Prior to beginning my placement with South Ribble School Sports Partnership, I highlighted a personal aim of mine to develop my understanding of digital communications, and then put them into practice. This is where this came into place. Since beginning my placement back in October 2014, I have been attending regular school sports events across the borough of South Ribble, where I have been taking photos, videos and gained feedback from the teachers and pupils on the events. With this content, I have been implementing them into video montages and onto our SSP Twitter Page, and our website page.
One platform South Ribble SSP use which I didn't think was very effective was their website. This was due to the inaccessibility of accessing the website, as and when you wanted to. In addition, there was a lack of innovative features you could implement into the website, and therefore lacked personal creativity and imagination.
Therefore as part of my development of 'creativity and imagination' , as well as independent working and time management, I asked the team members and my supervisor whether I could create a whole new website platform for the partnership. This provided me with a lot of personal responsibility, as I was the only one in charge of the website. However at various team meetings I asked my fellow team members their opinions on ideas I could implement into the new website, to ensure that it was a team effort, and not solely on my preferences. This communication between my team mates helped to develop the personal skills of 'decision making and patience'. These are two skills I initially highlighted as part of my personal skills that I need to develop throughout my placement and develop my employability as a whole. As highlighted in my blog in a previous post, I carried out two psychometric tests, which produced the results of me conveying a very motivated and organised individual, but lack patience and decision making at times. Therefore ensuring I communicated with my teams mates regularly helped developed these two personal skills, and therefore a personal area I believed I have developed.
Linking this in the Mind Management model 'The Chimp Paradox' as seen in one of my previous posts on blog, by using the Chimp Paradox model, you can control your 'inner chimp', aka your mind and how your mind working, and what part of your brain is controlling what emotion. By reading this book throughout my placement experience I have gained a ability to control my mind and 'chimp' so that any ideas I have are thoroughly considered from different perspectives, to ensure I obtain the best outcome. Therefore I applied this chimp paradox model into creating the new partnership website for example, whereby I ensured if i had an inquiries, I could clarify with my team mates to obtain the best outcome. Not only did I use this model in this experience, but in all of my tasks. Throughout each task I asked myself, what am I doing, is this relevant, do I need anything else, and what the the outcome be? I would work through each section and if I had any problems, such as, content I need to include in a press release, or post on our twitter page, I could ask my team mates and ensure that I am producing the best content. This is how I controlled my patience and decision making, and therefore a skills I believe I have developed considerably throughout my placement experiences.
So from developing on from this, in the end I created a band new South Ribble School Sports Partnership Website. The website is now all up and running and is a source to obtain a background to the partnership, what we do, our aims, our schools in the borough, contacts, live twitter feeds regarding upcoming and past events, and most of all, promoting our school sports partnership events. After each event I will upload a simple overview of the event along with a picture slideshow of participants and a video montage. This website is only in its early stages of development, and despite being published, there is a lot more content which will be added to make it a more engaging platform for our target markets to follow us on. In addition, our new website has direct links to our SSP Twitter Page and our Facebook Page, where you can access all of our latest information and events being held.
I am really happy with my performance so far on the social media and website side of things, as it has enabled me to convey my creativity and imagination, and personally developed my time management skills and professionalism, as I ensure I carry out all of my designated tasks to a professional standard. This task has also developed my team working skills, such as when I communicate with my team members on their opinions, and this helped me to develop an self-awareness of my thoughts and their thoughts. I will come onto self-awareness, emotional intelligence and Johair's Window in my upcoming post, and justify with evidence this particular development in my overall employability :)
Below is the links to our Twitter Page, Facebook Page and our Website.
- SSP Twitter - https://twitter.com/southribblessp
- SSP Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/southribbleschoolsportspartnership?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
- SSP Website - http://www.southribblessp.co.uk/
In addition underneath is a a few screen shots as to what our Titter and Facebook Pages look like, and also the old website image to the brand new website!
Old Website:
New Website:
SSP Twitter Page:
SSP Facebook Page:
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