Consultancy in Practice: Skills Development, Gaps, and Action Plan

This report examines the skills developed and enhanced through consultancy practice, emphasizing the importance of continuous professional and personal growth. It identifies key skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, and digital literacy, and reflects on the knowledge gained through practical experience using Gibbs' Reflective Cycle. The report also addresses skill gaps, outlining resources and action plans for improvement in areas like research, decision-making, and critical analysis. Ultimately, it underscores the role of acquired skills and knowledge in future career growth and success. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and study resources.

Consultancy in
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Skills developed and/or enhanced as a result of the project...................................................1
Knowledge Obtained through the process and level of confidence improved.......................3
Aid of learning in your future career growth..........................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Skills gaps and Plan of action for filling these gaps...............................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Knowledge and skills development enhancement for the professional and personal growth
results in creating opportunity for the organisations in the future scenario. In addition to that it
helps in enhancing and also learning the skills, knowledge and abilities on a constant manner
which result in more career opportunities for the career growth in the same fields. With finding
the solutions for the business problems through managing the company can result in improving
the ability to deliver, explore and create such values to the consumers that basically results in
improving the requirements of the customers. There are various abilities and skills which are
developed by the people through performing a variety of activities and opportunities in their
professional and personal lives. The basic skills usually comprises of the adaptability, leadership,
problem solving, critical thinking, communication, interpersonal skills etc which are generally
required an individual for the purpose to solve the business problems. When it comes to
knowledge it basically comprises of the conceptual knowledge, organizational knowledge,
technical knowledge and product knowledge which is very essential and plays a very important
in performing problem solving for the organisation. The report basically covers business and its
significance for the future growth and in the end it provides an action plan for the improvement
of certain skill gaps for a individual.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Skills developed and/or enhanced as a result of the project
The professional and personal development activities along with the support of the
knowledge and skills enhancement are continuous and all pervasive for the development and
growth opportunities to a person or an individual. When it comes to professional and personal
development basically refers to the growth process of a person through management of the
knowledge, skill development and learning activities. Performing the problem solving activities
of the company can enable a person assembles the knowledge and skills that can result in
improving their further professional and personal development and providing the career success
and employability opportunities (Di Gregorio, A. and et. al., 2019). The various skills that are
gained through performing this programme are mentioned below:
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Problem solving skills: In context to skills, the problem solving skill is basically the ability of a
person to examine the situations and solving the problem. It helps in identifying its causes and
developing specific solutions to resolve the problems. With the support of problem solving
activities, i basically developed the ability to identify the various reasons for the problem and
creating a solution to handle the problem effectively. I started to examine the reasons and
situations and causes for the problem with the help of a mind map in order to eliminate the
problem and improving the solutions, working along with the members, resolving the conflicts
and develop ethical solutions for the problems (GrÃjdieru, 2018).
Critical thinking skills: It basically refers to the thinking process of the person in the given
situation can result in helping of creation of the new things , innovative ideas, developing new
methods for the purpose to find out the best suitable solution for a situation. For the financial
issues, i used my critical thinking skills for the purpose to arrange the finances in order to
complete my tasks. With the support of the critical thinking , i was able to develop good
solutions in order to solve the problem.
Communication Skills: Communication basically means the process of exchange of information
or idea for the purpose to reach a common understanding. The communication skills basically
refers to the transferable skills that goes constantly through out the entire life and helps in better
interaction with other individuals. I have developed communication skills while performing the
programme because it was very important for me to interact with the individuals for the
development of the solutions for the business problems. I think with the help of appropriate
speech, proper body language, open mindedness, adequate attention can result in improving the
various communication activities of a person (Lindgreen and et. al., 2021).
Digital Literacy: The technology plays a very important role and the rapid changes and the
advancement in the technology has intensified the use of the artificial intelligence, devices,
virtual reality and augmented reality. While creation of the solutions for the increasing space
within the area and i learnt the use of the augmented and virtual reality for increasing the space
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by proper alignment with aligning the materials within the company. I was able to use the digital
technology, social media platforms and websites for the purpose to improve the experience.
Team Working: In context to team working, it is basically the collaboration for the individual in
order to work together in group and with each other for the purpose to achive a same objective
and desired goals. In reference to team work, it plays a very important and significant role which
the help of which it helps in aligning the actions and improving the actions and conditions. With
the help of effective team work, it helps in cooperation and coordination for the purpose to
achieve a high level of the performance for the purpose to make changes swiftly (Markova,
Modliński and Pinto, 2020).
Knowledge Obtained through the process and level of confidence improved
Gibbs reflective cycle
It is basically a model that plays a very important role for the purpose to reflect on the
learning, experience and knowledge which is basically obtained with the support of this process.
Description: During the beginning of the process of problem solving for the organisation, i was
highly unaware of the knowledge and the various concepts which comprises of the critical
thinking, communication, description of the feedback from the customers and much more. I did
not posses or have the knowledge for the problems or the organisation that i tried to obtain
through research activities with the support of the others.
Feelings: During the entire process, i tried to work with others for the purpose to improve the
level of coordination or the collaboration with the help of teammates which was literally a new
feeling for me. With the support of it, it helped me a lot in facing the problems and overcoming
them.
Evaluation: During the process, it has happened to the plan such as identifying the problem, the
work distribution, research work. This was a great opportunity for me to develop digital literacy
and improving the learning and development of the person( Moorman, and et. al., 2019).
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Analysis: I think my decision to work and collaborate with team members and taking support
from them resulted in improving my abilities to develop my leadership abilities and i also
realised that certain skills such as critical thinking skills, research knowledge, problem solving
and communication plays a very important role in finding out solutions for the business problems
and issues (Spanjaard, Hall and Stegemann, 2018).
Conclusion: From the process, i understood that various aspects for the professional and
personal growth with the help of knowledge and skills from the entire process( Peleg, A., 2018).
In addition to that, it helps me in providing a level of confidence which i gained through
completion of the entire process. With the support of the learning process, i have achieve better
results which supports me in improving the future career growth.
Aid of learning in your future career growth
From the abilities, skills and knowledge, i have developed that will support for the
development and enhancing the growth in my profession. It is very important for me to obtain
the knowledge possible from the viewpoint of my experience through the process of providing
growth opportunities in the future course of action. The intensified competition in the personal
areas due to the requirement of the knowledge, increasing level of technology which helped me a
lot in facing tough competition and achieving success in the career. Before getting into the
profession, it was very important for me to develop skills through the development activities,
process and training etc With the support of the process i could easily succeed in my profession.
TASK 2
Skills gaps and Plan of action for filling these gaps
Skill Gaps Resources Required Action Plan Measuring
Criteria
Time
Required
Research
ability
Resources which are
required for the
purpose to fill the gaps
involves books, data
With the help of
obtaining various
resources and taking
support from the
With the help of
authenticity of the
feedback, data,
analysis and
One month
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from government, web
journals, yearly
statistics etc which are
important for the
performance and
carrying out research.
library to obtain online
materials, books and
statistical data etc
(Suh and Lee, 2018).
much more.
Decision
making
With the support of
taking part in the
various management
activities which are
important for the
organisation and
carrying out effective
decisions conquer to
those problems and
providing solutions.
By involving myself
in the making activity
for identifying the
suitable solutions for
purpose to improve
the business activity
and overall process
within the company
for the purpose to
achieve my goals.
Checking out the
results based on
various decisions
and resolving
them.
One month
Critical
analysis
Through taking part in
the critical analysis for
the identification of
better solutions.
Using Critical analysis
solution and using
them for the purpose
to solve the issues.
Identifying the
critical analysis
for the business
problems and
development of
the solutions for
the issues.
One month
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it has been concluded that abilities and skills plays a very important
role for the purpose to enhance the professional growth. In addition to that it comprises of the
brief discussion of the various skills which comprises of the team working, problem solving,
digital literacy and critical thinking etc that were obtained from the process. Furthermore, it helps
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in having deep understanding in relation to the future growth through acquisition of the
knowledge and skills.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Di Gregorio, A. and et. al., 2019. Employability skills for future marketing
professionals. European management journal, 37(3), pp.251-258.
GrÃjdieru, E., 2018. How to sell careers to the employees you want to keep? A marketing
approach on career development. Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov.
Economic Sciences. Series V, 11(1), pp.37-44.
Lindgreen, A. and et. al., 2021. Introduction to How to Fast-Track Your Academic Career.
In How to Fast-Track Your Academic Career. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Markova, M., Modliński, A. and Pinto, L.M., 2020. Creative or analitical way for career
development? Relationship marketing in the field of international business
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Moorman, and et. al., 2019. Challenging the boundaries of marketing. Journal of
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Peleg, A., 2018. Early-career marketing practitioner experiences of ethics: Implications for
ethics education (Doctoral dissertation, London South Bank University).
Spanjaard, D., Hall, T. and Stegemann, N., 2018. Experiential learning: Helping students to
become ‘career-ready’. Australasian Marketing Journal (AMJ), 26(2), pp.163-171.
Stewart, D.W. and Ladik, D.M. eds., 2019. How to get published in the best marketing journals.
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Suh, Y.H. and Lee, Y.J., 2018. The Effects of Salesperson'Self-directed Career Management on
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