Steely+Olsen

**Steely'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) Including others
 * 3) Negotiating

Week One

Entry 1 Communicating: I communicated with all players in my team and managed to stop the opposing team from getting a goal. I could have done better by communicating more when I had to kick the ball out of goal to another player. Including Others: I included others by supporting them and cheering them on even if they made a mistake. I did this for players on both teams. I could have improved by doing this more often. Negotiating: I negotiated with the referee from the other team and managed to sort out the problem. My point of view on the problem could have been better if I was on the field and not in goal so I need to talk to the caption and ask to play in other position.

Entry 2 Communicating: I communicated with my team and by doing so we managed to get a goal. If we communicated more we could have scored a goal earlier and then gotten more goals. Including Others: I included others by passing them the ball when they had not had a go in a while. And by doing this that player could hold onto the ball while other players rested a bit. Negotiating: I negotiated a plan with my team to get the ball off the other team and score a try. We could have negotiated better because some of the players were unsure of what their role was and the plan did not go to plan.

Week Two

Entry 1 Communicating: I communicated with my team when we only had three players and we managed to come up with a plan and we didn't do so bad. if we had all our players we would have been able to improve our plan but they weren't all here and we had to do it without the other two players Including Others: I encouraged players in my team to pass the ball to the other players and include them more. this effected all the players and got them to pass the ball more often which helped out Negotiating: As the ref, i negotiated with the other ref and players when someone went out of the field and we decided for a throw in. i could have improved this by getting the points of view from all the players near by that saw but we did not have time so we just carried on.

Entry 2 Communicating: i communicated with the coach and got swapped out of the goal with another player. I could do this more often so that the players that were tire could have a rest Including others: We included Mr Darkins into our team when we again only had three players. this helped us all and we did better having another player Negotiated: I negotiated with the other ref and decided that the ball went to high over the goal and it was no goal. our team then negotiated about trying to keep the ball a little lower when going for goal and it helped us all out a bit.

Week Three

Entry 1 Communicating: I communicated with my team and we managed to stop a goal. I could improve my communicating by giving tips to players having trouble. Including others: I included others when I had to sort out a problem as I am referee and I included all people when there was a problem. I could improve this skill by letting other people be goalie more often. Negotiating:I negotiated with the coach and he helped me to improve my goalie skills and how to kick a ball with more control and further. Entry 2 Communicating:I communicated with the rest of my team when we were all here as one of the players was away for a week and we sorted out a plan and managed to score more goals. I could have improved this skill by communicating with the team some more. Including others: I included the captain when me and the other ref could not come to a decision and so we got the other players to help come to a final decision. I could have improved this by doing it more often. Negotiating: I negotiated with the rest of my team and told them I would not be there the next day and because of this they were ready and able to take up my place as ref and goalie.

Week Four

Entry 1 Communicating: I communicated with my coach and asked him to help me with being goalie. He would kick the ball to me and i had to stop it and then throw it or kick it back to him. Including others: I talked to the captain and got placed out on the field instead of being goalie and when the person in goalie wanted to leave i let him as i wanted to include him as well. Negotiating: by negotiating with my team we decided to make another attack plan and managed to win nearly all of our games.

Entry 2 Communicating: my team communicated and we decided we needed to practice our ball handling skills and so we did that and it was very helpful. Including others: Our team noticed that a couple of people on the other team were hogging the ball so we had talk with them and got them to include the players Negotiating: i again talk with my team and told them i was not going to be there the next day because of an exam and this was helpful for the rest of the team as there was another p;ayer away as well and this got them prepared