Mental Wealth 3: Reflection on Consultancy Practice and Future Career Plan

This study reflects on the experience of an independent professional in consultancy practice, highlighting the skills and knowledge gained, and how it informs future career plans. The study also discusses the importance of communication skills, teamwork, and critical thinking in consultancy practice.

Mental Wealth 3
Global Enterprise &
Consultancy Practice

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Individual reflection by applying reflection theory ....................................................................3
Reflecting on learnings through Working for a business client...................................................4
Identifying how the experience is informing my future career plan ...........................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Consultancy is a practice of offering expertise to people which helps them to solve issues
on particular topic. The present study will be based on independent professional who provide
suggestion to clients and deliver possible outcomes for supporting them. It will be based on
individual reflection in which it will cover what things are learned, how this learning changes
thinking, how this learning influenced future professional skills and development. In addition to
this, the study will highlight how this learning has developed career plan goals and objectives.
Individual reflection by applying reflection theory
Accountability coach is one of the important people who play a vital role that provide
suggestion to other people in accomplishing their goals. With the help of effective and leadership
skills, the accountability coach can help other to solve issues and provide them relevant
recommendations. Skills such as active listening and problem solving. Accountability coach can
pay attention to individual problems and motivate them to deal with difficult situation. Being
accountability coach is one of the difficult task in today's world. Gibbs' reflection model is one of
the best way one can use to reflect on experience (Adeani, Febriani and Syafryadin, 2020). With
the help of Gibbs reflection theory, I have developed my critical thinking skills and also a way to
work through my experience. Also, it helps me to learn and plan things on the basis of what went
well and what didn't go well. During the module journey, I have developed my understanding
skills about know how people are concern about their health. I have also learned how can I
develop focus and clarity among my clients. By having Gibbs reflective model I can easily
evaluate myself and know about my strengths and weaknesses from which I can develop it by
following few important steps (Ramly, 2021). At the time of module, I have learned that
teamwork plays an important role because team work can enhance people to work towards their
goals. It allows me to work alongside with other team-mates and also know about their strengths
and weaknesses. This is mostly required to build a successful team. It allowed me to see the
advantages of working with my team members to ensure the academic goals and targets we have
set. As we all know that Reflection is all about critical thinking, reflecting on own self and
careful thought about learning. By having reflection I can easily provide myself an opportunity
to sort things through experiences and observation method. I have learned that by having
possible interpretation I can easily create meaningful learning process. At that time I also learned

that communication skills is really important as it helps me to build a strong relationship with
people (Gutiérrez-Puertas and et.al., 2020). I always ask myself that what is the most essential
thing I need to learn and excel in my professional and personal development. After completing
this module I have learned that communication skill plays an important role to achieve individual
success in their career. I have received my answer that communication skills and active listening
skills that every coach must overlook and some of them fail to develop due to lack of self-
confidence. Although I have faced a lot of challenges such as nervousness and anxiety. I was
feeling very scared while giving presentation to other in the classroom. I have found out that I
am having few weaknesses which I need to develop immediately to achieve my SMART goals
and objectives related to career. During the module, I have found out that I don't have much
patience level when working with a team. So, it sometimes put me in difficult situation and due
to this I had to rely on others to complete my task (Markkanen and et.al., 2020). That is why I
have learned to pursue my roles and responsibilities that requires someone to work effectively as
an individual.
Reflecting on learnings through Working for a business client
From the above mentioned reflection, it has been noted that as a coach I need to focus on
issues and problem faced by others such as clients. As we all know that a business and
accountability coach assist other people how to improve and clarify the vision and how advices
given by them will help clients to reach its health goals (Mathye, 2019). As a coach I have
learned that how I can add value to my clients life and support them to grow and scale their
personal and professional life. One of my client was suffering from emotional and mental health
issues due to some personal reason. He came to me asking about tips to improve his emotional
state and wellness tips. This case was my first case of health, fitness and wellness, so I was
excited to meet my career goals. With the help of my personal and professional coach skills such
as empathy I tried my best to provide my client an effective tips so that he can easily overcome
with problems. With my positive attitude towards my passion I have inspired him with self
directed wellness practices and allowing him to improve their own unique path by doing some
exercise and physical exercise. Also, with the help of listening with curiosity skills I tried my
best to resolve behavioural changes issues (Kyaw and et.al., 2019). Due to this clients were so
motivated to improve their inner strengths and take weaknesses in a positive way by using
coaching strategies. Meanwhile, as a consulting group, me and my team have worked effectively

to those clients who struggle to strike a work life balance and who are facing long term
relationship issues. By using personal interviews method in which I have asked questions in
details to know about what happened, why it has happened and many more. Perhaps the most
critical part of coach is to ask questions and follow open communication system between parties
and coach (Jafari and et.al., 2021). With this, I have helped my client to overcome challenges to
thrive at an optimal level based on their own knowledge level, experiences and skills and also
abilities. As a coach I have encouraged other people and their meaningful thoughts that can help
my clients to address an issue. One of my client have given an enough time to understand his
issues and challenges faced by him. I understand that every coach need an enough time to
individually write down things happened with clients and break down things in different sections
in order to make action plan. While attending clients, one of my colleague were not feeling well
as he was the main person who always attend client with emotional and mental health issues. In
order to finish this case, I was the only one person who was there to attend them. At that time I
was feeling quite tensed and nervous like how would I attend those clients which I have never
attended before. But everything was going perfect as I have provided them some tips on healthier
and happier lives and register him for training programmes. He was so impressed with my tips
and gave me appreciation. This helped me to enhance my self-confidence and balance my stress
levels at that time.
Identifying how the experience is informing my future career plan
From the above discussion it has been identified that experience about module learning
helped me for future success and it is helpful for me to gain future goals. With the experience, I
have gained an additional skills in problem solving, critical thinking and active listening which
also helped me achieve my goals (Payton, 2018). This experience is informing my future career
development and professional success. Also, learning beyond my academic degree will help me
solve different types of issues in my professional life and also guide others as a consultant.
Gain knowledge- With the help of experience I can gain knowledge as I am able to
equipped with practical skills and critical solving skills that I can apply to any future job role
(Ways work experience can help with future career, 2022). For example- in management related
program I will be able to learn leadership skills and its concepts which can help me to deal with
problems and conflict.

Enhance my skills such as soft skills- with experience I can enhance my soft skills in
areas such as problem solving and collaboration skills (Ramly, 2021). This can add value to my
future organization and also help me to be prepared to take the next step towards my professional
goals.
Can boost my confidence for successful career- when I learn new things beyond my
academic degree and develop experience I am able to boost my self-confidence. I always
remember a statement given by one of my tutor: When you earn an academic degree, you always
accomplish a big step in life. But when you learn something extra and beyond degree you
develop additional skills. By having experience I am able to enhance my career advancement.
Grow social network- when you gain experience, you always grow your social network.
It means experience can help me to interact with other people and meet talented people who may
come from a different professional backgrounds. By having them as my colleague will help me
to enhance my additional skills as a coach in the future and different job role.
CONCLUSION
To conclude, With the help of consultancy skills, additional skills, soft skills and
knowledge the entity can solve issues raised by clients. By evaluating the study it has been
concluded that to be successful in your future plan, one must have deep knowledge and
experience and must gain skills that will help you take that next step in the future.

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