Improving Group Working Skills

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SOCIOLOGY
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Table of Contents
Section 3 - Critical Log......................................................................................................2
Critical Incident Log – Presentation Skills......................................................................2
Critical Log – Critical thinking skills................................................................................3
Critical Incident – Leadership skills................................................................................4
Reflection Statement.........................................................................................................5
Introduction.....................................................................................................................5
Overview of personal development................................................................................6
Group working skills.......................................................................................................7
Presentation skills..........................................................................................................8
Critical thinking skills......................................................................................................9
Career management skills...........................................................................................11
Leadership skills...........................................................................................................12
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................13
Future Orientation Action Plan - – Objectives for further self-development.....................0
References/ Bibliography...................................................................................................0
Appendix............................................................................................................................1

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Section 3 - Critical Log
Critical Incident Log – Presentation Skills
Log the event - the facts regarding what happened and why.
While working as a supervisor in Bergin Oil Field Service Company, I had to
initiate a presentation for setting up our team goal for the upcoming year. The
format of the presentation was nice and I divided each of the subject of the
presentation in groups for the better understanding of the participants or the
audience. I spend more than a week for preparing this presentation and I
really thought that my speech and the delivery of my presentation was
positive, professional and nice, though I got nervous while one of the
audience started to ask questions regarding the information of presentation.
But after the completion of the presentation, I found out that I scored the
lowest from the participants and the audience which constitute of the general
manager of the company, the directors of the company and the other
stakeholders.
Record your reaction – note down what you felt, how you thought and how
others felt and behaved.
I was very disappointed since I felt that I gave all the relevant information in
the presentation and expected my presentation to be the best among all.
Furthermore as tested in INTP, I realized regarding my weakness of
presenting since I am not at all confident during the presentation and being an
introvert I seek approval and appreciation from my close friends to gain my
self confidence regarding my presentation.
Think about what you have learned. What might have influenced the event
– previous experience, external factors, the situation?
After the conduction of proper refection, I have summarized some of the major
points.
 I am introverted and usually unaware of the surrounding environment
 I am a taciturn and shy whenever I need to speak in front of public
 I hardly make friends and I have luck in persistence in general
 I was not confident at all and found it difficult to communicate with the
audience as well as use body language appropriately during the
presentation
What changes you are going to make? Pull out your learning experience –
what would you do differently next time, how have your values changed.
I am supposed to be confident enough for people to trust and or rely on me. I
need to work on my communication skills to forego my habit of introvert and
shyness for communicating . I need to be a good listener.

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Critical Log – Critical thinking skills
Log the event - the facts regarding what happened and why.
I have good critical thinking skills from my school days which has helped me
write an essay and solve any of the issues smoothly. Though I used get a lot
of marks in my university due to my critical responses but my work and my
action used to consume a lot of time. This had been a major issues since I
could not finish my semester assignment from university on time.
Record your reaction – note down what you felt, how you thought and how
others felt and behaved.
I was feeling sad and frustrated with the fact that despite of delivering quality
assignment equipped with innovative and critical thinking I was not able to
initiate any significance of the improvement of my skills of completion of my
assignments on time. I furthermore realized that these flaws of mine are not
only affecting my performance and grade in my university but also my hard
earned reputation for my critical thinking skills. I compelled myself to work on
this particular are as my first priority.
Think about what you have learned. What might have influenced the event
– previous experience, external factors, the situation?
Regarding my reflection, I learned that though I have a very critical thinking
mindset and set of skills which have been beneficial to me for doing the
assignment, there lies some of the major issues regarding my concentration
skills. One of the form of the procrastination of mine has been my inability
towards focusing and concentrating over one of the task and I tend to switch
my range of thoughts which are sometimes not linked to the topic, thus
wasting my time.
What changes you are going to make? Pull out your learning experience –
what would you do differently next time, how have your values changed.
Some of the major changes that I am going to make are-
 Using of better tool for recording my assignments and my readings to
the aim of optimizing how much time I am investing in one assignment
or task.
 Maintenance of the focus over the task or the project while working
over the assignment.