Matt+Dobbs

**Matt's Reflective Journal**
Identify and explain the 3 interpersonal skills you selected and demonstrated with specific examples.
 * 1) In each entry, reflect on how the use of your interpersonal skills is impacting on the team. Consider the expectations of your role and any changes that you could make to improve your skills. Ensure that you answer the following questions:

- What impact resulted from demonstrating your interpersonal skills?

- What could you do to improve your interpersonal skills to create a positive impact on others?

- Start by listing/identifying the interpersonal skills you will be discussing in each entry

Interpersonal Skills
 * 1) Communicating Effectively
 * 2) Supporting and Encouraging others
 * 3) Co-operating with others

__ Week one __

__**Entry 1**__ Today was our first game of football. I am the team hydration specialist, i fill up and take over the team drink bottles so that our team can stay hydrated and play to our maximum ability. I communicated effectively as our team played better because they knew where i was and when to pass the ball. When i wanted one of our players to pass the ball up the field to me i'd yell out "straight ball" so they knew to pass it straight to me. I said this to harry a few times and he passed it to me perfectly. to improve my communication skills i could've given hand gestures to let them know what i was doing with out letting the other team know where i was going to run or pass etc.

When we played football today i supported and encouraged out players. If someone did something good or bad i'd say "great work!" or "hard luck mate". I said "great work" when Niko did a meanage dribble around the opposition and scored. I also said "hard luck mate" when harry missed a shot on goal. to improve my supporting and encouraging others skills i could've given more feed back and encouraged others to take a shot and go them selves rather than pass it off if they had a clear shot.

During our soccer period today i co-operated with my team. By co-operating i did not hog the ball, i passed it around giving everyone a go. for example dylan looked like he was missing out so i passed the ball his way so he could have a turn. when we got a corner everyone wanted to do different game plans like a short ball, chip and header or pass back to half way then a big boot in. i co-operated and said "how about we have turns with our game plans, like niko can do his idea, then levis idea, then rios idea." this worked as no one got angry with each other and stormed off.

Today was our second period of soccer, our team has improved heaps and we are playing better as a team. i played one game for our team, THE MIGHTY TEAM RED!!! and then filled in for the rest of the period for jacobs team, blue. i communicated effectively by asking jacob if they needed an extra player as the only had 2 players as the others were away. mr darkins filled in aswell. this helped out jacobs team but also evened the amount of players in each team as my normal team had the most players today anyway.
 * __Entry 2__**

i supported and encouraged jacobs team today by not getting frustrated if they mucked something up but giving them helpful advice or saying better luck next time. i also encouraged there players to back them selves and go for a dribble up the field or to take a shot at goal.

today mr darkins wanted to go up the field and play a striker. i co-operated and let him go up and i filled in his spot. this kept him happy and we played better with a happy team. to improve my co-operating skills i coulve let other people into some positions that they prefer and i just go into they unfilled spots to keep every one happy.

__ Week Two __

today we versed the black team which is a very hard team to beat. we've lost to them once before but today we told our selves that we were going to beat them. we all communicated very well with each other which led us to draw with the black team. we were all very proud of how well we communicated and it goes to show that communicating really does help your team play.
 * __Entry 1__**

we also supported and encouraged each other today, this helped us to draw with the black team. an example of this was when i encouraged dylan to tackle lewis who is very good. i told him that there is no harm in trying and that you have nothing to lose. To improve my supporting and encouraging others skills i could've given more feed back and encouraged others to take a shot and go them selves rather than pass it off if they had a clear shot.

today i co-operated with my team by having a game plan of our defence stacked and having a 1 striker sea gulling up the front. this co-operative move helped us draw and no lose like last time.

today we only had three players, niko, harry and i. this made it hard as most of our opponent teams had 4 or more players. we had to communicate effectively or we would've got smoked every game. i communicated by telling my team mates where i was and which player i had marked. also when we had the ball, were it was going or where i wanted it. to improve my communicating skills i could yell louder to let my team mates know where i am.
 * __Entry 2__**

we all supported and encouraged each other today as there was only 3 of us and every move that wasnt around our defending zone was greatly appreciated. we all had to try and give it our absolute most today so that we didnt lose to many points and let the rest of the team down.

our team all co-operated together to create positions suitable for the amount of players and our strongest positions. it was hard only having 3 so we had a goalie, defender slash mid fielder and a striker that came back and helped defend. this position was the hardest as you had to do the most running.

__ Week Three __

__**Entry 1**__ today was our 5th period of soccer. i communicated effectively when i asked if harry wanted to change position and go from playing goalie to striker. this opened up my communicating skills as i could see over the whole game being at the back and i could advise people where to go and where to pass the ball. To improve my communicating skills i could have watched out for my players more so then i could say "hard luck if they miss or are you ok if they get hurt."

i supported harry when his knee was sore by asking if he was alright and if he need to go to te awatea. before that i also encouraged harry to go up and play striker to have a change from goalie. to improve my communicating skills i could have

today i co-operated with my team by making up new gameplans as our old ones were basic and the other teams were beginning to cotton on to them. we all came up with game plans then as a team we voted and got our top 3 game plans. this didnt make anyone mad with each other as it was a fair way of doing it.

__**Entry 2**__ during our 3rd game today i communicated effectively by being checky and talking nonsense to mr darkins ;) . i communicated to my team mates when they scored a goal or pulled of a awesome move like a nut meg for example. this helped lead my team to victory!

i supported and encouraged mr darkins when he was a bit down after we thrashed the team he was filling in for. he was playing goalie which didnt make it any better. i said "hard luck mr darkins, better luck next time". to improve my supporting and encouraging others skills i could have let my team mate know to push back when he was getting pushed around.

i co-operated with mr darkins to call it a piece with the smack talking. he agreed and the rest of the game went on great. i also co-operated with the opposition when we werent sure if the goal we go was in or to high. we were smoking the other team anyway and so we said that it was to high.

__ Week Four __

__**Entry 1**__ today was our second to last period of soccer. we all communicated effectively when we saw that we had a reliever who didnt know how to set up our mini soccer tournament. luckily we had set people in our teams to get the equipment needed for the day because the relieve teacher wouldnt have a clue what to get. i was surprised how well our class work together and communicated to set up and get the tournament under way.

today in one of the games the other team was quite a few players down and so one of my team mates filled in for them. i had to sub as there wouldve been and un even number of players but i wasnt feeling to go so i sat out that game. i supported my team and encouraged them to win. they ended up winning but i think it was because of my supporting.

today i co-operated with my team when i sat out that game. our team also co-operated with the opposing team by us giving them one of our players to fill in for them. to improve my co-operating skills i couldve let the reliever know what we were supposed to be doing instead of taking it into our own hands and letting him feel unneeded.

__**Entry 2**__ today i was in a science exam. i did not come to PE this period. i was told that there were only about 10-12 players that showed up to PE as the rest were in my situation. i understand that my team won 3 games and lost 1. to improve my co-operating skills i couldve let my team mates know that i was unable to attend this period.