Business Executive Report: Skills, Challenges, and Strategies

This report provides an overview of essential business skills, challenges faced by businesses, and strategies for improvement. It emphasizes the importance of communication skills, teamwork, and business competencies in overcoming challenges. The report analyzes challenges in various contexts, including the Apprentice Challenge, Presentation Challenge, and T-shirt Challenge, highlighting the need for effective communication and teamwork. It also discusses the Tuckman theory of team development and the importance of branding and financial operations. An action plan is presented, outlining specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound objectives to improve performance. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of employee skills and understanding customer needs to provide excellent services. The report also mentions the importance of branding and financial operations for businesses and provides an action plan for improvement.

Business

Executive Summary
The report discusses the importance of the factor that are helping the businesses. The
students should have skills that will help them to improve the performance. There are
different challenges faced by students and they have to analyse the performance in the
organisation.

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Reflective writing in each of the challenges including skills gained such as.........................4
Communication Skills for all three tasks:..............................................................................4
Business skills and competencies developed........................................................................5
Teamwork..............................................................................................................................6
Analysis of Each Challenge from a business angle and knowledge gained from about how
businesses actually work.......................................................................................................7
Action Plan.............................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................................8

Introduction
The students have many skills which will help in improving the qualities. The
businesses have the challenges and they need to analyse the performance (Higgins, Omer,
and Phillips, 2015). The students have to understand the importance of the skills and they
should be communicated to the people affected by the business. The students should focus on
the strengths and face the weaknesses to improve the quality of work. There are many skills
that are important for the students and they are communication skills and team work and they
will have to understand the needs of the businesses. The report includes the communication
skills of the students and the challenges in the businesses for Apprentice Challenge
, Presentation Challenge
and T-shirt Challenge.
Reflective writing in each of the challenges including skills gained such as
Communication Skills for all three tasks:
The communication skills is the process in which the people communicate their things
to others in the methods which is helping them to understand. The students have many skills
and the most important for the success of the business is to communicate with others. The
businesses is the process of communicating the products and services to customers (Anwar
and Hasnu, 2016). The communication is helping the personal and professional skills of the
students and they are important for the performance of work. The students have to understand
the methods that will help in communication and the knowledge is explained to others. There
are many factors in the communication and the senders and receivers should work together to
understand the needs. The people should have communication that is affected by the barriers
to communication. The students should have the skills to communicate to the people and they
should manage the work according to the business.
Illustration 1: Communication process

Sender: The sender is the person who has the idea and want to communicate to the receiver.
The students will find different methods to communicate and the process should be helping
them to understand the needs. The sender is the most important factor and they should have
the communication skills.
Method: The sender will have different method to send the message to the receivers. They
are used by the sender to communicate to the receiver.
Receiver: The receiver is the person who is getting the message and they will have to
understand the needs of the senders. They will have different methods to receive it and they
should get the understanding of the receiver.
Feedback: The sender and receiver should have to understand the needs and they should
analyse the gap in the business.
 Apprentice Challenge- The organisation is having challenges when the business have
different employees and they have to understand the needs that will help them in
analysing the quality of work. The organisations should have the people that will help
reducing the risk and they should have good communication which will help the
employees.
 Presentation Challenge- The students should have many skills that will help them to
perform in the business (Teh and Corbitt, 2015). The Presentation skills is important
for the students because they have to communicate the needs to the teachers. I have a
lack of communication skills which is making it difficult for me to communicate with
others. The students quality of work is important and they will have good
performance when they are having communication skills. The business should have
employees who are able to communicate and understand the needs.
 T-shirt Challenge- The T-shirt Challenge refers to the process in which the the people
are making the T-shirt and they have the challenge to have the marketing and the
brand name. The employees have to send the message to customers (Acuña-Carvajal
and et.al., 2019).
Business skills and competencies developed
The employees of the business should have skills that are important and they should
communicate and they should improve the quality of the work.
 Apprentice Challenge- The employees in the organisation should have the sills to
understand the needs of others. They should have the skills that are important for the

businesses. The organisations have different employees and they should understand
the skills to improve the quality of work.
 Presentation Challenge- The business should have employee who are able to
communicate and they should have Presentation skills that will help them to improve
the performance (Baraibar‐Diez, Odriozola and Fernández Sánchez, 2017).
 T-shirt Challenge- The T-shirt Challenge is making it difficult for the employees and
they should focus on the needs of customers and they will help the businesses in
analysing the needs.
Teamwork
The businesses have different employees and they should understand the needs of
customers. The employees have different skills and they should focus on understand the
needs of the businesses. There are many departments in the business and they should analyse
the performance. The employees should improving the quality and this will help in improving
the work to the business.
Tuckman Theory
Forming- The business will make different teams and they will have to work to give good
services. The employees have to coordinate the work in the business and increase the quality.
I do not have the team work skills so it is difficult to work with the employees.
Storming- The employees are giving recommendations and they are having communication
skills. I will not be able to understand the needs of the employees.
Norming- The businesses will have teams that will work to increase the quality. I will have
to work according to the employees and help them in improving the performance.
Performing- The employees will perform and they will do the work according to the team. In
have the skills to perform and I will give the best quality products.

Adjourning- The customers are important for the businesses and they will help in analysing
the performance. I will communicate with customers to attract to give the products.
Analysis of Each Challenge from a business angle and knowledge gained from about how
businesses actually work
The T-shirt Challenge is making the businesses perform better. There are many
challenges faced by the business and the T-shirt Challenge is making the organisation work to
improve the performance. There are many factors that are important and they will have to
analysing the performance. The employees have to communicate and the methods used by
them to make them understand the needs of customers. The businesses are getting the help
from customers and they will communicate the products ad services that will help the
employees.
Branding
The T-shirt Challenge is the important factor for the businesses because they have to
increase the needs of customers which will help in Branding. The businesses have many
factors that will help them in Branding and they will help them in the T-shirt Challenge and
the employees will be improving the services.
Finance
Operations Department
The businesses have to understand the needs of customers and they will have to take
the help of the employees. The T-shirt Challenge is making the businesses improve the work

and they will have to analyse the performance. The Operations of the businesses has
employees that will help in improving the quality and increasing the needs of customers.
Action Plan
The students have Action Plan that will help them in making understanding what they
want to achieve and they will improve the quality of the work.
 Specific- They are the objective that will help them in increasing the quality by the
specific needs.
 Measurable- The objective should be measured and they should help the students in
analysing the performance.
 Achievable- They should have the objectives that are achievable by the students.
 Realistic- The businesses should have the objective that are realistic by the
employees.
 Time bound- They should be able to achieve the objective in the specific time of the
business.
The objectives are
 To improve the communication skills in 2 years to improve the quality of the
performance by 25%.
 To improve the team work skills in 2 years that will help to increase the performance
of the organisation by 15%.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that the businesses should have employees that
will help them in improving the quality of the products. The employees are helping the
businesses and they are analysing the performance. There are many factors in the businesses
that will help them in giving good services. The businesses should understand the needs of
customers and they will help the employees in understanding the challenges and they should
analyse the skills.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Higgins, D., Omer, T.C. and Phillips, J.D., 2015. The influence of a firm's business strategy
on its tax aggressiveness. Contemporary Accounting Research. 32(2). pp.674-702.
Anwar, J. and Hasnu, S.A.F., 2016. Business strategy and firm performance: a multi-industry
analysis. Journal of Strategy and Management.
Teh, D. and Corbitt, B., 2015. Building sustainability strategy in business. Journal of
Business Strategy.
Acuña-Carvajal, F. and et.al., 2019. An integrated method to plan, structure and validate a
business strategy using fuzzy DEMATEL and the balanced scorecard. Expert
Systems with Applications. 122. pp.351-368.
Baraibar‐Diez, E., Odriozola, M.D. and Fernández Sánchez, J.L., 2017. A survey of
transparency: An intrinsic aspect of business strategy. Business Strategy and the
Environment. 26(4). pp.480-489.