Why are these experiences important to me? What am I learning?
So far throughout my placement I have contributed to maintaining the social media platforms, website development and creating press releases, and overall I'm really enjoying my experience. I feel that I have learnt a lot so far, considering I haven't been doing my placement for long and still a long way to go, and a lot more exciting tasks to carry out! I believe the developing my knowledge with social media platforms such as twitter is helping me understand how to engage with target audiences and developing customer relationships with schools in South Ribble. In the upcoming weeks I'm going to create a new South Ribble SSP Facebook site too, which will promote the same information as Twitter but trying to aim to a larger target audience! This new Facebook page will again help me to develop my understanding of using social media to engage with target markets.
Looking at the website development, even though this is a new project I've just started, I'm very excited about learning about new technologies and engaging with our target markets on our website, and I believe that this new website will being an interactive and exciting feel to our school sport partnership. This will be developing my transferable skill of 'learning new technologies' which is what employers are expecting to see from new graduates, as the world is developing digitally.
Looking more at my transferable skills, I can see that my time management and organisation is developing considerably, due to the commitment of my university placement module, other models and assignments and recreational activities for my personal time. I feel that having a placement such as this sports marketing placment is developing my managerial skills in terms of balancing my work loads and planning in advance to know how much time I have for particular tasks, and this is a key skill I hope to keep developing.
I also believe that my enthusiasm and motivation is being portrayed throughout my placement so far, as my really enjoying my roles and responsibility, and working with a great team. I also believe that i'm very motivated as I want to create a good and lasting impression on my team mates and contacts I meet along the way, and therefore showing commitment and a positive attitude will ensure that I sustain a high standard of commitment throughout my working career.
My placement experiences so far have also developed my reliability and dependability. Each week I attend all the school events and ensure that I follow up on press releases and social media, and think this is standing me in good stead for my upcoming months on placement.
Focusing on my main areas to develop over my placement, I highlighted 'Decision Making and Patience' as two which I need to develop. These two skills were established from psychometric test prior to placement, and I'm working hard to develop these skills. I'm working on my decision making skills more now, and thinking about my options more so and not rushing into my first thoughts. For example, I'm asking for thoughts from teams members on types of content they want on social media and the website, and also in the press releases, and this is developing my patience when making key decisions. I hope this continues to develop through my placement, and I will blogging my thoughts with critical analysis throughout.
When reflecting back upon my experiences on placement, I have been using some of the 'Chimp Paradox Mind Management' theory at times. I consider my options before I make a decision and weight up the best outcomes. This is allowing me to control my 'inner chimp' more and helping me to develop my decision making and patience skills. I'm also using a Active and also Reflective Learning Style on Kolbs Experiential Learning chart. I'm thinking more about my tasks in a reflective way, and as an active learning style when I'm placement, when I'm asked to carry out various tasks. This is also developing Schon's concept of 'reflection on action', whereby I'm looking back at my placement experiences and assessing my views on the experience. I feel that more critical analysis will need to be done throughout my placement, but as I haven't been on placement for too long, there will be a lot more critical analysis to come in the forthcoming months due to a lot more responsibility in various duties.
In the upcoming weeks I will be blogging a lot more with regards to the new website page, Facebook page, and my experiences upon my time on placement. In my upcoming blog I will be talking about what is next for my placement and upcoming events and duties which I will be carrying out between February and July.
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