Consultancy in Practice: Skills Development and Gap Analysis Report

This report reflects on a consultancy project undertaken by a university student, focusing on the practical application of consultancy skills. The student details the skills developed through the project, including communication, analysis, interpretation, and teamwork, while also acknowledging the development of knowledge in cooperation and coordination. The report further identifies skill gaps in critical thinking, time management, and leadership, proposing a plan of action to address these deficiencies. The student emphasizes the importance of these skills for future career development and overall personality enhancement. The project involved a campaign for Regent College, providing real-world experience in addressing client needs and enhancing the college's awareness and admission rates. The report concludes with a summary of the key findings, emphasizing the importance of consultancy practice for identifying and solving business problems, and the need for continuous skill development to succeed in the field.

Consultancy in
Practice

INTRODUCTION
Consultancy in Practice refers to the practice of obtaining advice and consultancy from
the members of a consultancy group (Adesi, Owusu-Manu and Murphy, 2018). This can be quite
helpful for the organizations to identify and solve their problems and therefore progress in the
future. Thus, it is advisable for the management in the firms that they identify their business
problems and seek consultancy as and when required by them. In this report, a detailed
discussion will be made on the reflection on the process of solving the problem of the client and
evaluation of learning and skills development. Additionally, a specific analysis on the skills gap
will be made and proposing a plan of action will be covered as a part of this assignment.
MAIN BODY
Scenario- I am a student studying in a university. I have to make sure that I am able to
aim at my skill development quite effectively and efficiently so that I am able to attain higher-
level of skills and competencies in the right manner. As a part of our university curriculum we
were given a project to work on by our teachers. The name of the Project was CAMPAIGN FOR
REGENT COLLEGE. In this project, the aim was to make sure that the Awareness of the
students regarding the activities of Regent College can be enhanced which will help the college
in getting more admissions and will help it in enhancing its popularity level.
Task one
Having being a member of the group in the college which was assigned the project I think
that I have developed a lot of skills and competencies by being a part of such a group which will
help me a lot in the future in my personality development effectively and efficiently. Therefore,
in this way it can be said that being a member of such a group will be quite helpful for me in
ensuring that I can make the use of these skills and competencies which will help me a lot in
ensuring my personality development in the future effectively and efficiently.
Skills developed as a result of the project-
I developed the following skills as a result of the project-
 Communication skills- I developed these skills as I was required to communicate with
the client to identify the business problems which they were facing. I communicated a lot
with the management of Regent College which helped me in enhancing my knowledge
effectively and efficiently (Apostol and Pop, 2019).
 Analysis skills- I developed these skills because they are quite essential in ensuring that I
was able to analyze the situation clearly which helped me a lot in drawing the appropriate
conclusions and recommendations for the future. Regent College’s situation had to be

analyzed clearly by us in the group which helped me in developing these skills (Hartley,
2017).
 Interpretation skills- I developed these skills because through their use I ensured that I
interpreted the given facts, data and information clearly and derived conclusions and
recommendations for the future. This was related to Regent College which helped me in
developing these skills (Lampson and et.al., 2019).
 Teamwork skills- The development of these skills was done by me because this was a
group project and therefore I had to display teamwork to work as a part of the team. This
helped us in collecting the information about Regent College in a better manner (Miah,
Hasan and Gammack, 2017).
Development of knowledge-
When I started out this project, I had no prior experience of working as a part of a group
and therefore did not know much about the group projects. Therefore, I did not knew
anything particular about the way in which cooperation, coordination works and therefore
the way in which the groups are able to ensure that they can attain their goals and
objectives in the future. Thus, I can state that working as a part of the group has helped
me in the Development of knowledge about cooperation and coordination and in the way
their use can be made so that the attainment of the goals and objectives in the future can
be done (Obeidat, Al-Suradi and Tarhini, 2016).
Extent of improvement of confidence-
At the start of the project, I lacked the required level of confidence as I was not able to
ensure the way in which the initiatives are required to be taken so that the enhancement in
the level of confidence can be done effectively and efficiently. Therefore, by working as
a part of the group I was able to make sure that I improved my level of confidence quite
gradually and thus this helped me a lot in ensuring that with an increase in the confidence
I am able to attain my particular goals and objectives clearly in the future helping me a
lot in ensuring my Personal and Professional Development in the right way (Sokol,
2020).
Use of learning in the future career-
The use of learning will be made by me in the future career because through the use of
learning I will be able to make sure that I can identify my own strengths and weaknesses
in the right way in the future and work on them properly. This will be helpful for me in
ensuring that I can aim for the overall development of my personality and thus can help
in the attainment of the efficiency and effectiveness which is required in the future.

Therefore, I can state that the development of learning will help me in ensuring my future
development.
Task two
While working on this project, I identified that there were certain gaps in my skills which
I am required to fill so that I am able to work in the right manner to remove them appropriately. I
identified the gaps in the following skills-
Critical thinking skills- I am not able to think critically and therefore as a result I am not
able to critically identify the way in which the use of my skills has to be made. This is an
important skill because it is quite essential in order to ensure that the appropriate decisions can
be taken in the right manner.
Time management skills- I am not able to manage my time sometimes which creates
problems and issues for me as I do not get time for certain activities. Therefore, in this manner it
is quite important that I am able to target proper time management which will help me a lot in
ensuring that I use the time available with me in a proper manner so that goals and objective are
attained by me.
Leadership skills- I think that I lack the ability of leading a team and therefore require
ensuring the development of the Leadership skills for the future. Thus, in this manner it can be
said I have to ensure that I can develop these skills which will be helpful for me in ensuring that I
lead the team in a right way effectively and efficiently.
Therefore, by identifying these skill gaps the work can be done in a proper manner so that
the development of these skills can be carried out (Yu, 2017). Therefore, it is quite essential that
the use of the skills can be made appropriately for the purpose of future development. I will
make sure that I use a Plan of Action for this particular purpose. The Plan of Action which can
be used by me is as follows-
Plan of Action
Particulars Details
Critical Thinking Skills For the development of these skills I will make
sure that I identify the scope of taking of
various types of decisions independently which
will help me in ensuring that I develop these
skills as a part of my personality development
in the future.
Time Management Skills For the development of these skills it is quite
essential that a proper understanding of the use
of time can be developed so that the available
time can be used in a best possible manner

which will be helpful in ensuring that the
attainment of the future goals and objectives
can be made properly.
Leadership skills For the development of these skills it is
important that the initiative can be taken in a
proper manner for the attainment of the goals
and objectives in the future which will be
helpful in ensuring that a holistic development
of the overall skills and competencies can be
carried out in a proper way.
Thus, In this way this Plan of Action will be implemented by me in ensuring that I am
able to create better plans and apply them quite effectively and efficiently which will be helpful
for the purpose of attainment of the future goals and objectives in a right way in the future which
will help me in getting the desired success in the future.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that Consultancy in Practice refers to the
activities which are undertaken in order to provide the advice to the businesses regarding their
business problems. It is therefore necessary that the use of appropriate skills and competencies
can be made which will be quite helpful in becoming successful in this field in the future.

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