For this discussion, post your PowerPoint presentation and one-page handout for your fellow learners to review. In addition to sharing these items, provide your own analysis of strengths and weaknesses you see in yourself when it comes to communicating across various stakeholder groups. Provide 2-3 additional recommendations on how you might address the weaknesses in future professional development endeavors.

Response Guidelines

Review the self-assessments of two of your peers, and respond to at least one in depth. In your response, address the following:

· How did your self-assessment of your skills compare with those of your peer? What were the similarities and differences?

· Provide two additional recommendations you would suggest to address the identified weaknesses.


As you assemble your assignments into yourePortfolio, consider how the various aspects of human services professional standards lead to results in the field. With the pace of daily work and expectations in all aspects of our lives, this may not be a topic to which you normally devote a great deal of time.

For this assignment, step back and take a higher-level viewpoint. Write a synthesis of what you have learned about each of the areas in your portfolio (listed below) and include the synthesis in that tab of your ePortfolio. Include in each synthesis a description of how the work in your portfolio supports what you have learned in each area. Each synthesis should require 1-2 pages to complete so that the overall length of this paper could be as brief as five pages or as long as ten pages.

Once you have created a draft, select the synthesis you wrote for one aspect and take advantage of the first discussion in this unit to obtain peer feedback. You can then use the feedback to enhance your assignment before submitting it to your instructor.

ePortfolio Sections

· Helping Relationships.

· The Field of Human Services.

· Theoretical Models.

· The Multidisciplinary Approach to Practice.

· Moving Forward - Professional Development Goals.

Submit a document that includes all five of your syntheses in the assignment area by the end of this unit. Be sure to make your ePortfolio accessible to your instructor so that the instructor can review the work that you refer to in the synthesis.

Requirements

· Written communication: Written communication that is free of errors that detract from the overall message.