Personal Skill Audit

This personal skill audit allows you to evaluate and improve your self-management, learning, problem-solving, communication, and data handling skills. Assess your ability to manage time, set realistic objectives, handle criticism, use academic skills, solve problems, communicate effectively, work with others, and handle data.

Personal skill audit

Self-management 1 2 3 4 Examples to support your judgement
Manage your time
effectively(meet
deadlines, get
appointments and
classes on time)

I am a punctual person and able to
manage my time effectively. There are
rare chances when I fail to deliver my
projects on time.
Set realistic
objectives and
priorities
 I have the following goals in my life –
Get a good job and enhance my skills
Develop professional abilities and
skills
Make my communication skills strong
These are achieved by practising
properly.
Monitor, evaluate
and adapt own
performance
 I am able to monitor all my goals in
effective manner.
Show flexibility
and see that there
may be more than
one way to solve a
problem
 I am not good at finding alternatives to
problems so I have to work upon this.
Behave in a
professional/ethical
manner

I am a responsible person and always
work towards doing effective work by
following ethics and values
Deal with criticism
constructively
 According to me, I am not at all good
at managing criticism in different
situations.
Managing your
learning

Use a range of
academic skills
such as analysis,
synthesis,
evaluation
 I use my academic skills in doing
various projects and researches. I have
good analytical skills for managing the
research interpretations.
Take responsibility
for your own
learning evaluating
and adapting how
you work in order
to achieve your
goals
 I am a responsible person and able to
manage my work in proper manner. It
is possible when I am doing my work
and preparing deadlines for my work
and projects.
Set yourself
realistic objectives,
priorities and
standards
 I am able to manage my work properly
by handling various objectives,
standards and priorities
Use learning in
new or different
situations/contexts
 I lack this ability as I am not able to
adapt different learning styles quickly.
I take lot of time to manage different
situations.
Learn through
collaboration with
others
 I have good experience of working
with different individuals. While doing
various researches, I can collaborate
with different individuals and do my
work properly.
Problem solving
Identify the key
features of the
problem
 While doing my projects and research
work, I am able to analyse and
evaluate the solutions of problems in
an effective manner.
Identify the options  My analysing power is strong and I

can manage my work effectively by
analysing the situations effectively.
Identify solutions
and plan and
implement a
course of action
 I have good knowledge regarding all
the research work and implement the
work for attaining the objectives of
research.
Carry out
solutions,
monitoring
progress
 I monitor my work properly so that
there are no hurdles while managing
the work or project.
Communication
Present oral/visual
information
competently
 I have good written communication
skills. But when it comes to giving
oral presentations, I lack in that.
Use appropriate
language in a
range of different
assignments with
accurate spelling,
punctuation and
grammar
 My vocabulary and grammar skills are
good and that is why I get good grades
in many subjective assignments and
projects.
Listen actively and
effectively
building on other
people’s ideas and
offering
constructive
criticism
 My listening skills are good and thus, I
am able to manage the project work
properly. I develop ideas and
viewpoints which help in providing
criticism.
Speak fluently and  This is my weakness as I am not able

confidently to a
variety of
audiences
to provide good presentations, I
hesitate while providing speeches and
addressing audience.
Produce a variety
of written
documents using
appropriate
formats
 I have good writing skills that help me
to provide various documents in
effective manner.
Use charts,
diagrams and other
illustrations to
support verbal and
written
communication
 Diagrams, charts and illustrations
helps in making project work more
attractive. That is why I use these in
project work.
Use appropriate
technology and
media including IT
 I always look for new and latest
technology that can be used for
managing the project or work. IT is the
best way to manage and control
activities of project work.
Working with
others
Plan with others
ensuring there are
clear goals, take
responsibility and
carry out
appropriate tasks
 I have good skills of working in
collaboration and reaching the
organisational goals. It is helpful for
me to analyse the work while having
clarified goals and objectives.
Respect the views
and values of
others and adapt to
the needs of the
 While working in teams and groups,
my main motive is to provide good
environment to all members and they
are free to speak about their problems

group/ team and issues.
Assist and support
others in learning
 As I do not much effective
communication skills, I am not able to
support others in their working.
Work to collective
goals and agreed
plans
 While doing the project work, main
focus is on managing the objectives
and aims of projects. While doing that
sometimes, it is seen that work has to
be managed properly and further plans
are developed.
Negotiate with
individuals/groups
 The negotiation skills of mine are nil. I
am not good at convincing people to
work according to me.
Data handling
Use appropriate
sources of
information e.g.,
library, retrieval
systems, IT, people
etc.
 When I am conducting any research or
project, main aim of mine is to handle
and manage the sources of data. I take
help from various sources like library,
books, journals, articles, It, people ,
etc for using the information in my
project.
Handle large
amounts of
information and
data effectively
interpreting results
 For doing any project, it is very
effective that all data and information
collected should be interpreted
effectively. This will provide help in
managing the work properly.
Use appropriate
numerical
information
 In projects and assignments, I used
statistics and data which is relevant to
the topic for making my work more
ethical.

Use information
critically and
innovatively and in
support of the
argument
 The information used while doing
project work is important as it will
provide effective results in future.
Innovation is the most important thing
which is used for doing great work.