. That could be done by offering to hear his/her opinion on the subject. Getting he’s or hers prospective can be a way of letting the person know that you value his or her input. This person will see that you have valued his or her opinion, and if you do not use his concepts or at least incorporate some of their ideas’ then you must tell then why you don’t think their concepts would be appropriate.
By using and practicing each of the thinking styles constructively, many people can increase his or her communication skills giving them a better decision-making ability. Three types of thinking styles that I will be comparing are the analyst, the realist and the idealist thinking styles. The analyst thinker approaches a problem or situation by carefully planning and gathering as much information as they can. They mostly assume that by having enough information they can find the best way to deal with the problem or situation. The analyst thinker concerns themselves with details because they are afraid that if they miss or overlook something the details something will go wrong.