FY027: Self Development & Responsibility Portfolio - LSST College

This portfolio documents a student's journey in the 'Preparing for Success' module (FY027), focusing on self-development and social responsibility. It includes reflections on mini-project workshops and their impact on the student's social and ethical awareness. The portfolio contains a personal development plan, SWOT analysis, reading log, samples of work, time management schedule, communication skills assessment, comparison of social and ethical attributes, academic writing skills, employability skills, reflection notes, a CV, and an action plan. The student reflects on the importance of communication, leadership, and social awareness gained through workshop participation, highlighting strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to personal and professional growth. The appendices provide detailed evidence of the student's development in various areas, aligning with the module's learning outcomes.

Module: (FY027) Preparing for Success: Self Development and Responsibility
CW1 - Portfolio
Student’s Name:
LSST ID Number:
BNU ID Number:
Lecturer’s Name:
Submission Date:
Table of Contents
1 Introduction Page No.

2 Mini project workshops attended and how they contributed towards the development of my
Social and Ethical Awareness and Responsibility.
3 Importance and value of the Appendices (12 Documents) that I have compiled and provided as
part of my portfolio
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4 Conclusion
5 References
6 12 Appendices for the Portfolio
Appendix 1 Personal Development Plan
Appendix 2 Personal SWOT Analysis
Appendix 3 Reading Log
Appendix 4 Photos or samples of work produced in class (during lessons or workshops) relating
to Social and Ethical Awareness and Responsibility.
Appendix 5 Time Management Skills: Weekly Schedule
Appendix 6 Communication Skills: Identification of the most effective skills
Appendix 7 Social and Ethical Awareness Attributes: Comparison between Good and Bad
Attributes.
Appendix 8 Academic Writing Skills
Appendix 9 Employability Skills
Appendix 10 Notes on Reflection
Appendix 11 Up-to-Date Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Appendix 12 Action Plan on a specific academic or professional goal you aim to achieve
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1. Introduction: (A short introduction)
The report is about mini projects work shops which is a project based learning and for cost effective
teaching. The purpose of this is to anticipate the challenges and project related courses with the aim to
increase the discussion among the participants. The study also illustrates about how the workshops
contributes to the development of social and ethical awareness and responsibility.
2. Answer to the question: Specify the mini project workshops that you attended and explain how and
why they contributed towards the development of your social and ethical awareness and responsibility.
(500 words)
Performing a reflection will help to increase the competencies and opportunities that enable us to
understand the core responsibilities in an organization. The participation of the students in the workshops
helps them to work on the leadership qualities and improve the communication skills and boosting the
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growth of the students. Not only education but skill and knowledge is equally important as both the aspects
will help an individual to grow and work on its future plans.
Strength is defined as the powers and capabilities of an individual in the area of its expertise. In my
academy, I used to participate in the various activities organized by the institution as I m quite a fast
learner and I consider it my strength to understand the things quickly. It is said that for improving the
communication, it is important to listen to others. During the workshop, I focused on listening to the tutors.
This helped me to perform before people and develop trust in me. If any person has strength, it also has
weakness in some way. I realized that not only learning is important but to communicate with other people
in also necessary, and I evaluated that I m bad at communicating with people and it can be a problem for
me in the future. When I accepted that communication is important, I focused on improving my
communication skills which will help me to make relation with the other members and contribution in the
organization. Social awareness and responsibility includes the awareness and understanding the
connection among the people. A person who is socially aware contributes positively towards the
environment. During the workshop, I realized that in order to make my skills more fruitful, it is important for
me to develop my communication skills where I lack and I started focusing on working on my
communication skills which quite helped me to exchange my views among the other individuals. It also
helped me to develop my learning skills broadly and gave me more strength to cope up with my
weaknesses. The activities conducted in the workshop helped me to develop and increase awareness
among the people toward the society. The opportunities define the areas where an individual can excel by
using the knowledge and skills we have and from number of opportunities we can opt for those in which
we can grow stronger and improve our knowledge and also to achieve the career goals. During the
workshop, i got the opportunity to present myself and give my views which gave me the opportunity to
develop and build motivation in me. I felt thankful to the tutor who gave me this opportunity to represent
myself so that I can share my views regarding the social awareness. The activities helped me to gain more
knowledge and through this I came to know my strength and weakness and also helped me exploit the
opportunities for my better future. During the workshop activities, due to lack of communication with the
other members can be an issue in achieving the goals and when I got the opportunity to present my views
related to any activity I often felt nervous as the other fellow mates oppose my views or in thought that I m
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being judged by the members due to lack of communication with those people. After analysing, I came to
know that lack of communicating with people can be a risk factor for my future goals and I focused on
improving my areas to achieve the goals that I desire to achieve.
3. Documents for the Portfolio
APPENDIX 1: My Personal Development Plan
My Full Name:
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Title of Course I’m Enrolled For:
Name of Institution:
Level at which I am Currently
Studying:
Start Date:
End Date:
My Reasons/Motivation for Doing this
Course:
Objectives for my personal
development
Actions required to
achieve my objectives
Support and/or
resources I need
Timeframe Estimated date
of completion /
achievement
Improving the communication For improving the
communication I will
start reading books
Books and online
material
1 month 20 december
Expand the knowledge about
projects
To written down all the
related information
Academic books 1 month 20 december
Positive attitude By think positive and be
with positive people
Family and
colleagues support
2 month 10 january
Time management skills Focus on the self-
discipline
Theoretical
knowledge
1 month 18 december
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Leadership Improving skills Academic books 2 month 22 january
Creativity Practicing on creativity Digital technology 1 month 10 december
APPENDIX 2: My Personal SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS (strong points) WEAKNESSES (weak points)
1
Good at listening
1 Communication
2 Identifying problem 2 Time management
3 Different from crowd 3 Presentation
4 Academic understanding 4 Language issue
5 Team building 5 Trusting people
6 Exploring opportunities 6 Creativity
7 Best utilisation of resource 7 Practical
knowledge
OPPORTUNITIES (potential gains) THREATS (potential losses
1
Digital technology
1 Competition
2
Theoretical knowledge
2 Threat of failure
3 Good at excel 3 Demotivating factor
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4 Job opportunities 4 Team building
5 Positive thinking 5 Communication
6 Easy to work on weakness 6 Language issue
7 Motivational factor 7 Less academic
knowledge
APPENDIX 3: Reading Log
READING LOG
DATE TITLE AUTHOR TIME SPENT NUMBER OF PAGES
READ
Zero to one Peter Thiel 1 hours a day 85
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R.
covey
2 hours a day 125
Tim Ferriss 2 hours a day 124
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The 4-hour work week
Good at great
Jim Collins 1 hours 56
Shoe dog Phil knight 2 hours 45
Outliers
Malcolm
gladewell
1 hours 145
Little red book
Jeffrey Gitmor 1 hours 200
APPENDIX 4: Photos or samples of work produced in class (during lessons or workshops) relating to Social and Ethical
Awareness.
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Caption Training related to social impact Caption Workshop for ethical issues in classrooms
APPENDIX 5: Time Management Skills: Weekly Schedule
SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT
6:00
AM
sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping
7:00
AM
sleeping Waking up,
prepare for job
Waking up,
prepare for job
Waking up,
prepare for job
Waking up,
prepare for job
Waking up,
prepare for job
Waking up,
prepare for job
8:00
AM
sleeping working working sleeping working working working
9:00
AM
Preparing
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
Working/
having
breakfast
10:00
AM
Eating
breakfast
with
family
working working working working working working
11:00
AM
Family
time
working working working working working working
12:00
PM
Family
time
working working working working working working
1:00
PM
Preparing
lunch
Lunch time Lunch time Lunch time Lunch time Lunch time Lunch time
2:00
PM
Eating
late lunch
working working working working working working
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