Importance of Employability Skills and Reflective Learning

This document discusses the importance of employability skills and reflective learning in personal and professional development. It explores the Gibbs reflective model and its stages, focusing on leadership skills and styles. The document also provides an action plan for future growth.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Employability skills is mainly a set of skills that is highly required in a person in order to
gain better opportunities & achieve their objectives or desired goals in an effective manner. In
context to a student, employability skills is important in order to get job in a reputed company
and perform their role in a proper manner. It is determine that employability skills helps a person
to not only perform well but also develop a positive image in the mind set of higher authorities
appropriately. The report will discuss Gibbs reflective model, which cover all the experience that
is gained during the presentation of project. It is determine that reflective based learning help a
person to gain knowledge about skills and competencies needed to be learnt for coming future.
TASK 2
Main body
Leadership skill is termed as willingness of an individual to inspire, encourage and motivate
a person to gain their desired goals and objectives in a proper manner. It is analysed that having a
leadership skill aid a person to maintain good relationship with others, which is needed to deal or
perform in corporate sector. The present report is second part of project & first part has already
performed by a presentation involve skills required to gain success and about CEO of Amazon. It
is analysed by me that leadership skills is need to provide proper direction to others & build an
effective teams. For developing a presentation, there are different skills, competencies as well as
knowledge is needed, which help in attaining of positive results. By creating and giving
presentation, I have learnt many skills & about topic in an appropriate manner. My overall
experience was good that will aid me to perform well in coming future. In order to express my
overall experience and learning as well, Gibbs reflective model will be using that involve various
stages. This stages will help me to clear my overall learning and expression that I gain while
presenting a presentation on leadership skills/ styles of Jeff Bezos.
Gibbs reflective cycle: The model was develop by sir Graham Gibbs in year 1998 that
sates, experience as well as learning comes after performing the work in an effective manner. By
the assistance of Gibbs reflective cycle, it is determine that an individual can gain knowledge
about skills & experience achieve by him/her after performing an effective work on the specific
topic. Moreover, it also aid a person to gain an insight about what they have done, what skills
they put and where they lack and how they handle or deal with the specific situation. For

analysing my overall experience related with presentation created by me on particular topic
Leadership skills. The stages involve in Gibbs model is defined below:
Description: It is consider as first and foremost stage that include a proper description of
activity and situation, which is needed to be carried out by a person. I have developed a
presentation on leadership skills as well as style of CEO of Amazon. In order to perform my
presentation in a best manner, I did a lot of research & taken help of my mentors and teachers as
well. It help me to gain insight about formulation of presentation in a better way. I have asked
my assigned project teachers and mentors as well to finalise team members and instruct them
about their responsibilities and roles as it help in declining level of conflicts die to which
presentation was completed timely and properly as well. It is determine by me that I have the
willingness to deal with situations and handle them which helped me to maintain good relation
with my team members in order to perform presentation in a more attractive and effective
manner.
Feelings: It is defined as second stage of Gibbs reflective cycle which showcase the feelings
of an individual while perform a particular task. At the time of initialization of project, I was
excited and happy too as I got the role of leader of the team. But, with the passage of time, the
overall excitement is getting down and turn into tension. It is identified by me that maintaining
such excitement level among team members from initial to of project is difficult. Occurrence of
such situations has tested my team building skills and patience level. It is determine by me that I
have food team building skills due to which I am able to develop and give presentation in an
appropriate and timely manner as well.
Evaluation: This stages show the overall experience attained by a person while developing
presentation was good or not. For me, the overall experience of presentation was good as I got
opportunity to perform role of team leader. On contrary, I faced issues as I am not able to solve
conflicts of team members and for this, it is require for me to learn about problem solving skills
that will help for gaining personal as well as professional development. It is determine by me
that to perform a job role in an effective, a person is require to have problem-solving skills in
order to deal with corporate sector in an effective manner. In addition to this, my interaction and
communication skills is good that has helped me to maintain effective relationship with all the
team members. Due to my team building skills, I am able to developed coordination among team
members and make team members feel free to give their opinions and thoughts for presentation

without any hesitation. One of the issue that is arise while preparing for presentation is my
technological skills, as I am not good in technology, which is required to developed an attractive
presentation. But, by the help of team members ad mentors, I learnt about ICT skills that will
help me in future to grab opportunity ad get a good job role in an effective manner.
Conclusion: It is the fourth stage of Gibbs reflective cycle, which concluded that overall
experience of the presentation was good as I leant about various skills and improve my
knowledge in this particular area. Along with this, it is analysed by me that my problem-solving
and ICT skill is improved during the presentation, which will help me to gain better job
opportunity in coming future. In addition to this, it is determine by me that for gaining a jo role
as per our competencies, various skills is required that is time management, conflict
management, team building, technological, problem-solving, leadership skills and many more.
By the assistance of team building skills and effective communication skills, I am able to
developed good relation with team members due to which overall presentation is completed and
performed in a timely as well as appropriate manner. It is stated that my overall experience and
learning will help in both personal and professional. Furthermore, it will help me to attain better
opportunity and perform specific job role in an appropriate manner.
Action Plan: It is consider as last stage of Gibbs reflective cycle, where required actions or
activities need to be develop and implement in order to gain similar sort of role in coming future.
It is determine by me that in coming future when I will good opportunities, I am competent
enough to perform task effectively & manage teams in an effective manner. In order to improve
my problem solving skills and technical skills, I am going to prefer online classes that help me to
learn and attain good opportunities in future. In today’s world, the skills that is required to be
competent are problem solving, team handling, patience, communication, time management and
so on. I will also going to attend seminars and training session that will help me to gain
knowledge about recent leadership skills and styles that is required in order attain success. In
order to implement such activities, it is important for me to prepare a time chart and manager all
my working and daily activities properly. Learning about all such skills help me to present
myself more effectively in future and grab better opportunity in an effective manner.

CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is concluded that Gibbs reflective cycle model is an
appropriate tool, which help a person to gain an insight about its strength as well as weaknesses,
which is needed to be perform in order to grab opportunity and attain personal and future growth.
In addition to this, Gibbs model aid an individual to showcase their overall experience and
leaning gained by performing specific activity. Moreover, it help in attaining knowledge about
skills that is required in order to gain better opportunity in future by a person that leads towards
growth and success in an effective manner.

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