Caleb+Russ

**Caleb'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) Including Others

//**Week 1**// //**Entry 1**// Today was the second time that we played soccer as a class. I am captain of the blue team and each member within my team has their own respective roles and responsibilities to ensure that our team as a whole is socially responsible. Today I demonstrated during our games my interpersonal skills. During our first game I demonstrated the ability to support and encourage others, an example of this was when Hunta scored a great goal and I congratulated him and the rest of the team for their part in the goal, thus giving my team confidence to go and perhaps score more goals. It was important to the team that I demonstrated this skill because otherwise our team would not be able to work together at our full potential. ====In the second and third game I also demonstrated effectively ways to include my team and examples of these actions were when I played through balls to Jacob and Lachie to run on to and score and I also shared the ball around so that everyone can get into the game and perhaps even score a goal and demonstrating this skill was important because if I didn't pass the ball and get everyone involved our team would get down on themselves and wouldn't feel good about themselves as a player. Next time I could improve my demonstration of including others by passing the ball around a bit more.====

//**Week 1**// //**Entry 2**// ====Today was the third time that we played soccer as a class. Our team started off a man down as Lachie had Whanau photos and even though we lost our first game 3-0 our team was not discouraged as we then went on to draw one and win two, I was proud of my team for the way they bounced back from the defeat and kept their heads up and got stuck in and gave it their all. Today I demonstrated the interpersonal skill of communicating effectively and I showed this by when the opposition was attacking telling my team to drop back and defend, this helped us cut out the threat of conceding a goal and we even managed to go forward and score as we moved quickly with the ball and didn't give the opposition time to get back and defend. It was important to the team that I demonstrated this interpersonal skill because otherwise we wouldn't have been able to stop the opposition from scoring and we would've been discouraged and we wouldn't feel good.====

====I also demonstrated the interpersonal skill of including others and an example of this was when I had the ball and was going forward in search of a goal, I would draw out the opposition, creating a gap for my teammates to run into and score. I showed this again by when I ran into trouble i would turn around and simply play it back to the keeper so therefore I was getting the whole team involved and this was important because if we didn't work as a team and share the ball around people would start feeling left out and our team wouldn't be able to play well together. Next time I could improve my demonstration of including others by encouraging and supporting my teammates more by passing the ball.====

====Today we played soccer as a class once again. Today was our teams best performance as we didn't lose today and our team was in high spirits as Kane managed to score a couple of game winning goals. Today I demonstrated the interpersonal skill of including others as I supplied my teammates with some great passes which they were able to run on to and get into goal scoring positions. The demonstration of this skill was key to the success of the team as we worked together as a team and scored goals and won all of our games which made me proud to be Captain of our team.==== ====I also demonstrated the interpersonal skill of communicating effectively, an example of this was when I communicated in calling for the ball and telling Hunta to run into space. The display of this skill was important because if I had not told Hunta that I was in space we probably wouldn't have scored and we may have lost the game. Next time I could improve my demonstration of communicating effectively by letting my teammates know when there is an opposition close by and when there is time for my teammates to run with the ball.====
 * Week 2**
 * Entry 1**

//**Week 2**// //**Entry 2**// ====Today we played soccer and it was by far the hottest day we have experienced since we started the soccer tournament. So therefore our team had to have a little bit more stamina and endurance to last the period. We managed to withstand the heat and performed pretty well as we only lost one out of four games, which isn't that bad. the standings at the end of the day ended with us in 2nd place which I am very proud of my team for achieving. Today I demonstrated the interpersonal skill of supporting and encouraging others by picking my team up when they were down after losing a game. It was important that I used this skill because otherwise my team would've been discouraged and not be able to perform. Next time I could improve my demonstration of supporting and encouraging others by giving my teammates feedback.====

====I also displayed the interpersonal skills of communicating effectively and including others and I displayed these skills by telling my team to get stuck in and to give it their all and swapping around positions so that everyone got to play where they wanted. Next time I could improve the display of these skills by giving my teammates a set position so they know where they play every game and giving them more feedback on how to improve when we didn't play our best.====

//**Week 3**// //**Entry 1**// ==== Today was a great day for me as I managed to score 6 goals in 4 games.Our team performed well today as we drew two and won two. I displayed the interpersonal skill of supporting and encouraging others and an example of this was when we scored I told my team to give it our all and defend our hardest which we did. It was important I displayed this skill because if I hadn't then our team would've slacked off and probably lost. Next time I could improve the display of this skill by giving positive feedback to my teammates.==== ==== I also demonstrated the interpersonal skill of including others as I passed the ball to people who were in space but I probably could have passed the ball around a bit more today. It was important I displayed this interpersonal skill because if I hadn't we wouldn't have scored as much goals as we scored today. Next time I could improve this skill by passing a bit more. I also demonstrated the interpersonal skill of communicating effectively and I displayed this skill by calling for the ball a lot and telling my teammates to make space so I could pass to them. Next time I could improve the display of this skill by talking more.====

//**Week 3**// //**Entry 2**// ====Today our team set a goal to win every game. We started off brilliantly with two wins in two games, but things went downhill and we lost the remaining two games, but collectively today was a pretty good day as I team played extremely well and it was just a shame that we lost the two games that we probably deserved a win for. Today I demonstrated the interpersonal skill of including others and I demonstrated this by passing the ball around the field and passing back to the goalkeeper Hunta when it was too hard to go forward. It was important I demonstrated this skill because if I hadn't we would've given the ball away cheaply and left ourselves open for a counterattack. Next time I could demonstrate the skill better by telling my teammates to make space so I can pass to them.==== ====I also displayed the interpersonal skill of supporting and encouraging others and I displayed this skill by giving my team feedback and telling my team when they were playing well. It was important I displayed this because it made my team feel good about themselves and made them play to their full potential. Next time I could improve in the display of this skill by giving my team constructive feedback. I also displayed the interpersonal skill of communicating effectively and I displayed this by talking to the ref after he made a wrong call. It was important I displayed this skill because if I hadn't we would've been wrongly done and we would've probably lost the game. Next time I could improve the display of this skill by explaining to the ref how he got it wrong.====

//**Week 4**// //**Entry 1**// ====Today we were the only team to have our whole team present, although the extra man did not count for much as we lost two games, drew one and only won one. We started the day in second place, a solitary point behind first place and I was fairly confident that our team could end up in first place as we had our whole team, sadly it didn't turn out like that. Today I displayed the interpersonal skill of communicating effectively and I displayed this by telling my team to come back and defend and to pick a man each to mark. It was important I displayed this skill because our team defended well and listened to my instructions and often stopped the opposition from scoring. Next time I could improve the display of this skill by giving more feedback on my teams performance. I also displayed the skill of including others and I displayed this skill by swapping positions with my teammates when they wanted to, it was important I displayed this skill as it got my team more involved in the games. Next time I could display this skill better by asking my teammates before games where they would like to play.==== ====I also displayed my other interpersonal skill of supporting and encouraging others and I displayed this skill by praising when they put a good string of passes together and when we scored a goal, it was important I displayed this skill because it gave my team high spirits and got them more stuck in. Next time I could display this skill better by supporting my team when they make a mistake.====

//**Week 4**// //**Entry 2**// ====Today Mr. Darkins was away at the sevens tournament and most of the class was doing their science internal so we had a reliever and we just split the class up and played a full field game which wasn't very structured. I displayed the interpersonal skill of communicating effectively and I displayed this skill by talking to the reliever when he awarded a goal to the opposition when it clearly went over the goal. Next time I could improve this skill by letting the reliever know the rules beforehand.==== ====I also displayed the interpersonal skill of including others and I displayed this skill by drawing in defenders and then passing the ball into space for my teammates to score, I could improve the demonstration of this skill by passing thee ball earlier. I also displayed the interpersonal skill of encouraging and supporting others and I displayed this skill by letting my team know when they were playing well. Next time I could improve this skill by congratulating them when they scored.====