Skills Audit & Personal Development Planning Report

This report is an individual report highlighting skills enhanced during the learning process also detailed reflection of personal experience during the remote learning using Gibbs model. In addition to this in order to enhance required skills the personal development plan is also highlighted along with the annotated curriculum vitae.

Skill Audit & Personal
Development Planning
Report

Table of Contents
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................1
Task 1 ..............................................................................................................................................1
1. Audit and evaluation of key skills .....................................................................................1
2. Gibb's model of reflection..................................................................................................4
Task 2 ..............................................................................................................................................6
3. Personal development research and planning.....................................................................6
4. Personal development plan.................................................................................................7
5. Annotated CV ....................................................................................................................9
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................9
References ....................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
Skill audit is one of the essential method used by the individual to analyse and
evaluate the skills that he is currently having the extra skills that is needed to be
enhanced by him effectively in order to improve their overall performance. It is allows
the individual to identify the areas needed to be improved by him. The personal
development planning helps the person to enhance their skills and knowledge within
mentioned time frame effectively (Stonehouse, 2020). This report is an individual report
highlighting skills enhanced during the learning process also detailed reflection of
personal experience during the remote learning using Gibbs model. In addition to this in
order to enhance required skills the personal development plan is also highlighted along
with the annotated curriculum vitae (Mulryan-Kyne, 2020).
Task 1
1. Audit and evaluation of key skills
Skills audit is one of the most essential systematic evaluation of an individual
skills and knowledge, which helps them in effectively analysing their personal skills and
required skills needed to be improved through them for their future growth and
development. It plays an essential role in the overall development of an individual. I
being an online student have learnt a lot of things, I have learnt that there are number of
advantage and disadvantage involved in being an online student. Due to the current
covid 19 pandemic, number of covid case were increasing and everyone were asked to
remain in the lock-down. During such time being a online student was convenient for
me. It allowed me to learn son many things also to enhance my skills such as effective
time management, developing self decision through maintaining balance between online
classes and family and also enhancing my IT skills. Also helped me to to save money
and time during such a hard time when almost everyone was losing their jobs and facing
financial problems. Through this learning process I was able to enhance my skills and
knowledge which will help me in my career growth and development. Additionally will
also helps in my career path also, through this learning I have analysed that learning
plays an essential role in overall growth and development of an individual also building
more confidence in them which motivates them towards achieving their future goals and
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objectives. Being an online student I had to manage my household work and also
handle my online classes timely. This helps me to effectively manage my time and
effectively carry out my activities. Some of my main skills that have been developed
during the online learning process includes the self discipline, IT skills and time
management skills. The detailed analysis of my learning skills is highlighted below:
Time management skills: one of the most essential skill I learned during the
online learning process was the time management skills. Being an online student
involves busy schedule including the daily distraction which can lead to not able to finish
the task on time. Regardless of the flexibility of being an online students it also involves
constant involvement in the readings, assignment and various online lectures and
discussion and on top of that also getting constant household distraction. Managing my
time as per the task or activity helped me to effectively complete my work on time and
also get free time for myself self and my family. Being an online student I have learnt
how to effective divide and manage my time in order to achieve desired goals and
objectives.
IT skills: Another skills learned during my online learning is the IT skills, being an
online student means I have to attend and carry out all my work using the online
platforms. The online learning helped me to enhance my IT skills such as effective
knowledge of computer terminology including browser, software, files, documents,
operating systems and application. Being an online student also helped me to enhance
my computer hardware and software skills also, which lead to me to effectively carry out
my computer related operations more easily and effectively. I have analysed that for
online learning requires the knowledge of computer related operation and during my
online learning I was able to enhance my IT skills which allowed me to effectively carry
out my learning process.
Self discipline skills: The another skill learned during my online learning
process is the self discipline skill. In order to effectively carry out my online task and
assignment on timely manner I have made a proper schedule, dividing my time as per
the subjects. This helped me to complete my task and enhance my performance. I was
also organised while doing my work and online learning. This all process helped me to
enhance my self discipline skills effectively.
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Skills Audit: It helps in analysing the skills that individual current has the further skills
that are needed to be enhanced by him. It helps in analysing the skill gap of an
individual. In order to analyse my skills, the detailed skill audit is mentioned below:
Skill Very Good Good Adequate Little or no
experience
Time
management
skills
*
IT skills *
Self discipline
skills
*
Communication
skills
*
Critical
analytical skills
*
Decision making
skills
*
The areas of strength and weakness analysed through my personal skill audit
plan is highlighted below:
Strength Weaknesses
 Through the personal audit plan I
have analysed that I have great
time management skills.
 I have also have great IT skills
which will allow me to effectively
carry out my computer related
operations.
 I have analysed that my
communication skill is not so great
and I needed to enhance my
communication skill.
 Also I have poor analytical skills can
create barriers in my future career
development.
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 In addition to this I have ability to
effectively divide my schedule
because of my great self discipline
skills.
Opportunities Threat
 Enhancing my communication skills
will help me to effectively
communicate and transfer my
ideas, will lead to future growth and
development.
 Developing my analytical skills will
helps in analysing information and
solve the problems more effectively.
 Increasing number competition in
the job market will create potential
threat for me.
 Not enhancing my communication
skills can lead me towards failure in
the future career path.
2. Gibb's model of reflection
Gibbs reflective cycle is one of the most essential reflective model given by
Graham Gibbs in 1988 to analyse the learning done by the individual from their
experience. It is one of the most essentials tool used in order to evaluate the experience
of an individual or a particular situation he has undergone. This mainly includes 6 stages
effectively evaluating and analysing the experience (Maity, 2019). Due to the current
Covid 19 pandemic I had to undergo the remote learning process includes the online
learning in order to avoid crowd and save my time and money. I have learned a lot of
things during my online learning period, it allowed me to enhance my skills and
knowledge in certain areas which will also help me in my future career path more
effectively. In order to reflect on my learning experience during the remote learning
process using various stages of Gibbs model is highlighted below:
Description: During my remote learning process I have learned many things and
enhanced my learning experience effectively. Being an online student during current
pandemic was convenient for me as it allowed me to save my time through avoiding
going to the campus which I can utilise in doing my assignment and work also can do
some household work. Attending online classes also helped me to save money in the
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time like when everyone is facing financial problems. In addition to this attending online
classes and remaining at home also made me to be away from the school and teachers.
But still being at home was great experience for me as it allowed me to spend more time
with my family and enhance my skills such as IT skills, discipline skills and so on which
will helps in my future career development also.
Feelings: During my experience as being an online student I have felt that it was
the most convenient experience for me, as it helped me to enhance my skills and
capabilities effectively. During the online learning experience I felt that online studying
can be great option for enhancing the IT skills also enhance my time management skills.
After being an online student I have realised that online studying helps in saving money
and travelling time also allows to remain home during the this current pandemic. I have
felt that being an online student was helpful for me as I was able to spend more time
with my family and friends and also enhance my skills effectively which are very
essentials for the future growth and development.
Evaluation: Being an online student was a convenient process for me, it helped
me to save my time and money effectively. Being an online student the things that
worked well for me was that I was able to spend more time with my family member and
also effectively save my time through avoiding going to the campus and utilise that time
in my studies and doing assignments effectively. Being at home also allowed me to
positively participate in the household works. In addition to this it also helped me to
enhance my IT skills, discipline skills and time management skills which I feel will helps
me in my career development. But the things that didn't work well for me as being an
online student was that I couldn't get chance to meet my college friends and teachers it
also effected my social learning, leadership and public speaking capabilities.
Analysis: I think that the reason things went well during my online learning was
because I was able to handle the computer operations and also I have divided my
schedule according to my time and task needed to be done which helped me to
effectively carry out my online work enhancing my overall performance. I think my time
management skill helped me to manage my work as per the priority list and complete it
accordingly. In addition to this having good discipline also helped me to effectively
create balance between my online classes and family time. But being an online students
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lead me to not able to interact with the college students and teachers which lead to
creating lack of social learning for me.
Conclusion: During my learning I have analysed that it can be one of the great
process that can be followed by the students in order to avoid any kind of social
gathering specially at present time. It will also helps students to enhance their IT skills
including Computer operations, software and hardware and so on. But I think in order to
further grow and develop themselves, it is essential to enhance more skills such as
communication skills, analytical skills and so on which will helps in further career growth
and development.
Action plan: In order to enhance my skills required for further career and
development certain actions can be taken into consideration by the individual. In my
case in order to enhance my skills further I will be using personal development plan, this
will help in analysing the skills needed to improve, actions that can be taken into
consideration effectively.
Task 2
3. Personal development research and planning
Through the above mentioned personal skill audit I have analysed that skills
plays an essential role in the overall growth and development of an individual it allows
him to gain confidence and motivate them towards achieving desired career goals and
objectives, through the skill audit I have analysed that I have great time management
skills which is essential in order to manage and divide the time and also achieve desired
goals on time. Also I have analysed that the remote learning process helped me to
enhance my IT skills which is very essential in order to enhance effectively carry out the
online learning process using the computer application including the software and
hardware tools, file processing and so on.
During this remote learning process I was able to make my schedule and divide
my task which is result of effective discipline skills. But with the help of skill audit I have
analysed that there are certain more skills that I lack in and are needed to be improved
in order to enhance my future career performance, improving these skills will help me in
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my future career development. The skills includes the communication skills, analytical
skills and problem solving skills. Improving communication skill will help me to easily
interact and transfer my ideas with other, this will help in utilising more opportunities
available. In addition to this effective problem solving skills will help in analysing the
problem and taking correct decision in the complex situation. A student has to deal with
number of problem in his student life, also has to take number of decision in order to
reach to the effective conclusion. The effective decision making skills will help student to
handler the complex situation and take the right decision as per the situation. These
skills can be learned through effective planning and analysing the method or actions,
there are number of option available that can be taken into consideration by the
students. In order to develop and effectively enhance the skills the personal
development plan will be taken into consideration. Personal development plan for the
enhancement of required skill is mentioned below:
4. Personal development plan
The PDP is one of the most essential individual development plan taken into
consideration by the individual which is mainly based on the values, creation, goals
setting and so on. It helps in defining the goals, the strength carried in particularly those
areas and actions that is needed to be considered in order to achieve those desired
goals. In order to enhance my certain skills such as communication skills, analytical
skills and decision making skills analysed through the personal audit, personal
development plan for 12 to 18 months is highlighted below:
Sr.
No
Learning
objectives
Current
proficiency
Target
proficiency
Developmen
t
opportunitie
s
Time scale
1 Communication
skills
As per the
current
scenario I
considered
myself as
To effectively
transfer my
ideas and
information
to other and
In order to
develop this
skills I will be
attending
seminars by
14 months
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being
adequate in
the
communicati
on skills that
is needed to
be improved
further.
avoid nay
kind of
misunderstan
ding.
the experts
and also
reading
books on
effective
communicati
ve skills.
2 Decision making
skills
In case of
decision
making skills
at the
present
scenario I am
considered to
be just at
average level
that needs to
be improved
further.
To be able to
handle
complex
situation and
take correct
decision after
analysing all
the solution
available.
To develop
the decision
making skills
I will be
participating
in decision
making
process and
enhancing
my
experience
and
knowledge of
business
analysis
process.
15 months
3 Analytical skills As per the
current
scenario I
considered
myself as
being
To be able to
effectively
analyse the
complex
problem and
critically
To develop
this skills I
will be
attending
various
analytical
14 months
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average in
the analytical
skills which is
needed to be
enhanced
further.
analyse the
situation.
And collect,
organise
data.
training
programs
5. Annotated CV
Name: John Alex
Address: xyz
Email Id: [e-mail]
Career objective: To effectively secure a challenging position in a well established
business organisation which will help in enhancing my leaning experience, knowledge
and skills.
Experience:
 One year experience as marketing executive
Skills:
 IT skills
 Time management skills
 Discipline skills
Conclusion
From the above report it has been conclude that analysing and evaluating
personal skills helps an individual to reflect on their present skills and required skills
needed to be improved by an individual effectively. It is also analysed that effective
personal skills helps the individual to enhance their overall performance and career
growth and development. This report helps in analysing the skills enhanced during the
learning process such as discipline skills, time management skills and IT skills also the
reflecting on the personal experience during the remote learning. In addition to this, to
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enhance the required skills such as communication skills, decision making skills and
analytical skills the personal development plan is also analysed in this report.
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