Report on Negotiation, Focus, Time Management, and Team Skills

This report delves into four critical skills essential for personal and professional development: negotiation, focus and attention, time management, and team working. It defines each skill, explains its importance, and provides a self-assessment of the author's current competence. The negotiation section covers the process of conflict resolution and achieving win-win outcomes. The focus and attention section highlights the brain's ability to concentrate and the factors affecting it. Time management explores techniques for prioritizing tasks and improving efficiency. Team working emphasizes collaboration and achieving common goals. The report concludes with a reflection on the practical application of these skills and their significance for future career success, particularly in human resource management.

FOUR SKILLS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
NEGOTIATION SKILLS................................................................................................................1
FOCUS AND ATTENTION SKILLS.............................................................................................3
TIME MANAGEMENT..................................................................................................................4
TEAM WORKING..........................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Skills are the abilities of an individual which help him or her to accomplish various
activities, tasks or operations. These skills help an individual to gain success in the personal and
professional career or development. There are various types of skills that are important for an
individual which will be discussed in this report. Skills required and important for an individual
in personal and professional life will be studied in the present report.
NEGOTIATION SKILLS
What is the core skill?
Negotiation – Negotiation can be determined as a technique which assists individuals to
settle down the differences among them effectively. It is a procedure in which compromise
and agreement is reached by avoiding the best possible outcomes or their positions. There
are several elements of successful outcomes like seeking mutual benefits and fairness
effectively (Johnson, Gratch and DeVault, 2017). There are various forms of negotiation
which are utilized in various situations such as legal disputes, unfairness and conflicts
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Illustration 1: Negotiation skills
(Source: Negotiation Skills, 2017)

among people. Negotiation skills also assist to solve the conflicts and disputes that arise in
between various individuals. The process of negotiation consists of the following steps -
1. Preparation
2. Discussions
3. Clarification of goals and objectives
4. Negotiate towards a win-win outcome
5. Agreement
6. Implementation of a course of action
Why is this core skill important?
Negotiation skills are essential because it helps to resolve conflicts and disputes among
people around me at my home or company. I select this skill as due to my observation
regarding increasing level of issues and conflicts at home or organisation. It will assist
people to communicate with each and other as well as find the best possible solution for a
specific dispute or conflict.
Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence?
I think negotiation skills are very helpful for me, I have developed these skills by working
with various organisations and people. The colleagues and other employees are satisfied
with my negotiation skills. I take feedbacks from the employees to identify my current
competent regarding negotiation skills.
Can you identify any contradictions?
The contradiction that I faced related to negotiation skills is maintaining a good relationship
with all individuals. There are always two parties involved in a conflict or dispute within a
business, the party who is not satisfied with negotiation made develops a negative image for
me and can think that I am partial in my decisions. It is also difficult to negotiate in various
situations when both the parties are not satisfied with the final decisions made after
negotiation.
How will this skill help me in the future?
Negotiation skills will be very helpful for me in future as I want to grow my career in
Human resource management. For example an HR is responsible for managing and
controlling employees of an organization. Therefore, effective negotiation skills will be
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useful for me to resolve employee conflicts and develop a good working environment in
any organization or company I will work for.
FOCUS AND ATTENTION SKILLS
What is the core skill?
Focuses and attention – Focused attention is the brain's capability to focus its attention on
a target stimulus for a specific time period. Focused attention is a kind of attention that
helps to detect relevant stimuli quickly. An individual can use focused attention to attend
both external and internal stimuli and is an essential ability which allows people to carry out
tasks carefully and efficiently in day to day life. There are various factors on which ability
to keep attention on an activity depends such as Personal, Environmental, Stimulus factors,
etc. (Henry and et.al., 2017).
Why is this core skill important?
Focuses and Attention skill is essential as it helps in concentrating on a task while working
on it. This helps in completing a particular activity or task effectively and efficiently
avoiding different types of errors. Therefore, Focus and attention skill is very significant for
an individual to achieve success.
Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence?
My personal observation states that I have sufficient attention skills required by an
individual. Focus and attention skills are assessed by various types of tests which can be
used to assess competence of this skill such as Inattention Test and Speed test. I used these
test to measure by skills of focus and attention and found that I am good in working with
focus and attention. I try to focus on each activity that needs to be performed in personal
and professional life.
Can you identify any contradictions?
I observed that there are some issues and contradictions related to the focus and attention
skills such as it is difficult for me to focus on different areas or tasks altogether. This
sometimes creates errors and mistakes in the successful completion of some activities and
tasks in an organization or in my personal life. It is also difficult for me to focus on tasks
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which are not familiar to me and I take time to understand what actually needs to be done.
How will this skill help me in the future?
Focus and attention can be very useful for me in future as it can help me to complete each
and every activity or task effectively without any errors or mistakes. This skill help me to
perform my role as a HR properly in Virgin company.
TIME MANAGEMENT
What is the core skill?
Time Management – Time management skill is not too difficult as a concept, but it is hard
to practice. It needs investment of time in order to organise and prioritise yourself, but once
an individual learn to manage his or her time effectively it can be easy to manage each and
every activity properly in personal as well as professional life. Time management skills
helps in increasing the efficiency on an individual to perform any task or activity and
managing the work according to priority. Priority depends upon urgency of a particular task
or activity. Time needs to be managed as per the priority level of an activity.
Why is this core skill important?
Time management is very essential for an individual working in an organisation such as
Virgin company. There are various benefits of Time management skills as described below: Optimum utilisation of time – Time is limited, no matter how an individual
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Illustration 2: Time management skills
(Source: Time Management Skills, 2018)

distribute or manage his or time there are only 24 hours in a day. Improving time
management skills can lead to most appropriate management and use of time. Improved decision making ability – Development of time management skills can
also help an individual to improve decision making ability. Making right decisions
at right time is very important for every individual. Time management skills can
assist a person to analyse and choose the right option at right time.
 Development of self-discipline – When you exercise good time management skills
there is no wastage of time, the better a person learn to manage time the more self-
discipline can be learned.
Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence?
I try hard to manage my time effectively by following a self-made time table. I manage my
personal and professional life effectively. Following the time table helps me to avoid any
wastage of time. I always try to monitor my time management skills by examining each and
every task is completed according to time table. Sometime I fail to complete a particular
task or activity on time but even I try cope up with it by managing my time accordingly.
Can you identify any contradictions?
There are contradiction arises in my professional and personal life such as any other work
or emergency develops. Time management becomes more difficult when extra or any
sudden work is needed to be done in specific time period. As an individual face this type of
situation when he or she has limited time and many tasks to perform.
How will this skill help me in the future?
Time management skill is always helpful for a person in personal as well as professional
life. It assists an individual for using Time in most appropriate manner, time can be referred
as a most significant resource which needs to be managed to get success in professional
career and personal life as well. Time management skills can be very useful for me to
perform various HR roles in specific time.
TEAM WORKING
What is the core skill?
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Team Working – Team working skill refers to the ability of an individual to work with
other individuals in a group for achieving a common goal or objective. Most essential
teamwork skills In a workplace consist guiding and helping, sharing openly and willingly,
persuading, being flexible and active and showing commitment. Team work is the
collaborative attempt of a group of team to obtain a specific goal or accomplish a task in the
most efficient and effective way (Bens, 2017)). Working in team is very beneficial for the
provision of effective, safe and person centred care. Working within a large organisation
huge number of employees working together, therefore team working skill help employees
to cooperate and work in combination to perform various business functions successfully as
well as it can help me to complete various other task in personal life as well such as playing
a sport with my team
Why is this core skill important?
There are various ways in which team work is important for an individual or group of
individuals as mentioned below -
1. Teamwork motivates unity in the workplace – A teamwork helps in motivating unity
at the workplace. Team working skills helps in promoting an atmosphere that
develops loyalty and friendship among the people.
2. Teamwork offers differing feedbacks and perspective – A good team-work structure
provides an organisation diversity of thoughts, perspectives, creativity, opportunities
and problem solving approaches. This helps in improving performance of a team
and entire organisation.
3. Helps in improving productivity and efficiency – Team working skills or strategies
helps in developing efficiency and productivity. This is because it is allowing people
to share the workload which helps in reducing pressure on members of a team or
group.
Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence?
I observed that it is important for me to develop or improve various areas to improve my
team working skills. I am good in understanding people which helps me to develop a good
working environment and working effectively. I worked in various teams in my personal
and professional life that helped me to achieve growth and development. I assess my team
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working skills by conducting meeting with my team and collecting feedback form reach
member individually to identify my weaknesses.
Can you identify any contradictions?
There are contradictions in team work related to conflicts or disputes among team members
working together. There are different types of individuals working together in a team. These
individuals share various differences such as language, perspectives and working pattern.
These differences give rise to conflicts and issues among the team members which is also
affecting their performance.
How will this skill help me in the future?
Team working skill is very important for each and every individual. Working in a group
helps an individual to learn and develop new skills or knowledge among themselves. A
team or group has various individuals having different knowledge and abilities, the team
members can learn a lot of things from each other which can help them develop their
knowledge and skills to complete or perform a task in a most effective way.
CONCLUSION
The above report concluded that there are various skills which are important for an
individual to achieve success in professional as well as personal life. The report discussed about
four main skills in an individual i.e. Time Management, Team Working, Focus and attention
Negotiation skills. The importance of the skills in current and future career are also determined
in the above report along with various contradictions arises related to these skills. The report
reflection on every skill to identify how it is helpful and various areas for improvement can be
identified.
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Henry, L.A., Messer, D.J.. and Crane, L., 2017. Do measures of memory, language, and attention
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Bens, I., 2017.Facilitating with Ease!: core skills for facilitators, team leaders and members,
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