Essential Study and Employment Skills

This article discusses the importance of developing key study and employment skills for success. It explores the development of individual skills such as teamwork, communication, decision making, and time management. The article also provides insights into personal development research and planning, including opportunities for learning and development. It is relevant for students and professionals looking to enhance their skills for study and employment.

Essential Study and
Employment Skills

Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................3
2.0 Audit and evaluation of key skills.............................................................................................3
2.1 Examine and evaluate the development of individual skills............................................3
2.1.1 Teamwork skills............................................................................................................3
2.1.2 Communication skills....................................................................................................4
2.1.3 Decision making skills..................................................................................................4
2.1.4 Time management skills................................................................................................4
2.2 Demonstrate individual development with specific example...........................................4
2.3 Reflect upon individual contribution and the overall team performance.........................5
2.4 Reflection on experiences by Gibbs' Model of Reflection...............................................6
3.0 Personal Development Research and planning..........................................................................8
3.1 Consider key study and employment skills......................................................................8
3.2 Determine areas need to develop with regard to skills.....................................................8
3.3 Explore the opportunities to learn and develop................................................................9
3.4 Research a number of developmental or learning opportunities......................................9
3.5 Areas for development and the avenues for improvement.............................................10
4.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12
Appendices.....................................................................................................................................13
3.6 Personal development plan.............................................................................................13

1.0 Introduction
Brain tumour refers to a health problem in which mass or growth of abnormal cells in the
brain. It includes different types of tumours present in brain including non cancerous (benign),
cancerous (malignant), primary brain tumours and metastatic brain tumours. However, it can be
considered as very complex health problem because it can disrupt functioning of brain and whole
body functions are regulated by mind of an individual (Agran and et. al., 2016). The present
report is based in brain tumour fund raising for support, people suffering from brain tumour and
their families to overcome with the same. This assignment will focus on evaluating the
development of individual skills and demonstrate individual development with evidence. It will
also include individual contribution to overall teal performance and experiences through Gibbs'
model of reflection. The areas need to develop and opportunities of learning by considering key
study & employability skills are given below.
2.0 Audit and evaluation of key skills
2.1 Examine and evaluate the development of individual skills
The campaigning and event organising for fund raising to support patients of brain
tumour is a significant aspect. It is necessary for relevant organisations to utilise effective posters
and banners in terms of influencing people for donating money for welfare of individuals
suffering from brain tumour. However, this disease is very critical and its treatment is much
expensive which is not easily affordable for everyone. Moreover, it has been analysed that a
efficient teamwork and effective communication skills are required to convince people which
facilitate to gain more funds to help sick individuals (Assiter, 2017).
2.1.1 Teamwork skills
Teamwork skills are very important because every member should complete their tasks
properly to complete entire project of team. A mistake of single person may impact negatively on
project outcomes. It is necessary for team members to create an effective understanding among
them and perform their tasks with the help of efficient cooperation of them which facilitate to
raise more funds to support patients of brain tumour.

2.1.2 Communication skills
The communication skills plays an important role to complete work in a team and
convince citizens for specific purpose i.e. to raise funds. It consist to have ability of active
listening, use of simple words and give satisfied answer to other people. Meanwhile, it is
essential for team of brain tumour fund raising communicate effectively for working with proper
cooperation and convince more citizens to donate sufficient amount (Drew, 2018).
2.1.3 Decision making skills
The decision making skill is an important aspect while conduct an event for fund raising
to put efforts in correct direction in order to achieve desired goal. It is important for team
members to share every information with other members in terms of making appropriate decision
to organise efficient campaigns. Meanwhile, it is necessary to make make correct decision to use
proper poster and information which is helpful to make people understand about criticality of
brain tumour. It will encourage them for donating more funds for welfare of these patients with
brain tumour.
2.1.4 Time management skills
Team work for organising promotional campaigns requires an effective time management
for conducting number of tasks on proper time in order to attain set objective properly. It is
essential to make a plan of action to complete project work time to display it among citizens to
make event more effective. However, it is necessary to manage every related activity for making
campaign more profitable in terms of increasing funds for welfare of brain tumour patients.
2.2 Demonstrate individual development with specific example
An individual associated with campaigning for fund raising in terms of supporting brain
tumour patients required to develop their skills to contribute in success of such programs. It is
necessary to build up effective communication, decision making, time management, planning,
research, problem solving and time management (Lombardi and Coley, 2017). For example, it is
necessary to develop communication skills which is helpful to establish an effective relationship
among team in order to establish proper cooperation as well as coordination to perform properly.
Appropriate co0versation among tea is responsible for making correct decisions and sort out
problems easily without extra effort for organising event for fund raising. Communication skills

are provide support to convey information about brain tumour to people and motivate them to
donate money for patients and contribute to make their lives healthy.
For example, team work skill is very important to effectively organise fund raising
program because every person is not able to perform in a group. It consist chance of occurring
conflicts and issue among people while they working together which impacts negatively on
entire project of team. Meanwhile, an effective mutual understanding is required to make fund
raising event more sufficient by gaining sufficient money from people by encouraging them
towards donation (Clokie and Fourie, 2016). It is necessary for volunteers of campaign to
perform their own tasks with proper efforts on given duration of time and communicate essential
information to other members. Moreover, communicating desired information among people is
responsible for reducing conflicts and improve outcomes of complete tasks.
2.3 Reflect upon individual contribution and the overall team performance
Considering my contribution in team while organising promotional campaign for fund
raisin, I have experience about the study which has been carried out before conducting the event.
My tasks to conduct research about views of people about donation and the problem of brain
tumour which helps us to use more appropriate information that should be convey to the
audience. Meanwhile, it is observed that we should know about mentality of citizens according
to which effective strategies can be established and implement for encouraging audience to
donate more money for the brain tumour charity. My contribution is to conduct a study about
awareness of individuals regarding brain tumour and their views about donation for charities
who support patients to become well being. This information is very important to be accurately
collected so that we can organise an appropriate event and complete our goal to raise more funds.
I have experience about opinion of citizens on which we have to work on and use information
and tools to motivate people towards donation.
I have another task to collect effective slogans that can be used to increase effectiveness
of entire event for fund raising for brain tumour charity. I use various sources like relevant
magazines, websites, books, journals and articles to gather efficient slogans and other
information which facilitate to improve awareness among people about brain tumour and its
effects. However, I have to manage this information in such a manner that encourage citizens for
donating money. My contribution is to problem correct information which are supportive to
convince public to put their contribution for welfare of patients by donating in brain tumour

charity. Moreover, it is necessary to display the gathered data in efficient way so that it will
impact positively on fund raising program to gain better outcomes in appropriate manner.
2.4 Reflection on experiences by Gibbs' Model of Reflection
Considering my working in a team, I have learn many things including to perform in a
group and establish mutual understanding to complete desired goal properly. It includes to make
an effective coordination between members to work together for completing same objective of
team successfully.
Gibbs' Model of Reflection
Description – I have work in a team with a project of fund raising for a brain tumour
charity so that they can support individuals suffering from that health issue for their wellness. It
is helpful to me for providing an opportunity for carrying out research by taking views of people
about charities, brain tumours and donation for needy individuals (Hao and Helo, 2017).
However, I learn about gathering relevant data from various sources which is effective to
convince people and encourage them for donating funds for needy citizens.
(Source: Gibbs' reflective cycle, 2019)
Illustration 1: Gibbs' reflective cycle

Feelings – I feel scared before starting research because it was a first time to conduct
such type of study but it provides me better experiences which is helpful for me in future. It is
difficult for me to perform together in a team because my team working skills are not much
effective but this project helps me to build abilities to perform in a group. However, my better
communication helps to perform cooperatively with my colleagues which support to complete
respective tasks in proper manner.
Evaluation – Considering my perform in a team, it has been analysed that I have faced
several problems which are mentioned here. When I was carrying out research by taking views
of people because they are not providing proper opinions and then make an appropriate record of
collected information is quite difficult. Moreover, collecting slogans and relevant data which can
be used in campaigns for conveying information to audience is also challenging because it can be
done by analysing long articles and convert into simple languages which can easily understand
by public (El-Temtamy, O'Neill and Midraj, 2016). It consists positive aspects that I learn to
perform in a team and build my research skills which are favourable for future studies.
Analysis – The fund raising programs for brain tumour charity is helpful to gain money
which is used to support individuals suffering from brain tumour and they are not bale to afford
expensive treatment. It is helpful to encourage public to donate maximum money according to
their capabilities for supporting patients of brain tumour.
Conclusion – I have make my own strategy to conducting a research about opinions of of
people regarding brain tumour charity and related donations. It consist a set of questions to take
views of individuals about brain tumour and relevant aspects in order to make campaign more
effective (Erickson, 2017). Moreover, I have learn to focus on individual task to perform
cooperatively with team.
Action plan – The current tasks of working in same project with my team is helpful for
me to perform more effectively in future as I have built by team working abilities. I have
improve my research skills also which provide support to me in future for conducting further
investigation on specific topic.

3.0 Personal Development Research and planning
3.1 Consider key study and employment skills
The key study area is to perform together for conducting campaigns to raise funds for
brain tumour charity for supporting relevant patients. It is necessary to make an appropriate plan
of action in order to organise efficient fund raising campaign for collecting more money so that
need of brain tumour patients can be completed properly. Meanwhile, employment skills consist
effective communication, teamwork skills, problems solving, decision making, time
management, planning and research in order to fulfil required duties in proper way. In addition to
this, it is necessary to analyse these capabilities in a person at the time of hiring to select more
capable volunteers for fund raising event which facilitate to achieve better outcomes in terms of
gaining money (Roberts, Ju and Zhang, 2016). Potential skills to are required that should be
developed for analysing the problems of people regarding expensive treatment which is required
to be solved by employees of given organisation. It is for Brain Tumour Charity to gain
sufficient money to support more individuals for their wellness. However, it is important to build
effective skills in people so that they can perform effectively by convincing citizens to gain more
funds for Brain Tumour Charity to support relevant patients properly.
3.2 Determine areas need to develop with regard to skills
The areas of development consist those skills which are required to carrying out an
efficient campaign for fund raising. It consist several abilities such as effective communication,
problem solving, time management, teamwork and research. Initially, communication skills are
very important to be develop because it is essential for establishing mutual understanding among
team to work together for organising efficient event which helps to raise more funds through
donation. Appropriate conversation plays an important role to maintain proper cooperation as
well as coordination between staff in terms of fulfilling set goals of specific project. However,
problem solving is required to be create in employees because minor or major issue may
generate during the performance which should be immediately solved by using presence of mind
to avoid their negative impacts on outcomes. It is necessary to make them learn for avoiding
conflicts between them and user their mind to sort out specific issue rather then making
argument for its occurrence (Cooke and et. al., 2019). In addition to this, time management skill
is significant to be generated because every team members should complete their individual task

on time for gaining better outcomes of Brain tumour campaign for fund raising. Moreover, the
teamwork is all about to perform tasks together by making effective communication and
cooperating each other to achieve desired outputs of event. Furthermore, the research skills
should be developed to analyse about actual opinion of public regarding brain tumour and
relevant fund raising charities for collecting useful information to organise appropriate fund
raising program among citizens.
3.3 Explore the opportunities to learn and develop
The learning opportunities are easily available if one want to learn about something to
gain better capabilities in them. The learning opportunities consist to work on these skills and
gain suggestions of superiors to put efforts in correct direction for gaining knowledge about
specific aspects. However, working in a team is itself an opportunity for learners to establish
mutual understanding that provides an experience and an idea to individuals for performing more
effectively as well as efficiently. It will provide support to make perfection in specific skill for
completing further tasks in proper way (van Harten, Knies and Leisink, 2016). Meanwhile, other
opportunities consist to attend relevant sessions, work shops and training programs in order to
improving desired skills including communication, decision making, time management,
problems solving and so on. In addition to this, another learning opportunity includes to work
with superiors and experiences people to learn about their techniques & strategies to perform
more effectively. At the other hand, it has been analysed that internships are much helpful to
create several skills which are helpful to conduct more effective fund raising campaigns to attain
maximum funds for supporting needy individuals. Moreover, these opportunities should be grab
by volunteers to organise an appropriate fund raising event to achieve set goal properly.
3.4 Research a number of developmental or learning opportunities
There are various learning & developmental opportunities that can be prefer such as
formal classroom teaching, practical demonstrations and online & distance learning. It is
necessary for an individual to use effective option according to their weak skill area in order to
boost up the same properly (Mohamed, 2016). However, volunteers of Brain Tumour Charity
can attend online sessions for increasing their ability of improving effectiveness of campaign
which strongly impact on mind sets of public and they will donate money for charities.
Moreover, it is necessary to make them convinced to trust such institutions and feel proud to help
a needy person to overcome with a severe problem of brain tumour.

3.5 Areas for development and the avenues for improvement
The areas for development are given below-
Communication: Each communication includes one transmitter, a signal and a receiver.
This could look easy, but the topic of communication is in fact very complicated. A vast array of
stuff can influence the propagation of the statement from recipient to sender. Which include our
feelings, the social condition, the communicating medium, or even our place. The difficulty is
why workers around the globe consider great communication skills too important: precise,
efficient and straightforward communication is in fact highly difficult.
Time Management Skills: It includes tasks involved in organising timing intervals while
accomplishing a particular task or job. "Time leadership" is the organization and scheduling
method for splitting your moment between particular operations. Good time leadership allows
you to function faster – not easier – because even when space is narrow and stresses are big, will
get more accomplished in less moment. Failure to handle tasks creates disruption to efficacy and
stress.
Problems solving skills: This can be described as an ability to use presence of mind to
make quick decisions for solving specific problems during conduct charity activities for patient
of brain tumours. It is necessary for team members to gain learning sessions for understand the
specific problematic situation easily and make immediate decisions to solve them. However, it is
helpful to put much effective efforts for improving condition of people with problem of brain
tumour.
Teamwork skills: The team working skills consist various skills which are required to be
adopt by team members of given charity working for patient with brain tumour. They should
gain number of abilities like effective communication, conflict resolution, decision making,
planning and reliability. Moreover, it is helpful to enhance outcomes of team work of Brain
tumour charity.
Formal Training: In order to obtain the desired results it is essential to have effective
training program which makes easier for them to understand the actual working needs. This can
be helpful to improve the staff performance and loyalty because worker are feel satisfied and
supported and empowered to pursue the entire goals and dreams. Organizations should promote a
"culture of learning" to efficiently promote private growth on a periodic basis.

4.0 Conclusion
From the above report, it has been concluded that charities should put efforts for fund
raising so that they can help more people suffering from brain tumour. It includes to organise an
effective fund raising program by developing desired skills including communication, problem
solving, time management and team work to gain better outcomes. However, it is necessary to
make people convinced to donate money for helping needy citizens.

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Appendices
3.6 Personal development plan
The skills audit should be carried out to determine weak points and then establish an
effective personal developments plan for improvement which is given below.
Skills Smart Objectives Activity for the development Time limit
Time management
skill
With the help of enhancement
in this skill, I will be able to
manage my work and time in
an effective manner. Along
with this, it will aid me in
providing various future
opportunities in near future.
In order to collect more and
more funds for a health care
event within specific period
of time, it is one of the most
important skills. Along with
this, I will be able to perform
my work within effective
manner.
18 months
Team work skill It is the skill which is required
to perform the work in an
effective manner. Along with
this, effective team will assist
in achieving pre define goals.
With the help of this skill I
will be able to motivate ample
number of individuals at a
single period of time.
It is the skill which will assist
me in order to lead numerous
number of people at a single
period of time. Apart from
this, it will provide various
future opportunities to me.
15 months
Problem solving
skills
It is the skill required to solve
various problems within
specific period of time.
This skill will assist me in
order to solve the problems
arise while collecting funds
for the health care event.
12 months