Higher Education Skills: A Reflective Report on Personal Development

This reflective report explores the essential skills required for success in higher education, emphasizing the importance of team working, presentation skills, effective communication, IT skills, problem-solving, academic writing, and reflective writing. It details the author's personal experiences in deve...Read More

REFLECTIVE REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Examining skills needed to be a higher education learner..........................................................3
Recognizing development of higher extent skills through reflection.........................................4
Considering how to improve learning and performance.............................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development considered as one of those effective concepts and
approaches that has contributed to enhance individuals productivity and performance level. The
current assignment will be based on skills' development concept. It will explain the key
competencies required to be an HR learner. Furthermore, it also defines description of each skill
with specific reason of their importance. Lastly, the report will justify how to improve
performance and learning.
TASK
Examining skills needed to be a higher education learner
In order to become HR learner, there are different types of competencies, qualities and a
lot of efficiency are required as these are;
Team working skills-
It is important to develop, use and have this skill because it drives the attention of
individual towards becoming a higher education student who may attempt to obtain desire
outcomes and achieve set short, long or medium term aims (Machado and Carvalho, 2020).
Presentation skill-
It is another competence that a person needed to be Higher education scholar, because of
their benefits and importance. For example, presentation skill enable them to represent their
ideas and thoughts in front of other individual, in effective manner.
Effective communication-
This skill is as important and beneficial as above two, because it also contributes to make
person capable to become an HR student and grow rapidly by building strong connection with
experienced and knowledgeable candidates that are working at same workplace (Keiper and
et.al., 2021).
IT skill-
Along with above three, this competence is also needed in the context of becoming
higher education student. As it allow individual to use one of those advanced technologies that
help to accomplish their task on time, without making common human mistakes.
Problem solving-

With the help of this skill, it is quite easy for student to become a higher education
learner as it enable them to solve own as well as other issues, which assist enhancing
performance and efficiency level.
Academic writing-
Without developing and utilizing current skill, it is not possible for anyone to be a HE
learner, as it is highly needed to be that. Academic writing make student efficient and effective
as it serves them a specific tool that they may use to convey obtained understanding related to
specific concept in comprehending manner.
Reflective writing-
In the world of education, without developing reflective writing skill along with above, it
is impossible to be HE student. It is important for them because of describing their own
understanding about each class room session.
Recognizing development of higher extent skills through reflection
I want to describe my personal experience as higher education learner, which I had
obtained with the help of using essential and beneficial skills. I want to say that with effective
communication skill, I had gained several benefits. For example, I have developed good
relationship with other learners who also attempt to become a productive one, in order to gain
high scores during their academic career that help to gain expected employment chance. Along
with that, I also have capability to write down my own experience, understanding and thoughts
as I have effective reflective writing skill, which enable me to represent my point of views in
front of other people in clear way. It made me capable to write description of real and imaginary
events with actual meaning.
Academic writing is one of those skills that I have and utilized in appropriate manner,
just to impress my tutor and achieve greater scores, more than the other Higher education
learners. It helps to develop creativity at workplace and increase concentration level, which is
quite important for me to do so. I have described all my strengths in term of skill, but few things
I want to define is my weaknesses that put negative impact on my growth and success as higher
education learner.
Team working, presentation, IT and problem solving including decision-making are
one of those competencies related to these I do not have good understanding. I want to develop
these skills, because of their importance in my life. For purpose of improving these competencies

and developing few of them, I have to find out excellent approach or technique. For example,
personal and professional development plan.
Considering how to improve learning and performance
Personal and professional development is the best technique that I would approach to use
in effective manner, which in return provide me benefits of improving and developing essential
and required skills that I want to be a higher education student. With the help of this method I
can continue to develop all my skill as weaknesses.
Development skills Approaches that I
would use to
develop/improve
each skill
Success criteria Time frame
Team working In order to improve
team work skill, I have
to choose specific
approach and that is
effective
communication and
collaboration as well
as expert suggestion.
By analysing the
outcomes when I work
within a group of
people who would
prefer to work with me
as I will provide them
better solutions.
15 days
Presentation I also tent to develop
this skill, for which
training session is
needed.
By determining that
am expert now to
represent my ideas and
creativeness via digital
technologies in term of
digital presentation.
1 month
Decision making Situational analysis is
the best technique that
I will use to take better
decision and obtain
desire outcome.
By analysing the result
and environment
where people are
working together or
individually to achieve
1 month

common aim.
Problem solving I seek to improve this
skill, by taking
suggestion from my
senior who faced
many issues and deal
with these by taking
right action in term of
problem solution.
By identifying that
individual around me
will never face same
issue after taking my
suggestion.
20 days
IT skill I would approach to
take part in IT related
courses that are
provided by excellent
and well-known
education institutes.
By solving common
technical issues.
3 Months
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion, it has been concluded that personal and professional
skills has supported in growth and success of individual learner who want to become a high
education student and obtained unexpected benefits. Furthermore, it has been identified that
personal and professional development plan has improved learning as well as performance of
learners in excellent manner in term of developing those skills that each of them seek to develop
form longer time period.

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