Regent College Consultancy in Practice Report: Skills, Gaps, Plan

This report reflects on a consultancy project undertaken for Regent College, detailing the skills developed, including time management, financial management, and decision-making. The project involved developing a digital campaign, facing challenges like limited time and budget. The report analyzes the impact of these challenges and how the student developed skills to overcome them. It further identifies skill gaps, such as risk-taking, communication, and creativity, proposing a development plan to address them. The report emphasizes the importance of these skills for future projects and the development of the student's professional capabilities. The project's success is attributed to the effective allocation of limited funds and the ability to make calculated decisions, enhancing the student's confidence and understanding of the educational institute's workings. The report concludes with the importance of continuous skill development and the application of these learnings in future endeavors.

Consultancy in Practice

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
TASK-1 ...........................................................................................................................................1
TASK-2 ...........................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Problems and difficulties are the part of business which every organisation of market has
to face while performing their business activity in market. It depends upon the management and
strategic development of organisation that how they analyse these problems and what measures
they have used to minimise the same. This report is based on providing personal reflection
related to experience faced by my while doing task for Regent College. This report contains two
separate task under which first task helps to explore number of skills and learning which I have
developed during this project. It also helps to explore the increment in confidence and their use
in future projects. The second part of this project helps us to evaluate specific skill gap and
enables to develop effective development plan which helps to improve these gaps.
MAIN BODY
TASK-1
The project which is performed in previous time is development of new digital campaign
for Regent College which helps to increase brand value of college in market. The main aim of
the project is to attract large number of stakeholders towards the organisation which promotes
their development. There are number of problems are faced by me at the time of conducting this
problems and two major problem which is reflected by this project is limited amount of time and
problem of budget. The solution of these problems requires to have different types of skills and
learning present in my personality. Some skills were present in my personality as well and some
need to develop (Armstrong, 2018). The first skill which I have develop during this project is
time management skills another are financial management skills, decision making skill and many
more. The time management skills refers to those skill of in individual which is used by them to
manage different types tasks in required time. At the time of starting this project, management of
college provide use time deadline for completing this project which becomes challenge for us.
The performance of this project helps us to understand effective allocation of time which develop
effective time management skills in my personality. The another skill which is developed by me
is effective finance management skills. The financial position of college are not good as so much
which in result management provide is limited funds to finish this project. There are many
activities are present which required more funds while developing marketing campaign for
organisation. The effective allocation of funds helps to develop many measures which helps us to
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develop effective financial management skills. The decision making skills are very beneficial for
us to complete this project in effective valuable manner. There are large number of wicked
problems and complexities faced by me under which situation becomes worst. It is required to
take effective and calculated decision for solution of these problems. Effective decision making
skills helps us to solve these type of problem in effective manner.
There are different types of things present which is not in my knowledge at starting of
this project but developed due to performance of required task. The thing is effective how to
allocate limited funds in activities of project according to their importance. This project helps me
to understand the importance of any activity by evaluating their importance in terms of
monetary. Before developing, digital marketing campaigns for college I am not able to
understand managerial and working aspects of educational institute which helps to maintain the
organisation to operate their business in effective (Bhatia, 2019). The knowledge of institute and
their working are very beneficial for me. It helps to conduct these type of projects in near future
which helps to increase the productivity and the effectiveness of my my personality.
The level of confidence is one of the important and valuable part of my personality which
is very helpful for solving different types of problems and aspect in life. At the time of starting of
this project, the level of confidence are very low due to newness of this project. Huge amount of
stress and anxiety are developed in my personality at starting of this project. The reason for
development of these negative aspect in my personality is that I have never work for any
educational institution so it becomes threat for me to provide ineffective and invaluable aspect
which develops ineffective aspect in my personality. As the time goes thinks started to becomes
easy due to starting of project. The level of confidence start rising which helps me to conduct this
type of projects. It is important for me to analyse the level of confidence so that weaknesses
present in them can be minimise in aspect. If the level of confidence are high in management
then it becomes positive for me to conduct these type of projects again in my life (Brandi and
Elkjaer, 2019).
There are large number of learnings and skills are developed by me at time of conducting this
project which helps me to become more competitive towards different problems of life. The
implications of these skills are very high in further projects. There are large number of projects
and tasks will be reflected in life under which these skills and the learnings plays important role
and provides me different types of opportunities for the same. It is important for me to use these
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skills and knowledge so that promotion and development in these skills can be taken place in the
organisation. The time management skills which is developed by me during this project is very
helpful for me in further project. The time management skills enables me to manage different
aspects of life in effective manner (Henningsen, 2020). There are many aspect are present in life
under which it is required to become punctual so that it becomes possible for me to become more
competitive and efficient. The development of financial management skills in my personality are
very valuable for me. It helps me to fins different sources of funds and their effective allocation.
TASK-2
It is very important for me to conduct effective analyses of the above project if I want to
find the skills gaps. It is essential for me to make effective improvement plan for these gaps so
that it can be used in effective manner. If these gaps are not fulfilled by me at required time then
it becomes negative for me to complete different types of projects in effective manner. It is
required to conduct effective evaluation of personality under which different types of deviations
can be taken out to clear the same.
The skills which is analysed by me is risk taking skills which is important skills to be
present in personality. It is required to make further development in this skill because I have
experienced high level of stress and anxiety in wicked situation (Hillebrand and Mette, 2019).
The another skill gap is communication skill which disable me to make effective interaction in
organisation and work (Keret-Karavan and Rolnick, 2019). It is important for me to develop this
skills because it enables me to find different alternatives of development skills. The third skill
gap which I have analyse from above task is creativity skills. It is required to have effective
development plan for improving this skill and the brief discussion related to same are given
below:
Skills Development plan Resources Time frame
Communication skill It is required for me to
interact with different
type of peoples so that
communication can be
taken place. It helps
me to develop
Seminars and classes 2 months
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effective relations in
market.
Risk taking skill This skill helps me to
take effective decision
in wicked situation by
evaluating the risk
factors
Solving real situations 4 months
Creativity skill It helps me to make
effective measures
which helps to
promote the creativity.
Use attractive methods 3 months
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from this report that development of skills is one of the important and valuable
part of activities. It concludes the increment in confidence and their use in future projects. The
second part of this project helps us to conclude specific skill gap and enables to develop effective
development plan which helps to improve these gaps.
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