MG408 The Graduate Challenge: E-Portfolio Skills Reflection Report

This report is a reflective piece on a student's participation in a team-based hotel challenge as part of the MG408 The Graduate Challenge module. The report details the challenge of preparing a budget plan for a hotel, highlighting the need for financial, accounting, and branding knowledge. The student reflects on the skills demonstrated during the challenge, including communication skills/emotional intelligence, teamwork, time management/meeting skills, and business skills and competencies. The student discusses how these skills were applied and contributed to the team's success in addressing the challenge. The report concludes with an action plan for further developing these skills for personal and professional growth, and includes references to relevant academic sources. The assignment emphasizes the development of skills required for success at university, including teamwork, business acumen, and the ability to reflect on personal development. The student used an e-portfolio to evidence their participation in the challenges and to reflect on what they learned through their involvement.

REFLECTIVE WORK

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Hotel Challenge...........................................................................................................................3
Skills............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
A person has always required many skills and competencies’ in its personal life to
properly deal with different challenges. A hotel challenge has been discussed below. There are
some major skills or abilities also has mentioned below which was demonstrated during this
challenges.
MAIN BODY
Hotel Challenge
Recently I have participated in a teamwork where whole team got a task to prepare a
specific budget for January to April to a hotel named Davis. Of course, preparing a budget plan
Is not a simple task, because there are appropriate knowledge of finance, accounting and
branding is highly required (Greenan, 2016). Most member within my team was able to make
that budget plan easily, because on hat time we don’t have proper knowledge about how to make
an appropriate budget for a hotel. That was really big challenge to all of us, in which finally we
were decided to properly deal with existing hotel challenge. On that time, me and colleagues was
started to know own efficiency, skills and knowledge, because this was the only ways to all of
use systematically dealing with that hotel challenge. Some major skills have been discussed
below which I demonstrated while facing that hotel challenge. These skills were really supported
me for properly dealing with hotel challenge.
Skills
Communication Skills/Emotional Intelligence
This is the first skill which I used while facing hotel challenge. For example; I was
properly communicated with my colleagues to encourage them. With the support of my extra-
ordinary communication skills, I was able to make encourage my all colleague for finding
appropriate salutation to prepare a budget for hotel (Rimmer, 2018). On that time, I have learnt
one new thing that, if you have excellent communication skills, the n you can easily convince
different people in daily life. Then finally, we started for searching on different platforms
(internet, books & journals, financial magazines) about how to develop a productive budget for a

hotel. Literally, commutations skills play very great role in properly dealing with different
challenges.
Teamwork
Teamwork abilities or skills also played very excellent role to me while facing hotel
challenge. Basically, on that time I worked in a team where me and my other team member got
task on preparing a budget. When was facing hotel challenge, then it said to my all colleagues
that, we can resolve any challenge or problem by working in a team. At the end, we all team
members putted our huge efforts to properly deal with that existing hotel challenge.
Time Management/ Meeting Skills
Time manage skills had supported to me for achieving our team goal in decided time
period.
Business Skills and Competencies
There is proper knowledge of finance is very necessary for creating a budget, in which
my business skills and competencies has helped me creating budget for hotel (Orlov and et.al.,
2018).
I have learnt from that hotel challenge that; we should easily deal with any challenge if
we have appropriate skills and competencies.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that I will make an action plan for more developing these various
skills in the future, because this step is very necessary for personal development.

REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Greenan, P., 2016. Personal development plans: insights from a case based approach. Journal of
Workplace Learning.
Orlov, A., and et.al., 2018. A study of first-year students’ adaptation difficulties as the basis to
promote their personal development in university education. Psychology in Russia:
State of the Art. 11(1). pp.71-83.
Rimmer, A., 2018. How do I prepare a personal development plan?. Bmj. 363. p.k4725.