Working with others and improving one's own learning and performance are highly essential skills in social work. In this essay, I will reflect on how I developed these two skills and what I need to do to improve them. Before I started university, I already had the ability to work with others. As I worked with other people who were on the same course as me in sixth form and also did a voluntary internship which required people to work together. Before starting university, my work with others was sometimes effective and sometimes not very effective depending on the people I worked with, on the topic or area we needed to work on. In sixth grade, I got along well with everyone in my class and working with them was not difficult. For example, once, me and two other students had to give a PowerPoint presentation on smoking. We worked together to plan what information will be included in the PowerPoint and who will write what, what other materials we will need, such as flyers, and who will get them. So before creating the PowerPoint presentation, we planned everything together. Once the PowerPoint was created, we decided how many slides each of us would read and talk about. So here I worked effectively with others and our PowerPoint presentation was a success. However, there were times when I did not work effectively with others, particularly during my voluntary internship. I volunteered at a daycare. I loved working with the kids there, but I didn't get along very well with the staff. The staff didn't interact with me as much and most of them usually gave me orders, like to get something. When it came to working with staff, such as when preparing the snack for the middle of the paper, balancing my time. For example, work two hours, then spend an hour with friends. This would allow me to do my job or achieve my goals and meet other demands. In conclusion, I believe I have developed both skills in working with others and improving your own learning and performance. But I need to work on these skills to be able to use them more effectively; and I also recognize that I will not develop them in a short period of time. I will need to work on the strategies I mentioned throughout the assignment in order to improve these skills. It may take a long time to progress in these skills, but what I need to remember and implement are the strategies I mentioned. Also during this process I will be able to find out if these strategies work on me or not and if there are other strategies that can help me improve my skills..