Developing Skills for Success at University: Reflection and Future Challenges

Learn how to develop essential skills for success at university through reflection and prepare for future challenges. Explore the importance of communication, management, and leadership skills. Understand the need for flexibility and adaptability in the face of changing teaching methodologies. Enhance time management skills and overcome stage fear. Gain insights into fostering creativity and experiential knowledge exchange. Discover how to sustain and thrive in the professional world.

Preparing for Success At
University: Knowledge and
Creativity

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Reflection.........................................................................................................................................1
Explicate how as an individual developed like a learner, explain with examples......................1
Explicate the approaches to acknowledge future challenges and anticipations of future course.
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Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

Introduction
There exist wide range of skills which are needed by individuals when they enter within
professional career. Learning needs continual emphasis from people and enables them to acquire
ample of knowledge with respect to the field. Experience and skills together aids to clearly
specify requirements of professional for growth (Groth and et. al, 2020). In addition to this,
professional academic field needs uninterrupted learning of different skills. The reflection is
illustrated like a journey for incorporation of skills along with future steps that will enable to
attain all objectives and goals.
Reflection
Explicate how as an individual developed like a learner, explain with examples.
Each individual needs to emphasise on individual objectives as well as goals through
which they can grow continuously. This involves skills needed for field in which individual is
looking forward to acquire in future. As a learner, it has been identified that there are various
skills on which I need to work on to have a good professional life. One of the essential skill that
each individual must possess is communication. The way in which information is being
transferred or shared between individuals is referred to as communication. It becomes important
to voice out or speak up opinions while being a part of group. I have to work on different factors
that comprises vocabulary, pitch, sound, speech, body language, gesture and many more so that
effectual interaction occur. The way individual presents themselves creates enhanced impact on
kind of communication that takes place (Powell and et. al, 2020). I have acknowledged
importance of communication and I have made sure that I will be working on all these aspects
and be presentable as well as confident to keep my opinion in front of others. For acquisition of
this skill I have started interacting with peers and also took part in different activities within the
class. Reading will aid within enhancement of vocabulary. Teachers also guided me to follow up
right path and I was also a part of listening like any speech or conferences which occurred.
Communication not only involves what I have to say but also comprises of what others are
saying and understanding it. This will enable to enhance the perspective of thoughts and react to
it accordingly along with this I will be able to acknowledge how others respond to me.
Presentations acts like a great way for development of listening skills as different queries are
being raised through which my listening abilities will be improvised in an effective way.

Furthermore, I have initiated to take responsibilities within class which assists me within
improvisation of management skills. This will be efficacious in future and will aid me while
managing teams within professional working environment. There exist distinct management
theories like Belbin's team roles and Tuckman's theory which will assist me to acknowledge
team in appropriate manner (Setiawan and et. al, 2020). These frameworks and theories are
effectual as they aids to acknowledge ways in which team is being developed within class as well
as in professional environment. Leadership skills are critical on which I have to work on. This is
effectual skills which will enable me to be a responsible part of a team. There are number of
leadership styles that can be used depending upon environment like democratic, autocratic,
transformational and many more. I found that situational leadership is of great importance as any
kind of situations can take place and there do not exist any agenda which has to be followed. In
this way, various developments have been made in experience and skills possessed by me while
completion of university.
Explicate the approaches to acknowledge future challenges and anticipations of future course.
Wide range of challenges will be faced in future while I started course in University. The
organisation aspects a lot from students and for this it is necessary to have formal
communication. I need to work on time management and stage fear as there were various
subjects along with practicals. Courses tends to be flexible because of the external environment
that prevails. This implies that students must be flexible and adaptable to changes so that
teaching methodologies can be grabbed. Due to the pandemic, the major change is Covid-19
which needs social distancing and thus online classes are carried out. The anticipations of
professors and lecturers within University were raised as I am good in classes in terms of overall
conduct and results. They want me to create a presentation but stage fear is skill on which I need
to work on. For working on this skill, I presented information to friends who gave me honest
judgement and this helped me to develop as an individual.
After this, I conducted self-analysis and as per that I decided to enhance time
management skills and for this I have developed schedules. This assisted to ensure that all the
tasks are completed within peculiar time frame and it became easy to give time to each subject
individually. Depending upon the difficulty level, I gave time and worked on them. The time
management will aid in future for making sure that I am able to deliver my projects on time
irrespective of situations that prevails. Furthermore, flexibility enables to adapt and work in any

condition and ensure that responsibilities that are given are accomplished in an appropriate
manner. In this way, I ensured that I am well equipped with all the important skills that will
assist me to meet future expectations and challenges.
Conclusion
From above, it can be concluded that learning is continuous process and it is important
for individuals to work on their skills so that they can develop themselves successfully. While
entering within professional world, it is crucial that they analyse their strengths along with
weaknesses so that they can work on them accordingly. This will lead to develop professionally
as well as individually which will aid to sustain in marketplace for longer duration of time frame.

References
Books & Journals
Groth, C. and et. al, 2020. Conditions for experiential knowledge exchange in collaborative
research across the sciences and creative practice. CoDesign, pp.1-17.
Powell, L. and et. al, 2020. Fostering creativity in audit through co-created role-play. Accounting
Education, pp.1-35.
Setiawan, R. and et. al, 2020. Promoting Employee Creativity: The Practices Of
Transformational Leadership, Knowledge Sharing, And Task Conflict Behaviour On
Start-Up Business In Indonesia (Doctoral dissertation, Petra Christian University).