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This portfolio is about mini project workshops attended and how they contributed towards the development of social and ethical awareness and responsibility. It includes personal development plan, personal SWOT analysis, reading log, photos or samples of work produced in class, time management skills, communication skills, academic writing skills and more.

Module: (FY027) Preparing for Success: Self Development and Responsibility
CW1 - Portfolio
Student’s Name:
LSST ID Number:
BNU ID Number:
Lecturer’s Name:
Submission Date:
Table of Contents
1 Introduction Page No.

2 Mini project workshops attended and how they contributed towards the development of my
Social and Ethical Awareness and Responsibility.
3 Importance and value of the Appendices (12 Documents) that I have compiled and provided as
part of my portfolio
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4 Conclusion
5 References
6 12 Appendices for the Portfolio
Appendix 1 Personal Development Plan
Appendix 2 Personal SWOT Analysis
Appendix 3 Reading Log
Appendix 4 Photos or samples of work produced in class (during lessons or workshops) relating
to Social and Ethical Awareness and Responsibility.
Appendix 5 Time Management Skills: Weekly Schedule
Appendix 6 Communication Skills: Identification of the most effective skills
Appendix 7 Social and Ethical Awareness Attributes: Comparison between Good and Bad
Attributes.
Appendix 8 Academic Writing Skills
Appendix 9 Employability Skills
Appendix 10 Notes on Reflection
Appendix 11 Up-to-Date Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Appendix 12 Action Plan on a specific academic or professional goal you aim to achieve
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1. Introduction: (A short introduction)
The report is about mini projects work shops which is a project based learning and for cost effective
teaching. The purpose of this is to anticipate the challenges and project related courses with the aim to
increase the discussion among the participants. The study also illustrates about how the workshops
contributes to the development of social and ethical awareness and responsibility.
2. Answer to the question: Specify the mini project workshops that you attended and explain how and
why they contributed towards the development of your social and ethical awareness and responsibility.
(500 words)
Performing a reflection will help to increase the competencies and opportunities that enable us to
understand the core responsibilities in an organization. The participation of the students in the workshops
helps them to work on the leadership qualities and improve the communication skills and boosting the
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growth of the students. Not only education but skill and knowledge is equally important as both the aspects
will help an individual to grow and work on its future plans.
Strength is defined as the powers and capabilities of an individual in the area of its expertise. In my
academy, I used to participate in the various activities organized by the institution as I m quite a fast
learner and I consider it my strength to understand the things quickly. It is said that for improving the
communication, it is important to listen to others. During the workshop, I focused on listening to the tutors.
This helped me to perform before people and develop trust in me. If any person has strength, it also has
weakness in some way. I realized that not only learning is important but to communicate with other people
in also necessary, and I evaluated that I m bad at communicating with people and it can be a problem for
me in the future. When I accepted that communication is important, I focused on improving my
communication skills which will help me to make relation with the other members and contribution in the
organization. Social awareness and responsibility includes the awareness and understanding the
connection among the people. A person who is socially aware contributes positively towards the
environment. During the workshop, I realized that in order to make my skills more fruitful, it is important for
me to develop my communication skills where I lack and I started focusing on working on my
communication skills which quite helped me to exchange my views among the other individuals. It also
helped me to develop my learning skills broadly and gave me more strength to cope up with my
weaknesses. The activities conducted in the workshop helped me to develop and increase awareness
among the people toward the society. The opportunities define the areas where an individual can excel by
using the knowledge and skills we have and from number of opportunities we can opt for those in which
we can grow stronger and improve our knowledge and also to achieve the career goals. During the
workshop, i got the opportunity to present myself and give my views which gave me the opportunity to
develop and build motivation in me. I felt thankful to the tutor who gave me this opportunity to represent
myself so that I can share my views regarding the social awareness. The activities helped me to gain more
knowledge and through this I came to know my strength and weakness and also helped me exploit the
opportunities for my better future. During the workshop activities, due to lack of communication with the
other members can be an issue in achieving the goals and when I got the opportunity to present my views
related to any activity I often felt nervous as the other fellow mates oppose my views or in thought that I m
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being judged by the members due to lack of communication with those people. After analysing, I came to
know that lack of communicating with people can be a risk factor for my future goals and I focused on
improving my areas to achieve the goals that I desire to achieve.
3. Documents for the Portfolio
APPENDIX 1: My Personal Development Plan
My Full Name:
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Title of Course I’m Enrolled For:
Name of Institution:
Level at which I am Currently
Studying:
Start Date:
End Date:
My Reasons/Motivation for Doing this
Course:
Objectives for my personal
development
Actions required to
achieve my objectives
Support and/or
resources I need
Timeframe Estimated date
of completion /
achievement
Improving the communication For improving the
communication I will
start reading books
Books and online
material
1 month 20 december
Expand the knowledge about
projects
To written down all the
related information
Academic books 1 month 20 december
Positive attitude By think positive and be
with positive people
Family and
colleagues support
2 month 10 january
Time management skills Focus on the self-
discipline
Theoretical
knowledge
1 month 18 december
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Leadership Improving skills Academic books 2 month 22 january
Creativity Practicing on creativity Digital technology 1 month 10 december
APPENDIX 2: My Personal SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS (strong points) WEAKNESSES (weak points)
1
Good at listening
1 Communication
2 Identifying problem 2 Time management
3 Different from crowd 3 Presentation
4 Academic understanding 4 Language issue
5 Team building 5 Trusting people
6 Exploring opportunities 6 Creativity
7 Best utilisation of resource 7 Practical
knowledge
OPPORTUNITIES (potential gains) THREATS (potential losses
1
Digital technology
1 Competition
2
Theoretical knowledge
2 Threat of failure
3 Good at excel 3 Demotivating factor
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4 Job opportunities 4 Team building
5 Positive thinking 5 Communication
6 Easy to work on weakness 6 Language issue
7 Motivational factor 7 Less academic
knowledge
APPENDIX 3: Reading Log
READING LOG
DATE TITLE AUTHOR TIME SPENT NUMBER OF PAGES
READ
Zero to one Peter Thiel 1 hours a day 85
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R.
covey
2 hours a day 125
Tim Ferriss 2 hours a day 124
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The 4-hour work week
Good at great
Jim Collins 1 hours 56
Shoe dog Phil knight 2 hours 45
Outliers
Malcolm
gladewell
1 hours 145
Little red book
Jeffrey Gitmor 1 hours 200
APPENDIX 4: Photos or samples of work produced in class (during lessons or workshops) relating to Social and Ethical
Awareness.
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Caption Training related to social impact Caption Workshop for ethical issues in classrooms
APPENDIX 5: Time Management Skills: Weekly Schedule
SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT
6:00
AM
sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping
7:00
AM
sleeping Waking up,
prepare for job
Waking up,
prepare for job
Waking up,
prepare for job
Waking up,
prepare for job
Waking up,
prepare for job
Waking up,
prepare for job
8:00
AM
sleeping working working sleeping working working working
9:00
AM
Preparing
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
10:00
AM
Eating
breakfast
with
family
working working working working working working
11:00
AM
Family
time
working working working working working working
12:00
PM
Family
time
working working working working working working
1:00
PM
Preparing
lunch
Lunch time Lunch time Lunch time Lunch time Lunch time Lunch time
2:00
PM
Eating
late lunch
working working working working working working
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with
family
3:00
PM
Watching
movie
working working working working working working
4:00
PM
Watching
movie
working working Travelling to
University
Traveling to
University
working working
5:00
PM
Having a
cup of
tea
Having a cup of
tea with family
Taking child to
maths class
Travelling to
University
Traveling to
University
6:00
PM
Preparing
dinner
Helping my
child with
homework
Preparing diner University University
7:00
PM
Having
dinner
with
family
Working on my
assignment
Eating dinner
with family
University University
8:00
PM
Preparing
child for
school
Reading with
my child
Reading with
my child
University University
9:00
PM
Having a
bath
Preparing my
child for bed
Preparing my
child for bed
University University
10:00
PM
In bed,
relaxing
In bed, relaxing In bed, relaxing Traveling back
home from
University
Traveling back
home from
University
11:00
PM
sleeping sleeping sleeping Having shower
Having shower
12:00
PM
sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping
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1:00
AM
sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping
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APPENDIX 6: Communication Skills: Effective vs Ineffective Communication
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION INEFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
1 Advanced professional image 1
Argue
2 Better control 2 enemies
3 Strong business relation 3 Avoid people
4 Better response from educator 4 frustrated
5 More productivity 5 Tantrum with friends
6 Consistency in work flow 6 Rolling eyes while talking
7 Strong decision making 7 Excuse me
BENEFITS OF
EFFECTIVE
COMMUNICATION
1 Preventing from problems and resolving it
2 Building trust
3 Provides clarity
4 Improve productivity
5 Promote team building
6 Creating better relationship
7 Provide direction
APPENDIX 7: Social and Ethical Awareness Attributes: Comparison between good
and bad practices.
No. GOOD ATTRIBUTES No. BAD ATTRIBUTES
1 Clean 1 inflexibility
2 Honest 2 lacking empathy
3 Trustworthy 3 Chronic sarcasm
4 Dependable 4 Being close minded

5 warm 5 Low emotional intelligence
6 Open minded 6 Control freak
7 loyal 7 impatience
APPENDIX 8: Academic Writing Skills:
Select from the following list, any three skills that you have learnt from the lessons
and workshops that you have attended; and briefly state the BENEFITS you have
gained from learning the said academic skills:
 Referencing
 Summarizing
 Paraphrasing
 Editing of text
 Data analysis
 Creating a Table of Contents
 Interpreting feedback given by your lecturer; and acting on it
 Using punctuation marks correctly
 Understanding verbs that are commonly used in Projects;
 Reflective writing
 Any other academic skill.
1 Academic Skill 1 Strong points
(advantages)
Weak points
(disadvantages)
 Summarizing 
 Paraphrasing
 Data analysis 
 Editing of text
 Reflective writing  Creating a Table of
Contents
Benefit(s) of this skill to
me->>>>>: It helps in further projects that are made by me.
2 Academic Skill 2 Strong points
(advantages)
Weak points
(disadvantages)
 Referencing  Editing of text
 Summarizing  Data analysis
 Paraphrasing  Creating a Table of
Contents
Benefit(s) of this skill to
me >>>>>:
When I completed the assignment referencing and
paraphrasing helps.

3 Academic Skill 3 Strong points
(advantages)
Weak points
(disadvantages)
 Editing of text  Referencing
 Data analysis  Summarizing
 Creating a Table of
Contents
 Paraphrasing
Benefit(s) of this skill to
me>>>>>: It helps in further projects that are made by me.
APPENDIX 9: Employability Skills:
No. Specific skill you’ve acquired
during lessons or workshops
How does it raise your chances of getting your
desired job?
1 Team work This skill will help in time management.
2 Communication Personality development
3 Initiative Decision making
4 Problem solving Increases opportunity
5 Planning and organising
Decision making
6 Self-management Personality development
7 Decision making This skill will help in time management.
APPENDIX 10: Notes on Reflection

Define the concept of “Reflection”; and provide details of your OBSERVATIONS,
EXPERIENCES and LESSONS learnt, and how these changed your
PERSPECTIVE on specific matters; and made you a better person (Kivimäki and
Meriluoto, 2018).

The concept of reflection is refers to processing the feeling and thoughts in order to
about project, assignment, experience of workshop etc (Al-Baldawi and Almansoory,
2021). It has been observing that there is systematic process for reviewing the
process. Also, I have learnt referencing, paraphrasing and all the related skills. The
overall experience is good.
This training helps me to better person when I got job opportunities related to this.
APPENDIX 11: Up-to-Date Curriculum Vitae (CV)
NAME:
ADDRESS:
CONTACT DETAILS:
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: An enthusiastic individual who is ready for seeking
new challenges in order to use my skills which is related to hard-work and also
wants to improve my skills with the help of administrative skill and Microsoft office
programs.

EDUCATION (Name and year of Institution attended):
Baccalaureate Diploma (GCSE advanced level A and A*-C)
with ministry of education, research, youth and sport, Romania 1996-2000
CORE QUALIFICATIONS:
London School of Science and Technology (Business management) 2021
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Gas assets administrator, Scottish and Southern Energy
(August 2019 - present)
Shift Leader, Medication Administrator, Lord Harris Court Winnersh
(January 2017 - august 2019)
Gas assets administrator, Scottish and Southern Energy
(August 2019 - present)
Shift Leader, Medication Administrator, Lord Harris Court Winnersh
(January 2017 - august 2019)
Marketing coordinator, Cinema Trivale, Pitesti, Romania
(December 2014 – April 2016)
Assistant Project Manager, Mitre Building Constructions, Pitesti Romania
(April 2013 – December 2014)
Financial Assistant, Project implementation Unit, Cohesion Fund Section,
Water Company Pitesti, Romania
(July 2007- December
Commercial Assistant / Relations with Authorities and Public Procurement
Department, Water Company Pitesti, Romania
(June 2006- July 2007)
Complains responsible, Public Relations Department, Water Company
Pitesti, Romania
(January 2005- June 2006)
REFERENCES:
Available upon request.
APPENDIX 12: An Action Plan for achieving a specific academic or professional
goal of your choice.
Pick any goal from the following list and create an Action Plan for achieving it:
 Completing your studies (diploma or degree) within a record time.
 Completing your Research Report (e.g. IBL) within a specified period of time.
 Finding and completing on time a Work-Based Learning Placement within the
specified period of time.

 Seeking and finding employment (a job) at the end of your studies.
 Any other appropriate goal within the academic or employment environment.
Action for Achieving a Specific Goal
Date:
My Name:
Course enrolled for:
Level of study:
GOAL to be accomplished: I have to improving the communication skills with
this project so that it can be help for further projects.
Actions I need to take in order
to accomplish my Goal:
I will be working on it on daily basis so that it can be
completed and able to work on the particular skills
Resources / support / backup
that I need:
Online resources such as academic material related
to my study and get proper detail regarding this
(Singh and Sayeed, 2020).
Timeframe: Within 2 month I will work on my communication
skills
Success criteria or indicators:
(How will you know when
you’ve achieved the goal)
I will test myself by writing daily conversation in
order to get knowledge about where I am lacking
and how it can be improved. Also my professor
helps to reviewing my skills because he will better
understand the performance.
Review / evaluation:
(Identify some benefits of
achieving your goal; as well as
some obstacles that hinder
your further progress)
It helps to analysed my new behaviour and also
analysed the things on which I need improvement
there are so many points which I need to improve.
The obstacle I have found is related to the time
management because I was very bad at managing
the time but from workshop I have learnt different
techniques for this.
4. In a paragraph or two explain the value or usefulness of the
(12 Documents) that you have compiled and provided as part of
your portfolio.
From all these document I have identifies my knowledge and skills
completing all the document also analysed my strength and
weakness and get the ideas how to improve my weakness,
identified the threat and opportunities that are help me in my caree

(Omer, 2018)r. For my portfolio it is the good attachment that I have
complied throughout the workshop.
5. References:
Omer, S.K., 2018. SWOT ANALYSIS; THE TOOL OF ORGANIZATIONS STABILITY (KFC) AS
A CASE STUDY. Journal of Process Management. New Technologies. 6(4).
Singh, S. and Sayeed, A.,2020. EXPLORING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SWOT ANALYSIS IN
TODAY'S WORLD.
Al-Baldawi, I.A. and Almansoory, A.F., 2021. Application of phytotechnology in alleviating
Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in wastewater: Source, impacts,
treatment, mechanisms, fate, and SWOT analysis. Journal of Clea
Kivimäki, V. and Meriluoto, S., 2018. Holistic perspective to individual study plan: Personal
Development Project Plan. In Transforming our world through design, diversity and
education (pp. 514-526). IOS Press.ner Production, p.128584.
Buthelezi, T.M.,2018 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIO-
EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF FOLK NARRATIVES IN PRESENT-TIMES: PRE-SERVICE
TEACHERS’EXPERIENCES IN KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA.