Bucks Uni MG408 Graduate Challenge Reflective Report on Skill Growth

This report is a reflective analysis of a graduate challenge, focusing on the development of skills through participation in various activities. The report details challenges such as the Apprentice, Presentation, and T-shirt challenges, and reflects on the skills gained, including communication, teamwork, and time management. It examines the business angle of each challenge and the personal skills developed, along with areas for continuous improvement. The report includes an action plan outlining strategies for skill enhancement, and concludes with a summary of the learning outcomes and the importance of continuous professional and personal development. It also includes references to books and journals.

REFLECTIVE REPORT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Various challenges ..........................................................................................................................3
Apprentice challenge- .................................................................................................................3
Presentation challenges ...............................................................................................................3
T shirt challenge- ........................................................................................................................4
Various skills ..................................................................................................................................4
Communication and emotional intelligence................................................................................4
Team work- .................................................................................................................................5
Time management and meeting skills-........................................................................................5
ACTION PLAN ..............................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Developing and learning new knowledge and skills is an essential part of individual
which helps an individual to account for continuous learning phase which helps the same to
foster the growth in the career. It accounts with the individual to bring efficiency at the
workplace by providing valuable contributions which are being acquired by the means of
learning new skills and talents. Present report will provide brief understanding to various
challenges with individual and accounts with various skills and action plan for the development
of same.
MAIN BODY
Various challenges
Apprentice challenge-
This challenge helps in enhancing the skills which is being related to enhancing of skills
of communication and helps in inspiring of teams to come up with various idea that are highly
creative and innovative to company. This is being very popular challenge prevailing nowadays
which helps in boosting up the confidence of individual. I have accompanied to this challenge at
London school of science and technology which serves as the primary source of learning new
things which helps in getting competitive edge to me. By accounting to this challenge it helps in
getting enhanced range of skills and favourable outcome which helps in building relationship
with various parties in various scenarios (Neal Kimball, Turner, 2018). This challenge of
communication and inspiring team helps in developing resilience to individual to changing
priorities, demand and time scale which helps in covering business functions such as leadership,
effective working in a team that help individual to foster career growth.
Presentation challenges
There are various challenges which are being associated with the presentation when
individual which includes challenge of planning, consistency, practices, performance and
preparation. I has accompanied to this challenge at Tesco when I was being asked to give
presentation for job interview where I was being possessed with the challenge to speak in front

of the top qualified panel members which accounts to facing high nervousness which accounts
with forgetting things which have been prepared as a result leads to a situation of consciousness
and spoiling of the presentation, the challenges in the same can also account with the target
audience who are not finding it great to listen and walks away because they have other
commitments to make and have insufficient time which leads to shift of focus to one who is
being presenting and can spoil the same. The biggest challenge can also account with individuals
interrupting with various question which as a result leads to break in flow of presenting and can
also accounts with challenges of computer not working which has a direct impact on presenting
what needs to be presented (Lambert,2019).
T shirt challenge-
This challenges accounts with printing T shirt for the business which helps in positioning
of selected business and let to the the target audience what is the company all about in terms of
products and services provided by the company which helps individual with knowing various
business angels such as promotion, branding and promotion of products and services. The
biggest challenge accounts with design that is being highly attractive and eye catchy to target
customers which helps in generating curiosity on the end of customers of what is being offered
by the company and account to witness the same (Xu, 2019). The challenge also accounts with
the colour of T shirt which needs to be in matching with that of design and do not overcast the
same and which helps in delivering what is being desired to deliver. It accounts with the
challenge of be simple and not complex which helps in delivering the message of the company.
It regards with right placement of design with good use typology and font which helps in
attracting right audience to the business.
Various skills
There are various skills which are being needed on the part of individual to meet with the various
challenges which are being possessed
Communication and emotional intelligence
This states that being able to communicate effectively is most important aspect of all
skills being acquired by individual as it helps in conveying and understanding the message to the
party to whom it is being communicated and if it fails leads to various misunderstanding among
parties which leads to decline in productivity and efficiency of what needs to be done. It
accounts with having proper eye contact, tailoring of languages accordingly, wide use of

vocabulary which helps in getting attention of audience to whom the message is being conveyed
ad helps in presentation of ideas and thoughts clearly
Emotional intelligence is the ability to use, manage and understand emotion in favourable
and positive manner to reduce stress, overcome various challenges, effective communication and
helps in reducing conflicts. It is the gateway for the happiness of individual which helps in
deriving self motivation and helps in creating positive interaction which accounts with
identifying true potential (Ying Sng, Carter, Stephenson, 2018.).
Team work-
this is the skill of working in team whereby it accounts to taking various opinions,
thoughts and viewpoints which accounts to reaching at a decision which is being highly
valuable . It is simply understood as common efforts of group to achieve the desired goal in
effective manner. It is the synergetic skill with working with individual which helps in solving of
problems and leads to strong working relationship which helps in developing of fruitful
environment and culture.
Time management and meeting skills-
this is being concerned skill of planning and organising how effectively the time is being
divided and distributed between various task activities which helps in deriving commitment,
focus and dedication to perform effectively (Ledbetter-Cho,2018). It can also be understood as
the process of planning , exercising and controlling time spent on various things which helps in
individual assessment on how useful it was and how it was not.
It can also account with getting various skills and competencies being developed such
presentation skills such as design of slides, colours, fonts, images, structure of presentation,
body language which needs to be conveyed which will outline to the target audience of what
needs to be communicated and last how it needs to be ended or concluded (Parola, 2019). The
skills and competencies accounts with proper use of excel which helps in simplifying the work
and make calculation effective and helps in saving lot of time by presenting by use of various
tables, charts, diagrams which helps in conveying things in very easy and simple terms.
ACTION PLAN
Skills Action Plan/ strategies Time horizon
Communicati My action plan for developing the communication skill 8- 10 months form the

on skills is start communication whereby it will help to assess
various flaws and errors which are being associated with
the same, account to start reading newspaper,
magazines, article, blogs and various others which helps
in providing with various insights about various topics
and will help to speak and participating when
discussions is being going on (Abdin, 2017). Will
account to ask for honest feedbacks and improve upon
the same and learning by the means of gestures and
action. It will also accounts with various recording and
speaking in front of the mirror to helps in assessment of
strength and weaknesses of mine.
date of starting
Team
working skills
The strategies is developing a sense of understanding
and participating in the contribution to be made towards
achievement of the goals of the company which is by
providing view and ideas and opinion on how to
perform a activity or task and how to solve any
problems pertaining to the company, it is by having the
right mindset towards agreeing on things which are
right and not on things which can degrade the growth of
the company (Miller,2017). It is being regarded to work
effectively on decision making skill and develop the
ability to think in a manner which serves as the means
of being critical and analytical to achieve common
business and team goals
12-15 months from
date of starting.
Time
management
skills
To acquire this skill of managing time in effective and
efficient manner I need to decide and plan my to do list
which will allocate my time in effective manner and
will prioritise the same with the most important things
which I need to do all days. It is being required to allot
It is a continuous and
ongoing process
where by the
individual needs to
plan things

majority of the time on things which are being highly
valuable. It is being required to wake up early on time
as it will help in saving lot of time and will lead to
majority of work being done on time.
accordingly which
will account with
effective functioning
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is being understood that there are various challenges such as
presentation, apprentice and T- shirt which is being possessed to individual which requires
individual to possess various skills such as communication, team working, emotional intelligence
and various management skills which helps the individual in fostering its growth prospects and
accounts to contribute with the development of professional as well as personal life.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Abdin, M.D., 2017. Skill development: a priority for sustainable development. Skill
Development: A Priority for Sustainable Development (December 18, 2017).
Lambert, D., 2019. Oral History as a multimedia and multidimensional presentation challenge.
Ledbetter-Cho, K., and et.al., 2018. Meta-analysis of tablet-mediated interventions for teaching
academic skills to individuals with autism. Journal of autism and developmental
disorders. 48(9). pp.3021-3036.
Miller, C.L., 2017. CAREER ACTION PLAN: Applying Analytical Thinking Skills in an
Online Career Development Course. Career Planning & Adult Development
Journal. 33(1).
Neal Kimball, C. and Turner, S., 2018. Nurturing the apprentice: An immersion training in
qualitative research. Qualitative Psychology. 5(2). p.290.
Parola, A., and et.al., 2019. The impact of the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment on the pragmatic
and informative skills of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Journal of
Neurolinguistics. 51. pp.53-62.
Xu, K., and et.al ., 2019. Evading real-time person detectors by adversarial t-shirt. arXiv
preprint arXiv:1910.11099. 3.
Ying Sng, C., Carter, M. and Stephenson, J., 2018. A systematic review of the comparative
pragmatic differences in conversational skills of individuals with autism. Autism &
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