Jacob Hawks Professional portfolio

Goals I Set For Myself

• Listening Skills: Soaking up every bit of information and wisdom that my supervisor gave me, trying to connect a deeper understanding of what was going on rater than just what was happening on the surface. For example, understanding the types of muscles that were being messaged rather than just saying "leg muscles" This helped a lot in my understanding.

• Asking Questions: This was one of the most important parts in my experience at COS, knowing that you don't know all the answers and understanding that there is so much more to learn then just what was on the surface of the lesson. There were many things about the human body and the way it reacts to certain movements that it took many weeks for me to get the general basis. However without asking questions and getting extra help it would have taken much longer than this

• Executing Tasks: In my time at COS there were many simple tasks that i had to execute in order to get the full experience of the job, for example working the tens units, understanding the proper layers of a ice pack with certain areas of the body, operating the ultrasounds, printing out at home workouts for patients, getting specific messaging tools, setting up machines such as the elliptical, etc... This was a big part of getting the full experience that I wanted to get from COS and throughout the year i really did get the full respect and trust of the staff.