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My name is akashdeep singh

◦Senior secondary education

◦Delhi Public school

◦Graduated in Commerce

◦2021-2023

◦Bachelor of interior

◦designer

◦Delhi public school

◦Graduated in interior designer

My dream job is architecture

◦A skilled architect who is passionate about designing elegant yet practical places and has a good eye for aesthetics.knowledgeable about working with customers to realize their ideas through creative design solutions

◦besides architecture.I'm interested in a few different home design and photography-related pastimes.
I get a lot of energy from these things and can unwind with them in my free time. I enjoy and feel content while I'm working on these projects because they allow me to express myself, start something new, and let all of my creativity flow.

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Year 1-2: Assistant Designer / Design Intern

Skills Acquired:

Attention to Detail & Aesthetics: Start to develop a sense of design elements and visual harmony.

Design Software: Gain proficiency in software like AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Adobe Creative Suite.

Year 3-4: Junior Designer / Design Associate

Skills Acquired:

Design Development: Transition from assisting to actively contributing to the design process.

Client Interaction: Learn how to handle client feedback and revise designs accordingly.

Year 5-7: Mid-Level Designer

Skills Acquired:

Strategic Thinking: Begin to conceptualize and implement design strategies that align with business goals.

Project Management: Learn to manage a design project independently from start to finish, including client interaction and budget management.

Year 8-10: Senior Designer / Lead Designer

Skills Acquired:

Leadership & Team Management: Build skills in leading and mentoring teams of designers.

Advanced Problem-Solving: Apply sophisticated creative and practical solutions to complex design challenges.

Year 10+ : Design Director / Design Principal

Skills Acquired:

High-Level Strategy: Develop and execute long-term creative strategies for the organization.

Organizational Leadership: Manage larger teams and projects across various areas of the business.

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In fact, the interaction of communication, culture, and work defines how good individuals work together, understand each other, and attain common objectives. Let's see these explained:

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Verbal: It deals with the communication of words, either spoken or written.

Non Verbal:Understanding body language, facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice, and posture defines how messages are perceived.

Digital: Most work these days is done around emails, messaging applications, and video calls. This in turn affects the nature of interaction between the members of a team working across time zones and borders.

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Culture simply refers to the values, norms, behaviors, and ways of doing things that characterize a people. The work culture would involve:

National Culture: Different countries have their own ways of communicating and a way of expecting others to communicate. For instance, some western cultures appreciate direct communication while others-most Asian cultures-believe in communicating indirectly so as not to hurt the feelings of others in order to maintain harmony.

Corporate Culture: Every organization has a unique way of doing things that is inspired by leadership styles, company values, and the nature of the industry.

Sub-cultures: Within a single organization, departments or teams vary in cultures.

3. Work:

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Work:

At the workplace, culture and communication interwoven decide the fashion in which the following: Teams function; Leaders guide and inspire employees; Conflicts are managed; Innovative thinking and creativities are built upon. How Does Culture Affect Workplace Communication?

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This is a barrier that arises when team members speak different languages, leading to miscommunication. Miscommunication resulting from language barriers could, therefore, be misinterpretation or an error in any work process.

High-context vs. low-context communication: Whereas much is communicated by context, by non-verbal cues, and by shared experiences in high-context cultures-for example, Japan and China-direct, explicit verbal communication is required in the low-context cultures-for example, the USA and Germany.

Power Distance: High power distance cultures may have very hierarchical communication, whereby juniors may not feel comfortable even to speak with superiors. Contrasting to this may be a low power distance culture; for example, Scandinavian countries have more free-flowing and egalitarian communication.

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here exist two most important forms of interaction: verbal and non-verbal, both of which play a very important role in human communication. An overview is given below:

1. Verbal Communication

Verbal communication is one in which the information is being communicated through the use of spoken or written language to express ideas, thoughts, or information. It comes in several forms:

Verbal Communication: It includes face-to-face interactions, calls, speeches, presentations, and many others. The tone, pace, and loudness of the spoken words are all key to effective verbal communication.

Written Communication: It includes emails, SMS, reports, and letters. Word selection, sentence usage, and grammatical construction provides unique meaning to the conveyed message .

Basic Elements:

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Language: The language and dialect itself.

Vocabulary: The word choices are formal and clear.

Tone and Inflection: The tone may convey anger, excitement, or calm.

Volume and Pace: The volume may be raised or the pace slowed to emphasize the key message or to show urgency.

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Non-verbal communication is the conveyance of messages without words. It accompanies verbal communication and can make it more emphatic or contradictory. It includes:

Body Language: The gestures, posture, and facial expressions finish the message.

Eye Contact: Eye contact or avoidance thereof can speak volumes about confidence, truthfulness, or unease.

Facial Expressions: A smile, a frown, or an eyebrow raise speaks volumes of feelings.

Gestures: Hand movements, head nods, or even a shrug of the shoulder can speak volumes.

Proxemics: The use of space and distance to communicate includes a person being close to another person or keeping away, which again affects the use of interpretation.

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Haptics: Touch, as in a hand-shake or a pat on the back, conveys friendliness and warmth, affection and love, or authority and control. Appearance: How a person looks - facial expression, dress, posture, and body shape - can often carry social and cultural information. Paralanguage: This refers to the non-verbal aspects that accompany speech, including tone, pitch, or hesitation sounds ("uh," "um"). RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION Both forms of communication can be combined; the non-verbal elements may sometimes contradict or reinforce the verbal messages.

By this, it means that effective communicators make their verbal and non-verbal signals congruent to convey a certain message in clarity and consistency. The ability to understand and master both verbal and non-verbal communications makes all the difference in assuring successful interactions across different social, cultural, and professional contexts.

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1. Key Learnings: Oh this has thrown up some interesting issues: Lessons in active listening and empathy in communication. Observing body language adds to the knowledge repertory.

2. Effective Strategies: Rapport building by using questions. Where does reflective listening fit in when validating the feelings of others?

3. Challenges Faced: Conflicts arise, and they are hard to manage. Procrastination to speak my mind.

4. Handling Challenges: Developed capacity on conflict resolution mechanisms. This helped them to participate in role-playing drills in order to increase their self-esteem.

5. Skills Utilized: In handling the issues I find empathy and patience were very important especially during debates. I have also been able to express myself as am assertiveness oriented.

6. Feedback Received: Pressure to become more aggressive. Proposed strategies to enhance the part to make, enhance, part, and maintain clear communication.

7. Future Applications: Keep on the exercising in the art of active listening. We need to be spending more time over controlling conflicts well enough.

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1. Key Learnings: Helpful in identifying that preparation for interview is paramount and should entail having carried out some research. The importance of gestures and eye contact.

2. Effective Strategies: Interviewing activity where the students and the faculty answer mock interview questions. In this unit, answers are to be formulated based on the conducting of a factual analysis with the help of the STAR method.

3. Challenges Faced: Interview anxiety, often felt during an interview. The ability to answer questions seems to be a very frail property since simple questions are not enough to test it: one needs to try to ask questions that the person has never encountered before.

4. Handling Challenges: Utilized relaxation procedures before the interviews. Paused, reflected and then gave answers as to why they reached those answers with regards to difficult questions.

5. Skills Utilized: Effective listening to be able to ask questions. Patients’ empathy to be able to relate with the interviewers.

6. Feedback Received: Positive comments on confidence, and decide on clarity. Recommendations on how best to develop answers to offer more information on responses.

7. Future Applications: Keep on carrying out mock interviews. Special attention needs to be paid to my reaction and the way I tell a story within its framework.

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An effective meeting is one that has a clear purpose, well-defined agenda, and focused participation. It begins with setting objectives, ensuring all attendees understand the desired outcomes. Time management is crucial, with discussions kept on track and relevant. Active listening and respectful communication foster collaboration and problem-solving. Decisions are made with input from all participants, and actions are assigned with specific deadlines. Follow-up is key, with meeting notes or minutes shared to track progress. Overall, effective meetings are productive, efficient, and goal-oriented, leaving participants informed, aligned, and motivated to act on the outcomes.

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Leadership as an element in Teams

Library leadership is far from being a simple executive or managerial position of resources and responsibilities. It is about showing people the right direction and building a culture where anyone working in the team would receive help from others. Sweeney (2019) has described a good team leader in a library context as a visionary as well as an empathetic leader, able to guide a team’s endeavors in the general direction of the ideals of a library and at the same time align their work with the achievements of this mission. The decision making does not exist in a vacuum: leadership is also about setting people’s emotions ablaze, promoting cooperation and (\#) settling their disputes if any.

Research by Chang & Hsu, 2018 reveals executive behaviors affect team outcomes in libraries, and TL has the highest impact. Instead of continuing retaining an organization’s self-interests, constructive or transformational leaders enhance creativity, cooperation, and the level of participation among the team members efficiently. On the other hand, unclear leadership creates confusion, demoralization among participants and work ineffectiveness within the teams.

Working in groups and teams as a concept in libraries

This is because teamwork is bliss in organizations, especially in the line of library services, which require multi tasking in order to deliver information resources and customer services. Hughes et al, (2020) highlighted factors as big determinants to good functioning of teams in the library, they include; communication, trust and shared vision. Because organizational teams that display purpose and appreciation for one another’s skills are more capable of overcoming tasks and meeting the library’s objectives.

In addition, it is the case when library work is team-based that is why members of the team might need to combine various skills and expertise. Good working teams always capitalize on every member strengths and should encourage everyone to contribute towards the overall goal. This cooperative approach entails different workers to think freely and encourage problem solving ideas to come out. No matter it is for a special exhibition, using new technologies or for organizing library programs, effective teamwork lays down the foundation of success.

The Challenges of Leading and Working in Teams

Nevertheless, there are certain issues one need to consider when leading and working in teams containing different people within libraries even if there are numerous advantages in teamwork. Of all the challenges, conflict management is one of the complications emanating from differences in opinion, approach to working or personal rivalry. As Wilson (2017) pointed out, leaders should deliberately manage conflicts and strive to prevent problems from arising from the conflicts, there is a need to lead conflicts in a manner that they are not able to grow, into more serious matters.

Another challenge sometimes has to work with a multitier team. Library staff is diverse and its members have different levels of experience. A leader is required to fine-tune these disparities so that nobody is left out, or their effort unnoticed by the entire group. Several of these problems can be resolved through team-building activities, company feedback sessions, and professional updates.

Conclusion

Therefore, strong leadership and proper implementation of team work should carry a strong emphasis in the libraries. The management of human capital is an important aspect of leadership; leaders should be able to control as well as motivate people or staff with adequate regard. Via identifying what comprises good leadership and team work, members of the library staff will be in a position to handle their relations in complex way and thus enhance the success of the library. Libraries are not simply sources of information, but active collaborative work environments, which require teamwork in order to accomplish the mission.

References

Chang, W. H., & Hsu, Y. C. (2018). Leadership styles and team performance in public libraries: A study on the impact of transformational and transactional leadership. Journal of Library Administration, 58(3), 215-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2018.1458713

Hughes, J., Parsons, M., & Smith, E. (2020). Building effective teams in libraries: Strategies for success. Library Management, 41(2), 103-116. https://doi.org/10.1108/LM-09-2019-0125

Sweeney, J. (2019). Leadership in libraries: Empowering teams to achieve success. Library Leadership & Management, 33(1), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v33i1.7051

Wilson, P. (2017). Navigating conflict in library teams: A practical guide for managers. Journal of Library Management, 38(4), 254-261. https://doi.org/10.1108/JLM-11-2016-0125

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The overall experience was enriching, offering opportunities for growth and learning. Using Padlet was a great tool for collaboration and organizing ideas in a visually engaging way. Building the portfolio helped showcase progress, skills, and reflections, enhancing my learning journey. The communication course was insightful, improving my understanding of effective interaction and enhancing both verbal and non-verbal communication skills. The final reflection allowed me to assess my development, recognizing strengths and areas for improvement. Overall, the course provided valuable tools for both personal and professional growth.