Skills Development, Gaps, and Career Action Plan: Individual Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of personalized learning and its impact on skills development. It highlights the skills acquired through previous projects, including effective communication, scheduling, time management, leadership, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It identifies areas where the student's confidence has improved, such as project planning, scheduling, budgeting, and task management. The report also addresses the application of these skills in the student's future career. Furthermore, it pinpoints skill gaps, specifically in negotiation, technical expertise, and risk management, and proposes actionable plans to bridge these gaps through focused training, online courses, and practical application. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and development for achieving career success, and it identifies a job requiring specific skills, matching them to the student's acquired expertise.

Individual Report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Task One:.........................................................................................................................................3
Skills developed from previous projects......................................................................................3
Things became familiar during the project process.....................................................................3
Improvements in the level of confidence.....................................................................................4
Use of the learning in my future career.......................................................................................4
Task Two:........................................................................................................................................5
Three skills gap to be developed for a successful business career..............................................5
Proposing plan of actions for developing skills...........................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Personalized learning is an approach of education that is done with the focus of offering
customized learning to build the strengths, skills and interests. This report will highlight the
skills that I have developed in the process of completion of previous projects. There are certain
things that were not known to me previously but with the completion of the project I learnt
certain things that will be outlined in the report. The skills that boost the level of self-confidence
will be discussed in the report. The skill gaps that are needed to be developed in the future will
also be outlined. Lastly in this report action plans will be created to develop those skills.
MAIN BODY
Task One:
Skills developed from previous projects
Effective Communication: During the previous projects that I have completed the most
important skill that has been developed in me is effective communication skill. Effective
communication skills are very essential as it is the key part that enables a person to explain his
thoughts, views and ideas with the other (Dariotis and et.al., 2016). With the effective
communication skills, the interaction with the people that comes in contact during the routine life
increases. The increased level of interaction with more and more people help me to learn new
things.
Scheduling and Time Management: One of the another skill developed during the
previous projects I have been part of is scheduling and time management. Breaking up of the
whole project in small tasks and making the schedules is essential part of completing the entire
project timely as per the deadline of the project. These skills will help me in my future projects
as well.
Leadership: Leadership is an essential business skill that I have developed during my
previous projects. There were certain instances during those projects that initiated me to lead the
group, and hence the leadership skills developed in me. The decision making ability get
improved in me from the experiences I had during the previous projects in which I lead the group
of ten members (Pérez and Rubio, 2020). Being able to lead in my previous projects helped me
to become more accountable for the actions.
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Critical thinking is the ability to analyse and
evaluate the issues and make rational judgement based on the analysis and evaluation. The skills
developed in me with constant analysis, evaluation, interpretation, synthetization of information
and applying the creative thoughts from the arguments and solving the problems according in
order to reach certain conclusions, during the previously performed projects.
Things became familiar during the project process
Project Planning: Project planning was the new thing that I experience during the
process of the project. Project planning is an essential must have skill that forms the foundation
of the project management cycle (Hanbidge, Tin and Sanderson, 2018). The cycle of managing
the project beings with the project planning skill. In this project I have learned how in the project

planning project schedule, resources that are required to be used and the associated costs are
analysed during the planning of the project.
Project Scheduling: In the completion of this project in have developed the skill of
project scheduling. How are the tasks organized along with the team and time in which the
project is to be completed is managed effectively is known by me through the process of
completion of this project (KarpoviÄ iÅ, 2020). I have learned to various tools that helps in
effective scheduling of project. Before the project I used to think that project scheduling is
limited to completing the projects as per the deadlines assigned. During this project I learned that
project scheduling is a broader concept that includes resource management and risk
management.
Project Budgeting and Cost Management: Budget is the fuel for every project that is
required to be done. Budget is that factor that gives life to the plans and make their execution
possible. Through effective budget cost are managed throughout the processes involved during
the entire project.
Task Management: The task management skills are learnt by me during the completion
of this project. Task are the job divided into small sub parts for the easy execution of the project.
During this project I have learnt how to create, organize, and assign task among the team
members based upon their capabilities and understanding of the project.
Adaptability: It is one of the skills that I have during the project. Plans made for the
performance of certain tasks that are involved for the completion of the assignment are needed to
be built in such a way that it becomes easier for the task performer to adapt oneself in accordance
with the task (Kotsiou and et.al., 2022). During the project I have learned the skill to adapt
myself according to be task requirements for the better, effective, efficient and smooth
functioning of the task.
Improvements in the level of confidence
My confidence level has increased to a different level with the projects I have been a part
of till now. I believe that the self-confidence of an individual increases with the increase in the
level of knowledge and skills developed (Aldridge and McQuagge, 2021). With the projects both
that I have done previously and the current project I have learned various things, also I got the
opportunities to improve the existing skills and develop new skills in myself. For instance, better
time management, effective communication and project planning skills has improved my
confidence and made me confident to take up more opportunities in my career.
Use of the learning in my future career
The skills I have learned with my experience from the project will help me in having an
enhanced future career. This can be supported with the facts that the skills that are essential and
forms base for the successful career are mainly good communication skills, leadership skills,
time management skills, project planning skills, critical thinking and scheduling skills. With
efficient communication skills I will be able to express the knowledge I have gathered from the
projects I have participated in. I will organize all the task I will be assigned using my scheduling
skills and do the task on time with the effective utilization of time management skills.

Task Two:
Three skills gap to be developed for a successful business career
Negotiation: A successful business career requires the need for good negotiation skills.
Negotiation skills are essential part of successful business career as various kinds of issues can
be easily resolved successfully through effective negotiation skills (Stefanidis and et.al., 2019).
Negotiation eliminates the unnecessary arguments and facilitates better task performance.
Technical Expertise: Successful business career involves the need to learn technical
things and being expert in those skills. There are variety of reasons for which technical skills are
required. In every sector the employees are required to know how to use different tools and
processes. The productive gets increase through effective technical expertise. With the effective
technical expertise competitive edge is secured over the others.
Risk Management: Risks are an integral part of every business entity. Effective risk
management skills are must have skills in order to be successful in the business career. Risk
management is a broader term that is comprised of various skills (Cunningham, Rashid and Le,
2019). Analytical skills, problem solving skills, people management skills, leadership skills,
relationship building skills, financial knowledge, regulation knowledge, business understanding,
mitigation strategy, strategic thinking, adaptability and mathematics are all included in the risk
management.
Proposing plan of actions for developing skills
Skills to be
Developed
Actions Required Resources Time
Duration
Measuring or
Success Criteria
Negotiation  Be prepared
according to
the situation.
 Make the
needs and
expected
outcome
with the
situation
clear in the
mind.
 Setting up of
the goals in
the mind.
 Decision
whether
alternatives
are required
to be
More engaging
conversations with
people.
4 months Try to negotiate in all
the possible situation
and see the results.

considered or
not.
 Use effective
communicati
on skills.
 Be a good
listener.
 Think Of a
solution to
the situation
that is
capable to
make a win-
win solution.
Technical
Expertise
 Reading
technical
books.
 Enrolling in
online
courses.
 Subscribe to
technical
magazines.
 Creation of
own website.
 Books
 High speed
Internet
connectivity.
 Availability of
funds.
 1
year.
 Online tests.
 Successful
working of
website
created.
Task Three:
1. Job identified:

Skills/ Qualities required Skills that match with the
requirements
Confident computer skills Technical expertise
Ability to work both within a team and
individually
Effective communication and leadership
Expertise in financial services Risk management

CONCLUSION
The report has discussed the meaning and importance of personalized learning. Based on
this report the skills learned from previous projects have been highlighted. The various things
that were not known prior to the project and learned during the project have been outlined. The
report has described how the level of confidence have been improved. Further the report has
discussed how the skills learned will be used in future career. The report has highlighted the
skills gap that are needed to be developed in order to have a successful career. In this report
action plan has been made to develop the skills required.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Dariotis, J. K. and et.al., 2016. A qualitative evaluation of student learning and skills use in a
school-based mindfulness and yoga program. Mindfulness. 7(1). pp.76-89.
Hanbidge, A. S., Tin, T. and Sanderson, N., 2018. Information Literacy Skills on the Go: Mobile
Learning Innovation. Journal of Information Literacy, 12(1).
Kotsiou, A. and et.al., 2022. A scoping review of Future Skills frameworks. Irish Educational
Studies. 41(1). pp.171-186.
Aldridge, M. D. and McQuagge, E., 2021. “Finding My Own Way”: The lived experience of
undergraduate nursing students learning psychomotor skills during COVID-19. Teaching
and learning in nursing. 16(4). pp.347-351.
Stefanidis, K. and et.al., 2019. Learning prosocial skills through multiadaptive games: A case
study. Journal of Computers in Education. 6(1). pp.167-190.
Cunningham, U., Rashid, S. and Le, T., 2019. The effect of learner training on the use of digital
tools to support English writing skills. Asian EFL Journal. 21(2.1). pp.27-49.
KarpoviÄ iÅ, R., 2020. Learning skills for enhancing the use of Big Data. World Journal on
Educational Technology: Current Issues. 12(1). pp.23-36.
Pérez, B. and Rubio, Á. L., 2020, February. A project-based learning approach for enhancing
learning skills and motivation in software engineering. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM
technical symposium on computer science education (pp. 309-315).
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