Reflective Commentary on Skill Enhancement and Performance

This report presents a reflective commentary on skill development throughout a term, focusing on improvements in communication, writing, team working, time management, IT, and leadership skills. The author analyzes their performance, highlighting the importance of these skills for future career opportunities. Specific examples from lectures and group activities are used to illustrate skill enhancement. The report also identifies areas for further improvement, such as IT knowledge and managing group disagreements, and proposes strategies for addressing these challenges. A CV is included, showcasing the developed skills and career objectives, ultimately emphasizing the role of personal development planning in achieving professional success. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and resources for students.

CW 2
Reflective Commentary

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Learning reflection throughout the term and skill performance.............................................1
Recommendations..................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Reflective commentary basically allows to explain the deeper understanding about the
writing and the theoretical awareness with the help of using essays as the examples or the
evidences and which also helps in revealing what you basically know about and what have you
done till now. In reference to reflective commentary, it basically involves journals, reflective
notes, a learning diary and the logbook is often used in order to write weekly entries. Moreover, i
got the chance to improve my skills which plays a very important role which is basically the
requirement of the managers for the graduate students in the present scenario. In context to self
analysis, skill which i need to improve the most and working on them. Within self reflection
report, the major goal basically comprises of the process which is obtained and for the purpose
to determine the skills which i needed for the purpose to improve myself. It basically comprises
of the personal skills theories and development which i learned during my lectures and seminars
at the university.
MAIN BODY
Skill performance and the learning
In the entire term plus specifically during this module, i have optimistic by my leaders for
the purpose to seek growth in the skills through participating in different activities. I felt
skills which i have improved involve the group working, communication and writing skills
(Armstrong, 2020).
Communication skills: I believe the communication skills plays a very important role and its
very essential in the current market which is the principle method used for the purpose to
establish communication. Listening and Talking are to be the most important skills that graduates
basically should learn. I have basically enhanced this skill through carrying out various types of
presentations. Fox example, in context to my presentations, where my partner and me asked for
advise a small organisation, suitable for them to put up their online organisation and giving a
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effective presentation in class and various modules including practice and theory of the
organisation presentation regarding the interpersonal skills for the module (Rose, 2021).
Writing Skills: These skills are considered to be another important which i have learned since
the beginning of the module. The major reason behind improvement i think involves course
works and reports which i write for the various modules. For example, portfolio, innocent report
or the interpersonal skills for the practice and theory of the organisations. I able to obtain these
with right suggestions during the classes and the lectures and also data. In this skills, the major
enhancements involves Diagramming and Source Material. In reference to source material, it is
basically the data that your will using for the purpose to provide evidence and supporting the key
points for the purpose to support the recommendations. In context to Diagramming, it is
considered as the effective technique or themes from the different data and to do a right
bibliography and the references.
Team Working: During my lectures , i got the chance to improve my team working skills.
Team working skills are considered to be highly important factors when it comes to business
development. This skill helps in establishing better communication and collaboration with my
team members. In other lectures , we got the opportunity to improve team working skills. For
example, the practice and the theory was done group which comprises of 7 to 8 people and each
group member decided how to invest the money and analyzing each other behaviour. The major
reason helps in improving the team working skills we didn’t had the option to choose our
choice of groups for each individual activity. With the support of team working, it helped in
improving the communication skills with other individuals because we listen to each other ideas
and express our views and ideas (Cairns and Callander, 2019).
Time management skills: In context to this skill, it is not considered to be the most effective
skills but i am focusing on improving it. For example, i carried out a time management action
plan which helped in finding out the time which was wasted in doing unnecessary activities and
since then i could able to manage time and making the most of it and i have manage it throughout
my semester and lectures at the university (Mather, 2020).
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IT Skills: In my case, these skills are considered to be most important skill which i had to put
more focus on. In context to workplace, it is very important to have the required IT skills. For the
purpose to enhance these skills, i learned in the seminars and lectures about right use of the
Microsoft word, excel or power point and also how to use submission or black board with the
electronic academic tools and the different use of various computer programs.
Leadership Skills: In the sessions, we had various opportunities for the purpose of developing
my skills related to leadership while in a team, we learnt in seminars and the lectures that there
are various leadership types and during the seminars, i followed the leadership style. Becoming
a leader, not only made me a better person but also helps in earning respect from various
individuals (Mikulić and Ryan, 2018). As per the module book, there are different types of
approaches to study the leadership which is Functional Approach and Descriptive Approach. In
reference to the descriptive , it basically pay emphasis on if a leader is a special type or if there
is a most right style for the leadership to adapt and the one individual theory which has been
taken into consideration for the training in reference to industries. In reference to management,
time leaders are not picked by individuals and basically involves the person who possesses
higher rank in the company. In various group activities we were able to identify that types of
leaders and different leadership styles with its own negative, characteristics and positive aspects.
The leadership style was basically divided into Autocratic leader, lasissez faire and democratic
leadership styles.
At my University, i got the advantage to improve or develop my skills and having better
understanding about skills which are required by the employers when they plan to hire an
individual about the significance to practice and learn skills in a better way. Interpersonal skills
are considered to be very important when it comes to every day activities but also for the
business practices. We do not realize how often we uses these skills in our day to day activities
and how useful they can be if they apply them in a effective and efficient manner. For example,
the time management plays a very important role for the purpose to reduce amount of time and
improving it, other skill which is very important is communication, because all need to present
ideas, thoughts and views to other individuals and aren’t able to communicate it might lead to
miscommunication and the receiver will not able to have deep understanding (Lynch, 2022).
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In addition to that other skills such as team working and leadership skills are considered
to very important when working as a member of the group and also these skills plays a very
important role for the employers as they need a person who will easily adopt in different
groups and easily perform several kind of roles. Specialized skills including IT skills and
writing are also considered to be crucial and helps in offering various opportunities while
searching or looking for essential skills which are crucial because these are basically skills that
managers basically looks for in the future employees (McMahon, 2020).
Suggestions
Various skills which had mentioned earlier and i considered that i got the opportunity to
work and for the purpose to enhance necessary skills which involve the following are:
Knowledge related to IT: According to me, to improve in such area is through participating in
modules which are connected with it and for example, in the next semester , module named as
essential data analysis and doing personal researches and home study. For the same , to succeed
in my career plan development, i not only need to improve the areas where i had the benefit but
also paying emphasis to the various factors that might hold-up in the improvements which
comprises of the following:
Group Disagreements: While working in groups , you may get the chance to work with
individuals you get along but sometimes there are high chances of working with group that do
not work well together and it is very important for me to think about method to enhance this by
paying more emphasis on work and leaving personal issues outside group and developing my
personal type of leadership as per the various theories which i learnt and adapt the different
groups and becoming a part of it (Gunst, 2022).
English as a secondary Language: As English is not the first language of mine and i thought it
might result in creating problems for me the future when writing my essays and the reports and
while doing verbal presentations , i may not go right because i am not be able to show my ideas
but i thought as will improve my English this will not be a issue for a longer time.
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CV
NAME
Address
Road/lane Area
Pin Code
Country and state
E-Mail: [e-mail]
Contact Number:
OBJECTIVE
Highly skilled individual in marketing field and looking for more opportunities in order
to seek growth and enriching my career in the future job roles. Also willing to work in
the marketing filed for the purpose to achieve growth and excellent opportunities.
ACAEMIC DETAILS
Post-graduation :
Graduation in Business Management
Other academic details:
ACHIEVEMENTS
Task/Activity:
Designation:
Year:
STRENGTHS
 Leadership Skills
 Team Working skills
 Critical Thinking skills
 Time management skills
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CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that the personal development plan plays a very
important and essential role for the purpose to achieve the end results for a person in the future
job opportunities. It has been obtained with the help of personal analysis which is considered to
be great equipment for the purpose to identify the skills, abilities and knowledge for the
enhancement of the career action plan. Furthermore, the reflecting commentary helps in deep
understanding about improving the various skills such as team working, leadership,
communication and IT skills for the purpose to achieve success in the profession.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Armstrong, D.J., 2020. A Reflective Commentary on Fractal Epistemology:(Commentary on
Marks-Tarlow's" A Fractal Epistemology for Transpersonal Psychology"). The
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 39(1-2), pp.80-83.
Cairns, I. and Callander, I., 2019. Smith v Lees 1997 SCCR 139: Judgment, Commentary and
Reflective Statement. In Scottish Feminist Judgments:(Re) Creating Law from the
Outside In. Hart Publishing.
Gunst, A., 2022. Response to “Is Basson’s model of sexual response relevant? A commentary”
by Dr. Balon. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 48(1), pp.10-12.
Lynch, K., 2022. Hijacking the 3Ss to ground reflective co-management of beach-dune
environments. Ocean & Coastal Management, 217, p.106006.
Mather, P., 2020. Leadership and governance in a crisis: some reflections on COVID-
19. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change.
McMahon, A., 2020. Five reflective touchstones to foster supervisor humility. The Clinical
Supervisor, 39(2), pp.178-197.
Mikulić, J. and Ryan, C., 2018. Reflective versus formative confusion in SEM based tourism
research: A critical comment. Tourism Management, 68, pp.465-469.
Rose, A.S., 2021. Lessons from# MeToo: a critical reflective comment. Journal of Marketing
Management, 37(3-4), pp.379-381.
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