Developing Essential Skills for Academic Success

The provided document is a self-assessment guide that helps students identify their strengths and weaknesses in essential skills required for academic and professional success. The guide assesses skills such as time management, critical thinking, problem-solving, oral and written communication, information literacy, and numeracy. It also provides a checklist to evaluate student's ability to work productively with others, find out what is expected of them, and structure assignments effectively.

Employability Skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Set of own responsibilities and performance objectives........................................................3
1.2 Analysis of Own effectiveness against defined objectives....................................................4
1.3 Suggestion for improvement..................................................................................................6
1.4 Motivational techniques to enhance quality of performance.................................................7
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8
P2.1 Solution to the problem related to Work.............................................................................8
P 2.2 Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels................10
P 2.3 Determine effective time management plan:....................................................................12
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................13
P 3.1 Role of team member to perform work in attainment of goals.........................................13
P3.2 Analyse team dynamic.......................................................................................................14
P3.3 Suggest alternative ways to complete tasks and achieve team goals.................................16
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................16
P4.1 Tools and methods for developing solution to problems...................................................16
P4.2 Appropriate strategy for resolving a particular problem...................................................17
P4.3 Potential impact on the business of implementing the strategy.........................................18
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................20

INTRODUCTION
In present world, company focus to hire skilled and professional staff member that will
help to achieve the organisational goal. Employability skills can be defined as the qualities that
are required by individuals in order to get desired job profile (Employability skills, 2018). It is
very important for the persons to have some unique skills and knowledge so that employers may
get impress and select them for a specific job. Good communication, team work, problem
solving, planning, learning and self motivation are some skills that are required for the
individuals to get a desired job. Likewise, with the positive technical understanding and
knowledge that help to disclose the wide range of abilities and skills that are required by a
business expert from their hire employees. In this project report certain information about wide
range of own responsibilities and performance objective towards “Travel lodge” travel company.
In this project report, the everyday working needs of problem solving that help to involve
the determination of problem, strategies to resolve these problem and then evaluation of the
outcome of the solution through reflective practice are discussed. Report also shows the
understanding about the working that help to work with other staff member. And at last the
reports discuss the ways that help to develop the interpersonal and transferable skills that help to
manage various tasks within company.
TASK 1
1.1 Set of own responsibilities and performance objectives
Human resource manager is an important part for company and managers are obliged to
manage the employees and staff of organisation effectively and efficiently. As the human
resource of company is obliged to find out their own responsibilities in company and set
performance standard in order to achieve them. Own responsibilities of my as a HR manager are
discussed below:
Remuneration:
This is most important and crucial duty for the mine is to determine and provide
remuneration to the employees according to their capacity and capabilities. It is very important
for manager to give them incentives and other benefits to the employees who give the better
performance. It is important to develop faithful relationship among employees in order to attain
future goals.

Training and development:
This is also a duty of my as a HR manager of company so that employees can do their job
effectively and efficiently. Training needs to be provided by the human resource manager of
Travelogue to their new employees so that they will be able to perform given task.
Performance Objectives:
Maintaining healthy relationship among employees:
I as a human resource manager of company should concentrate on maintaining healthy
relationship among the employees of Travelogue. As better coordination among the employees
will leads to achievement of overall objective of organisation. As to develop healthy relationship
among employee’s with me, I should organise some social and get together events for
employees. Manager makes sure that each employee of company will work accordingly to the
provided training so that healthy relationship is maintained among all of them. As I had the main
role to run in effective manner and guide each employees for the betterment of business
operation.
Time management:
The time management is very important for every organisation and their employees in
order to accomplish goals. As I needs to take look over the employees to perform their work
within given time limit. This is the main role of mine as a manager to as they have to ensure that
time must be utilised in proper manner that will increase the efficiency and productiveness of
other employees working on a project. Therefore I am able to manage time so that other activity
are operated well and time can be used in training and development.
1.2 Analysis of Own effectiveness against defined objectives
There are some responsibilities and duty of human resource manager of company which
needs to be taken care at the time of running business. It is very important for manager to
perform their duties effectively in order to smooth functioning of business operations. The
effectiveness of human resource manager affects the functioning of employees and organisation
is discussed below:
Determination of policies and strategies of Human Resource:
The human resource manager of company formulates strategies and policies which need
to be followed by the employees. So the HR should be very effective while formulating plan and
policies. Staff and employees of Travelogue needs to follow these guideline while working.

Communication:
Communication is a basic but crucial skill which needs to be possessed by HR manager
for communicating effectively across the company. This helps in increasing performance of
company by improving operations. The Travelogue can attain effectiveness by communicating
their roles and duties with each other.
Employment legislation:
There are various employment legislation which are governed by the government and
needs to followed by employees of company. As the HR manager of company I am obliged to
ensure that legislation related to the employment is being followed or not.
Ethics:
Ethics refers to deciding upon what is right and wrong in organisation as HR manager of
company should ensure ethical practices by employees in organisation.
Adequate administration at office premises:
This is very important for manager of Travelogue to manage operations at workplace
with effectively and efficiently. Employees should feel safe while working at office premises. It
is the duty of company to provide safe working environment to employees.
Appraisal System:
The individual needs to make proper use of appraisal tool in order to accomplish
maximum objectives within given time period. As employees of Travelogue should evaluate
their own capacity and ability in better manner and this will be more effectively helpful for them
to make proper use of those skills. As HR can use the appraisal system also like bonus payment
to employees and promotion to the hard working employees of company.
Good skills:
Communication: I am able to effectively communicate with other team member in my
company so that help me to know vision and prospects of other employees. This also help me to
transfer useful management message to worker and vice versa so that conflicts situation could be
completely avoided.
Time management: It is one of the most important skill of mine as I am able to manage
time and complete assigned work. With this method I am to effectively increased the
productiveness of company operations and improve performance of employees.
Weak skills:

Problem solving: Certain time there are tough situation arises within company that
hamper me and I don't have the skills to deal with it. I am lacking to resolve problem that make
me frustrated and I also not able to perform my work with efficiency.
Decision Making: I also lack the skill of making decision, as an HR manager of
company I have to make different decision regarding polices and process. Thus many time I am
not able to give any decision individually and think that I need some help that is reducing mine
mental capabilities.
TRAFFIC LIGHT SKILLS AUDIT (Appendix)
1.3 Suggestion for improvement
From the above mention method I am able to improve the skills set and increase their
effectively to handle tough situation within a workplace. As a HR manager of Travelogue is I
lack the skill of problem solving and decision making so thus management tries to provide
seminars and concern that help me to overcome above mention issues. In order to increase
crucial skills I focuses on different process that are discussed below:
Providing of training and development:
Training and development is an important tool for nurturing the skills and capabilities of
mine so that I am able to perform job effectively. Board of director of Travelogue provide
training me in order to maintain effective performance and take valuable decision so that
operation can be run smoothly.
Motivational techniques:
This is the primary duty of human resource manager of Travelogue to execute different
moral boosting techniques to enhance enthusiasm of Mine. As it will be helpful for Me to
perform task on time and resolve problems that could hinder performance.
1.4 Motivational techniques to enhance quality of performance
Motivation refers to the effort which drives, desired and the energy of person which used
to activate and attain goal driven behaviours. It is an important tool for boosting morale of
employees so that they can perform their task effectively. Travelogue needs to apply some
motivational technique in their organisation in order to motivate their employees. This is very
important tool which assist organisation to improve the quality of performance of employees and
get goals achieved on time also. The tool used by every organisation according to their size and
nature of working. These are tools which are discussed below:

Creation of positive work environment:
This is a non-financial motivational tool which can be used by the Travelogue. It is
essential for employees in influencing better results for company. Employees should be given
freedom for sharing their ideas and thoughts.
Provide incentives:
Incentives are the monetary motivation which helps companies to boost their morale.
Travelogue should provide the incentives to employees who are contributing maximum to the
profit of company.
Recognise achievement:As company can give some printed certificates or trophy to the
employee so that they feel motivated and give their best in future also. Travelogue can also give
recognise team accomplishment with individual efforts. There is some self motivational factors
also such as positive thinking, self confidence and self efficiency which can help employees to
motivate.
X/Y theory:
This theory is related to human work motivation and management. In this X theory
described that significant of marked supervision, exterior complements and penalties. On the
other side theory Y determine the motivating role of job satisfaction and encourages employees
to perform different task without direct supervision.
Disadvantage of both theory:
Under X theory:
 Little opportunities for personal growth and development.
 Under theory manager are not able to perform their responsibility.
Under Y theory:
 The main disadvantage is that Jobs are not performed faster.
 It is consider to be time consuming.
Maslow's Hierarchy Theory : This theory has given by Abhraham Maslow and it
emphasis to the essential needs of a person. Manager of Tesco can use this theory to encourage
its workers so that they can perform better. There are different stages of this theory that are Self
actualization, Esteem needs, Social needs, Safety needs, Physiological needs.
Disadvantage:

 It is observed that theory may not give the best result in real life.
 Basically the theory is based on a small sample of subjects.
From the above mention theory it has been suggested that HR manager of Travelogue must apply
the concept of Maslow's Hierarchy Theory so that employees are motivated at each level and
gets promoted so they work for the betterment of company.
TASK 2
P2.1 Solution to the problem related to Work.
In an organisation there are various problems can be arises which can hamper the efficiency and
productivity. There are various problems which are identified such as:
Communication : Employees in the organisation does not have proper information
because leader does not provide relevant informations which are essential to complete the task
effectively. As a result productivity of Travel lodge can be affected.
Coordination: Another problem is lack of coordination between different persons of
distinct departments such as: purchase, sales, marketing etc. As a result task can not be
performed effectively in the organisation.
Lack and training : There is another problem is lack of training as a result employees
are not able to perform as per the requirements of Travel lodge. So efficiency and productivity
has been affected.
Solutions to resolve problem
 To enhance the communication among the different departments company can set a
formal communication channel in which mention the flow of information. So that all
persons get the required and sufficient information.
 To enhance the coordination there is team building activities can be organised so that
strong relations can be establish which can make healthy coordination and objectives can
be accomplish.
 To enhance the skills and knowledge of employees Travel lodge can conduct the training
and development session so that required skills can be developed and efficiency can be
improve.
Problem solving: In Hotel there are number of problem that may reduce the number of
visitor during a time period. Recently in travel lodge, there is a major issue that need to be

resolved as soon as possible. There is an ongoing issue in travel lodge that is related to lack of
skilled personal and other staff member. And another issue is large communication gap between
the staff person of Travel lodge. So to overcome this problem, management follow some basic
steps that are discussed below:
 Problem Analysis: For better functioning company first of all focus to determine all
possible problem that may arise in future and reduce the performance of company. This
issue is basically related to company politics, communication gap, lack of skilled staff
etc. So HR manager of Travel lodge analyse the two basic problem and focuses to resolve
them as soon as possible. They need to build values, norms; beliefs etc. adhere by all
employees.
 Researching changes: This mostly effect the decision making ability of organisation
thereby utilize for the overall performance. The main reason of problem is because of
different culture and backgrounds of diffident employees that may develop variation in
their thinking.
Getting best solution: In this manager generate the multiple solutions and select the best
that help to overcome problem. HR manager has applied six strategy to resolve the issue. This
strategy is coined by Edward De Bono's and discussed below:
 The first step is “white hate rule” related to interpretation of data that need to develop
valuable outcome. In this HR manager use to focus on existing information and analyse
the historical trends to give best decision.
 “Red hate” rule state that manager needs to observe the issue and make sure how
employee will react to these situation. They also need to ensure that every employee must
understand their viewpoint.
 Black hat is one of the most effective hat that is used to analyse the problem and
determine where the individual are causing problems and find the best solution of them.
 Red hat implies and discuss the intuition and felling. This help worker of company in
sharing their likes, fear hates etc.
 Green hat is used to develop creativity of employees. This point involves the possibility
of creating innovative ideas and introducing the new concept for betterment of company.
 In last yellow hat intend brightness and optimism that is further helpful to provide the
benefit and value for travel lodge (Durrani and Tariq, 2012).

P 2.2 Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels.
In business world, communication plays an important role in transferring of useful
information form manager to employees and vice versa.
Effective communication: It is basically divided in two parts that are discussed below:
 Verbal: In this mode the useful information is shared with other staff member by face to
face communication. It is consider being fast and easy of transferring important message.
 Non-verbal: This method is most reliable source of communication that is done through
unspoken words. Use of different symbols and body language is important part that used
to provide posture of employees.
Formal: In this process the information flow in both directions vertically and
horizontally. So formal feedback assist travel lodge to overcome different issues that may reduce
the performance of employees.
Informal: It is described as unsanctioned informal exchange of useful data between
workers and always flows in right path. So this must be avoided by the manager of Travel lodge.
Interpersonal skills: In general there are different kinds of skills that are carried by
worker in Travel lodge. These are mentioned below:
 Working with other: It is consider being effective method that is taken into account for
delivering particular result for company so that employees work in team in order to attain
the goals and resolve problem.
 Negotiating skills: This skill set is used to develop and maintain positive relationship
among the different staff member. This issue may be of any kind such as problem with
salary, bonus and working hours.
Letter
Address:
Date: December 28th, 2018
The Senior Management
Travel Lodge Hotel, London
Respected sir,
From the above research it has been examine that there are two issue that are
communication gap and lack of skilled employees faced by Hotel. These may be the reason for
reduction in performance and profitability of Travel lodge. So to resolve this, the best manner is

to provide best training and education program to entire staff member to increase the skill and
knowledge. This would help to overcome different problems that may arise in company.
Manager of Travel Lodge hotel need to review the performance on regular basis that help to
resolve the future issues. So it is advised that kindly consider all feature into this matter.
Sincerely
Name
Memo
Travel Lodge Hotel
To: Every staff member
From: Superior
Date: 26th December, 2018
Subject: Problem in company
There have been two ongoing problems in Hotel that is related to lack of skilled labour
and communication gap. The found that number of staff member are lacking in skill to deal with
digital techniques and system and there is large communication gap. This can only be solved by
giving proper training such as two hour extra session for staff member in which ways to deal
with digital techniques are taught. Apart from this, manager of travel lodge needs to give
valuable support to each staff member that helps them to develop in faster manner.
P 2.3 Determine effective time management plan:
It is very important for companies to make proper use of time while operating different
activities. So Time management plan consider to be important process of planning related to the
usage of time that must be spent on particular business operation (Gbadamosi and et. al., 2015).
Some of them are discussed below:
 Prioritising workload: At this step the manager of travel lodge is used to collect the
entire information about the total number of task that are assigned to different worker.
That will be helpful to provide assess value to their task work in effective manner.
 Setting work objective: This step is related to setting of particular structure for
company team. These structure must be clear and understandable so that valuable result
can be accomplish at right time. This seems to be done by taken into account for
upcoming growth.

 Making and keeping appointments: It is very crucial for company to keep record of
different appointments. In case if manager of travel lodge is used to make an
appointment with their staff member than future activities are managed and executed
well giving healthier result.
 Working steadily: It is very important to make working of employee steadily that help
in getting better result for travel lodge hotel. Because positive outcome help in resolving
any conflicts and provide sustainability in upcoming time.
 Time for learning: The time management focuses on giving continuous training and
learning to all other department. This help them to understand the allotted task and help
in doing their roles and job in effective manner so that they can deal any future
upcoming contingency.
SMART is well developed tool that is used by the manager to plan and attain the specific goals
within an organisation. It is defined as Specific, measurable, Achievable, Relevant and time
bound.
 Specific: This is basically related to asking of five W question so that analyse related to
particular result can be done. What, Why, Who, Where and Which are helpful in
obtaining a result in effective manner.
 Measurable: In this stage the measurement progress towards the achievement of goal is
performed. Thus manager of travelogue use to measure the exact time and efficiency of
worker taken to reach a goal.
 Achievable: It is observed that manager while setting an objective or goal uses their
skills in proper manner so that it can be achieved easily.
 Relevant: It is described that specific goals that are related to team, boss or organisation
will the needed support. This will benefit to travelogue as all worker work in relevance to
common goal of company.
 Time bound: It is very important for HR manager to fix time while setting a goals.
Otherwise it lead to mismanagement within company as employees will not work with
full efficiency.

TASK 3
P 3.1 Role of team member to perform work in attainment of goals
Working with other: In present worlds, manager use to develop effective team that will
complete task at a particular time period. So it is significant for every department of Travel lodge
to execute work effectively with one another so that future desired outcome can be attained.
There is different aspect while working with other that are beneficial for company.
Team: This is defined as group of individual that work with a common objective and
make sure to attain those objective.
Nature: It is important aspect those are unconscious force that impact the complete
direction of team behaviour and their performance (Gravells, 2010). They work are allotted as
per the nature of team working style, their personality and working relationship with other staff
member.
Group work: This is related to one of the most common activity in company as member
are formed in effective group that are interdependent and help in accomplish the goals of
company.
Nature and dynamic: This is related to the effective system of dynamic that are linked
with psychological aspect that help any group or team of company to perform task. With the
proper execution of work company achieve their goals and further help in growth.
Purpose of team:
In general to complete a task in effective and time saving manner company develop team.
In Travel lodge Hotel teams are assigned several task according to their skills and knowledge
that help in long term objective.
Flexibility adaptability of team player:
Mainly an individual employee of company is required to resolve different problem and
flexible enough so that performance of company can be improved. So manger of travel lodge
makes sure that each team member perform their job in appropriate manner that support them to
deal with different situation.
Belbin 9 Team role types:
 Plant: This is related to the valuable ideas about doing of task introduced by worker of
company.

 Resources investigation: This is related to bring innovation opportunities within a
company.
 Coordinator: They are the one who coordinate and look on different task performed by
group member.
 Shaper: These individual are one who boost worker of company to deal with contingency.
 Monitor: It is very important for manager to monitor all task and check weather are
performing in appropriate manner or not.
 Teamwork: Manger of company use to allot task to team member and make them work in
group.
 Completer: This is related to doing of assigned task according to given time period.
 Specialist: These are the one who will look on all kind of work of company and make
changes accordingly.
P3.2 Analyse team dynamic.
Types of team
Functional team : This types of team is something which is associated to a function such
as design function , purchasing function. Travel lodge has functional team in which the HR
manager is responsible to check that all function related to backhand are performed in described
manner.
Virtual team : In this type of team which is not sitting together, which do not have a
face to face interaction. As persons are different cultures, language but they put its maximum
efforts to achieve Travel lodge objectives.
Self directed team : This type of team does not formed for a specific purpose but they
come together voluntary so achieve the organisational goals of Travel lodge.
Manager of travel lodge Hotel uses Tucksman theory to analyse the team dynamic of
company. Stages of team development are as follows :
Forming: This stage is relating with team dynamics which is define by roles and
responsibilities for bringing employees together for accomplishing business goal. Manager of
travel-lodge defined the roles and job to each team member and guide them the manner sell their
services in market.
Storming: It is the stage at which maximum conflict and competition of work is done. In
this, team is focusing on goals and avoiding distraction from emotional issues (Jones, Torezani

and Luca, 2012). HR manager use to handle employees and listen their problems so that steps
can be taken to remove conflicts.
Norming: In this stage team dynamics are facilitating by leader. Members are
dynamically involving in fun and social activities. Each staff member have higher motivation
because of their knowledge, skills and behaviour. In this stage manager use to make strategies
that bring all employees together to perform task and achieve the goals in appropriate time
schedule.
Performing: This stage is related with the participation made by team dynamics for
focusing on overall achievements. Thus the main role of HR manager is to make ensure that
employees working on a project are performing their jobs in proper manner so that task could be
completed.
Adjourning: This is consider to be final stage of development of a group. Manager use
to dissolve team because the allotted work is completed and he make sure that none of company
employees feel dissatisfaction.
Team effectiveness
Team effectiveness states the capacity of a team has to accomplish the objectives which
are administered by an authorised personnel or the corporation. This type of team perform its
roles and responsibilities as per the need of company. Travel lodge has effective team because
there is a effective communication and coordination can be seen among different departments of
team persons as a result they perform their roles according the demand so that consumer can
satisfy and it can achieve its targets. So team effectiveness help the corporation to achieve
success and growth.
P3.3 Suggest alternative ways to complete tasks and achieve team goals.
In business world, there are number of ways that are helpful in completing task in
company. So the HR manager of travel lodge hotel make appropriate method that help in
accomplishment of desired aims and goals. Some of the basic ways are mentioned below:
Setting standard: This is related to set particular standard that help to perform future
task in effective manner so that better are result are generated. So HR manager of travel lodge
make proper concern with other department so that new plans and program are managed and
completed well.

Innovation: This is related to making interesting changes in different project company
and making them effectively work. Better innovation result valuable outcome to company. They
manager need to think innovatively in order to overcome different problem arising in travel
lodge Hotel. This help to complete allotted task in specific manner and achieve team goal.
Effective team: Manager need to develop a team that work with their entire potential in
order to achieve predefined goals of hotel. Member of these team work with predefined standard
and focus to improve the overall image of Hotel (Kong and Yan, 2014).
Features of effective team:
 Team member communicate in appropriate manner with manger and other staff member
so that services can be improved in travel lodge.
 They are focused to complete allotted task in best manner so that visitor of hotel get
maximum satisfaction.
Alternative ways to achieve goals:
Job rotation: Under this methods employees are rotated from one job to another at regular
interval of time so that they can perform any task in specific manner. This support employees of
Travelogue to increase the overall experience of activity so that predefined goals are attained.
Extrinsic reward: Extrinsic reward is a reward given to employee from the side of the
firm. Herein, Travelodge firm give reward in form of bonus, increase in salary, recognition etc.
This extrinsic reward motivate an employee to keep on performing effective task.
TASK 4
P4.1 Tools and methods for developing solution to problems
A problem is that situation which is unsatisfactory and causes difficulties for the people
and it requires logical thought or mathematics to resolve it. An organisation like Travel Lodge
Hotel faces many problems like high employee turnover ratio, often rise in salaries,
communication gap, lack of skilled staff etc. If Travel Lodge Hotel not analyse problems like
high employee turnover ratio or often rise in salaries then they can face many problems like bad
goodwill in the market, adverse impact on competition, delay of business process etc. The Travel
Lodge Hotel will have to identify and assess the various alternative outcomes like outsourcing of
business processes, making a standard policies for salary of the employees and basis of rise in
the salaries.

Tools for solving problems:
 The Four Frame Model: Under this manager use to divide organisation into four
frames so that problems are identified well and solution are provided in perfect
manner.
 PRIDE method: With the help of this methods manager of travelogue first of all use
to determine the problem, then the research about the factors due to which problem
arises, after that manager use to provide different ideas and solution that can be best for
problem solving, in stage of doing manager actually implement the plans that are
drawn to resolves, at last they use to evaluate the result that to check weather problems
are solved or not.
Methods for solving problems:
 Defining the problem: In this method, problem is identified and defined.
 Analysing the problem: This include analysing why problem is being incurred.
 Determining what to do: This include planning of what to do to solve the problem.
 Implementing the Plan: In this above plan is implemented to solve the problem.
 Evaluation of progress: In this evaluation of implemented plan is done and results are
analysed.
P4.2 Appropriate strategy for resolving a particular problem
In order to overcome different problem faced by Hotel manager use to make valuable and
accurate strategies. In Travel lodge there are different issues such employee turnover, lack of
skilled labour that need to be resolved. The manager applies different strategies according to the
timescales and make critical path analyse to overcome these problems. Some strategies are
discussed below:
Training and development: Manager focus to develop effective training program for
their entire staff member so that better understanding is develop among team member. And
company
Flexibility in scheduled: Manager must make sure that there must be flexibility in shift
timing of staff member that help them to work in appropriate and effective manner. Thus is help
to reduce the labour turnover of travel lodge.
Direct and indirect cost of staff turnover :

There is an ongoing problem in travelogue that is needed to be resolved as soon as
possible as it could hamper the probability and performance. Manager use to apply PRIDE
method to resolve this issues such as they first figure out the exact problem of staff turnover then
they use to record the measure reason due to which manager found that because of lack of
growth and progress staff member are not satisfied. Then they create effective strategy like
investing in employees that makes them satisfy. After that manager implement the strategy by
developing the capabilities of worker and later on the make sure that weather the existing
problem have been sorted and employees are happy again to work with company new policies.
P4.3 Potential impact on the business of implementing the strategy.
There are some potential impact found in terms of managing the organisational problem.
It is analysed that travelogue was having a problem of high leverage of staff turnover and second
issue was lack of skilled and knowledgeable employees (Rasul and Mansor, 2013). To overcome
these challenges two strategic approaches were undertaken within the organisation such as
provide flexible work schedules for controlling the staff turnover and training and development
programs to improve the skills and knowledge of employees. This is one of the essential aspects
in terms of managing the staff turnover. Managers of Travel lodge set out a flexible work
schedule strategy in which employees can frame their life cycle according to their preferable
working times. This will lead a free work place environment and provides a stress free working
conditions. It has a positive impact fall upon management structure of travel lodge to have great
staff satisfaction and delivering the work on time.
Proper training and development program structure was prepared by managers to
improve the efficiency and performance of employees. After implementing this strategy with in
operations of Travel loge various activities get enhanced such as staff engagement, allocation of
roles and responsibilities and development structure (Wilton, 2012).
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it has been analysed that employability skills are needed by each
and every staff member to react in different situation that help to increase the overall
performance of company. In conclusion, employability skills are defined as one of the most
effective and valuable tool of an individual which aid he / she in executing a particular task in
best manner so get the suitable result in favour of company. So for the same HR manager of

company applies different techniques and tools according to the set aim that help to overcome
any kind of problems that may affect the performance of company. Likewise, different theories
such as Belbin and Tucksman is implemented by manager of company that are beneficial to
analyse and improve the performance of employees if required. All the analysis is totally based
on overcoming several issues that may arise in company. This would result in better outcome and
improvement in productivity and performance in near future time.

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APPENDIX
TRAFFIC LIGHT SKILL AUDIT
Key W- Weaknesses. I really need
to work.
N- Neutral S- Strength.
Time management
I am aware about the thing that could waste my time and
become hinder in my work.
S
I am able to organise my time so that I comfortably meet all
my deadlines.
S
I keep a diary or calendar so that I always know when I have
to attend lectures, seminars and other key dates
W
I arrive on time in office so that important meeting and
message can not be missed.
N
Critical Thinking And Problem Solving
I am able to use different methods for exploring a problem
(academic and non academic), such as considering different
points of view or options
N
I am able to consider a range of alternative solutions to a
problem and predict the best one in the given circumstances
N
I am able to break down a complex problem (e.g. an
assignment, a seminar question or where to live) into simple
parts
N
I am able to work productively with others to solve problems S
I know how to find out what is expected of me in a particular
assessment task
N
Oral Communication
In company I use to take review of every one and take N

decision accordingly.
I am confident explaining new concepts and thoughts to other
people.
S
Written Communication
I am confident that I can structure an assignment in
paragraphs and using signposting language (however, firstly)
in order to communicate my ideas effectively
N
I am confident that I can write in an appropriate academic
style for my subject
N
Information Literacy: Reading
I am confident in gathering information from a wide variety
of sources such as books, journals, on-line data-bases and the
internet.
S
I think about what I need to find out before I start reading (am
I reading to verify facts, to understand a subject in general or
to analyse a particular argument?)
S
I make useful, easy to follow notes while I am finding
information for an assignment or project
S
I can identify the points in a text which convey the author’s
main arguments and distinguish these from supporting
examples and references
N
Numeracy
I am confident that I have the numerical and statistical skills
needed to succeed on my course.
S
I am able to interpret information presented in graphs, charts,
tables and diagrams.
S