Skills Audit & Personal Development Planning Report

This report discusses the importance of skill development, key skills for development, skill audit, Gibb's model of reflection, personal development plan, and opportunities for skill development through volunteering and internship. It also includes a table for measuring the level of skills and criteria for success.

Skill audit and
personal development
plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................3
Key skills for development............................................................................................................3
Skill audit of the chosen skills.......................................................................................................5
Gibb's model of reflection during remote learning process..........................................................5
Skills for development and the opportunities................................................................................7
Personal development plan............................................................................................................8
CV.................................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is a method to assess the skills and qualities of an individual. It
consider individual's aims in their life and set the goals in order to maximise and realise their
potential. Whereas the professional development helps an individual in developing their role to the
entirely understand their job and how can it improve. An effective professional and personal
development focus to ensure and individual's knowledges and the understanding of their area of an
an expertise for their career at the highest level. For these development it is very essential such as
communication skill, time management skill, decision making skill, problem solving skill and
other etc. That an individual has some skill that helps them to participate in activities and make
enable them to develop their career growth. The aim of this report is to develop the understanding
of skill development, Gibb's model of refection, key skills for development opportunities and CV
(Bieniawski, 2020).
Key skills for development
There are some key skills that is very essential and need to develop during the learning
process for a better career growth.
 Time management- It means manage the things rightly at the available time because time
is very significant so it should not be wasted. It is the ability of using the time efficiently
and productively. This skill helps to prioritize the task in order to make available time to
complete the project. make an individual more goals oriented and helps them to realize
their dreams. Time management skill is a method to finish the work smarter and
effectively rather than harder for getting more out of resource and time of an individuals.
They should allocate the appropriate time for their activities on the basis of their
importance (Brundiers and et. al., 2021).
 During the learning process, I fixed the short term goals by setting time limits for them.
and try to accomplish them in a time period by managing time according to the priority.
For this, I made a checklists of all task that I need to do and this writing things help me a
lot to remember and prioritise the task according their importance. I developed a proper
schedule for every activity or task and set a deadline to complete them at time. I keep my
focus on one work at a time as it help me to reduce potential for the distraction.

 Problem solving- This skill helps an individual to determine the source of their problems
and find out and effective solution. This skill often identified as its own more separate
skills which contributes to this skill such as research, active listening, team building and
other etc. it make able to identifies that why an issue is happening and how to resolve this
issue with effectiveness. The problem solving skill is very essential in every career and at
every level. It require the industrial and job specific technical skills. This skill is highly
useful in the other area of the individual's life such as relationship building and the day to
day decision making skill. To improve my problem solving skills, I have taken some
training sessions where some imaginary critical situation is allotted to me on which I work
efficiently to resolve the given situation. I identify the problem an the main elements of the
issue. By examining all possible solution of the problem, I took an appropriate solution to
solve the issue and learn some lesson that help me to handle a critical situation. I also work
in a team where I got the opportunity to thing uniquely and several ways to solve a
problem in an efficient manner (Buschow and Laugemann, 2020).
 Communication skill- It is an essential tool for an individual to connect with other
peoples. It is the process of an interaction among peoples and transfer their ideas, attitude
and belief of each other in an understanding manner. It is an ability that is used during
receiving and giving different kinds of the information. Communication skill very
important for everyone either they are a working professionals or students. This skill is
something that connect them far ahead. This skill has many types of skills that work
together and making it important to practice the communication skill in various context
whenever possible. A proper communication skill is very helpful in solving a number of
the issues and resolve the problems. At time of learning, to improve my communication
skill, I got engaged in conversation and join groups as it motivate me to communicate with
each other at the time of any query or solution. At the time of any conversation or
communication, I took down all important points as it is very effective method for me to
ensure that there is no miscommunication (Egeler and et. al., 2021).

Skill audit of the chosen skills
It is a systematic assessment of an individual's knowledge and skills. Here, is a skill audit
assessment that help to measure the performance of chosen skills (Gibbs, 2020).
Skills 1 2 3 4 5
Time management *
Problem solving *
communication *
1.very poor
2.poor
3. average
4. good
5.excellent
 Time management skill is given a rating of 2 which is poor.
 The problem solving skill is given a rating of 4 which is good.
 The communication skill is given rating of 3 which is average.
Gibb's model of reflection during remote learning process
This model make enable an individual to reflect on occurrences and incidents, be it
occasionally or daily, and learn from them effectively. This process is very important cycle that
containing six elements which are given below;
 Description- This factor require the actual description of an incident. There is no
conclusion drawn at this stage and it focus on the information which is very relevant and
provide an actual description of the incident. It include the question such as what
happened? Where? How did it happen when and who else was there etc. it builds up a
background and better understanding of an incident. During the COVID-19, there is a shut
down in overall the world. The university were closed at a short notice as decisions were

taken to close all school and colleges and move all remaining teaching online. Due to this,
my class were operated through the online mode. This is very difficult to study through
online (Hargittai and et. al., 2020).
 Feeling- In this, an emotion is felt during the discussion of the incident. It describe the
thoughts and feelings of an individual on their experience. It contain the question like how
an individual feels before the incident or during it? What they think other people felt?
After it was all over?, how they are feeling now about the incident and other etc. At first
conferencing session, I had a feeling of fear such as the fear of technological failure and
lack of confidence I was not sure that this technique will be work or not. . I was very
nervous about how the online course will be effective with positive results. But, with each
session my confidence is increased and there was a surprising emotion of the bonding
between the teacher and us (Harniess and et. al., 2021).
 Evaluation- This stage give an opportunity to reflect those areas that an individuals needs
to address. It focus on the negative and positive outcome. At this step an individual has to
be objective and understand that what worked in their favour and what did not. It include
the question such as, what was bad or good about the experience? Were their contribution
is negative or positive? What went very well or what did not? Whenever I missed the
classes, then the recording remained active and allow me for revision. But it has some
negative points also such as network issue and data limits due to which I was not able to
took proper online classes. It has its own positive and negative aspects. The teacher an the
management of university contribute very well to arrange the online classes effectively.
 Analysis- In this, an individual thinks about that what might has hindered and helped the
situation. It analysing new informations that an individual has gleaned for the process. It
develop the understanding about why did the things go badly or well. Could they has
responded in other way? What might have helped and improved things. This part is very
essential, specially for the higher level writing. By the online classes, I came to know that I
am lacking in communication skill. Some things went well because all the students wanted
to join the online classes and they show dedication for it. Some thing did not went well as
some students make so much noise and did not let anyone to attend the classes in a well
manner. The online classes helps me to enhance my confidence. (Hébert, , 2021).

 Conclusion- It consider that what an individual learn from the incident. What more they
could do in this circumstance. It is about what is the thing on which an individual need to
improve and how they might achieve it. What skills help them to cope with it in a better
way next time. In the situation of negative outcome, how would they avoid that and other
etc. The online classes, make me enable to embrace the technology and feel free to
forthcoming in messages of praise and gratitude for my activities. It make me aware about
my skill's strength and weakness. I learned that online classes give a different experience
and help to identifies strength and weakness during the online sessions. I also learned that
sometime we have to challenges decisions that we seem to agree on online work or study
and sometimes not. It give us a new experience to study online and become easier to learn
things in such type of circumstances (Kearl and Webster, 2021).
 Action plan- It sum up anything that an individual need to know and improve it for next
time. It deals with the plans about how to handle a situation effectively and improve it next
time. Is there some more that can be learned to get a better result. Work on those areas that
require work and thrive for improving them. During the online classes, I learned a new
way to interact with teachers and other students. I have now adopted it into my learning
and professional toolkit. Now I am working on the feedback that I received during the
online study and try to overcome those hurdles that were same during this situation
( Yazidi and et. al., 2020).
Skills for development and the opportunities.
Skill development is very essential in personal life as well as professional life. There are
two skill that need to be developed by the opportunity of volunteer and internship which are given
below:
 Communication skill- It is very significant skill, because it is difficult to achieve success
without the communication skills. An individual must be able to speak and write very
clearly and confidently as well as listen to response. The communication style should be
tactful and genuine. I will improve my communication skill by volunteering, because it
require to communicate that what we are doing. The volunteer deepen our experience and
also provide the skill development in such a way that is often not available to use else
where. It will provide me an opportunity to learn new skills and also help to advance my

career. It will provide me an opportunity to met with new peoples I will learn to get
comfortable which talking with those peoples to whom I have just met. When I will
communicating as a volunteer, it will has a positive impact and appreciation in my efforts.
The volunteer will give me a chance to voice my opinion, ask question and give the
opportunity to share my suggestion. It open the door for professionalism and growing
helps in growing a better career growth. Through volunteering, the communication skill
can be enhanced and ample the opportunity will come in the way for the development and
career growth ( Nikolopoulou, 2020).
 Time management- It is one of the most significant skills I can have at the workplace. To
improve my time management skill, the internship will play a vital role as it is very
important for career. I can learn that how the valuable time management can be by
internship. It will help to to create a daily basis plan and stick to it like what I need to do
and when, it helps me to focus on my work. If there will an unexpected tasks or project
comes up then I need to make my plan very flexible, so, it will help me to priorities my
task. The internship give me a deadline to complete the given task due to which I have to
finish the work within the time period that helps me to mange the time and I have also
some extra time if there is a need of change. The internship encourage me to work ahead
when I can. It will make me feel the pressure to meet the goals as the result I learn hot to
manage time under pressure and how to complete a task under such situations. So,
internship will be very useful opportunity for me to improve the time management skill.
Personal development plan
It is a process of creating the action plan which is based on goal setting, reflection and
planning for the personal development in the context of education, career and self improvement. It
include a portfolio that containing an evidence of skills gathered over a particular time period
(Rodd, 2020).
Skills Level Development opportunity. Measuring criteria
for success
Time period
Time
management
High By internship I will develop
my this skills as internship
This skill will be
measure by giving
6 months

encourage me to compete my
projects and task within the
give time limits and help me
to prioritize task according
their importance.
some test that will
be based on a time
period and I will
receive the
feedbacks from
my superior.
Communication
skill
High I will join the volunteering to
improve my communication
skill, because it require
communication and help me
to talk with new peoples
during the volunteer. So by
this opportunity I will learn
that how ot talk and
communicate effectively.
The judgement
will be done on
the basis of stage
performance and
in public
3 months
CV
Name- XYZ
Address- XYZ, Brick Lane,
London, England
DOB- 07-09-1980
Nationality- British
Summary
A self driven personality with superior skills of manager and leader. I am able to communicate
very effectively with workers and retain their loyalty base and also have succeed in the challenges
with high pressure.
Skills
 Communication skill
 Time management skill
 Problem solving skill

Accomplishments
I have managed a staff of 50+ employees successfully in an event held in Manchester.
Experience
11/2018- Current HR manager in the Hilton Hotel.
05/2015- 11/2018 Executive HR Advisor in savoy hotel.
Education
2014 Masters in Business Administration from London University.
2010 Bachelors in Business Administration from London University.
Hobbies and Interest- Exploring new things and learning
Declaration
The information which is mentioned is genuine to my knowledge and faith
Date- 10-07-2021

CONCLUSION
From the above report is is find out that the personal development and professional
development is very significant and it require some skills. For these development the key skills are
time gentleman, problem solving and communications skill. Because these skills are required in
career at every stage and these can be learned during the learning process. In this, the Gibbe's
model is applied on the remote learning process that contain six factor such as description,
feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan. The personal development plane is very
effective to learn the skills and make enable to get success in future career. For this, some steps
need to be taken that will helps to improve our these skills and set a standard measure to evaluate
these skills. It is very essential for individual as it will help us at the workplace within an
organisation or professional life.

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