11. Paired Task

In assignment two for this unit we were assigned partners and we asked to work as a pair to different ways to communicate with people and how to overcome any barriers that you may come across when trying to communicate. Separately we both did our own PowerPoint that included three effective techniques that help improve communication and also three barriers that you may come across when trying to communicate and how to overcome them. We sent our PowerPoint to our partner and they gave us feedback on what we needed to change. Finally we made the changes and combined the two PowerPoints to make a paired presentation about effective communication skills. The quality of the wok we produced at the end of the task was of a good standard. We had both put 3 techniques, barriers and how to overcome barriers each. We had both written in good detail and described 6 different techniques to good communication skills on our slideshow and then we had wrote 6 barriers in good detail with a sufficient explanation on how to overcome these barriers.

When working with my partner I had found this a new experience as I was able to work on something that I hadn't done before with someone who works differently from myself. When working with my partner it was effective as I was an activist learner and also so was my partner. This was good because we both were open minded about the work we were doing together and could easily talk to the other about something if we were having trouble. We were both able to change our slides without any hesitation as the feedback we gave each other was sufficient and we were able to work with each other to sort out the changes.

When working with my partner I found that it was easy to talk with him about what techniques and barriers we both were going to do as we could email each other about it easily. Also we easily managed to successfully give each other our PowerPoints and then the PowerPoints with feedback using our email without any hassle. As we were both activist learners we could easily confront our partner about a change the needed to be made and we then made the changes easily without any hassle as we knew it was the right thing to do.

One thing that could have been improved about our presentation is about the insufficient resources needed to make hasty changes. As we both could easily tell one another about the changes that needed to make we faced the problem of not knowing how to make the changes and we did not have enough information. Another thing that could be improved could be that some of the changes that we made were not necessary and we could improve next time by not making too many changes to our presentation.