Graduate Challenges: Skills, Action Plan and Professional Growth

This report delves into the challenges faced by graduates, focusing on the development of essential skills such as communication, teamwork, and time management. The main body analyzes various challenges, including those presented in the form of 'Apprentice Challenges', 'Presentation Challenges', and 'T-Shirt Challenges', providing insights into the skills required to overcome them. The report then outlines an action plan with specific timeframes for skill enhancement, including strategies for improving communication, fostering teamwork, and managing time effectively. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of setting life goals and developing a strategic approach to achieve them, ultimately contributing to both personal and professional success. The report also includes a comprehensive list of references.

Graduate challenges

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Developing and learning new skills helps individual to continuously account to a mindset
which is focused on meeting various challenges and accounts to personal as well as professional
development. These skills help individuals with valuable contribution which accounts to increase
in productivity and efficiency at workplace. Present report will assess to various challenges and
skills required to meet the same which will account development of action plan for the same.
MAIN BODY
LO 2-
Various challenges being possessed and which focus on various business angels such as
branding, finance, operations and various others are
Apprentice challenges-
This challenges serves as the best means that helps in identifying leaders which are being
found in a team that helps in building a team and helps in establishing co-ordination between the
same that accounts teamwork. This accounts to a popular choice of building team by employees.
This challenges serves as individual to enhance there skills related to communication and also
relates to innovation and creativity which helps in building and making contribution towards
professional as well as personal development. This challenges helps in laying down various
outcomes that are favourable in nature such as developing networking, interpersonal skills while
working with peers, helps in providing guidance on the part of leaders to handle team effectively
and also accounts to rapidly changing needs, wants and demands which helps in covering various
areas of business operations such as leadership, management and others (Hirsch, 2020).
Presentation challenges-
This are the challenges being present for the individual while something is being
presented to someone which includes proper planning, practice, performance, preparation and
consistency. It could be relatable with the fear to speak in front of the large audience which leads
to a scenario where one get conscious and nervous and forgot to speak of what is being prepared
by the individual and as a result leads to spoiling of the presentation, another challenge being
possessed in presentation is that audience might walk of when individual is presenting which
could be by varied reason such as audience have other commitments where it is being hard for
them to listen or they are finding it hard and getting bored which leads to distraction and less

focus on the part of individual who is presenting where it might end up with the spoiling of
presentation and leading to dissatisfaction among the same (Pheko, Molefhe, 2017).
T- Shirt challenges –
It relates to challenge being poised in regards with printing of T- shirts for a business
which helps in laying down its promotion and positioning of business and let target audience
know what is business all about and giving the taste of its products and services, The challenge
which is being stated in this is regards with its design which needs to be served as attractive and
catchy for the audience and helps in generating willingness of what is being offered by the
business (Romano Reynolds, Hanson, 2017). It states that the design should be in a manner which
serves as the means of conveying the message which the business wants to convey and which
should be easily understood by the audience and should not be complex in nature. This challenge
is related with the right placement of design and ensure using right typology, colour and various
others which helps in attracting the target audience.
Skills-
Skills is the ability to do something and individuals tend to learn new skills in such a way
that they are able to achieve their life goals and for achieving this they have to learning new
things acquire knowledge from their experience and also with the theoretical sources (Mok and
Jiang, 2017). The main objective behind this is to achieve one's full potentials and also at the
same time try to integrate the new learning in such a way that something new and attractive is
achieved. Following are the key features which has to be learning by which individual in order to
become successful in achieving life objectives.
Communication is the way of interacting with other and individuals tend to learn new
communication skills by which it can improve the communication with others. This improve
communication will enable graduates to improve their performance on the ground level they will
be getting a feedback from a completely different point of view. This is important because
graduates can implement these feedbacks for improvising their working capabilities in such a
way that high their working and learning skills can be increased. Through this effective
communication graduates can not only improve their personal life performance but also at the
same time improve their professional life performance which will empower them to achieve their
objectives.

Teamwork is also an ability which individuals need to learn in order to improve their
performance on the ground level this is important because through this effective communication
graduates can efficiently showcase their point of views and also their ideas for improving the
performance of the product. This teamwork spirit will improve company's performance and by
which organizations can provide special benefits to them, in other words learning team work will
enable individual to increase their productivity and goal achieving capabilities. Through this
there will be high chances for getting promotions and special statements which will help them to
get one or more than one steps closer to achieving their life objectives (Verma and et.al, 2018).
Time management is one of the most important skill which individuals need to learn
because since learning often increases involvement in other fields and if the learner is not able to
efficiently manage its involvement then the chances for achieving desired target will decrease.
Thus individual need to continuously monitor its performance in such a way that it is able to
arrange the type of activity on the basis of their priorities by which it can achieve the best of all
and due to which it will be having a large collection of knowledge which will empower
individual to achieve its objectives.
Action Plan
Action plan is the process through which strategy for achieving skills is made. Following is the
action plan for achieving skills in a given time frame.
skills Action plan Time
Communication Skills Improve the communication skills by
reading theoretical books which will
improve vocabulary and also provide
understanding of new words which
will provide high level of command
on vocabulary. Proper implementation
of technological advancement like
mobile application for achieving a
good command on learning of use of
grammar and learning new languages
(Mok and Jiang, 2018).
Communication can also be increased
Improve the communication
skills within 6 months.

through the means of traditional
method like increasing the personal
network and communicate with wide
range of other people and analyse
their speaking pattern which will
improve understanding of other
languages. Reading books and novels
will provide capabilities to efficiently
implement these new words in such a
way that their deep meaningful
messages can be provided in short line
by which energy to communicate will
be saved.
Teamwork Teamwork is saved is achieved by
increasing involvement in other extra
curricular activities like sports and
playing indoor games this is important
because in this type of processes
individuals tend to coordinate with
each other in such a way that they are
able to concentrate their efforts in
achieving their goals (Boysen, P.G.,
Daste and Northern, 2016). With that
teamwork can also be seen in the case
in which individuals tend to
concentrate their efforts for achieving
a common objective which is called as
organization because they are working
in such a way that they are able to
achieve their targets and for which
organizations also have to change
Improve teamwork activity in
1 month

their working. This is important for
graduates to increase their
engagement in several other activities
which involve high level of
communication with others and for
which learner may choose the option
which best suit their requirements.
Thus they can effectively choose the
type of learning on the basis of
medium which they want to choose
for achieving their objectives.
Time management Time management is one of the most
important part which a individual
need to do in order to achieve it
objective and for which it has to
manage its activities in such a way
that they are done in order to assure
that individual is capable for
achieving its targets and also make
sure that a proper integration is being
implemented by which they will
assure that the graduate able to
efficiently able to implement all is
learning is a way that high outputs are
achieved and also at the same time
new outcomes are achieved
(Ravichandran and et.al, 2017.).
Improve time management in
1 week

CONCLUSION
This can be concluded that individuals need to develop a life goal which will motivate
them to develop their working strategy in such a way that they are able to achieve their life goals.
For this individuals need to improve their skills on the basis of their requirements in such a way
that are able to surpass their working capabilities and also at the same time are achieving their
performance.

REFERENCES
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