IND301A Industry Consulting Project: Savills Australia Report

This report is an industry consulting project that analyzes Savills Australia to enhance the student's employability by developing workplace competencies. It begins with an executive summary outlining the report's purpose: to formulate a workplace project through analyzing Savills Australia's operations within the real estate industry, applying theoretical models, and identifying personal goals and learning needs. The report includes an introduction to Savills Australia, followed by a description of the company, an overview of employee planning, and a summary of the organization's offerings. It explores the company's culture, values, and commitment to ethical professionalism, as well as its approach to employee training and development. The report also examines the employee planning strategies, including training programs, mentorship, and career development opportunities. The report analyzes the company's offerings, including training, experience, and support, and concludes with a discussion on whether to stay with the company or seek opportunities elsewhere. The report also includes references and supporting documents such as an organizational chart and employee assessment results.

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Executive summary
The purpose of this report is to formulate a workplace project through analyzing the ways in
which the business can operate within the industry specialism. The report implements the
theoretical models to analyze the research and report in the workplace project. The report
determines the self identify personal goals and learning needs. The report helps to enhance the
employability in the future by systematically identifying the existing competencies in the
relevant workplace which will help to develop further and successfully implement the career
plan. The report helps to develop the potential for advancement in the future. Further, it identifies
the specific skills, competencies and experience required in the company to personally develop
and enhance the employability and potential for the advancement in the future.It also analyzes
the skill gaps and potential that are required in the business organization and concludes on the
basis of research that the whether the company is suitable and looks for development
opportunities or move on.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Section 1: Description of Savills Australia, company.....................................................................4
Section 2: Employee planning of Savills Australia.........................................................................6
Section 3: Summary of the organization’s offering.........................................................................8
Section 4: Conclusion....................................................................................................................11
Reference list.................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The leading international real estate service provided Savills Australia has more than 600
owned and associated office throughout the entire world. The company offers guidance and
support to the private, corporate and the institutional clients who seeks for acquiring, developing
and leasing the commercial as well as the residential proportion in any location in the world.The
company offers support to the real estate service industry in the past five years. In the past years
it has been seen that there are constant increase in the housing prices, decline in the interest rates
and unstable economic conditions(Baum, 2017). The commercial property market has performed
moderately in the past five years as there has been volatile business confidence during the initial
period of the past years. The purpose of this report is to analyze the ways to enhance the
employability with the development of the workplace competencies. It formulates a workplace
project through the analysis in which ways the company operates with the implementation of
relevant frameworks and analysis of the researching and reporting on the workplace project
(Beyers, 2013).The report implies the academic frameworks and concepts. The report analyzes
the workplace culture, the ways of training and recruitment. By analyzing the workplace of the
company, the professional development needs are applied and this helps to enable the
employability. Further it analyzes the personal and the industrial skills and the requirement that
is needed in the future industry. Lastly is concludes the report whether to stay with the company
and look for personally development opportunities or to move on and look for opportunities in
other companies.

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Section 1: Description of Savills Australia, company
Savills Australia is known to the leading international real estate provider which was
developed in the year 1855. It is the residential property market which offers support and
guidance to the operator in the real estate service industry in its past years of its operations. My
role in the company is to supervise the operation of the external branch of Savills Australia. The
company advices the institutions as well as the corporate align with other private clients to seek
for acquiring, developing and leasing (Beyers, 2013). The vision of the company is to become a
real estate adviser in the markets that is chosen by the company and in which it operates. It is the
culture of the company to capture their commitment highly to its ethical professionalism and its
responsible conducts along with the essence of the real estate success. According to Beyers,
(2013), the company strictly follows an entrepreneurial value embracing approach. It firmly
believes in delivering services which is of high quality to meet the exceeding needs and
requirements of the clients and their objectives. They seek to employ and retain the best
employees with adequate talent and quality and meet the requirements o the company. It is the
culture of the company to carry out its business operations with responsibility and integrity
(Bonura, & Lovald, 2015). They act and deal with the clients with honesty and respect for the
clients that are associated with the business and the employees of the company. Furthermore, the
company adheres to the heist standards of ethics and professionalism. In the opinion of Cooper,
(2018), the company takes measures and steps to seek out opportunities to extend its market
operation to the new market and provide opportunity for its clients and customers. Therefore, the
company takes an entrepreneurial approach to delivering value to its clients and potential
customers. Savills Australia is highest forward thinking while carrying out its business

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operations therefore building and ensuring a strong log term client relationships (Feltman
&Elliot, 2014). The company aims to undertake leadership in every market that it plans to enter
and ensure that their business activities commit to passion, expertise and energy. As per the
opinion of Forrier, Verbruggen & De Cuyper, (2015), the leadership approach undertaken by the
company is string, in other words, the management of the company deals with various problems
and challenges of the business activities with a highly proactive and practice attitude, delivering
a robust solutions. The company helps its employees and the workers to fulfill their true potential
in the organization, they highly engage with the workers and employees of the company with an
open and highly supportive company culture (Froehlich, Beausaert, & Segers, 2015). Every
employees and workers in the organization is respected throughout and is respect despite the
differences in the cultural background and diversity. It also helps the employees and the workers
to excel in the personal development through appropriate training and development opportunity.
This ensures that the employees utilize their fuller potential and also develop personally and
professionally (Froehlich, Beausaert, & Segers, 2015). Every rewards and achievements earned
by the company is shared with the employees and the staffs on equal basis. They recognize the
employee’s diverse strengths along with the focus on goof teamwork in order to produce the best
results for the company.

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Figure 1. Organizational chart
Section 2: Employee planning of Savills Australia
As mentioned by Gowsalya & Kumar, (2015), the Savills Australia offers the best
training and development regime in the industry, as the company is geared towards developing
the employees and enabling them to their full potential. The company takes measures to ensure
that the employees in the organization are satisfied with their career as well as their personally
development. The company highly encourages team work in the organization in order to achieve
their business goals and objectives (Helyer & Lee, 2014). The company provides additional
opportunities to the employees by offering graduate students, an apprentice and the placement
student equal and regular opportunities to attend the technical activities in the regular operations
of the business. It offers opportunity to develop the business skills as well as the personal
development activities. The company undertakes activities b=and provides its employees

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opportunities such as conferences, lectures, various other social events, revision sessions,
networking and mock assessments. According to Katz, (2015), this opportunities and activities
help the employees to complement both the practical experience and meet the theoretical
requirements of the company and the employees. Further the company offers several skills
courses to the employees and the stuff on variety of subjects for their own development such as
pitching, client care, negotiating, leadership, business writing, networking and communication.
This in turn helps the staffs and the employees for developing their skills and increases the
opportunity for personal growth and development (Mustafa, & Mandela, 2015). For new
employees the company provides them mentors and supervisors to support them throughout their
work process and activities in the company. This helps the staffs and the employees to get
acquainted with the work process and the supervisors to guide them through the work process
and meet up with the regular progress reviews (Witte, & Cuyper, 2015). Every team in the
business organization have a mentor who takes the responsible for introducing the new employee
or stuff in the team or the company, they explain the work over to the new employees and helps
the employee to get the right kind of experience in the company. According to Bonura, &
Lovald, (2015), the company also provides the staffs and the employees with sufficient time to
learn and get acquainted with the work and prepare for their final assessment. Furthermore, the
company offers two weeks of study leave for their new staffs and employees for their revision as
well as a time off to attend the training and the development sessions organized by the company.
Therefore, it can be said that there are wide range of opportunity for carrier development in the
company. After the training and development and the induction process, the company continues t
offers career development opportunities in order to ensure that the employees continue their
profession development and ensure that all the staffs and the employees are dully up-to-date with

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the changes in the business structure, policies, legislation along with the needs and the
requirements of the business (Forrier, Verbruggen & De Cuyper, 2015). Thus, the company
highly undertakes a flexible approach towards professional development, ensuring that the
individual needs and requirements are taken into consideration by meeting the needs and
requirements of the business organization (Katz, 2015). Therefore, it can be said that the career
development options in the company are varied including coaching, mentoring, lectures,
seminars, memberships and other professional subscriptions.
Section 3: Summary of the organization’s offering
To summarize the company provides training, experience and support to the employees
and staffs. They offer the best possible experience and training since the day the employees
’receives an offer letter. As per the opinion of Helyer & Lee, (2014), the various training and
development programs can enable the staffs and the employees to get support for career
development along with the opportunities up to the level of the director. There is a high scope
and possibility of the employees working in the company to get promoted to the higher levels of
the business organization with proper training and development. In the opinion of Mustafa,
&Mandela, (2015), the company encourages teamwork and accountability which is the culture of
the company.The company provides several opportunities and benefits for the staffs and the
employees to reach to their full potential and they focus on ensuring that each and every
employee in the company is satisfied with their career and personal development (Helyer & Lee,
2014). They achieve the business goals and objectives by ensuring that the goals and individual
objectives of the employees are met. Through conferences, business seminars, technical and
technological training, lectures and other training and development programmers organized by

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the company can help the employees and the stuff to build a better career for the future along
with the possibility and opportunities for promotion (Feltman & Elliot, 2014).
According to the Hofstede’s cultural dimension theory, the values of the workplace are
based on the human behavior, the variance of which is useful for the application in the
professional management or further academic studies. The power Distance Index refers to the
workplace hierarchy (Helyer & Lee, 2014). Savills Australia has a highly flexible business
model and has a flat management structure to ensure there is efficient decision making process
and have a responsive approach. The company has a collectivism culture in the organization,
they highly prefers team work. The female employees in the organization work in support roles
such s administrative personnel (Froehlich, Beausaert, & Segers, 2015). Employees are resistant
to chance, however it is considered to be the crucial part of a successful company. There are
workers and employees seeking opportunities to stay in this field and comfortable for the time
being. The company considers work life balance an important. The company embraces a lifestyle
which values both the professional and personal endeavors (Gowsalya & Kumar, 2015).
The general skills and behavior needed in the industry includes high market knowledge
and extensive experience. One must have good communication skills and have
negotiablequalities. The company requires employees with goof analyzing and problem solving
skills. They highly prefer team work and hence must have the qualities of working well with
team and must have the capability of achieving objectives (Helyer & Lee, 2014). They must be
ready to accept change in the organization.

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STRENGTH WEAKNESS OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
Ability to learn and focus
on self development.
Good interpersonal skills
and ability to
communicate efficiently,
Honesty and integrity
Problem
solving and
analyzing,
ability to
adapt to
change.
Facilities for
training and
development
programmes,
team work and
opportunity for
learn for others,
development
opportunities in
the real estate,
advancement of
technology
Real estate industry
requires capacity to
adapt to change. There
are constant changes
and can lead to huge
business failure, Lack of
regulations, lack of
standard criteria.
Figure 2: Personal SWOT analysis
Description of personal SWOT analysis
As per the Laureate Professional Competencies structure and Gallup Reports, the
competency for analyzing and problem solving is average. However, it needs to be strengthened
in order to have a future in the real estate. The capability for teamwork may be low, as
independent working is preferred. This is the weakness that is needed to be overcome. However,
there is potential for developing and maintaining effectively with people of different
backgrounds. This can be considered as strength, as it will help to adapt to the culture and the
team members. Ability to achieving goals and objectives on time might be considered as the
biggest strength, there is high possibility to take additional responsibility. Learning and self
development is also considered as biggest strengths as mentioned by Helyer & Lee, (2014).
There is strong sense of commitment and ability to acknowledge own mistakes and
shortcomings.
As per the analysis, there are certain skill gaps that are required to be overcome. It has
been analyzed that the company highly prefers teamwork, and the skills to work with others

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needs to be improved. The problem solving ability is also needed to be improved. The skills gaps
can be bridged by implementing the strengths such as the strong interpersonal skills can be used
to work collectively with others and thereby it can also improve the problem solving ability.
Communication skills need to be worked on, as in real estate one needs to communicate
efficiently. The ability of problem solving needs to be worked upon, as in the real estate industry
problem solving and resourcefulness is highly crucial for the real estate industry. One needs to
have strong negotiation skills in the real estate industry. My ability to communicate effectively is
an opportunity to work in this field. Further, I have scored high on honesty
Section 4: Conclusion
As per the research and analysis, it can be concluded that it will be beneficial to stay with
the company and look for better development opportunities. The company offers high level of
growth and development opportunities for its employees and workers. The company has a
flexible business model and its diversified business streams enable the company to grow in an
organic manner through acquisition as well as strategic alliances.It offers regular opportunities to
its employees and workers; hence it is known to have the best training and development regime
in the industry. The company is geared towards enabling its worker and employees to reach to
their fuller potential. As per the analysis, the company focuses on ensuring that all the employees
and workers in the organizations are satisfied with the career and its personal development. The
company offers varied opportunities to the employees for its career developments as well as their
personal developments. Hence these opportunities can be taken into consideration to form a
conclusion that the company is best suited to develop a career in the future. Further, as per the

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personal SWOT and the Laureate Professional Competencies structure and Gallup Reports, it has
been identified that there is potential for building a career in the company. It states that there are
high interpersonal skills, willingness to share thoughts and feelings. There is potential it adjust to
different working styles and adapt to the changing business situations and environments.They
can accept and integrate new ideas and information as well as share information. However, it has
been identified that there are certain skill gaps that are needed to be bridged. The company
requires skills to negotiate and encourages team work in the organization. Therefore, these
qualities and skills needs to be improved. However, the opportunities provided by the company
can be integrated with the personal skills in order to have a more successful career in the
future.Taking advantages and participating in various training and development programmers
initiated by the company will help to overcome the skill gaps. The required skills and behaviors
required in the company can be gained by taking active participation in the training and
development programmers. The existing skills can be enhanced in order to fully utilize the
existing skills and. potential. This will in turn enable to have a better career in the future.

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