Skills for Hospitality, Tourism and Events

Skills for Hospitality,
Tourism and Events

Contents
INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1...........................................................................................................................................3
An audit about personal skills......................................................................................................3
TASK 2........................................................................................................................................8
An achievement of dream job......................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Reflection is the analyses and proper examination of oneself. In reflection an individual
assesses the strengths, weaknesses, his goals and objectives, and the skills which he currently
possesses and etc. Through the preparation of reflection, a person can understand about the skills
which he needs to work on so to gain his dream employability. Self- reflection considers as an
important part in preparation of action plan or Personal and professional development plan.
Through the examination of current skills an individual can understand about the gap he has
between his standard and actual skills. According to that a person would be able to understand
about required measures and steps which will help him in attaining the desired life goals and
objectives.
This report discusses about self-audits in which learning styles, transferrable skills, and
audit of employability skills has been mentioned. A reflection upon communication skills has
also been presented in this report which states who well my written and oral communications are
along with the importance of communication in employability (Bunakov and et al., 2020).
Generating the skills related to team work is also important as this counts in our employability
skills, a reflection upon team working has also been mentioned in report. Apart from that a
summary about my strength and weakness has been draft so that my action plan can be prepared
accordingly and it will also help in acknowledging myself about merits I have and demerits upon
which I need to work more.
TASK 1
An audit about personal skills
Learning styles
There are 4 different styles of learning which is called as VARK. VARK is an
abbreviation for Visual, Auditory, Reading and Kinesthetic learners. Different people have
different ways to learn the skills. Some believes that Reading learning skills is suitable for them,
whereas some believes that auditory learning is best for them. The explanation for these learning
styles is explained below:
Visual learning style: In this the learner learns when he sees the visual representation of the
learning topic. He understands the whole concept very well when he views the graphical or 3D
presentation. He believes that he would be able to absorb the topic more effectively when it is
happening or presented before him (Zopiatis and Theocharous, 2018). They are said to be
holistic learners who learns about the topic which it is happening before them. These learns gain
more knowledge in them when information is presented in charts, graphs or in table rather than
in paragraphs or huge sentences.
Auditory Learning style: In this learning style, a person learns about the topic very well when
he hears it. In this a leaner prefers to take the lessons or lectures from a teacher or tutor who
would teach him about the topic verbally. By verbal listening the learner learns well about the
topic and increases his knowledge. It has been observed that people who lies in this category are

often excellent in group activities as they understand the things and activities when other
members recites to them. They also would be able to make other people understand about
activities verbally. These people do not believe in taking notes, they think that note taking is
more a distraction activity. Concentration listening eliminates the need of taking notes for a
person.
Reading/ writing learning style: In this learning style, a person gains the learning through
reading from books. They effectively understand the concepts or topic through reading about the
same. They prefer information which is in written form. This written form can be in terms of
handouts or in power point presentation. These people prefer to take notes in their lecture so that
it can be used in remembering the learning or topics (Mohammad, 2020).
Kinesthetic learning style: These learners learn through their senses. The teacher or the lectures
make the things or topic understand to them through sign language, senses, touch and etc. They
are more effective learner when the things are making them understand through sign language or
through touch.
Through analyzing my learning style, I get to know that my way of learning style is
Visual. I grab the learning more quickly and effectively when it is presented before myself in a
visual form. I prefer to watch the practical presentation about the topic to get it permanently
fixed in brain. Apart from that I also prefer to perform the practical from the theory which I have
learned. This helps me in performing my theory learning in practical. Therefore, visual learning
style is my preferred learning style.
Audit of employability skills
There are various skills which are helpful in gaining a good employability. Some of these
skills are:
Adaptability: A person should have the skills to get himself adjust in this dynamic environment.
He must adopt the changes which the organization may applies with time. An employee must
understand the need for bringing change and must act in the required manner to support the
change. Not only this, an employee must bring the necessary developments and upgradation in
his skills and knowledge. As the business environment is changing very fast with time, there is a
need for the employees to upgrade their skills and knowledge according to the change otherwise
they might have the danger to lose job. I have analyzed from my self-audit that I have the ability
to adopt the required change within me (Petliovana, 2018). I know the importance of bringing
the necessary changes in skills with the time as external environment factors are changing very
fast. Hence, I have the skills for adaptability.
Leadership: Leadership is the ability to influence a person or a group of people to follow a
particular course of actions or path. Leader must be someone who has the ability to rule people,
empathic, trustworthy, confident and extrovert. Through these traits he would be able to again
confidence of people or employees. In an organization when a leader gets successful in gaining
the confidence of his employees then the employees would freely can follow the path which their
leader has directed for them with full productivity. From the self-audit I analyses that the