Consultancy in Practice: Skills Development and Career Goals Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of a consultancy project undertaken to develop and enhance essential professional skills. The report begins with an introduction outlining the importance of skills and knowledge for achieving desired outcomes, particularly in the context of a site manager role. It then details the skills developed throughout the project, including teamwork, responsibility, sociability, and orientation capacity. The report further explores the key learnings from the project, such as communication, cost estimation, IT skills, and the importance of responsibility, alongside how these learnings have improved the author's confidence level. The author reflects on how these skills can be applied in future career goals, emphasizing the significance of teamwork, decision-making, and adaptability. The report identifies skill gaps, specifically in communication, decision-making, and teamwork. An action plan is presented to address these gaps, outlining strategies for improvement, resources required, and anticipated timelines. The report concludes by reiterating the importance of continuous skill development and providing references, along with appendices containing a CV, LinkedIn profile, and cover letter to support the application for a site manager position. This assignment provides a detailed overview of the project, focusing on skills development, career goals, and an action plan to bridge skill gaps.

CONSULTANCY IN PRACTICE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Skills developed or enhanced by the end of the project (TASK 1)
• Learnings from the project
• How have you improved your confidence level?
• How can you se the learnings that you acquired from the project in the future career
• Determine three skill gap that require to developed in order to accomplish future career goals (TASK 2)
• Prepare the action plan for filling these gaps
• CONCLUSION
• TASK THREE
• REFERENCES
• Appendix A (TASK 4)
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D

INTRODUCTION
• Skills and knowledge are required to accomplish any desired task, when an individual has the perfect
knowledge and skills required for the job, he/she completes it with efficiencies.
• For a site manager there are different set of skills and knowledge that helps to complete the desired
work.

SKILLS DEVELOPED OR ENHANCED BY THE
END OF THE PROJECT (TASK 1)
• Teamwork: Teamwork is crucial for coordinating different efforts and accomplish the group goals.
• Responsible: I need to be responsible and accountable for my work, where I should ensure the
transparency in the work
• Sociable: Sociable is the skill which means to take concerns of employees in the workplace so that
they feel comfortable in the workplace by addressing their issue and concerns pertaining to the work.
• Orientation capacity: Orientation skills are required in order anticipate the changes required in the
work.

LEARNINGS FROM THE PROJECT
Learning that I acquired from the project are discussed as:
• Communication: Communication is an important tool which is required to convey the objectives
to different individuals of a team.
• Cost estimation: Cost estimation is required in order to estimate the cost undertaken in the
construction.
• Responsibility: Site manager needs to responsible in order to ensure that there is proper health
and safety in the workplace.
• IT skills: A good site manager is also good at IT skills to use different technologies and keep the
record of actual workflow that how a work needs to completed as per the deadline.

HOW HAVE YOU IMPROVED YOUR
CONFIDENCE LEVEL?
• Interaction: I have started interacting with my co-workers and other employees, interacting helps to
me develop a sense of belongingness and maintain a relationship among the employees.
• Professional development training: : By attending the professional development training courses, I
am able to learn that how to communicate with employees and learnt to speak confidently in a
workplace.
• Boost knowledge: I acquired all the relevant knowledge and information for my job role. So, that I
have complete knowledge about job role.

HOW CAN YOU SE THE LEARNINGS THAT
YOU ACQUIRED FROM THE PROJECT IN
THE FUTURE CAREER
• Responsible: As I want to be site manager in future career goals, I need to shoulder different responsibilities,
decision making related to important business policies
• Teamwork: Teamwork is an important skill which helps to coordinate the efforts of employees in the
workplace.
• Sociable: Sociable hereby means that a manager has to be sociable in order to take the concerns of
employees.
• Orientation capacity: Orientation capacity means that the manager should ascertain decision making and
problem solving skills in different workplace scenarios.

DETERMINE THREE SKILL GAP THAT
REQUIRE TO DEVELOPED IN ORDER TO
ACCOMPLISH FUTURE CAREER GOALS
(TASK 2)
• Communication: I only have good command over my written communication and I lack verbal
communication
• Decision making: I have to be good at decisions making where I would have to require make different
on the spot decisions to different scenarios.
• Teamwork: Teamwork is a crucial factor, I was the team leader of my project, due the lack of team
working skills where I was unable to coordinate the efforts of different individuals

PREPARE THE ACTION PLAN FOR FILLING
THESE GAPS
Skills Importance of the skills in the
future career
How to improve these skills Resources required Date of accomplishment
Communication Communication is important in
order to deliver the organizational
objectives to the employees. With
effective communication it brings
efficiencies in the workplace,
reduces ambiguity and workplace
conflicts.
I will continuously read books to
have command over my language
and gain knowledge, I will take
part in different group discussions
to improve my communication
skills.
Books, Group discussion 3/5/2021
Decision making Decision making skills helps to
take important decision relating to
different organisational context,
decision making skills helps to
solve different challenges and
problems faced in the workplace.
I will attend the seminars of
business leaders that how they
have taken decisions to different
organizational context.
Seminars, newspapers 20/3/2021
Team work Team work is important to
accumulate and coordinate the
efforts of the individual and
produce group goals in the
workplace.
I will take online group project
work which will improve my team
working skills when I will work in
group projects.
Online projects 21/5/2021

CONCLUSION
• Thus, this report defines the importance of the skills and knowledge needed in order to accomplish
desired objectives.
• Learnings helps to improve the knowledge and helps to acquire the future career goals.
• For future career job role site manager, he/she needs to develop skills and knowledge like teamwork,
orientation capacity, responsible and sociable.

TASK THREE
Skills/Qualities required Skills/Qualities on my CV
1.Must have fulfil the education qualification in both
school and college
2.Excellent soft skills
3.Work experience
1.
Middle School: Scoala de Arte si Meserii Dimitrie Ociul
High School: Colegiul Silvic Bucovina
Technical School: Colegiul Silvic Bucovina
Higher Education: Kensington College of Business
2.
Orientation capacity, Teamwork, Responsible, Sociable
3.
Labourer 2015 - 2016
Mate Fixer 2016 - 2017
Supervisor 2017 – 2019

REFERENCES
• Busso, M. and et.al., 2017. Learning Better: public policy for skills development. Inter-American
Development Bank.
• Carvalho, A., 2016. The impact of PBL on transferable skills development in management
education. Innovations in Education and Teaching International. 53(1). pp.35-47.
• Chu, S. K. W. and et.al., 2021. 21st century skills development through inquiry-based learning from
theory to practice. Springer International Publishing.
• Kim, Y. K. and Lundberg, C. A., 2016. A structural model of the relationship between student–faculty
interaction and cognitive skills development among college students. Research in Higher
Education. 57(3). pp.288-309.

TASK 4
APPENDIX A

CONT….

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APPENDIX B
CV
Curriculum vitae
Abdirahman Farah,
5th street, Film City Road, London
Objective: I want to work in a reputed organisation for the job role of site manager.
Qualification:
Middle School: Scoala de Arte si Meserii Dimitrie Ociul
High School: Colegiul Silvic Bucovina
Technical School: Colegiul Silvic Bucovina
Higher Education: Kensington College of Business
Work experience:
Labourer 2015 - 2016
Mate Fixer 2016 - 2017
Supervisor 2017 – 2019
Key skills:
Orientation capacity, Teamwork, Responsible, Sociable

APPENDIX C
LINKEDIN PROFILE

APPENDIX D
COVER LETTER
REF: Site manager
I wish to apply for the job role of site manager
These are the skills and knowledge that I possess for
the relevant job role:
Qualification:
Middle School: Scoala de Arte si Meserii Dimitrie Ociul
High School: Colegiul Silvic Bucovina
Technical School: Colegiul Silvic Bucovina
Higher Education: Kensington College of Business
Work experience:
Labourer 2015 - 2016
Mate Fixer 2016 - 2017
Supervisor 2017 – 2019
Key skills:
Orientation capacity, Teamwork, Responsible, Sociable
I have attached my CV for your review. I look forward
for your cooperation.
Thankyou
Yours sincerely,
Abdirahman Farah