Essential Study and Employment Skills: A Skills Audit and Plan

This report examines essential study and employment skills, focusing on communication, time management, and problem-solving. The main body includes an audit and evaluation of these key skills, highlighting their importance in academic and professional contexts. The report also delves into the use of reflective techniques, specifically the Gibbs reflective model, to analyze learning experiences from group assignments. Furthermore, it presents a personal development plan, outlining strategies for skill enhancement through decision-making and time management. The analysis includes insights from Belbin's approach and groupthink, offering recommendations for improved teamwork and future actions. The report concludes with a summary of lessons learned and a detailed action plan for future situations.

Essential Study and
Employment Skills

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Audit and evaluation of key skills...............................................................................................1
Personal Development research and planning.............................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Skills and knowledge are important for life of a person as it make them efficient and capable
(Almajali and Tarhini, 2016). Skills are required for higher education of a person which helps
them in their effectively complete their education and also provide base for development of
employability skills required for career development. Thee skills helps to increase quality of life
of a person and also increase chances of finding better opportunity. There are various skills
including communication skills, time management skills, problem solving skills, decision
making skills, self discipline skills and planning skills. This project report includes
understanding of essential skills developed for higher study and development of future
employability skills. It includes evaluation of refection techniques in order to describe learning
experience. It also includes personal development plan which helps in planning and research for
identification of skills.
MAIN BODY
Audit and evaluation of key skills
There are various skills developed by me in order to complete learning process. Skills and
knowledge help a person in increasing quality of life of a person (Chang, 2016). It helps in
identification of various opportunity and attainment of career goals of a person. Skills
development by me includes communication skills, time management kills and problem-solving
skills. All these skills have their own importance in my life and provide me benefit in different
ways. Explanation of these skills are as follows:
Communication: Communication is sharing view, thoughts, feelings and ideas between two or
more person. Communication is one of important skills which is required for both academic as
well as processional life of a person. Communication not only includes oral communication but
also includes written communication. These helps a person to avoid misunderstanding and also
increase efficiency of communicating of a person. This make a person efficient and provide them
additional opportunity in life, This skill also important for career development as well as career
growth of a person. Communication is important as well as necessary skills at present time for all
types of jobs. I have developed communication skills during learning process. This
communication is not only including written communication but also oral communication which
helps me in future in order to find better career opportunity. With completion of assignment and
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projects helps me in improving my written ability and presentation and other activities helps me
to improve my oral communication skills.
Time management: Time management is another skill which is important skills as it improves
quality of life of a person (Donate, Peña and Sanchez de Pablo, 2016). Time management refers
to a process which includes planning and controlling of spending of time on different activities.
Effective time management skills help a person in saving their time and invest it further on
productive work. Time management skills helps a person to complete all task on time and helps
them to saves time for themselves. It provides career opportunity to a person as they can more
focused on their career goals. It also helps to reduce stress on a person as they have sufficient
time for investing for completion of any task. Time management skills is developed by me
during learning process as I have developed schedules which helps in managing my time and
also allow to complete my assignments on time and allow me to saves time for other productive
activities for my career.
Problem Solving: Problem solving skills is one of skills which helps a person to solve problem
occur in their life, career and workplace. Problem solving skills is important as there are various
problems occur in life of an individual person. These problems need to be solved by individual
as it creates stress and dissatisfaction in life of a person. Problems can be solved on bass of
critical thinking and creativity of a person. A person needs to develop various solution in order to
solve a problem occur in their life. I developed problem solving skills in life as it helps me in
solving various problems occur in academic life as well as learning process. With critical
thinking ability I have developed various solution which helps me and my team in order to
completion of group assignments.
Gibbs Reflective model:
Gibbs is on of most known mode for reflection which includes different stages that helps an
individual for exploration of their experience (Hur, and Hawley, 2020). This reflective cycle is
introduced by Graham Gibbs in the year 1988 which prvdie structure for exploring experience.
These stages include description, feeling, evaluation, analysis, conclusion as well as action plan.
Explanation of experience of me for completion of learning process is mentioned below:
Description: For learning process, various activities are organised at educational institute. These
activities include lectures from professors, presentations, assignment, projects. For this, a group
assignment is giving to my group which incudes five people including me. For starting project, I
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initiate in group and divide different parts of projects to group members. This helps us to start
projects sand research on our part of project. For completion of project, me and other group
members decide to write our own parts and merge it together on day before submission date. But
due to miscommunication we all writer our part in different writing style. This creates problem
for our group as we do not have sufficient time for rewriting of project. So, we decided to cancel
all our pa and rewrite assignment which is finished on time.
Feeling: During this situation I was feeling happy as we divide work smartly between group
members. But when we are meeting to merge different parts of assignment together, we get to
realise our mistakes (Jung and Yoon, 2018). At that time, I got frustrates as I needs to cancel my
plans for that night. Also, all of other group members needs to cancel their plan and we al stay
and work. This team work motivates us to work willingly which saves our time as we have
completed our work in less time. Before starting this assignment, I was very excited as well as
nervous as I do not know how other team members are thinking about this project. But after
completion of this project, I was feeling happy and satisfied as our hard work helps to complete
our work before deadline of assignment.
Evaluation: There are various things occur during this situation which goes well and there are
some things which went wrong. Things which are well is that all members of groups are ready to
work harder for this assignment and they contribute to produce excellent quality of work. Also,
due to our mistake and miscommunication, all members are cancelled their plan and work with
more dedication I order to complete this work on timer. Things which does not went well in this
assignment is that we all write assignment in our own ways and write in different writing style.
This results in failure of time plan of assignment and creates burden of work on team members.
All members in their own was contributed positively for this project which helps to completion
of project on time.
Analysis: There are many things which went well in this assignment as our decision of decision
of work on basis of choice of each member helps use to complete work as members of group are
choosing part on basis of their knowledge and interest that motivate them to work willingly
(Kamble, Gunasekaran and Sharma, 2018). This helps me in choosing my part of my interest as
it helps me in doing work in effective ways and also saves my time as I have already knowledge
of this topic. There are certain things related to assignment which did not went well in this
project as we decided to work on our parts and merge it together after completion of work but we
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have not decided writing styles and as a result, we all write our part in different writing styles.
We need to decide this thing in initial part of project as it helps us in completion of project in
effective manner. Here are some approaches used by me which helps me in group work as well
as understanding situation and these approaches includes Belbin’ approach and group think.
These approaches help me in future in working in group.
Conclusion: There are various things which I have learned from this situation as taking
initiatives in group work, planning for group work, time management, writing skills (Kang, and
Busser, 2018). But most important things in this is to work in a group a person needs proper
planning for structure of work, look of work, styles. This situation could be more positive for
team members as if we decided work structure and writing style for our work. There are various
skills needs to be developed by me to handle this type of situation more effectively. These skills
include critical thinking of problem solving, time management skills. I have learned from this
situation is that a person needs to challenges their own decision to carry out work in group.
Action Plan: If same situation occurs in life, I will take this situation differently as I will
communicate with team members effectively. I will get to know about their strengths as this
helps me to understand team members in better way. After this, we divide out work with sharing
expectation related to work as it helps every members of group to understand what they need to
do and how to do it in order to fulfil of expectation of work. I have developed these skills with
taking participation in such types of activities occur in academic life. I make to act differently in
next time as I have developed various skills and learn various new things from this situation
which helps me to act differently.
Personal Development research and planning
Personal development refers to process of assessing various kills as well as qualities by an
individual in order to attain aims and goals of their life for realisation of their potential
(Mayombe, 2017). This personal development is on of lifelong process which take place in
complete life cycle of a person. These skills help a person in attaining career goals of a person
that enhance their employability skills and raise confidence of individual. This also helps to
increase quality of life of a person and generate positivity in them in order to attainment of
personal empowerment. Personal development is important for a person in many ways. For
development of skills through personal development, a person requires proper planning as well
as research which helps them to identify skills required by them. This planning and research for
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personal development help in self-actualisation of needs of a person. For personal development,
a person needs to develop their vision and also need to do proper planning. This planning helps
to provide direction to a person for attainment of their personal development.
Personal development Plan
Personal development plan: Personal development plan refers to plan which includes action to be
taken in order to developed required skills and their outcome on individual (Mazzotti and
Plotner, 2016). This personal development plan helps to provide direction to individual for
attainment of their personal goals and objects in life. Personal development plan for me which
helps me roto develop various skills are mentioned below:
Skills Action plan Outcome Time period
Decision
making
skills:
For development of decision
making skills, I needs to
understand concept of decision
masking and process in order to
make effective decision making,
I also needs to understand cost
benefit analysis of decision
making. With completion of
course of decision making helps
me to make choices between
different alternatives available
for business. For practice
purpose, I participate in different
activities where I get opportunity
to made decision for team.
Outcome of this skills for me is
that it helps me in making
choices between different
available alternatives. It
improves quality omit life as
I’m able to make decision for
selecting one option. It helps
me in future while handling
group work as I am efficient in
making decision on basis of
benefit and limitation of
alternatives (Phong, Hui and
Son, 2018).
5 Months
Self-
discipline
Self discipline is another skill
which is important for me in
order to attain career goals. For
development of self discipline
skills, it is essential for a person
to be punctual for time which
Outcome of this skills is that it
helps in completion of work on
time and allow me to follow all
rules and regulation. This self
discipline helps in making me
different from others and
9 months
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helps them in completion of
work on time. I also made
schedule for every activity
which also make me disciplined.
I will also follow all rules as
well as regulation in academic
life as well as in future at work
place.
provide me career opportunity
as this self-discipline is
required by organization at
work place (Tuisku, Pulkki-
Råback and Virtanen, 2016). It
helps me to represent good
example in front of employees
who are working under me at
work place in future.
Planning Planning is one of skills which
helps a person in deciding
everything in advance as what is
to be done, how to be done,
where to be done (Suleman,
2018). I have developed these
skills by taking participation in
various activities to be
conducted in academic life, I
also take initiation in
organisation of different
functions at schools and colleges
which helps me in planning of
events and projects to be
conducted in academic life.
Outcome of this skills is that I
allow me to handle group work
effectively as we can decide
various things related to
assignment and other work in
advance it helps to reduce
possibility of error I
completion of work and
improve my efficiency which
provide me career opportunity
artwork place.
1 year
CONCLUSION
From above mentioned project report, it can be concluded that essential skills are those skills
which is requires skills of a person in order to develop career opportunity. There are various
skills including communication skills, time management skills, problems solving sills and many
more. All these are important for life of a person as it helps in as communication skills helps to
communicate effectively without any confusion whereas time management skills help to save
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time on unnecessary activities and allow individual to invest it on productive work. With use of
reflective models, a person can describe their experience on learning. Gibbs model of reflection
is most known model for reflection which includes different stages which allow individual to
explore their experience on different aspects of learning process. These stages include
description, analysis, evaluation, action plan, feeling and conclusion. Personal development plan
is one of plan which includes different skills to be development, strategies to be adoption in
order to developed these skills.
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