Reflective Report: Skills Development, Challenges, and Action Plan

This reflective report provides an in-depth analysis of a student's skill development journey, focusing on challenges encountered in various scenarios such as apprentice, presentation, and t-shirt challenges. The report details the development of key skills including communication, teamwork, time management, emotional intelligence, and business acumen. Each challenge is examined from a business perspective, highlighting areas like branding, finance, and operations. The student also outlines a SMART action plan to enhance weak skills, including resources and implementation strategies, and concludes with a reflection on the overall learning experience and the importance of adopted skills in achieving objectives.

Reflective Report

Table of Contents
Reflective Report...................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY........................................................................................................................................3
Reflection over report........................................................................................................................3
Reflective writing over each challenge faced....................................................................................3
Action plan............................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................8
REFELCETION....................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Reflection is all about projecting the individual experience as an individual. This
project is all about the reflective report in respect to different experiences. Henceforth, this
project would depict about the different experience of gaining different skills as an individual
in attending various challenges. Each challenge as an individual faced would be analysed in
this project. Furthermore, proper action plan would frame to improve the effectiveness by
removing the negative areas associated with the project.
MAIN BODY
Reflection over report
This project would cover all the key areas associated with the skill development and
improvement. I have taken three different challenges denoted as apprentice, presentation and
t shirt challenge. While attending all these challenges I get to develop all different skills and
capabilities that are denoted as communication skill, team work, time management, meeting
skill, business skill and other such skills. Each challenge I faced would analysed in the future
part of the project. On the basis of the demerits associated with my personality I would reflect
the proper action plan in this project. I have faced challenges like apprentice, presentation and
t shirt challenge.
Reflective writing over each challenge faced
I have attended challenges like apprentice, presentation and t shirt challenge. In order
to attend the respective challenges I get to learn all differ skills that can be projected in the
following manner.
Apprentice challenge
This challenge has supported me in developing various skills that can demonstrate in
the following manner.
Communication skill
Over the period of time while attending apprentice challenge I get to learn all different
skills. Communication played an effective role to complete the challenge. I required to

interact and communicate with different stakeholders that has supported me in achieving my
overall potential to complete the challenge.
Team work
I also get to develop an effective team work skill through the apprentice challenge i
entertained. This challenge was needed to work in the team that has developed while
attending the challenge. (Tauber, 2019).
Emotional intelligence
I also learnt emotional intelligence as an individual while performing apprentice task
like apprentice, presentation and t shirt challenge. This is all about maintaining the
intelligence at the emotional level. Many times we take decisions on the basis of out
emotional mentality which can hamper all out future results. This skill allow an individual to
control its emotional side to not to hamper the outcomes of the life.
Time management
I have also learnt time management by attending challenges like apprentice,
presentation. This is another crucial skill which allowed me to achieve the objectives and best
level of outcomes as an individual. I have learnt that managing time is the best potential an
individual can hold (Fukumura and Kojiri, 2018). Even after having the most hectic schedule
time management skill allow an individual to perform all its responsibilities. I get to learn
time management which has supported me in completing all the three challenges I get to face
as an individual.
Meeting skill
Meeting skill is also a key skill which I got to adopt in me during the completion of
apprentice challenge. This is the approach that needed to entertain while conducting any
specific meeting as an individual. Conducing meeting on the regular basis is a key functional
area that needed to consider while performing in the team (Palmer, 2018). I get to learn the
ways to conduct the meeting, approaches used to motivate the team members attending the
meeting and ways to assess the meeting.
Business skills

I also learnt the business skill during the entire meeting, This is about to assess all key
areas associated with the operations. This involves assessment the commercial success of the
respective functions. I got to learn this skill by completing all the challenges like apprentice,
presentation and t shirt challenge.
Presenting challenge
This challenge could tend me to develop different skills.
Communication skill
I get to improve my communication skill while entertaining the presenting challenge.
This was the challenge that required to use the effective communication ability to achieve the
best level of presentation at the individual level.
Team work
Presenting required various individual to work together. This skill also could develop
through this challenge. Team work is all about working with the bunch of people to achieve
the common objectives.
Time management and meeting skill
Time management and meeting skill is also I could develop through this challenge. I
get to develop this skill that would always support me in performing all my responsibilities.
The time always remain limited in challenge and while performing the challenge I get to
develop this skill.
Business skill
I get to learn business skill while performing the challenge. This is about to involve
the business sese while performing the challenge. This skill has improved the outcome of the
challenge.
T shirt challenge
This challenge could develop different skills that can be projected in the following
points.
Communication skill and emotional inelegance

T shirt challenge was needed an effective peace of communication skill. This skill has
supported me to perform the challenge so well. I learn how to communicate during the
challenge. Emotional inelegance is also an important factor that has developed during the
task.
Team work
I also get to learn team work. This is skill I adopted while performing the t shirt
challenge. The challenge was needed for the bunch of individual to perform in group.
Time management and meeting skill
Challenge always let to learn time management and meeting skill. We get to do these
constantly which lade to develop both my abilities.
Business skill and competencies developed
I also get to develop the business skill and competencies while performing the t shirt
challenge. This is among the major outcomes I could get while performing the respective
challenge.
Analysis of Each challengefrom a business angle
 Branding: Branding is one of the major challenges for the t-shirt business because
now people has become highly professionals and prefers to buy only branded products
instead of non-branded one. So, it is big challenge from a business angle that can
impact on organization’s performance.
 Finance: Finance is another challenge from a business angle because it is essential for
the company to have adequate funding sources then they can invest on business to
improve product quality and business operations. If company has limited funding
source then it cannot expand business services for the customer as resulted it will
create negative image of the company (Renfors, 2018).
 Operations:It is another effective challenge that can directly impact on business
performance. for example, if business’s manager unable to perform different
operational functions effectively then it cannot get success. So, operations are
considered one of the major challenges for the business.

Action plan
Aim
“To improveall weak skills i.e. communication skills, emotional intelligence,
teamwork, time management and meeting skills, business skills and competencies by
the end year of 2024“
SMART Objectives
 The projected aim over the improvement of weak skills is the specific.
 Measurable: This aim can be measured through feedbacks which receives after
performing tasks.
 Achievable: Developed aim is framed for me that all are achievable.
 Realistic: To propose aim is a actual goal that will be achieved within
timeframe.
 Timeframe: It has goal to achieve framed aim within 3 years.
Resources
 Journals and books, online class,training sessions, guidance from successful
business owners, works with team over a project,professional development plan
etc.
Implementation
To improve my emotional intelligence and communication skills, I joined online class
whereas trainers teachesme to how to improve my communication skills and coordinates
my body language with verbal communication so that I can communicate with people in
effective manner (Hamburg, O’brienand Vladut, 2019). To improve time management
skills, I used 4D management tool that helps me improve my time management skills for
example I followed all guidelines which enlisted in the tool and completes all tasks within
time. I read good journals to understand how to make good team worker in the workplace
and I try to work with my colleagues on same project so that I can make myself comfy with
them while working on a project. Thus, improved my teamworking skills. To improve my
business skills, I took guidance from the successful business owners and follows their signs
honestly. To improve my competencies, I joined training session wherein I work over my
presentation and ICT skills from which I was lacking behind. I took three years to improve
my all weak areas effectively.

Evaluation
To evaluate my overall skills which I have developed and improved, takes feedbacks
from my senior authorities, friends and relatives. I am too much happy to analyse that I
get appreciable feedbacks from all one. Thus, I improved my skills.
Time: This action plan is proposed for 3 years only.
CONCLUSION
Reflection is all about projecting the individual experience. Different skills I adopted
like team work, time management, meeting skill and other such skills that are needed as an
individual to achieve the best level of objectives as an individual. All these skills are crucial
in order to perform challenges like apprentice, presentation and t shirt challenge.

REFELCETION
Books and Jourans
Roadarmel, G. and Pacifist, N. O., 2020. Freshmen Apprentices.
Tauber, R. T., 2019. Projecting Enthusiasm: The Key to Dynamic Presentations for
Professionals. ABC-CLIO.
Fukumura, N. and Kojiri, T., 2018, June. Understanding Support System for Kansei of
Teacher in Fashion Domain. In EdMedia+ Innovate Learning (pp. 1327-1333).
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Palmer, C., 2018. Joanne Keeling and Clive Palmer (2018) It’s the way you tell ‘em-
storytelling from the touchline. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies,
12, 1, 337-346. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies. 12(1). pp.337-
346.
Renfors, S.M., 2018. Business from Nature: Necessary Business Skills and Knowledge in
Green Entrepreneurship in Finland.
Hamburg, I., O’brien, E. and Vladut, G., 2019, May. Entrepreneurship Business Research
Skills. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence (Vol.
13, No. 1, pp. 100-111). Sciendo.