Reflective Report: Skills Development and Challenges in Business

This reflective report examines three challenges: a TESCO challenge, an LSST challenge, and a T-shirt challenge, highlighting the importance of communication, team management, and teamwork. The report analyzes these challenges, identifying the skills needed for success and exploring how these skills contribute to career development. It also analyzes other business functions, evaluates Tuckman's theory in relation to teamwork, and outlines SMART objectives for skill development. The report concludes with a summary of key findings and references.

Reflective Report

Executive summary
A report has been prepared on the basis of three challenges, a TESCO challenge, a LSST
challenge and at last the t-shirt challenge in which there is some components which needs to be
learn and it is quiet similar in all three challenges including communication skills, team
management and at last the team work. It simply helps in the growth enhancement and on the
basis of skills and knowledges, there is a need to have objectives and future applications.

Table of Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Explain various challenges and describe each skill in order to perform these challenges
properly. .....................................................................................................................................3
Critically analyse other business function under these challenges. ...........................................5
Evaluate the Tukman’s theory in relation to teamwork..............................................................6
Action plan: Describe briefly SMART objectives with the help of skills and challenges.........7
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................7
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The professionals as well as the students seems out to use some challenges so that they can
perform those on the basis of some skills and knowledges. There can be a huge possibility is the
developmental career and performing the duties as well. The business functions have been
included in these challenges on the basis of smooth performance in the organisations as well as
in the businesses. Some smart objectives as well as goals helps in having a well embraced career
development and the growth (Beresford and Hirst, 2020).
MAIN BODY
Explain various challenges and describe each skill in order to perform these challenges properly.
I have simply suggest some challenges and I need to improve my skills and knowledge so
that there can be huge possibility of growth in the career. LSST is one institution of United
Kingdom. The full form of LSST is London School of Social Science and the technology is one
of the best education and institution. The master programmes that are offering by them helps in
the skills as well as professional development. The components included in LSST are mentioned
below:
Apprentice challenges LSST-: This is the first challenge which includes some skills that
helps in the growth development. Communication skills-: It refers to such skills which is quiet important for the career
development and skills enhancement. The learnt communication skills gives a unique
improvement is the framing of the sentences as well as to have a good communication
between two people or a bunch of people. These institute also helps to me trained in
technical course so helps to learned the various skills. Teamwork-: Such type of skills in LSST plays a vital role because it helps the insitution
to have a conferences, group activities or the growth of team enhancement in order to
have a performance. LSST is one of the institution which helps in motivating the
members and an ability to work more effectively. Time management-: Managing the time and one the basis of time there is a need to have
work enhancement is quiet satisfied to work as soon as possible. In this type of

component includes various important work in which there is a need to have a
technological development as well as decision making process.
 Business skills-: Such type of skills is quiet important in the degree of MBA and it helps
in having a effective procedure of growth in business.
TESCO Challenges-: TESCO is one of the supermarket of United Kingdom which provide
number of products and the services which helps in targeting the consumers. Several companies
which have been offered e-commerce traditional bricks and preferences. Under the TESCO
challenge, there is a need to have accommodative as well as partnership challenge. There are
some good and effective ways in which the team members have a quality of better presentation,
communication and many others. Communication skills-: there is a need to good communication skills in front of all the
members. There is a need to have various skills and the knowledges based on
communication. There are many seminars and conferences have been developed and on
the basis of it, communication skills are very important for me because it simply helps
me in reducing the fear of public speaking. In relation with TESCO. Training are given to
employees so that there skills must be largely enhanced. Teamwork-: A teamwork is very important because to be presented in front of audience.
The manager of TESCO must have a good team spirit in order to achieve goals. Time management-: managing the time simply leads to have a better decision process.
The organisation must be well managed and the work life balance is quiet effective.
 Business skills-: The business skills includes lot of tactics, development which is quiet
important for the effective presentation. I give presentation, simply helps me to work
more concise manner and in a better attractive way. TESCO employees achieve goals
and objectives in the company.
T- Shirt Challenges-: It is one of the challenge which is based on one of the activity that
shows will power and an ability to have better management skills on the basis of logo, branding,
pricing strategy and many others. The budget plan and fixed cost are also included in the t-shirt
challenge. Communication skills-: The challenge is simply suggest a usage of good language in
order to have a maintenance. I learn such type of skills in sentence framing,
pronunciation and many others (Fatima and Abbas, 2020).

 Team work-: The skills including team must have participation. A team activity includes
attraction as well as team ability so that goals and achievements can be possibly occur. Time management-: This component includes various activities so that there is an
effective and well targeted performance activity. A good utilisation of time helps in well
maintenance and proper planning.
 Business skill-: Such type of skills includes budget planned on the basis of financial
skills, marketing skills, operations and many others.
Critically analyse other business function under these challenges.
Branding-: The three challenges includes in one of the business function known as
branding. The effective challenge suggest different roles including t-shirt logo, branding and
many others. The team members including some sort of creative skills that simply helps in the
approaches so that I have an ability to work more effectively and plan the things as well.
Finance-: It is one of the second function that suggest to have a planned budget and cost in
all three challenges. The functions help in having some effective and well mannered
improvisation in the goals and objectives.
Operations-: The function help in performing different challenges and activities to have a
better team ability and work management. The operation function simply helps in work with
proper time and managed the work more effectively.
Evaluate the Tukman’s theory in relation to teamwork.
Tuckman’s theory
The theory is quiet effective and can be able to effectively organised. IT development
and theory models help in order to perform the functions in an more effective manner. The
theory is simply given by Bruce Tuckman's in the year 1965. It is simply suggest out to be as one
of the technique and tool in order to have proper team work as well as organisation goals and the
objectives. The ample number stages are discussed below and I can use all stages in order to
have better skills and performance as well.
Forming-: This is one of the first stage in the tuckman's theory in which it suggest more
dependency towards the team leader. The first step I can use, simply emerge as small groups and
assign different roles and ability for effective accountability (Smith, 2019).

Storming-: The second step in the theory is development of some strong agreements and
positioning the team members in order to perform several duties as well. The challenges and
strategies based on focusable goals and emotional issues.
Norming-: I have used these stage when I am take all three challenges in order to small
decisions delegate to team members and work divided into team members and unity is strong
within team members (Bailey and et. al., 2018).
Performing-: When I have taken challenges with my team members so developing new
strategies in order to perform the activities effectively as well as interpersonal development of all
team members. It includes the discussion with all team members and then takes decisions
effectively.
Adjourning-: The last stage is adjourning which states that there is a need to have
successful building of the team and there is a need to have goals and objectives.
Action plan: Describe briefly SMART objectives with the help of skills and challenges.
There is a need to learn some effective skills and knowledge in order to have better
performance as well as career development. So, set my objectives on the basis of Specific,
measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound.
Specific-: I received low opportunity on my ability to use power point presentation at my
last performance so accordingly plan more practising power point within six months.
Measurable-: The next objective is an ability to create images, graphs and couple of media
as well. An effective usage of power point are all included in measurable.
Achievable-: The skills are quiet important in the performance improvement as well as
career development. There is a need to have effective skills enhancement and learning of some
new and effective skills as well.
Relevant-: Only working with power point 25% of my job and now move up so spend
50% of my time creating power points presentations.
Time bound-: Within six month, I want to learn these skills effectively and perform work in
effectively (Kassem, 2019).
CONCLUSION
The above discussion concludes that some effective challenges have been mentioned above
and the usage of different skills so that there is an effective ability to use challenges and skills in

order to have a smooth as well as effective operations. The Tuckman's theory have been
mentioned above as well.

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