Challenges Faced by Graduate Students and Strategies to Overcome Them

Graduate Challenge

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Communication skills..................................................................................................................3
Teamwork skills..........................................................................................................................4
Time management and meeting skills.........................................................................................5
Business skills.............................................................................................................................6
Action plan..................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSIONS..............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
For the graduate student it is very important to generate the skills and development for
the development of their own. As being a graduate student it is necessary to develop the skills
and make yourself ready either for the university or for the professional life (O’Brien, Wittmer
and Ebrahimi, 2017). The major challenges which are faced by the students are time-
management, balance in their work-life and personal life, accompanying the stress and also they
often struggle in maintaining the academic life with their social life. I use my personal action
plan by considering my skills as my strength and weakness like communication skills, teamwork,
time management and many businesses skills. To improve these skills the challenges I faced are;
Apprentice challenge, Presentation challenge, T-shirt challenge and hotel challenge. To
overcome these challenges I used a action plan for my career growth and development.
MAIN BODY
These challenges which are faced by the individual in the organisation will effect the
business environment and the individual growth also. In my case these challenges will help my
in strengthening the skills and understanding. While working in the organisation these challenges
are faced by me in order to handle the cases and daily problems of the company.
Communication skills
Communication skills refer to the skills which help to make you more confident and
communicate effectively with the others. As it is the bilateral communication process where you
transfer the information from one person to another (French and Bruckman, 2020). There are
three type of communication are verbal, non-verbal and written communication. I have a good
and effective communication skills and knowledge.

Communication skills help to overcome the challenges as described below:
 Apprentice challenge: This relate with the situations to face the challenges to managing
the other employees in a way to know the best productivity and enhance the creativity of
the employees. And to overcome this challenge communication skills help by interacting
more with the employees. I can overcome this challenge by making more communication
formal or informal way. This type of challenge will help the individual to overcome the
issues in the business. Like dealing with the other employees to handle their personal or
professional issue.
 Presentation challenge: In this challenge a person face the issue related to the present
the information clearly and effectively (Webber and Burns, 2020). As this presentation
need to show the data and accuracy to the audience. To overcome this challenge it is
important to be confident and a good communication skills. I can present my skills here
and do a good presentation.
 T-Shirt challenge: Here, a person is assigned to complete the task in which they are
needed to print a t-shirt, with most effective motivation quotes and messages. This will
help in increasing the sale. And as I have a good communication skills so I can enlarge
the sale with more effectively.
 Hotel challenge: This challenge reflect how a person deal with the clients and to solve
the problems arises by the customer. With the help of communication skills I can solve
the problems of the clients. And by communicate with them, it is easy to influence their
decisions.