Reflection Form: Graduate Challenge - Business Skills Development

This report presents a student's reflection on a graduate challenge, utilizing the Gibbs Reflective Cycle to analyze their experience. The student describes the challenge, which involved creating a T-shirt brand, highlighting the business angles of marketing and budget planning. The report details the student's feelings during the challenge, including both frustrations and satisfactions. The evaluation section focuses on enhanced skills like communication and team management, while identifying areas for improvement, particularly in budget planning and time management. The analysis section attributes the success to mentorship and support, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and the need to improve time management. The conclusion summarizes key learnings about effective planning and management. Finally, the action plan outlines strategies for future projects, emphasizing skill analysis, task division, and leveraging strengths to enhance decision-making and communication. The report references relevant literature to support the analysis.

REFLECTION FORM FOR
GRADUATE CHALLENGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Gibbs Reflective cycle.............................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................6

MAIN BODY
Gibbs Reflective cycle
Gibbs Reflective cycle is the model that leads to different stages for making a sense of
experience while performing different tasks or project. It is the structure to learn from experience
and also to examine the respective experience. This helps to learn and plan by having an
understanding on what went well and what did go right(Sekarwinahyu and et.al., 2019).
Description:-
It was a new experience for me to conduct such a challenge and work on different
business angles(Li and et.al., 2020). There were different business angles that were used while I
was performing my task that was a T-Shirt challenge. In order to make the T-shirt attractive in
eyes of the audience, I created a design and logo that was unique in market and that helped me
out to create a value of my brand. The first business angle was the marketing as it is very
important to understand the target market. I worked to analyze the respective choice of the
people so that on basis of their needs and want, I am able to create a brand that matches their
belief. Another business angle was the preparation of an overall budget so that I can have a clear
idea where to invest and gain huge profitability out of this product. After working on these
business angles, I learned to drive effective strategic changes in the performance of product
introduction and its marketing. I worked to come up with an effective planning in order to make
this challenge more acceptable in eyes of the audience. This also helped me out to finish my
tasks within the deadline.
Feelings:-
While conducting the challenge, I was having a feeling to complete my respective tasks
on time and with efficiency. I divided my work into parts so that I have a clear idea what is
pending and what I have finished off. There were many situations where I got frustrated as I was
not able to come up with an effective budget planning. But then I got motivation from my seniors
and friends and they encouraged me to work with more potential in order to have better results.
Looking back to my work, now I feel satisfied that I worked hard and achieved my targets on
time. There were many skills such as communication skills, team management skills and also
decision making skills that I got enhanced while I was working for this assignment.

Evaluation:-
The best part of this challenge was the different skills that I got enhanced with and the
way I learned new things about the business and market. I tried hard to finish all my tasks on
time and with efficiency. The motivation that I got from by mentor and friends resulted in
successful completion of this challenge. I thing that did not worked effectively was the planning
of an effective budget. I took a lot of time and mind to plan the budget so that it can match with
my whole strategic planning. It was also tough for me to identify the potential market as the
needs and wants of the customers generally differs.
Analysis:-
I think the reason of successful completion of this assignment was guidance that I got
from my mentor and the support of my friends and family. This assignment helped me out to
identify my inner strength and weaknesses on which I can work more effectively. I generally
enjoy working in areas that are similar to my strengths and I need to work on my weaknesses so
that in near future I can overcome the same. I have an effective communication skills and team
management skills but I need to work on my time management skills as I was been frustrated to
complete my work on time. There were different situations that I faced while completing the
following tasks. Many a times I was not able to complete my tasks on time and that resulted in
mismanagement of different business angles. I think after this assignment I would be able to
enhance my communication skills and team management skills more effectively. I will also be
able to overcome my weaknesses related to time management which will be helpful for my
upcoming assignments or tasks. I am now able to have more effective decision making skills and
this may provide me different angle to manage the things more efficiently.
Conclusions:-
I learned lots of new things from this T-shirt challenge that is how to have an effective
plan for organizing and managing things. It is very important for a person to identify its key
strengths and weaknesses on which they can work in order to gain new opportunity out of it.
There are different situations that arise while we perform different tasks, but it is quite necessary
for us to utilize our own skills in right direction as it leads to an effective management. I utilized
my key skills for planning an effective business strategy that helped me out to finish my

challenge on time. I also understood about my weaknesses on which I need to work on and this
will help me out in my future projects as I will be able to manage time more effectively.
Action Plan:-
Next time, when I will be working on such projects, I will ensure that I analyzed my
skills more effectively with respect to the tasks that I need to perform. This will help me out to
bring an effective plan that can result in a better way. Next, I will keep track of my work and will
divide the tasks in such a way that I am able to complete them on time and with more efficiency.
I am quite confident that this assignment and the experience I gained will be helpful to me for
completing my upcoming projects within the given time. I will utilize my strengths more
effectively in my future projects by bringing two way communication with my team and people
with whom I have to work. This will help me out to bring an effective decision making for the
task that I need to perform in my near future. For the three years at the University, I am having a
SMART plan that can help me do develop my career in right direction with respect to business
management. I am having my short term goal to enhance by communication skills, emotional
intelligence, time management skills etc.

REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Li, Y. and et.al., 2020. Nurses’ Psychological Feelings About the Application of Gibbs
Reflective Cycle of Adverse Events. American Journal of Nursing. 9(2). pp.74-78.
Sekarwinahyu, M. and et.al., 2019, February. Development of problem based learning for online
tutorial program in plant development using Gibbs’ reflective cycle and e-portfolio to
enhance reflective thinking skills. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1157,
No. 2, p. 022099). IOP Publishing.