Working in Business Report: Interpersonal Skills, Learning, and Teams

This report provides a self-assessment of interpersonal skills within a business context. The student reflects on their strengths and weaknesses, particularly in relation to learning styles and team dynamics. The report discusses the importance of communication, emotional intelligence, and social aware...Read More

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Introduction
In this unit, I have been a part of a group, from where I have gathered some experience
and developed knowledge of some key concepts that have been addressed in this unit. In this
assessment I am supposed to be showing reflective practice, intercultural sensitivity, and social
awareness and writing skills. Interpersonal skills are those skills that are put to use by us every
day when there rises situations in which we communicate or interaction is there with other
people, both in an individual or group way. People who have strong interpersonal skills are most
of the times more effective in both professional and personal lives.
Discussion
Interpersonal skills are inclusive of a wide range of skills, even though many of them are
focused around communication like attending, understanding and questioning. They are also
inclusive of skills and different traits that are related with emotional intelligence or ability of
comprehension and managing of own and pother people’s emotions. People who have good
interpersonal skills have tendency of being capable to work well inside any team or any group
and in general with other people. They have the capability of communicating efficiently with
other people, irrespective of whether they are fiends, families, colleagues, clients or customers.
These skills are thus important both at work and external of work. Through the consciousness of
how I cooperate with other people and practice, I have the option of improving my interpersonal
skills.
Interpersonal skills have become often so common for use that we might take them for
granted, not even considering the way we are communicating with other people. If I have
established good habits, that is fine. Nevertheless, it is obviously imaginable for developing bad
habits and then failing in understanding why the communication or relations are in distress.
Nevertheless, with the help of little time and exertion one can advance both consciousness and
these skills. Improvement can be made in already effective interpersonal skills in many aspects
of our life, both in the professional and personal aspect, as that would be leading to a better
comprehension and better associations. Sometimes, interpersonal skills can also be denoted as
social skills, soft skills, people skills or life skills. Even though these positions can be inclusive
of interpersonal skills, they have a tendency of being comprehensive and might thus even refer to
other forms of skills. Many people even make use of the term communication skills for

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interpersonal skills, which in reality is covering more, that would be inclusive of decision
making and problem solving, additionally working in a group or team.
In assessing my interpersonal skills, the learning style profiler was used for assessing and
developing the way I learn at work. It has provided me with the opportunity of becoming a more
effective learner. It carried out analysis of my individual learning style on five aspects that are
sensation seeker, goal oriented achiever, emotionally intelligent achiever, conscientious achiever,
and deep learning achiever. I scored poorly for being a conscientious and deep learning achiever,
which made me notice where improvements are required. This can cause issues as that would be
indicative of the fact that I am not good in development of a deeper and wiser comprehension of
concerns and also I am comparatively weaker at independently and logically comprehending the
basic issue. Going through the results I am supporting it as I do not find it tough in completely
engaging in any issue or problem that I personally find difficult or asking for any deep learning
in any area I do not find appealing. In this context I have found that the best option is improving
on these faults, all the while upholding my best constructive qualities for which I must make use
of the information that is collected for my advantage. Interpreting it, I find myself being fairly
enthusiastic about taking charge or initiating any new activities. I am even largely interest in
setting goals and developing the necessary self-confidence for achieving these goals.
Despite having the ability of thinking on my feet and my frankness of trying new things
as being a positive trait, I understand that I must not ignore the gift of time and process my ideas
properly before compulsively acting for any degree that I do in professional conditions.
Moreover, I need improving my ability of processing information that I cannot comprehend. I
need to work on maintaining my focus and following through in the times of difficulty and
learning how to admin when I require help for receiving help. In the context of SMART criteria I
find it realistic in developing my inferior learning skills by the time I am finished with university
and then continuing my learning and ability of experimenting and changing all through my
educational journey. Based on this, I have set some goals that are abiding the SMART criteria. I
would categorise all my research work to make sure they are not misplaced. I would also record
everything so that I can be completely organised.
Following Tuckman’s Team Development Model, I need to be following the steps of
forming, storming, norming and performing. Understanding it would be helpful in my situation

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and helping the team also in being effective more quickly. In the first stage I have to be polite
and positive. In the next phase there needs to be a pushing of personal boundaries. In the third
stage people start resolving differences and then finally performance leads to the achievement of
goals.
Conclusion
From this discussion it can inferred that good interpersonal skills is the foundation of a
good working and social association, and is also helpful in the development of many other areas
of skill. For being in a team, or leading it there is always the necessity of developing important
life skills. Spending time on that is work it, as it is a skill that is used every day and in every
aspect of our lives. Improving and developing our interpersonal skills are best in steps, starting
from the very basic to the most vital.

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