Graduate Challenge E-Portfolio: CSR Debate and Skills Analysis

This e-portfolio assignment analyzes a graduate debate challenge focused on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The introduction highlights the importance of CSR in business, followed by an analysis of the challenge, emphasizing the significance of CSR in business practices and its impact on stakeholders. The discussion of skills focuses on communication and meeting skills, identifying strengths and weaknesses in applying these skills during the debate. The student acknowledges strong meeting skills but identifies weaknesses in communication, particularly in presenting viewpoints and maintaining confidence. The conclusion summarizes the effectiveness of the debate in developing competencies and providing insights into CSR practices. The e-portfolio includes references to relevant academic sources, supporting the analysis and discussion.

GRADUATE
CHALLENGE E-
PORTFOLIO
(DEBATE
CHALLENGE)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
ANALYSIS OF CHALLENGE.......................................................................................................1
DISCUSSION OF SKILLS.............................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Debate Challenge was perhaps one of the most important activities that required effective
debating upon topic of Corporate Social Responsibility. Such activity is quite imperative as CSR
is an essential part of each and every business organisation (Delaney and Bates, 2015).
ANALYSIS OF CHALLENGE
Corporate Social Responsibility is quite important to be included within business
practices of an organisation as the effectiveness in operations is very well judged by the benefits
these provide to the stakeholders of the company, that are the community as well as the people
associated with the firm (Shah and Ahluwalia, 2019). It contributed within enhancement of
knowledge in context of good practices which a company must follow to contribute to the
society in an effective and appropriate manner, along with enhancing their business
performances in an effective manner.
DISCUSSION OF SKILLS
Certain skills that have been utilised within the challenge are communication skills and
meetings skills, which are prominent personal as well as professional skills (Fowles-Sweet and
Haslam, 2019). In addition to this, application of such skills is not only required for academic
purposes, whereas for professional aspects as well. In terms of both these skills, my meeting
skills are quite effective, considering the fact that I was quite effective in presenting my views as
well as appropriately and effectively consider the viewpoints of others on the topic. In addition to
this, I was quite respectful to each and every individual while the debate was going on (Mantra
and Maba, 2018).
However, my communication skills were very weak. The reason for this is because
despite of being an active listener, I was very much incapable of presenting my viewpoints on
CSR to other individuals (Wald, 2015). For instance, I was in the favour of the fact that CSR is
increasingly becoming a marketing tool (Örnek and Ayas, 2015). Moreover, for this purpose, I
tried to provide prominent examples of companies that are using this element in their marketing
purposes. However, I was very much hesitant in keeping up my point to the audience. Moreover,
I was quite under-confident while debating upon the topic, which was very much inappropriate
for accomplishment of the challenge (French and et. al., 2015).
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CONCLUSION
Therefore, Debate Challenge was very much effective in helping development of growth
of certain competencies, along with better and effective insight onto the practices of CSR to
improvise a company's operations and working.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Delaney, G. and Bates, J., 2015. Envisioning the academic library: a reflection on roles,
relevancy and relationships. New review of academic librarianship. 21(1). pp.30-51.
Fowles-Sweet, W. and Haslam, O., 2019. Using e-portfolios for professional development.
French, J.C., and et. al., 2015. Targeted feedback in the milestones era: utilization of the ask-tell-
ask feedback model to promote reflection and self-assessment. Journal of Surgical
Education. 72(6). pp.e274-e279.
Mantra, I.B.N. and Maba, W., 2018. Enhancing the EFl learners’ speaking skill through folktales
based instruction. In SHS Web of Conferences (Vol. 42, p. 00017). EDP Sciences.
Örnek, A.Ş. and Ayas, S., 2015. The relationship between intellectual capital, innovative work
behavior and business performance reflection. Procedia-Social and Behavioral
Sciences. 195. pp.1387-1395.
Shah, R. and Ahluwalia, S., 2019. The challenges of understanding differential attainment in
postgraduate medical education.
Wald, H.S., 2015. Professional identity (trans) formation in medical education: reflection,
relationship, resilience. Academic Medicine. 90(6). pp.701-706.
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