Developing Essential Skills for Success at University

This document discusses the importance of developing essential skills for success at university. It covers topics such as communication skills, presentation skills, punctuality, and reading skills. By improving these skills, students can enhance their academic and professional performance.

Preparing for Success
at University: Self
Development and
Responsibility

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Communication skills..................................................................................................................3
Presentation skills........................................................................................................................5
Punctuality...................................................................................................................................6
Reading skills..............................................................................................................................8
Leadership skills..........................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERNCES:................................................................................................................................12
Books and Journals:..................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is the key of self development as the learning process could not get
stop during the whole lifespan. An individual get learn with many life experiences, academics,
interaction and surroundings. Learning and development both are interconnected as
development could only get attain by continuous learning. Self development is required to attain
many tasks and activities into life at university or professional level. There should be use of
proper plans and learning approaches to enhance one's ability and knowledge. Development
would get attain by improving knowledge, skills, capabilities and moving own self to practically
implement what they have gain till their life. The report is consisting five foremost skills that an
individual must have gain in order to get prepare for better future. Communication skills,
presentation skills, punctuality, reading skills, leadership skills. These skills will help to develop
and grow personal tactics which are beneficial for working on management level. Development
get enhanced to build mindset and prepare with higher qualified abilities so that student will
come up with great personality that is effective to build own career into competitive market.
MAIN BODY
TASK
Communication skills
Communication is one of the necessary activity that a person requires to perform for
sharing idea, thoughts, solutions, informations and many other things. Communicating is about
transformation of one's ideas to another, building connection by talking through any form of
communication. It could be done through verbal or non- verbal aspects which include calls, texts,
articles, report, magazines, news any many more. Every individual communicate as per their
own personality, way of talking, speaking skills which makes them indifferent from other. It
depends on language using by the speaker which comes from culture, beliefs, values they shared
with their community. As per the scientific study, a person speak in the exact way it listens. C
before involving into communication, an individual have to be a listener to grab different aspect
of communication. The way they see their environment of daily life, the most early they grab it
in its own life. So that, communicating is depended and affected by listening. It is a vital skills
which is must have build in one's life. Having effective communication skills is important in
various terms.

A good speaker is more attractive than a silent listener. Having good communication
skills provide an insights to the individual to provide idea and thoughts into others mind to make
them convenience for arguments. These skills enables a path for success into life by making
people attract towards themselves. Failure to talk is is a negative sign for an individual which
could be wide reason behind their failure in career opportunities. These communications skills
are required for facing lifelong challenges in making career goals, maintaining relations,
eliminating conflicts, build confidence and personality. These factors are essential for the
purpose to get victory in every challenge comes between development of future.
Communication skills are the first recommended criteria by large company for individual
interest in giving interviews and look forward to get a job. So that, having effective way of
talking proves to get success in building career.
There are many ways to boost commination skills irrespective of the age factor, There is
no age limit set against learning and enhancing good commination skills as it provide lifelong
existence for growth. Moreover, having good communication skill is not only beneficial for
professional level but at academic also. A student could maintain relations with teachers and
attain high scores by making effective presentation, guide others and take responsibilities for
work completion.
There are various methods to develop effective communication skills that are described
below:
First be a good listener and observer
Focus on more of listening and reading by verbal practices.
Talk in front of number of audience to build confidence.
Try to speak with fluency by taking parts is debates, speech and presentations.
Develop regular practices of communicating with others into respective language in order to
establish command on it.
These ways are vital to cooperate with the environment to develop understanding for convey
own vision for getting understood.

Presentation skills
In the leading world, people are getting more concerned by getting perfection in the
activities they are performing at any level. Perfection results in achieving motive and criteria of
objective. In an academic or professional level, many decisions, tasks, meetings are based on
how it get presented.
Presentation play a vital role in getting success by attracting the viewer Presentation
skills towards the topic. It is a form of organised way to make understand the audience
understand what the presenter has prepared and how much it look attractive to the audience.
These presentation includes university projects, organisational decision and strategies regarding
marketing, production process and many others.
An individual must have good presentation skills to share their area of knowledge into a
presentable way. The name of aspect say all the fact itself, presentation needs to be in
presentable way which includes body language, communication skills, presentation structure,
slides formation and relevant data. This criteria involves the segments of data into effective
manner so that it could get understood by the viewer and listener of presentation. T
he main aim to make a presentation is to deliver information, facts, and knowledge about
chosen topic. In order to gain effective presentation skills, an individual needs to focus on its
appropriate format so that, it must contain authentic review to not neglect its significance
Structure of presentation:
presentation is based on complementary structure procedure which drive an accurate way
of providing information, facts and approaches to the idea implemented into presentation. This
structure will serve as a mandatory process to regulate criteria to the audience. A presentation
would be effective by implementing following points:
 Purpose: here in this process, purpose or aim must be clear to make the presentation
effective by indulging valid points that will be beneficial to attract audience. Defining
purpose makes the criteria clear to what should be the end of presentation and does
audience have understood desirable aspect.
 Audience assessment: before making a presentation, first it is required to analyse what
their audience want to listen. It is the most important aspect of structure as overall
presentation is depended upon the topic is consist. It shows that right presentation must
be reach to right audience.

 Beginning of presentation: it is well said that first impression stays last longer. Start of
presentation will make an image of the whole criteria and reflect whether the audience is
showing interest or not. For that instance, beginning must be attractive and creative
which significantly contains topic and presentation outcomes.
 Body of presentation: the whole presentation must include valuable and realistic points
which make the discussion appropriate towards the topic. It needs to be sure that
presentation must be in concise and point based manner so that viewer could get easy
excess of all information.
 Closure: it is important to have attractive beginning, but the ending also must be
influence Make sure while ending presentation that it would leave an incredible
experience to the audience.
This is the effective way to enhance presentation skills by following proper structure. So that,
professional and academic skills would get enhance and targets get achieve. It is necessary to
leave audience with a good impression of yours to become reliable and remember in everyone's
mind.
Punctuality
An activity and tasks designed for specific purpose must be completed into specified
time manner. As time is the essential key for getting success As time does not stop for anything
in the world, time will continuously move on whether a person move with its flow or not. Once
an individual left with the opportunity to get advantage of timely completed task, it will not
come back to grab opportunities. An individual must have punctuality in their behaviour so that
work would not get delays and keep gaining its advantage into competitive world. In the curette
scenario, every other person moving in race to get success before it get snatch by other, everyone
is getting prepared to stand in competition for moving one step forwards from their rivals. Being
punctual is essential to complete one's responsibilities and duties on time so that things will
move according with the plan. In past decades, great personalities and influencers which are
mainly known for their success and hard work skills said their one of secret to reach heights Is
that being punctual. If one will encourage the value of time, time will automatically come back
with its reward. Every successful person has a trait of being punctual and skills to manage as per
set plans.

The punctuality factor has universal applicability in all the field whether it is on
professional workplace or academic conduct. Punctuality is essential to meet the criteria of
working with effectiveness on work performance. There are a lot of significance of being
punctual which could be understood by following points
 A punctual student get all the acceptance and respect within their workplace.
 It is a key to success through which tasks and work get complete on time and success
reflects.
 Being punctual makes others focused and dedicating towards their work to get the
achievements.
 Promotions, appreciation, motivation are a part of adoring good work performance
which could only be done by submitting work on timely framework.
 By getting achievements and appreciation from all directions, an individual will increase
its confidence level by being the best as compared from others. There must have the
involvement of skills and capabilities that endorsed with working aspect.
 A punctual individual will be strict to the rules and discipline set by top authorities. Being
discipled is another effective behaviour towards doing work an boost up body
performance by being active and eliminate anxiety, over pressure and laziness.
 At academic level, a punctual student will take the advantage of good scores by time
submission of projects and presentation which create a good image among professors and
teammates.
There are a lot of advantage carried out by a person to be indulge in behaviour of timely
completion of task. There are enormous benefits of this aspect. In order to complete work on
time, there should be formulation of effective time management plan in which all the activities
must be set out on time basis and give challenges to inner self for working as per this plan. This
will help in removing difficult area and boost by skills, mind power, thinking capabilities,
workplace promotion and other benefit deserves by an effective candidate. Punctuality is a basic
concept understands by many but utilised by some. but there are needs to get aware about its
significance in order to think about future development.
Reading skills
Reading and writing are basic concept which an individual perform from the birth. As
students start reading from the first phase of their school life. Before moving to process of

writing, reading would be foremost step towards the process. Once an individual start reading
basic frameworks it would automatically keeps command on it. Reading process must require
concentration, dedication towards reading. There must be evaluation of value based read which
consist reading on the basis of interest and to enhance self knowledge. According to the
scientific reason, an individual must attain scientific purpose for being indulge into it, there must
be defining of clear objective why a person wants to read the book, project, magazine and news.
The more interest reading would contain, the more one get superior knowledge about concept
and gain its knowledge.
Reading is essential part to look forward for enhancing skills and career growth. There
are a lot of task and activities require knowledge through research, findings, and read out the
whole statement to drive conclusion. There must have good reading skills and focus mindset to
understand what the material tries to convey facts and information. Reading could be in any
form through comprehension, evaluation, book proofing and researching. So that, students will
get close connection through what are they observing and gaining out knowledge. Good reading
skills provide an insights about concentration level of students and shows how relevant
conclusion they could draw through it.
Reading is all applicable on profession and academic sources. As a person gain its basic
knowledge about reading through academic platforms. At their age of study and higher
education, there have put focus on both reading and writing skills to enhance all the area of
capabilities tin order to make the student good and effective for performing any task. there
should be proper interest and concentration required to get the outcome of what a person read. In
order to make and enhance reading skills more powerful there should be evaluation of following
criteria:
 effective reading requires concentration and dedication towards what has to be read out
 in order to get effective output of reading, first go through with the thorough version of
material so that reading would become easy
 get daily excess of dictionary to be familiar with new and innovative words that have
synonym and antonyms used by many articles, journals and magazines that are difficult
to understand while indulging into normal aspect of reading.

 Reading skills must requires self interest and reliance on making it as part of daily
routine. For that instance, there has to be need of daily process of short reading so that it
will be a part of daily routine and eliminate the difficulties to be a good reader.
 There must be segmentation required to differentiate the part of daily routine, so that
short readings will provide benefits for future preferences.
As these ways helps in improvising reading skills because of the fact that, no person
could get achievement without wining short achievements. One step forward will helps in
succeeding in achieving high growth. Reading skills must be consist fluency in multilingual
aspect so that language would not become the factor of poor reading for that instance, the
individual needs to focus on its vocabulary and word suggestions. So that, reading gets effective
and attractive to the listener. There must be evaluation of the fact that requires effective
framework to build a plan for constructing time manner in which an individual will get
command of good reading skills and prepare itself for building career paths.
Leadership skills
Leadership is the most required aspect which is required in every field of life areas. This
concept is essential in order to be an influencer for others. A leader is the peer son who consist
knowledge, skills, capabilities, and strong image for their followers. The person who make all
their team members works to attain goals and objectives. Leadership requires in every carea of
working where there are a lot of work that must get divided between many individuals and that
makes air complex, being reason for crises as well, to get work done with effectiveness. A
leaders provide instructions, guidance, instruction on how the work needs to be done. They are
responsible person which carries lots of duties at their workplace. They are the only liable for
maintaining good relations, team coordination, effective communication while working with all
together to achieve same objective. Leadership defines the interconnection of activities
performed by leaders. This consist many framework, approaches, traits through which al leader
adopt their criteria of working.
Leadership is an essential part of organisation and on academic level. There must be
proper conduct of activities, projects, strategies according to the plan which is all depended on
how a leader makes it attractive for its team so that, work would done with efficiency and
encourage success for long terms purpose. In context with academic approach, students are

entitled to do individual and group project. Which requires support and guidance as group
projects are quite complex and irresistible that require appropriate leader to guide and instruct
on how the project should be done. On the basis it its discussion, projects gets carried out in
effective way which results in good scores. In order to be good leader there should be evaluation
of proper leadership traits:
 A leader must be good communicator to provide clear instruction and guidance for work
completion.
 A leaders have good knowledge of work and leadership experience.
 A leaders must have skills for conflict resolution at workplace so that team would work
effectively.
 A leader have to be confident to carry out all the operations without getting confuse and
delays in work.
 A leader must be a good solution provide while dealing with complex and uncertain
situation through having soft skills which could handle the team and work with patience.
CONCLUSION
The report based on self and personal development has conclude various kills that are
proof required for making the growth in future. Communication skills, reading skills,
punctuality, leadership skills and presentation skills has driven by its own significance to think
about self development. As there are the most effective skills which helps in all the field in
working. It has been concluded that, communication and leadership has much significance and
are interrelated with the each other. due to the fact that leaders must have these traits to provide
guidance at workplace. There should be evaluation of reading skills in order to be effective
while working for research based projects and requires punctuality for getting completion of
work.

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