Consultancy in Practice: Learning and Skill Development for Career Success

CONSULTANCY IN
PRACTICE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REREFENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Knowledge and skills are one of the most important things which are required to be
present within an individual which further helps them to grow within their careers (Forray and et.
al., 2017). It is extremely important for individuals to identify skills which are required to be
developed within them or is required to be enhanced. This report will focus upon process of
learning and skill development in order to achieve success within one’s own career.
TASK 1
Working within a team solving client’s business problems helped me in learning various
kinds of new things and also helped in developing new skills. Working so such kind of projects
also helped me in identifying skills that I need to develop. In order to evaluate learning and skills
developed, I will be using Kolb’s reflective cycle model. Kolb’s reflective cycle model is a kind
of model which is also known as experimental learning which helps in reviewing, analysing and
evaluating one’s own experience in a better manner. This cycle consists of four stages of
learning.
Concrete experience: At this stage physical experience of an individual is reflected (Kolb and
Kolb, 2018). At this stage I will be reflecting skills that I have developed or enhanced as a result
of the project. There were various kinds of skills that were developed while working within this
project. One of the main skills that was developed within this duration of the project was team
working skills. I learned the way in which one should work within a team effectively and
efficiently so that final target aim or objective of the team can be developed. Before this project
there were very few team working activities within which I have participated in less team
activities because of which I had least knowledge of working efficiently within a team. I have
also developed written communication skills as working within a team we were required to daily
write a report of our findings and learning and lastly, we were also required to prepare a
documentation of final report of the project the way in which we resolved client’s problems.
Reflective observation: At this stage description of the experience is explained (Watson and et.
al., 2016). Here I will explain about skills and learning that I did not know earlier before the
project even started. My communication skills were not so strong at the starting of the project.
Working with the team members helped me in enhancing my communication skills with the help
of which I was able to communicate my ideas to other team members. At the starting of the
project my problem- solving skills were not good. Working on this project also helped me in
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