Detailed Skills Audit and Personal Development Plan Analysis

This document presents a skills audit and a personal development plan. The skills audit assesses communication, time management, motivation, decision-making, problem-solving, and leadership skills, identifying skill gaps and their importance for development. The author identifies motivation and decision-making as strengths and leadership and time management as weaknesses. The learning section reflects on the importance of skill development for effective job performance and the value of internships for gaining work experience and building a career. The personal development plan outlines strategies and timelines for improving leadership and time management skills, with specific actions for skill enhancement and assessment.

Skills audit and
development plan

Table of Contents
SKILLS AUDIT...............................................................................................................................3
Psychometrics: ...........................................................................................................................4
Personal Development Plan........................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

SKILLS AUDIT
Skill audit refers to a tool which provide systematic assessment for research knowledge and skill
of a student. It provide evidence for existing as well as developing competence of a students
(Engelbrecht, Yasseen and Omarjee, 2018). It is associated with analysation of needs and also
identification of training and personal development.
Skills Self
assessment
Score
by
others
Skill gap Importance of development
Communication
skills
7 6 1 Communication skills is one of important
skill for an individual which allow a person
to speak with confidence in front of others.
It helps them to share information without
any misunderstanding.
Time
management
6 5 1 Time management is also a important skills
which is required by individual for purpose
of managing time in a ways that allow
them to use it for productive work instead
of wasting it on non productive activities.
Motivation Skills 8 8 0 Motivation skills is a skill which allow a
person to create urge, dedication and
willingness to complete a work in others
(Margison, Loebl and McGrath, 2021). It is
essential skills which allow a person to
improve motivation.
Decision Making 7 8 1 Decision making is skill which make a
person efficient for making a decision.
Problem solving
skills
8 7 1 Problems solving skills is another skills
which allow a person to solve problems
occur in life of a person.

Leadership skills 5 5 0 Leadership is a skill which create influence
over others behaviour. It is essential skills
which is important for individual to lead a
group.
Psychometrics:
Strength
Strength refers to quality and state which make a person physically strong. I have various
strength which make me applicable of doing a work and some of these strength are mentioned
below:
Motivation skills: I have strong motivation skills which allow me to work in a team and
motivate other members to work willingly (Van der Berg, 2018). As in order to person a job role
in marketing, motivation is required.
Decision making skills: Decision making skills is another important skills which is possessed by
me. I have enough patience to analyse situation and make decision on basis of cost benefit
analysis. It allow me to make decision which provide me more advantage about situation in
compare to others.
Weakness:
There are skills which is not possess by me which create thereat for me in marketplace. Some of
these skills are mentioned below:
Poor leadership skills: I have poor leadership skills which is one of weakness as it does not
allow me to lead a group of people. It does not allow me to take responsibility in a workplace
and also make me fails for attainment of group goals.
Time management skills: I have lack of time management skills which does not allow me to
manage time in effective manner. It does not allow me to complete a work in a effective manner
on time. It create work pressure on a person which create negative impact over quality of work of
a person.
Learning:
With performing a job role as marketing manager, I understand different new things. I
understand important of skills and skill development process which is essential for purpose of
effectively perform a job role (Islam, Farah and Stafford, 2018). There are various skills which
create opportunity for me to perform a job role. These skills are decision making skills,

motivation skills which make me liable to get new things. There are some skills which create
weakness for me as it does not allow me to complete a work in effective manner.
Placement and internship:
I am looking for apply for an internship as it allow me to get opportunities in building a career. It
helps me to get work experience and allow me to develop necessary skills required by a person.
There are various outcomes of this internship as it allow me to build network with work and also
allow me to work out of my comfort zone.
Personal Development Plan
Skills Strategies Time periods Assessment
Leadership skills In order to develop leadership
skills, a person needs to take
various responsibility in life and
needs to made indicate for leading
a group. For this, they needs to
learn about setting right tone to
communicate with members of
team.
3 months In order to assess this
skills, it is important
for a person to handle
a team.
Time
management
skills
Time management is an essential
skills and in order to develop this,
a person needs to develop
schedule and to do list for every
day. It allow them to complete a
work on time.
1 month In order to assess this
skills, it is essential to
ensure that different
Works are complete
on time.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Engelbrecht, L., Yasseen, Y. and Omarjee, I., 2018. The role of the internal audit function in
integrated reporting: a developing economy perspective. Meditari Accountancy
Research.
Islam, M.S., Farah, N. and Stafford, T.F., 2018. Factors associated with security/cybersecurity
audit by internal audit function: An international study. Managerial Auditing Journal.
Margison, F.R., Loebl, R. and McGrath, G., 2021. The Manchester Experience: audit and
psychotherapy services in north-west England. In Rethinking Clinical Audit (pp. 76-
110). Routledge.
Van der Berg, A., 2018. The Pursuit of SDG 11 Through the Lens of Integrated Development
Planning. In The Globalisation of Urban Governance (pp. 208-226). Routledge.