Puru+Aboagye

**Puru'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 **

**communicating effectively** **solving problems** **cooperating with others**

05/03/15 week 1 entry 1

today was our first period of soccer. i was given the role of manager, so i sort out the players by getting them ready for a game and getting them in shape by assisting the coach. this requires me to use my communicating effectively skill. i was both mentally and physically active in the game today because i was cooperating with others and respecting the decisions made by my team members. This impacted my team because they knew i was a reliable player that was excited to be here allowing me to score the first goal of the day. because everything ran smoothly i had no problems to solve.

06/03/15 week 1 entry 2

today was our second lesson of soccer. today we had a full team, which my day a little bit easier because i didn't have to full any body's role. but other teams weren't as lucky as us because they were missing players.because of this other teams requested for a player from my team. this required me to use my communicating effectively and solving problems skill.the use of me using this skill impacted on the team because we didn't lose any players and remained at the top of the table. I communicated effectively by helping my coach to organise a warm up drill, i organised the players into their positions and explained the exercise to them. The clear examples and instructions made it easy for them to understand. I solved problems by sorting out a incident where my coach wanted one of our players to play up front, he didnt want to and got a bit upset, i decided to go up front so he could play where he wanted to. this stopped a argument within the team,

11/03/15 week 2 entry 1

today i was very active and supportive. i had a great day because i cooperated with my team and other teams by ensuring i was following my leaders orders and sticking to our team structure and gameplan. due to me using this skill i solved a difficult problem between my team and a different team when a goal was scored but the ref said it was too high, i told my team that i agreed with him and that the goal should be dissallowed. this saved a long time in sorting out a problem. this impacted on my team because we went on to win that game and didnt waste any time. i communicated effectively with my team by shouting out "i have space, i have space". they then gave me the ball and i finished it off with a fantastic goal awarding me goal of the day.My team were happy that i had done this and influenced them in a positive way.

13/03/15 week 2 entry 2

today i played very poorly. this was because i was very tired and frustrated. i still managed to cooperate with the team but i dint do much communicating with the team. this impacted on the team because i brought a negative attitude which brought the team down and a lot of swearing was involved. so instead of solving problems i created problems. to improve next time i will use this negativity as fuel for the next game and pick up my game

16/03/15 week 3 entry 1

because i played very poorly last week i used it as fuel and pumped myself up to play a hard good game. because we were missing our equipment organizer from the team. as manager i fulfilled my role as manager and grabbed the equipment from out of the PE shed and headed over to the field and set up the game before all the other players got there. today we scored multiple goals because not only did i communicate effectively the whole team did leaving me with a hat trick. i also used my solving problems skill as the referee could not come to a decision if it was a goal or not but luckily i was there and just let the other team have the point as we were winning by 3 points this also made me cooperate with others. this made a positive impact on my team.

18/03/15 week 3 entry 2

first period back at soccer very good day, then to find out that my team only has three players. this made us feel as we were going to loose straight away but we then thought we just have to play twice as hard. meaning we had to communicate effectively, solve this problem and cooperate with others. as we did do this we didn't win any of our games but we surely put up a fight. this showed me that we really played as a team and its not about winning all the time its about cooperating together and its not a one mans game. the lose of our players impacted on the team both positively and negatively. negatively because we didn't walk away with a single win and positively because we proved that even without a full team we are competitive.

23/03/15 week 4 entry 1

last week of soccer nice to see the whole team prepared and ready. we had already gone over some drills and had a team run by the time Mr darkins got there. we set up on our field, once the whistle blew i ran into space shouting "dre i got space, dre". he then passed the ball to me and the goal was wide open just leaving me to kick it in softly. "goal" the team yelled at the top of their lungs leaving me excited.because i used my communicating effectively skill we left the game with a one nil win. i also used my solving problems as we came to a dilemma with the score of the game. as i explained the whole game out to both my team and the opposition team they understood that i was correct giving us the win. this impacted my team because we won every game on that day and remained at the top of the table.

26/03/15 week 4 entry 2

fun and enjoyment made a positive impact on my team because i communicated effectively during the day by calling for space and giving feed back to both my team and other teams. This made my team look and think that it is a good thing to talk and call for the ball. they all started doing this and we were very vocal. as every one is now more familiar with working as a team. there were no problems to be solved but this didn't stop me from cooperating with the team and other teams by showing them how to be a role model and act responsibally. I did this by doing all the basics well and respecting what my teams plan was, even if i didnt agree with it. we won 3/4 games today so hopefully we are at the top of the table after the final round. this impacted on the team because we walked out heads high and very humble.