Self Development and Responsibility: Preparing for Success at University

This report is about self development and responsibility in university. It includes a portfolio with 12 appendices covering personal development plan, personal SWOT analysis, reading log, photos of work produced in class, time management skills, communication skills, social and ethical awareness attributes, and academic writing skills. The report also discusses the importance of social and ethical awareness and responsibility, and how mini project workshops contribute to their development.

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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Introduction: self development is one of the most important part for a human being, if they have ability of self
development then they can achieve various thinks in life. In this report we will discuss 12 appendix.
1. 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)
The workshop which I have attended, contributed in the development of social and ethical awareness. Social
awareness means taking perspective of others and learning about the social life and society. Promoting social
awareness is also a kind of responsibility for every human being, being socially active is one of the most
important part (Elliott, Silverman and Bowman, 2016). Aware ring people about the social means promoting the
betterment of society which include improvement in education, developing less developed area, maintaining
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and betterment of environment or nature and various other social responsibility. Social awareness is very
important as it help in the betterment of society to complete this social responsibility is quite important. Social
responsibility may include environmental responsibility, ethical and legal responsibility and economic
responsibility. Every human being had to follow social responsibility to actively contribute in the betterment of
this world, these are basic responsibility allow a person to perform effective in the society. There are some
social responsibility which a person can performance such as;
Donation: donation can be one of the best social responsibility of a human being, every person earn money
which they can contribute in the betterment of society and donation to help people who are in need, donation
can be anything which include money donation, cloths donation, essential thing's donation, food and shelter
donation and body part donation.
Ethical awareness: ethical awareness means promoting basic human ethics such as moral and manners,
ethics are very important for every human being. Ethics are concern with morality to understand what is right
and what is wrong, these are psychological concerns which keep a human being on track of ethics in the
society. Ethical responsibility are connected with social responsibility of a person, these responsibilities need
to be completed to be better in the society.
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2. Documents for the Portfolio
APPENDIX 1: My Personal Development Plan
My Full Name:
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
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APPENDIX 2: My Personal SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS (strong points) WEAKN
ESSES
(weak
points)
1 The strength lies in the inner skills and
ability of a person, my strength is the skills
which keep me different from others (GURL,
2017). I have various skills such as
communication skills and critical thinking
skill. Apart from these basic skills,
1 Impatient or being Impatient
is one of my biggest
weakness, I have less
capacity to remain patient in
some of the crucial
situation.
2 I have leadership skills which allow me to
manage people, this skill is my strength. I
have leadership skills and ability which keep
2 My another weakness is
some weak skills such as
decision-making skills. I can
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providing me strength. not make quick decision
which some times create
problems.
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I am compassionate which help me to be
unique from other and provides
compassionate attitude toward any difficult.
3 Being getting bored and
laziness is another
weakness which effect my
overall performance.
4
Confident is one of my most powerful
strength, I stay quite confident in some of
the difficult parts or any kind of facing
challenges.
4 Sometimes I become
nervous in speaking in
public, which means I can
not actively speak in front
of crowd.
5 Strength lies in the dedication level, this
strength is very important. I stay dedicated
in various task and duties as well as the
responsibility which is been provided to me.
5 Hesitation about doing
some of the important task,
although I do not hesitate to
perform any of the provided
task but still hesitation is
my weakness.
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OPPORTUNITIES (potential gains) THREAT
S
(potential
losses
1 I have opportunity to get better position in
job because I have effective leadership skills
.
1 Competition: competitors
are the biggest threat, I
have faced huge
competition from my friends
and collogue who are more
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better and effective than
me.
2 I can be a good leader with my leadership
skills I have opportunity to become a leader
in coming future.
2 Weakness: my weakness
are biggest threat for me as
I will be facing drawback
from my weak point.
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The biggest opportunity for me is I have
supportive family, my family have always
supported me in the process of career
development.
3 Less active: being less
active can be a major
threats, many of my
colleague remain more
active than me and keep
coming in the career
process as a threat which
slowing down my speed.
4 Specific skill: some of my skills are specific
which allow me to even apply for position in
international business.
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5 Enthusiasm: being enthusia is one of my
strength which will unlock various
opportunities of the me, I have observed that
many business organization look for people
who are very active and enthusia which
might be a opportunity for me to apply in
such company.
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APPENDIX 3: Reading Log
READING LOG
DATE TITLE AUTHOR TIME SPENT NUMBER OF PAGES
READ
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APPENDIX 4: Photos or samples of work produced in class (during lessons or workshops) relating to Social and Ethical
Awareness.
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APPENDIX 5: Time Management Skills: Weekly Schedule
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APPENDIX 6: Communication Skills: Effective vs Ineffective Communication
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1 Clear: effective communication are
very clear in terms of
understanding of message. Every
message should be clear, clear
communication may include: using
words which is understandable
(Türken, et.al., 2016). Clear effective
communication avoid waste of
time and affords.
1 Unclear: ineffective communication
are very unclear which means a
person might not understand the
meaning of the message and even
can take other example of the
message which result in conflict.
Ineffective communication skills are
barrier in the smooth flow of
communication.
2 Correctness: correctness are
every important in the effective
communication, every message
and conversation need to be
correct. Correct type of
communication may include better
understanding of message, do not
have to repeat word or sentence
again and can be easily
accountable in first time.
2 Incorrect: incorrect communication
are ineffective which means if the
message is incorrect in terms of
words or meaning. Incorrect message
effect the smooth flow of effective
communication.
3 Complete: complete message is
one of the most important part in
3 Incomplete: if a message is
incomplete then they might create

the effective communication. A
message should be complete in
terms of words, sentence and
meaning. This completing a
sentence which is easily
understandable is also a effective
communication skill.
confusing, incomplete message is
ineffective communication skills which
lead to major issue in the process. A
person with ineffective
communication skills never deliver
complete message.
4 Concise: concise play major part in
the effective communication, being
concise is an effective skill which
help in staying short and clear in
the message which a receiver
easily understand. Concise means
short and simply, a must have
skills to stay straight forward in the
process of delivering message.
4 In concise: ineffective communication
skills can lead to in concise message
which means a person might face
difficulty in the communication is the
message or conversation is too long
and less meaningful.
5 Concrete; concrete is effective
communication skills which means
a person need to be concrete
while delivering the message. This
is an effective communication
skills help a person to stay on the
words rather than changing it
according to the situation.
5 In concrete: ineffective
communication skills may often lead
confuse and misunderstanding. A
message should be concrete in
nature which means this can not be
changed if there are any changes in
the situation.
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BENEFITS OF
EFFECTIVE
COMMUNICATION
1 Building trust: effective
communication help in building trust.
If the person have effective
communication skills than they can
easily build trust with other and make
other believe in the words.
2 Solve problem: the biggest benefit of
effective communication skill is it help
in solve certain problem. Many people
solve half of their problem with
effective communication because
they have ability to demonstrate the
key potential skills to solve the
problem.
3 Clear direction: effective
communication provide clear direction
which means if a person have
effective communication skills than
they can provide clear direction to the

team and people. This benefit within
workplace where a person is on the
position of manager or leader.
4 Improve productivity: effective
communication skills help a person to
improve their productivity. Effective
communication are very clear which
means a person will actively listen to
other person or group which help
them to improve productivity. If the
person is clear about the things which
they have to perform then their
productivity will be high improved.
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APPENDIX 7: Social and Ethical Awareness Attributes: Comparison between good
and bad practices.
No. GOOD ATTRIBUTES No. BAD ATTRIBUTES
1 Honesty: honesty is the biggest
attributes in the social and ethical
awareness (Hansen, et.al., 2016).
Being honesty in the life both,
personal and social life is very
important. Honesty never allow a
person to lie, hence they follow
ethical attributes which make
them better within workplace.
1 Dishonesty: dishonesty is bad
attributes in social and ethical
awareness. This bad attributes not
only create various problem but this
effect the image and reputation of
person. Being dishonesty in the
society is a unethical. As compared to
honesty, dishonesty is very bad for a
person.
2 Integrity: integrity means level of
trust which a person can create
within workplace. Staying
committed to the work is one of
the most important integrity which
promote social and ethical
attributes.
2 Dis integrity: dis integrity means not
follow social and ethical attributes and
not staying committed to the words.
Image of person and reputation might
be effected with the dis integrity.
Sometimes people will less likely to
trust dis integrated person
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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 Assignments;
 Reflective writing
 Any other academic skill.
1 Academic Skill 1 Strong points
(advantages)
Weak points
(disadvantages)
Summarizing means
understanding and learning,
this simply means learning a
paragraph and keeping in
mind.
Summarizing is very
important academic skill.
This help the remembering
the paragraph or any
sentence which is important
(Cisco, 2020).
Create confusing: a person
might get confuse if they
summarize something.
Benefit(s) of this skill to
me->>>>>:
There are certain benefits of summarizing but the most
beneficial thing is it help in remembering important thing.
Clear concept: summarizing provide clear concept for a
person who is summarizing some important information. If
summarizing is done well, then it will be benefit in clear
understand of clear concept.
2 Academic Skill 2 Strong points
(advantages)
Weak points
(disadvantages)
Data analysis: data analysis
is one of the most important
skill in academic session. A
student must know the
importance of analysing
data. This means
interpretation of data to
Data analysis help in
preparing presentation.
Data analysis can be very
costly.
Data analysis will help in
understand important data.
Data analysis require
affords.

gather some useful
information.
Benefit(s) of this skill to
me >>>>>:
Data analysis can be very beneficial in understanding the
given data, by analysing and interpretation of data a
person can learn lots of important things.
3 Academic Skill 3 Strong points
(advantages)
Weak points
(disadvantages)
Interpreting feedback means
understanding and
improving the work after the
tutor's feedback. They
provide weak area of
assignments which later can
be modified with understand
of interpretation.
Help in improving the weak
area of task or assignments.
Sometimes create confusion.
Improve the performance of
student.
Not suitable in some of task
and assignments.
Benefit(s) of this skill to
me>>>>>:
Interpretation of tutors feedback are very important for the
student because it is very beneficial in terms of improving
the quality of work and task and assignments.
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 Communication:
communication is one of the
most required employability
skill, this allows person to
communication effectively
within workplace (Di Gregorio,
et.al., 2019).
Every business organization want their
employee to effectively communicate with each
other which means a person might need to
have communicated as employability skill to
get the desired job.
2 Team work: team work is
often most important
employability skills which is
required by every business
organization. This skill help in
building team and this team
achieves goals and
objectives of company.
Almost every business organization want a
team which is powerful in terms of
effectiveness and have ability to complete
organizational goals and objective. I have high
chances of getting the desired job because I
have team building skill.
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APPENDIX 10: Notes on Reflection
Reflection can be very beneficial for a person, this help them to become better
person and improve performance. Reflection means thoughts and feeling which is
created with a incident, this can be very useful in terms of dealing any difficulties
throughout the day or in life. As per my observations I have learned the lesson why
skills are very important in persons life.
APPENDIX 11: Up-to-Date Curriculum Vitae (CV)
NAME:
ADDRESS:

CONTACT DETAILS:
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
EDUCATION (Name and year of Institution attended):
CORE QUALIFICATIONS:
WORK EXPERIENCE:
REFERENCES:
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: To learn new skill
Actions I need to take in order
to accomplish my Goal:
Need to join various online course and practice it
life, as per action I need to take certain important
one such as practice and learning from others.
Resources / support / backup
that I need:
Online study plan
Timeframe: Within a month
Success criteria or indicators:
(How will you know when
you’ve achieved the goal)
Improvement in effectiveness will indicated the
success criteria.
Review / evaluation:
(Identify some benefits of
achieving your goal; as well as
some obstacles that hinder
your further progress)
As per benefits, these goals will help me throughout
my career and personal life.
As per hinder, these goals can be hinder because
this cost time and affords.
3. 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.
The value that I have accomplished in the process of these documents
are the knowledge of skills which is require in life. My skills was
developed during these 12 document as I have completed personal swot
analysis which allow me to identify such strength and weakness. These
12 document remain very useful of me because these allowed me to
properly understand the importance of skills in life.
4. References:
Cisco, J., 2020. Using academic skill set interventions to reduce impostor phenomenon
feelings in postgraduate students. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44(3),
pp.423-437.
Di Gregorio, et.al., 2019. Employability skills for future marketing professionals. European
management journal, 37(3), pp.251-258.
Elliott, D., Silverman, M. and Bowman, W. eds., 2016. Artistic citizenship: Artistry, social
responsibility, and ethical praxis. Oxford University Press.
GURL, E., 2017. SWOT analysis: A theoretical review.

Hansen, et.al., 2016. Corporate social responsibility, ethical leadership, and trust propensity:
A multi-experience model of perceived ethical climate. Journal of Business
Ethics, 137(4), pp.649-662.
Türken, et.al., 2016. Making sense of neoliberal subjectivity: A discourse analysis of media
language on self-development. Globalizations, 13(1), pp.32-46.