Reflection questions
Reflect on your strengths and weaknesses and do the following:
- Identify three of your own strengths.
- Identify three weaknesses in yourself.
- Work out a personal development plan that shows how you are going to turn your weaknesses into strengths
- In your personal development plan show how you will build on your strengths to improve your life at home and at work. (6)
- Ensure that your development plan covers the following periods: one month, three months, six months, one year.
Research project
- What support systems are available to your group in the college or workplace? List and explain two.
- By now you have had many meetings in your group/team at the college or at the workplace. Think about the strengths and weaknesses of the group. List and explain three strengths and three weaknesses.
- Choose two individual team/group members. List and explain two strengths and weaknesses of each member.
- Indicate what strategy you would use to ensure that their strengths contribute to the overall success of the team.
- Indicate what strategies you would use to ensure that their weaknesses are either turned into strengths or do not hamper the team efforts.
- Identify at least two situations that have occurred that are a cause of concern. Develop an action plan to minimise the negative effect on the team.
The action plan should include who, what, why, when, how, where for each situation.
- Identify at least two positive situations that have occurred. Describe in an action plan how you would maximise the positive effect that these situations have on the team. (10)
The action plan should include who, what, where, when, how, where for each situation
- You have to arrange an HIV Information session at one of the schools in the area in which you live. Set the goals and objectives for this information session (at least three goals). Ensure that the objectives are SMART.
Make sure that the objectives are SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound
- From your group choose four other team members to assist you with this task. (1) Draw up a plan of action to achieve the goals and objectives of the project. (25)
Each team member’s portion (including the team leader) of the action plan should indicate: who, what, where, when, how
- Give at least four reasons for involving all the team members in the setting of goals and objectives.
- How will you monitor the progress in the implementation of the action plans? Give at least three methods.
- List two things that can go wrong with the plan and indicate how the action plan can be modified.
- Your team has to arrange an information session on HIV/AIDS at one of the local schools. List at least four items of information that you have to communicate to the team.
- How will you measure the performance of the team regarding the HIV/AIDS information session. List and explain three methods of measuring their performance.
- Give two examples from your own life where praise and personal recognition inspired you to work even harder.
- Refer back to the HIV/AIDS session that your team has to give at a local school. You have done the action plan. Now, choose one team member and explain how you can give that team member responsibility for his/her own achievement. Name the team member, the tasks and the method of making the team member responsible. Also explain how you will monitor progress.
- Look at the above action plan again, and list the things that you will supervise, according to the action plan. Which aspects of the team’s performance do you think you can let the team handle? List at least one aspect and explain your answer.