Week 12

no presntation as i had no group. whereas i have submitted a indivdual 1500 essay where i have talked about how i would organsie a group to develop a website and what problems may arise and how these can be dealth with.

Week 11

This lecture was based on negotiating skills. These skills are based on interpersonal skills,understanding the nature of the conflict,recognising outside forces,setting targets and objectives,designing strategies, and finally developing alternative outcomes. interpersonal skills are about listening to what people are saying,interpret their body language,controlling your own body language,communicating persuasively,and managing stress and pressure. I learnt that by acquiring these skills are vital within any negotiating situations. Understanding the nature of the conflict and analysing it also helps towards a positive outcome. Also setting targets and objectives helps before the negotiating begins, this helps to identify any issues which have little movement possible on your part and also clarifies any expectations from the negotiation.I learnt that agreements reached need to be respected by all parties or they are pointless, a good negotiation results in both sides being satisfied with the agreements reached and each thinking they have the best possible outcome. Everyone should have some good negotiating skills, within a group the team leader should have better negotiating skills, as they are the ones who control most tasks.If in a group i would expect the team leader to negoiate quite well, understanding the nature of conflicts and have certain strategies in place when needed.

Week 10

This week's lecture was based on decision making. i learnt there are 5 basic steps invovled when doing decision making, these are specifying aims,reviewing the factors,determining the possible courses of action, making the decision, implementing the decision. I learnt these steps are needed to make any decision. risk is also a factor when implementing a decision, i understood there can be certian risks invovled, by being aware of these risk factors,you should also determine the acceptenace level of risk, and only to take those decisions for which the risk is acceptable. Most of the decisions in my life are decided my me, sometimes i can take risks and sometimes i do not, however i have learnt now that there is more to then just making a decision, there are risks invovled and not being aware of these can have serious consquences. So it is best to implement these 5 basic steps in order for the decision, and risk to be acceptable.

Week 9

In this weeks lecture we were taught on CV's,application forms and careers. There were various information on the purpose of writing a CV,style,content,covering letter. In these topics i learned what contents are invovled in writing a CV, the style in which a CV should be written in,the content in what the CV should invovle and lastly the covering letter a introductory letter which is attached to the CV, which encourages the reader to read your CV. Applications forms are another way to show the recruiter you may be the ideal candidate for the job. Applications forms are created by the company so they may elborate on certain topics such as appreance,skills and other abilities. Forms are usually separated into serveral sections which makes it easier to jot down specific topics, which also makes it easier to read. I currently have a reasonably good standard CV, but since the things i learnt in this lecture i have improved on my CV, to widen my horizons and hopefully offer me better career prospects.