Preparing for Success at University: Knowledge and Creativity

This document discusses the skills required for success at university and in professional life, including development as a learner, communication, creativity, and problem-solving. It provides tips on how to approach future challenges and expectations. Recommended for students and professionals.

FY026 PREPARING FOR
SUCCESS AT
UNIVERSITY:
KNOWLEDGE AND
CREATIVITY

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Development as a learner.............................................................................................................3
Approach the future challenges and expectations.......................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
There are numbers of skilled which are required by individual in changing
business as well academic life such as time management skilled required for managing
meetings as well as classes. Report emphasizes different types of challenges person
faces during going to build high performance and engagement. It is necessary that
personal must prepare a proper plan for improving skills which can contribute in
professional as well as personal life. It can be developed by making development plan.
It is necessary that persona must be in a friendly environment which help in proper
growth and overcome from different issues.
MAIN BODY
Development as a learner
It is important to assess personal as well as professional skills which can
contribute in future growth as well as imbibed changes in life. I have understood that
there are numbers of strength need to developed as well as overcome from weakness
with changing time. It is necessary for me to gain knowledge from different types of
activities. It become important for me to ready for any upcoming challenge which can be
raise from lack of skills and work for it in effective way so that I can become a good
learner (Rubens and et.al., 2018). Taking helps of professors as well as friend can also
help in developing various types of qualities that need to be developed or improved.
Taking Feedback, suggestion, opinion etc. can be advantage in professional as well as
personal growth. There are number of online channels which help in improving as well
as explain the way in which different skills can be enhanced. It also helps in analysing
various problems that hampering my growth. Proper planning and strategy are needed
for dealing various types of issues in learning as well as impacting on qualities.
Communication
Communication plays important part in professional growth of a person. It
become important that individual can communicative effectively which support
professional growth. I have medium level of these skills and need to improve. It helps
me in gaining academic knowledge as well as plays important role when I will start

working in corporate. There are two types of communication in which people share
information namely Verbal and Non-Verbal. My verbal skills are good and I can easily
explain everything to anyone by talking on call, mails, face to conversation etc. which
help me in clear message to other. But I have lack of listening skills for example:
whenever someone sharing knowledge not able to concentrate and hence it creates
improper understanding and on the other hand feedback by me for conversation
becomes negative. It becomes important for me to build this quality but because of less
time it effected on my professional growth. On the other hand nonverbal skills such as
body language, tone of speech is not so good which reduce sense of message and
create negative image of mine for example: whenever I speak to anyone not able to
give proper expression which reduce meaning of information and feedback will become
wrong. It is said that human being use more Nonverbal language compare to verbal in
regular life and hence I have to work on it so that I can prepare for meeting, influencing
clients etc. in future corporate work.
Creativity
Creativity plays important part in changing business as well as life. People
with this skill get higher opportunity in corporate world as they want to provide best
quality services to customers. I have good creative skills which helps me in presenting
my work in effective way and catch attention of others for my work (Kyriakides and
et.al., 2017). There are number techniques which is use to continuous improve it such
as checking YouTube channels which helps me in analysing my present weakness as
well as help in improving strength in changing business. I faces various kind of problem
in it such that do not get much time from classes as well as work load is high which
again gives very less opportunity in improving it. However, Professors in University as
well as friend helps me in analysing my mistakes and they also praise me for various
type of work that i present in effective way with the help of this skill. It becomes
important for me to use this as a potential quality at my work and submit my assignment
in better way so that people can easily attracted and hence I am able to become
professionally as well as innovative person. In time of globalisation most of Multination
Company wants person which have creative skills which can contribute in their growth
and increase customer satisfaction level. I have contacted some of people which

achieve higher position in organisation by effective way of presentation and they told me
that I will get easily any job if I am creative and hence ready for any upcoming challenge
or opportunity.
Problem solving
Problem solving skill is another quality which is needed for personal as well as
professional growth and hence it become necessary to evaluated and make changes if
required. I face various type of difficulty in giving answers to various questions and
hence I am lack in this quality. To become a good learner must imbibed this quality and
it must aligned with goals and objectives of professional development plans (Bindon,
2017). However, in academic I am able to understand various types of negative points
which affecting my problem solving skills and hence effecting on my life. I am trying
hard to improve it and might be I will overcome from it. My Friends told me that I can
become a good learner but i have to evaluate a problem properly before giving decision
and hence it impact on my professional as well as personal growth. I realise that can
solve any type of question but I need more concentration and hence it can only be
possible when I change my attitude it. If not address properly then it can effect on my
growth and future opportunities as organisation required workforce which can work
efficiently and solve various problems on time (Drude, Maheu and Hilty, 2019).
Leadership quality also impacted because followers do not like people which have poor
judgments for any type of situation and hence I have to improve these kinds of skills.
Approach the future challenges and expectations
There are number of challenges as well as expectation which can only be
possible make better understanding in University course. It becomes important for me to
develop this quality which can support my personal as well as professional growth and
prepare for me to deal any type of upcoming challenges and take various opportunities.
Below is listed the way of approaches I will use for tacking all types of problems and
growth chances.
Lack of engagement

It is importer for a individual to properly involve in various types of
activities but I can face challenges in it because of time management as well as
problem skills and I have to be ready for it. In University will get less time because of
lots of work to do and many things to learn and hence I might be not able to understand
and evaluate various types of challenges that comes across in a way and hence it can
become barrier in my growth (Kjaer, Vedsted and Høpner, 2017). I have to try to
manage time and involve in various types of task as well as professional lectures so that
it can prepare for upcoming corporate world where time will be less and work is high. It
creates a path for higher position and support my future growth.
Scheduling
In university time plays important role and if personal and professional life
not properly schedule then it can create a multiple challenges for me and I will get very
less chances in it. It becomes important for me to manage everything and which can
help in working properly as well as support my profession growth and ready for
upcoming challenges as well as opportunity. I will try to improve time management skills
which can help me in arranging things properly and work efficiently which increase
efficiency, quality and productivity of work and on the other hand prepare me for
corporate life where time is money. It helps me in achieving goals on time and hence
improves my good-will in front of others.
Learning habits
Learning habit plays important life in professional life. In the initial period of
period grasping things was difficult for me and hence effecting on my growth but after
sometimes I am able to build various types of quality on time (Ziedonis and Ahn, 2019).
There are numbers of things in University for learning such as communication, problem
solving, leadership quality which can support growth of mine and prepare for corporate
world where this skills plays important life and hence I will able to achieve higher goal
on time.

CONCLUSION
It can be evaluated from the report that there are number of skills required
for academic as we as professional life. Focuses on every strength s well as weakness
and working on it can help in future growth. It covers learners abilities and approaches
for future challenges as well as opportunities which can be gain by individual by
planning and effective strategy.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Rubens, A and et.al., 2018. Self-awareness and leadership: Developing an individual strategic
professional development plan in an MBA leadership course. The International Journal
of Management Education.16.(1).pp.1-13.
Kyriakides, L and et.al., 2017. The impact of a three-year teacher professional development
course on quality of teaching: Strengths and limitations of the dynamic approach.
European Journal of Teacher Education.40.(4).pp.465-486.
Bindon, S.L., 2017. Professional development strategies to enhance nurses’ knowledge and
maintain safe practice. Aorn Journal.106.(2).pp.99-110.
Drude, K.P., Maheu, M. and Hilty, D.M., 2019. Continuing Professional Development:
Reflections on a Lifelong Learning Process. Psychiatric Clinics.42.(3).pp.447-461.
Kjaer, N.K., Vedsted, M. and Høpner, J., 2017. A new comprehensive model for continuous
professional development. European Journal of General Practice.23.(1).pp.20-26.
Ziedonis, D. and Ahn, M.S., 2019. Professional development for clinical faculty in academia:
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