P4 P5 P6

P4: Demonstrate a range of effective interpersonal skills

P5: Use IT to aid communications

P6: Communicate technical information to a specified audience

How to set up a blog

In this step by step guide of how to set up a blog I’m going to use the site Blogger.

 

Firstly to start using Blogger you will need to either sign into your Google account or sign up to create your own account.

 

Once you’ve signed in or signed up to your account you need to click on the ‘New Blog’ button to start up your own blog.

After clicking on the ‘New Blog’ button, a pop up window will then appear. Here it will ask you to give your blog a title and web address for people to find it. You will also be able to choose a template which you think will suit your blog. After you’ve completed these details you then press the ‘Create blog!’ button.

This is the screen which will come up after you completed the pop up window section. This is just a complete overview of your blog. To start creating posts for your blog you need to click on the pencil image in the top left corner next to the Blogger logo.         

 

 

Creating a blog is useful for students in many ways; it helps convey important information for different subjects they take. For example if a student creates an ICT blog they can post work on there for the teacher to view instead of handing work in. Also just like I’ve done with a step by step guide of how to create your own blog you can create these types of posts for anything to help others learn. This is also a more interesting way of doing homework and you can also get instant feedback from teachers through the comment section. The subjects which this is most useful for is ICT and media as you can post videos on here as well.



 

M1: Mechanisms that reduce the impact of communication barriers

Spelling errors – By using spell check on word documents enables all grammatical and spelling errors to be corrected by the click of a button. If it is a hand written document review any words you’re unsure of in a dictionary and make sure the hand writing is clear and consistent to be able to read.

Cultural differences – By researching the person’s culture can help you to understand them more and show that you are trying to overcome the difficulties. Also if language is the problem then having a translator whether it’s a person or the Google translator it will be able to communicate ideas to one another.

Disabilities – For those that have a sight disability than having Braille in the work place would benefit them profoundly. Also people with hearing disabilities would benefit from working with others that can do sign language enabling them to communicate with others that don’t have disabilities.

Body language – Having open body language allows everyone to feel at ease with each other and lets people build good working relationships with one another. This ensures no one feels like they can’t express different views to others and lets employees have the freedom of speech.

Distance – In the past employees would have found it difficult to interact with people in different countries but nowadays to overcome distance in a workplace employees could use Skype and emails to communicate their ideas.

P3: Discuss potential barriers of effective communication.

Spelling errors – When writing documents for work spelling errors can confuse the person reading them and effectively communicate something different than what you intended.

Cultural differences – Having an employee from a different culture can cause errors in communication and judgement. This could unfortunately cause the person in question to be offended by certain language or views.

Disabilities – Someone who has a disability with their hearing or sight for example may find it difficult to obtain a job which is suitable for them. On the other hand someone who is working with a person that has a disability may find it difficult as to how to communicate things in the right way.

Body language – Working with someone that has closed body language could lead to little communication between employees. Someone could feel intimidated by this person and not want to express their ideas or views with them due to their body language.

Distance – In some cases employees have to interact and communicate with employees in different countries, making work difficult to complete because of this distance.

P2: Principles of effective communication

In all jobs communication is essential to be able to understand and listen to fellow employees.

People skills – By having good people skills and being an open person allows other employees to feel comfortable to express their own ideas to you. This includes having a warm friendly smile, listening intently to the other person and interacting with everyone frequently.

Engage an audience – To translate an idea to others you need to be engaging, this includes using eye contact to make sure everyone is listening to you and to be able to clearly put your own thoughts into words. Also by having an open frame allows people to relax in your presence and feel at ease whilst engaging with you.

Adapting – Being able to adapt to your surroundings is crucial, especially if you are in a different country or you have employees who are from elsewhere. You’d need to use clear speech and correct terminology to be able to effectively communicate ideas for others to understand.

Plan and organisation – Effective communication needs to be organised clearly, by having a plan shows that you’ve taken time to consider all points that other employees could question.

P1: Personal attributes valued by employers

Confidence

This is a key skill all employers look for, it shows that the employee will be confident in all decision making and brings the quality of work to a high standard.

Punctuality

Having good punctuality shows the employee to be organised which reflects well on their own image. Also it’s clear that you respect your employer to be ready on time to work and that you are a reliable person for any part of the job.

Communication

This helps to express your views and ideas clearly for all fellow employees, especially on an IT course which would involve being part of team projects where fluent English is essential. Listening to your team members is necessary as the information they provide could be useful and effective to the project.

Tolerance

In all workplaces employees will be taking on varying amounts of workloads and having high-quality tolerance will ensure a stress free time. If working on a team project this attribute also applies to having tolerance with other team members, so the work that is produced is up to a high standard and there were no issues whilst creating it.

Teamwork

Being part of team projects is nearly always the case in IT, therefore the employee needs to be able to motivate and encourage others. Some employees can even develop this motivation into a leadership quality and will understand everyone’s different weaknesses and strengths knowing who’s right for what part of the project.