Reflecting on Business Management Module: Skills and Knowledge Gained

This reflective essay analyzes a student's learning experiences within a business management module, employing Gibbs' reflective cycle to structure the analysis. The essay details the acquisition of both general professional skills, such as communication and problem-solving, and those specific to business management, including leadership and team management. The student reflects on the knowledge gained, the application of theoretical concepts, and the importance of practical experience. The evaluation highlights areas of difficulty, such as team-working skills, and the positive impact of professor support and experiential learning. The conclusion summarizes the significant learning outcomes, emphasizing the value of the module in preparing for professional life and identifying areas for continued skill development through an action plan. The essay references key academic sources supporting the reflection.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................3
Reflection...........................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
This reflective essay aims at identifying and writing experiences that I had during
the module. As a university student for business management module has proved to be
a very effective learning experience for me. In order to ensure clarity and understanding
of experience this reflection will be written with application of Gibbs reflective cycle
model.
Reflection
Description
As a student of business management which is a profession that requires several
skills and different types of knowledge to become an effective professional in business
management life. From the starting of this module I started learning and developing
different types of skills and knowledge (Asfeldt, Hvenegaard and Purc-Stephenson,
2018). This knowledge and skills were related to both for a general professional life and
these also involves skills and knowledge specifically required for business management
life and profession. Skills and knowledge that was required for overall development
required that I should practice learn personally as much as I practice in university. For
the purpose of learning as I got assistance of professors and some of my seniors,
several difficult things became very easy for to understand and learn. As I was expected
to learn several skills like communication, decision-making, problem-solving and other
than this module also helped me in gaining knowledge of changing practices and
required skills in business management profession. Overall, as a part of this module I
learned several new things that helped me in gaining practical as well as theoretical
knowledge regarding business management.
Feelings
As a learner in this module I learned that if I want to become successful in
business management life it is important to possess key skills as well as skills according
to changing requirements of profession. Communication, problem-solving, decision-

making are key skills and skills becoming important with changing times include
leadership skills, emotional intelligence, team management and diversified team-
management skills. This module also helped me in learning different concepts and
theories involved in business management (Lam, 2018). I realised while studying and
learning these practices and theories that in order to become effective in professional
life, it is important that I learn application of these theories and practices. I feel that I
now possess much more knowledge and skills than I did earlier or before joining the
module. I realised that I have only learned this knowledge and practices and I am not
expert, hence I will require to practice in order to become expert in these skills and
practical application.
Evaluation
Concerned with module and being part of these I do not consider anything that is
bad about this module experience. However, there were certain situations in which I felt
difficulties in learning certain things. One of such elements was learning writing skills,
team-skills in which I was able to learn theoretical aspects however practical application
of was difficult for me to understand and this I understand during activities of team-
development and because of this I realised that I should practice more to develop this
skill. This is one of the most demanding skill in business management profession and
this is why it became very important for me to learn this skill. However certain are also
there which can be learned through practice and along with this I also received helped
from professors and this helped in overall learning through this module.
Analysis
The reason that I consider because of which everything went well and nothing
well badly was that I was participating in module willingly and support available for me
was also important part of success of module. Other than this, during module I also
applied a theory for learning, this theory is experiential learning (Markkanen and et.al.,
2020). This is a process in which individuals learn from their experience and also is
known learning through reflection and doing. Specifically in this when I experience
difficulty in understanding something in practical or in theory, I used concept of

experiential learning. I tried to learn from experience and sometimes understanding its
practical application and learning theory through applications. This is more effective
when learning involved activities during module and in this learning through experience
helped me in understanding concepts and their application. This helped me in
effectively performing during module and ensuring that I can get best of knowledge and
learn every possible skill through this module.
Conclusion
On the basis of module and all the experiences that I have had during the
module it can be concluded that I had great learning during the module that I believe are
going to be very helpful during my professional life. This is because module involved
different types of knowledge that was interesting and engaging and along with support
of professors made this module more effective and better as a learning experience.
However, there were certain incidences where I realised that these are skills and
knowledge that I should be having before participating in module because they are
useful and contributory for the business management profession. But these skills are
not only useful for professional life they are also important for academic success and
this is why I feel that I should be having these skills before joining this module ( Liaquat,
2018). I also realised that I should be having an approach of advance preparation for
future challenges and for expectations of university course. Skills that I require to work
on involves-
Action Plan
Skill Developing skills Time
Communication skills Working on communication
skills is very important and
specifically for written
communication skill
In order to develop this skill I
will join workshops and
sessions for communication
skill development
6-8 months

Team-working skills Understanding different
theories for team development
and participating in workshops
for team-working skills
Identifying related skills and
working on them to develop
effective team-working skills
10-12 Months
Problem-solving skill This is another important skill
that is related to identifying
problem and then
understanding problem in
order to identify what can be a
suitable solution for the
problem (Szenes and
Tilakaratna, 2020).
This can be developed by
practicing and through
methods like case study
learning.
12-15 Months
I believe that through this certain skills that I learned during module and require
further work on developing these skills effectively. I have adopted approach of advance
preparation.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Asfeldt, M., Hvenegaard, G. and Purc-Stephenson, R., 2018. Group writing, reflection,
and discovery: A model for enhancing learning on wilderness educational
expeditions. Journal of Experiential Education. 41(3). pp.241-260.
Lam, R., 2018. Promoting self-reflection in writing: A showcase portfolio approach.
In International perspectives on teaching the four skills in ELT (pp. 219-231).
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Liaquat, A., 2018. Does reflection writing effects the knowledge, attitude and skills of
house officers?. Health Professions Educator Journal. 1(1). pp.45-48.
Markkanen, P and et.al., 2020. A reflective cycle: Understanding challenging situations
in a school setting. Educational Research. 62(1). pp.46-62.
Szenes, E. and Tilakaratna, N., 2020. Deconstructing critical reflection in social work
and business: Negotiating emotions and opinions in reflective writing. Journal
of English for Academic Purposes. p.100931.