Challenges and Skills in Professional Development

GRADUATE CHALLENGE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Challenges...................................................................................................................................4
Skills............................................................................................................................................5
Action plan..................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Professional skills are basically the core competencies as well as abilities which needs to
be present in an individual in order to gain success and overcome various roadblocks. The main
aim of this report is to understand the different challenges which are normally encountered by
people and study that what skills are needed for overcoming these challenges. This report gives a
brief overview of challenges, skills and action plan.
MAIN BODY
Challenges
T-shirt challenge
This is the challenge in which an innovative T-shirt needs to be designed for taking brand
message to wider audience. In this challenge, the difficulty which I faced was relating to STP,
logo designing and branding strategy. In this challenge, we were tasked to design an innovative
T-shirt which will attract the customers as well as clients in large number. In this challenge, a
well-though branding strategy as well as logo design was to be made which will capture the
attention of customers. The main problem here was how to effectively design the T-shirt and
which branding strategy to use (Clarke, 2016).
Presentation challenges
Presentation challenge is basically the challenge in which people are requited to
effectively display and present the product along with its features and characteristics in order to
attract the customers. This challenge was primarily about creating a presentation about TESCO
and LSST as what this organization does, an overview of this organization. Basically, in this
challenge an effective presentation was to be made on both the organizations and comparing
their various products, services, turnover ratio etc (Taylor and Mesco, 2017). This was a difficult
challenge as we cannot misinterpret the company information and presentation needs to be
highly attractive to impress viewer.
Apprentice challenge
The apprentice challenge is basically learning as well as development event along with
the competitive edge and thus provides good opportunity for the apprentices to build their skills
and abilities. In this challenge, we were divided in two groups for working on the presentation.
The major challenge here was to perform the SWOT analysis of TESCO and LSST and to
analyze new product development strategy of LSST. The main thing which I learned in this