Orientation of Success in Higher Education: Skills Report

This report, titled "Orientation of Success in Higher Education," provides a comprehensive overview of essential skills for achieving success at the university level. The report emphasizes the importance of developing teamwork, presentation, and note-taking skills, highlighting their significance in academic and professional contexts. The main body delves into each skill, discussing the experience gained, the understanding developed, and the strategies for further skill enhancement. Teamwork is presented as a crucial skill for collaborative projects, presentation skills are examined as vital for conveying information effectively, and note-taking skills are recognized as essential for focused learning and information retention. The report concludes by reiterating the value of these skills and includes a references section and an appendix outlining SMART goals for skill development.

ORIENTATION OF
SUCCESS IN HIGHER
EDUCATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Team work skills:.........................................................................................................................3
Presentation skills:.......................................................................................................................3
Note taking skills: .......................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The report of “orientation of success in higher education” will comprehensively explain
the skills learned and knowledge gained for the success in higher education at the university. As
every individual aims to build a better career by performing well at the university and for this
purpose various skills are needs to improve the performance at the university. Skills which are
acquired are team work, presentation and note taking (Donia, O'Neill and Brutus, 2018). The
report will explain the need, understanding, the experience and how skills can be developed
further for the betterment of performance at the university.
MAIN BODY
Let's analyse different skills, and experience, knowledge associated with it. Also, further
expertise required to develop the skill.
Team work skills:
Team work is the most sought after skills required in the universities and work place.
When a group of people work together to achieve a common goal, it is known as the teamwork.
Nowadays companies are coming up with the new collaborative working style where team work
skills are expected of employees. At university also different group tasks are assigned which
requires team working skills to complete the projects, assignments and tasks. I have experience
of team work as working on school task and performing various group work has polished and
developed the understanding of the team work. In class rooms my belief in collaborative working
has helped me in delivering the task in a better way.
In order to develop my team work skills further I need a close understanding of various
important elements which are important for being a team player. Improving communication, it is
vital to communicate to group partners in effective way to have smooth working (Doo, and Park,
2019). Next is time management, while working on a task time should be well managed to
achieve task on time. Therefore, to develop team working skills even further I need to have good
communication and time management skills.
Presentation skills:
It is about delivering the information to the key people by engaging into an effective
approach of presenting. Having just the right information is not enough, an effective way of
delivering the information is equally important. As I have done various presentation on projects
in the school-time, I have developed an interest in being a good presentor. I have an

understanding of audience that needs to be addressed. It is an important aspect of presentation
skills to know the audience or people which needs to be addressed by the information.
In order to develop my presentation skills even further I need to understand the voice
related aspects like, pitch, hand gesture, right body language, voice modulation etc. as this can
help me in presenting better (Ochoa and Dominguez, 2020). Also, developing interesting key
point indicators which makes delivery of information easy is important. At the time of
interviewing this can be helpful in able to drive my resume to life and showcasing strengths in a
nice way.
Note taking skills:
Noting the understanding down to keep the important things in mind and it is the exercise
of recording information or learning captured from a source. These skills are vital for a school
going person as this helps pay more attention and focus in the classroom. It makes student learn
better and remember better in the classes. It also helps make a summary of the things you learn
about, so you can use this later. Not just in the school but also in the work life this skill helps.
As it was part of my curriculum habits to note down the lessons taught and important
things of the chapter and subjects, it will further in higher education helps when more subjects
and things will be taught. Teachers in school also emphasized on the note making of each session
which has helped me develop this skill. I can develop my note taking skills even further by
undertaking the practice of summarization which can make the note taking effective. By
practising use of symbols, abbreviations and colours this can make note taking effortless and
easy (Yuldasheva, 2020).
CONCLUSION
The above report has depicted the meaning of various skills that I already have and some
skills that need to be developed further. Respective idea and understanding regarding the need of
those skills have been mentioned in detail. The above report made the aim of success in higher
education by explaining the necessity of note taking, team work and presentation, these were the
set of skills chosen for the prosperity in higher education.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Donia, M. B., O'Neill, T. A. and Brutus, S., 2018. The longitudinal effects of peer feedback in
the development and transfer of student teamwork skills. Learning and Individual
Differences. 61. pp.87-98.
Doo, M. Y. and Park, S. H., 2019. Effects of work value orientation and academic major
satisfaction on career decision-making self-efficacy. Higher Education, Skills and
Work-Based Learning. 9(4). pp.550-562.
Ochoa, X. and Dominguez, F., 2020. Controlled evaluation of a multimodal system to improve
oral presentation skills in a real learning setting. British Journal of Educational
Technology. 51(5). pp.1615-1630.
Yuldasheva, M., 2020. SOME IDEAS FOR DEVELOPING NOTE-TAKING SKILLS OF EFL
STUDENTS. Theoretical & Applied Science. (1). pp.601-603.

APPENDIX
MY SMART GOALS
SKILLS PLANNED ACTIONS COMPLETION DATE
Team work Improving communication and
understanding time
management
15 days
presentation Improving voice control and
body language.
7 days
Note taking Improving effective
summarization and use of
abbreviation, symbols.
5 days