Consultancy in Practice: Skills Development, Reflection & Action Plan

This report reflects on the skills developed during a consultancy project, highlighting improvements in marketing, leadership, communication, and social media skills. It discusses the author's initial skill gaps and the increased confidence gained through practical experience. The report outlines a SMART action plan for further development in time management, reading, and presentation skills, essential for professional growth. The action plan includes specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound objectives for each skill. The report concludes that continuous skill development is crucial for success in the professional world. Desklib provides access to similar assignments and study resources for students.

Consultancy in practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Skills development from project..................................................................................................3
My previous learnings.................................................................................................................3
Confidence level..........................................................................................................................4
Learnings Implementation...........................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Action plan for skills development..............................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................9
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
Curriculum Vitae.........................................................................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
LinkedIn Profile.........................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Skills of an individual who is seeking a job are considered as one of the most significant
element in order to get the job within a reputed organisation. If a person does not have skills then
it cannot be selected in the recruitment period. Some of the crucial knowledge and skills get
achieved by facing the challenges that occur in life. Within the project, those skills that are
collected from the situations of challenges are going to be presented and along with it, the
changes within the processes will also be discussed in a proper way (Brandi and Elkjaer, 2019).
Furthermore, the implementation of learning of skills is also going to be described and evaluated.
Moreover, an effective action plan will be conducted in order to present the approach of skills
development.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Skills development from project
Many skills are obtained in a short period of time after executing the project with team
members. Every member of the team gave their proper devotion in regard to activities and it
leads all of us to be more efficient in various skills. I have acquired many skills such as
marketing and leadership skills, social media operating skills, writing skills, meeting and
communication skills and many more. These skills are holds so much of importance in my career
life. The knowledge that I have gained and the skills that I have acquired can be fruitful for me
on each stage of my occupation life. All these knowledge and skills are extremely valuable for
being chosen and acquiring higher position in the profession.
My previous learnings
Before executing in this difficult scenario along with the team members, I am lacking in
different skills that are essential for my potential journey in course of life.
Prior to initiating the actions within the respective process, I am lacking in acquiring the
knowledge about appropriate communication way to alleviating circumstances with distinct type
of individuals (Lawrence, 2019). Furthermore, I was not able to accomplish my informal
writings in effective way and several social media applications were not known to me. In
addition to this, I was unknown to the way of formation of online meetings with different parties

in an appropriate manner. I have insufficient awareness about these activities prior to this process
but because of this process, I procured knowledge and became expertise in all these activities.
Confidence level
Following to the alleviating situations with my colleagues, I have gained many productive
skills and understandings. I have assured sufficient devotion at the time when I was acquiring
skills with my colleagues, as all these skills and knowledge can be advantageous for me in my
upcoming future or in my upcomimg career life. Now I can effectively put into practice, the
knowledge and skills that I have gained from this process in the real world as I have sufficient
proficiency on these skills. Through these skills and understandings I have gained adequate
confidence in my tasks. Because of this confidence, I got more inspiration to acquire knowledge
of these skills for my upcoming career opportunities. Due to this efficient learning I have become
more expertise and it increased my confidence level. Now the confidence that has built in me is
at high level.
Learnings Implementation
First of all, I faced such situations that were challenges for me along with the members of
team in order to develop appropriate knowledge and proper set of skills that are necessary in my
career life. For doing so, I have performed all these different actions. Through the process of
learning such skills, I also have made efforts to learn the implementation of knowledge as well as
such skills in my practical life. Such types of knowledge and skills are needed in most of the
career fields, therefore the application of these skills are greatly needed. For instance, within the
workplace, human resources are required to interact with almost every stakeholder of the
business and at that time, communication skills made easier for manpower in order to
communicate with these stakeholders (McLeod and Schapper, 2020). Likewise, leadership skill
is also highly needed for workforce because by having such kind of skill, I can facilitate the
workers through leading and guiding them towards the accomplishment of task and business
objectives. Thirdly, within this recent period, activities are required to operate at the platform of
social media due to pandemic situation of COVID-19. At last, meeting skills are highly required
to employees as with the help of this skill, I can meet with various clients that are concerned with
the organisation. By having appropriate execution of all such acquired skills within career life, it
will help me in enhancing my career opportunities. Along with it, I also required to develop
some more skills to get more success in my career life.

TASK 2
Action plan for skills development
In order to become more professional in organisational life, human resources are required
to have a lot of skills in order to perform multiple roles within an organisation. Manpower are
also required to evolve various kinds of skills because of the dynamic situations. By having
appropriate development of skills and knowledge, an individual can get success within the
workplace in an effective manner. For achieving these skills and knowledge, an action plan with
SMART Objectives can be considered as an effective approach (Oliver and et.al., 2018). Within
this action plan, all the details are shown regarding what is required to do and the process of
doing it. In this project, three distinct gaps are chosen that are also selected as goals and these are
in relation with the development of different like reading skills, time management skills and
presentation skills. These types of skills are necessarily required in order to become more
professional and expert within the workplace. The Action Plan is given as below with the
objectives to achieve:
Goal 1: Developing Time Management Skills
Time management skills provide assistance to an employee in performing each job role in
a proper and perfect manner within the organisation. This kind of skill has helped an employee
through enhancing its productivity as well as efficiency because of the appropriate execution of
time management skill (Scott and Shelton, 2019). Within such type of skill, human resources
have made efforts in order to accomplish the work in a particular time period and I have found
such skill as my skill gap.
Specific Accomplishing the task in set period of time.
Measurable Keeping a check on each task to accomplish within the defined time period as
well as setting defined hours.
Attainable Proving a lot of dedication on performing actions as well as carefully reading
while spending time on a specific activity.
Relevant Functioning of different roles of the job in particular period of time.
Time bound The respective goal has been attained within the 3 months.
Goal 2: Developing Reading Skills

Reading the different journals and various books facilitates an individual in enhancing the
base of knowledge of a person. More and more reading means acquiring more and more
information as well as knowledge of a personnel. It facilitates a person in developing a lot of
skills in an effective manner (Shaw, 2022). If I develop this skill within me then it will also help
me in gaining extra advantages in order to get a better position within the workplace.
Specific Reading more and more books and journals in order to gain more
knowledge.
Measurable Fixing a target through reading 8 to 9 books and journals within a month.
Attainable By making different divisions of timetable into the separate parts.
Relevant Achieved the information and the knowledge from the books and the
journals is executed within the workplace.
Time bound Such goal has been achieved within the period of 2 months.
Goal 3: Developing Presentation Skills
Sharing or transferring the information or knowledge to the multiple stakeholders of an
organisation can be done through having effective presentation skills. As the p[roper presentation
of the speech can be an appropriate approach to share the views and opinions with them. With
the help of this kind of skill, I can use proper gesture as well as posture in order to pass the exact
information to the other people (Sokol, 2020). In order to get the job opportunity in my career
life, development of the effective presentation skill will play a major role in performing the
various job roles within the organisation.
Specific Being more relaxed and comfortable at the time of giving presentation or
presenting anything in front of the other people.
Measurable Trying to develop appropriate posture as well as gestures.
Attainable Practicing a lot of preparation prior to present anything.
Relevant Facilitating to present more knowledge and information to the different
stakeholders of the organisation.
Time bound This type of goal has been attained within the 3 months.

CONCLUSION
From above explanation of the project, it has been concluded that in order to become an
expert as well as experienced person, an individual is required to develop multiple skills and
knowledge. The appropriate planning as well as execution can help a person in developing skills
that are significant within an organisation. In order to learn and develop different skills, some
impacts have also been discussed in this project and along with it, the level of confidence has
also presented by conducting proper evaluation. Moreover, some of the skill gaps are recognised
that are essentially required in the career life. An action plan has also been prepared of these
three skills including SMART objectives in order to develop the skills in an effective way.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Brandi, U. and Elkjaer, B., 2019. Subtleties of knowledge sharing—Results from a case study
within management consultancy. Knowledge and Process Management. 26(3). pp.185-
193.
Lawrence, W. G., 2019. The politics of salvation and revelation in the practice of consultancy.
In Tongued with Fire (pp. 165-179). Routledge.
McLeod, S. and Schapper, J. H., 2020. Understanding Quality in Planning Consultancy: A
Review and Synthesis of the Literature. Journal of Planning Education and Research,
p.0739456X20943928.
Oliver and et.al., 2018. Reflexive inquiry: A framework for consultancy practice. Routledge.
Scott, P. and Shelton, A. T., 2019. The best of both worlds? combining specialist practice with
hospital consultancy. Orthodontic Update. 12(2). pp.70-76.
Shaw, D., 2022. Plato, Aristotle and Management Consultancy Knowledge. In An Ancient Greek
Philosophy of Management Consulting (pp. 145-163). Springer, Cham.
Sokol, M. B., 2020. Mindful design of the sole-practitioner consultancy. Consulting Psychology
Journal: Practice and Research. 72(1). p.27.

APPENDIX
TASK 3
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Human Resource Manager
Contact
Details:
Areanna, UK
1238
(789)540-
379252
[e-mail]
m
Career goals
Main career goal is to become a professional HR Manager who is able to guide and direct a
team of large number of people. In order to get learning of different professional methods of
operating HR functions as well as to achieve growth and success in working organisation
along with meeting business targets in a set defined time period.
Work Experience
 ____________ Performed HR operations for a consultancy company near my home.
 ____________ Attended several webinars and seminars that are concerned with HR for
developing effective understanding of organisational human resources.
 ____________ Gone through professional internships within a popular HR
organisation.
Educational Qualifications:
 Bachelor degree in HR management
 Master’s degree in HR management
 PHD in HR management
Skills
 Communication and time management skills.
 Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills for dealing with any kind of challenging
situation.
 Decision-making skills to make the decisions at tough times within organisation.
 Motivating and leadership skills for provide motivation to human resources of

company towards hard work.
TASK 4
LinkedIn Profile
Name:
Location: England, UK
Summary: Within present time, I am working as an HR analyst for a local HR organisation
nearby my home. I am preparing my LinkedIn Profile for gaining the opportunities of my self-
development as well as to achieve growth in my career life. I also understand that this
LinkedIn will facilitate me in developing my personality and will provide me the best
opportunity that is available in relation to my career. This profile will help me in improving
my competency level and will also provide assistance to me in developing a lot of skills that
are necessary for individual growth. In my professional life, this LinkedIn Profile will assist
me in v=developing wide career opportunities.
Education: I have completed my education in accountancy. Economics and HR from the
College of England. I also have professional certificate of leadership course that will facilitate
me in growing within the upcoming organisation.
Skills: I have effective communication and analytical thinking skills that will help me in
gaining knowledge concerned with a subject matter. For maintaining coordination in upcoming
organisation, I have coordination management skills. I also have detailed set of skills that will
help me in exploring career opportunities in my academic life.
Groups:
 Summary
 Education: Specific Skilled Groups
Companies:
 Barbour

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