REFLECTIVE JOURNAL
INTRODUCTION
Reflective journal can be defined as a kind of personal record of learning process of an individual. It helps in reflecting as well as recording our own response, observation or learning to a particular situation (Hilliard, James and Batt, 2017). It is one of the best ways to reflect self-ideas or one’s own understanding. There are various kinds of models that can be used for reflective journal writing such as Gibbs reflective cycle model, Kolb’s Reflective cycle. For this assignment Gibbs reflective cycle model will be used for accessing our own learning process, skill development and achievements of study and employability skills modules in a much better and appropriate manner.
MAIN BODY
The module on Study and Employability skills has profoundly enriched my understanding and fostered the acquisition of various competencies (Read et al., 2019). To illustrate my learning journey and personal growth, I will employ Gibbs' reflective cycle, a renowned self-management and introspective tool. This widely recognized model enables a deeper comprehension of experiences, empowering individuals to glean insights from past situations and apply that knowledge to future scenarios. Through this reflective process, I will evaluate my skills and lessons gained from the module, offering valuable insights for those seeking thesis help
Gibbs reflective cycle Model
There are six reflection stages in this model that will help in reflecting our own learning and skills:
Description
At this stage description of one’s own experience in detailed manner (Tanaka, Okamoto and Koide, 2018). At this stage complete description of situation or things that were learned during the module are explained in a better manner. in this PPD module heled me in reflecting and learning various kinds of skills that not only helped me in identifying my strengths, weaknesses but also helped me in identifying key area of development and skills that are required to be development. This module helped in meaning various things and has helped in enhancing various kinds of skills such as: communications skills, presentation skills, research skills and many more. This module also helped me in understanding skills that are important and required to be developed. I have understood that each of these skills have their own important and value and can are useful in many different ways. It was leadership task in which we were required to analyse leadership skills of mark Zuckerberg. While completing this task I understood that there are various kinds of skills that plays a vital role in success of an individual. If we want to move forward in our careers then it is important to develop some skills such as verbal communication skills, management skills, time management skills, leadership skills and many more. This module helped me in understanding different situation in which different kinds of skills are required and how we can use those skills to resolve or understand any kind of typical situation.
Feelings
At this phase feelings are being triggered that we felt during this module (Dhaliwal, Singh and Singh, 2017). At this stage main question which is asked is what were you thinking and feeling? This helps in explaining what we were thinking during the module, after the module what another think about the module and many more. Before or at the starting of this module I thought I had all the required skills that are required to build one’s own career or move forwards in our studies and careers. But this module helped me in understanding that there are various kinds of study skills and employability skills that are required to be developed by everyone. After completing this task, I was feeling a bit confidence as I was able to learn various kinds of required skills such as problem-solving skills, team work skills, leadership skills that are required by a person for building a successful career even though during this module while completing the task I was feeling a bit hesitant as I did not have team work skills that was one of the most important skills required to complete the task in a proper manner. After this module I felt that there are many skills that are important to be learned and plays a vital role in one’s own success.
Evaluation
At this stage we evaluate things that were good and things that were bad about this experience or task (Sekarwinahyu, Rustaman and Widodo, 2019). All kind of positive and negative aspects of a situation are highlighted at this stage. One of the best and positive things about this module or assigned task that worked well was that all the students did their best to complete their task with good quality of work as well as in required time period. In fact, there were some studies who worked so hard and even cancelled their own plans in order to complete this task on time and in an appropriate manner. this motivated me a lot to complete the assigned task properly by maintaining overall quality of the task. However, there were some other things that contributed negatively while completing this task. One of them was lack of team working skills and none of them had leadership skills because of which many other kind of issues were arising. Due to this we faced some difficulties while working together in this task because of which we faced lots of difficulties in completing assigned task in defied time period but we did complete this task on time because of our problem-solving skills.
Analysis
This section helps in explaining what sense can be made from that particular situation (Arumugam and et al., 2017). According to me this task was completed on time because each person has their own opinion and according to their strengths and weakness task work was divided. This helped me in giving my best to complete the task as we all were working on parts on which we were quite good at for example I am quite good in researching skills so I opted to research on leadership skills of Mark Zuckerberg. In order to work in team in an appropriate manner we used Belbin Theory and distributed out work according to this theory considering one’s own weakens and strengths. This theory helped a lot as task of each member was distributed appropriately. But still I think I need to enhance my team working skills and leadership skills in order to achieve success.
Conclusion
At this stage what else could have been done is discussed (Read and et al., 2019). I think one of the main challenges faced by us was working in a team even though we distributed out work according to our strengths and weakness but we did not know appropriate way of working in a team. Working to team work skills, problem solving skills, time management skills could have helped in completing this task in a much more appropriate manner. Another way in which improvement could had been made was by knowing others strengths and weakness. We only knew our own strengths and weakness and were completely unaware of others strengths and weakness because of which we were not able to cooperate with each other work together in an appropriate manner. So, this module has helped me in understanding my strengths and weakness and parts or skills that are still ned to bring improvement on so that in future these kinds of problems of issues are not faced and any kind of team task or assignment are completed properly in timely manner.
ActionPlan
This is the last stage in which action plan is developed to identify what will be done in future if this situation arises again. Next time if it is required to work on a group or team assignment or task following things can be done. First thing I will do is to identify all the task that are required to be done and then using proper theories or models these tasks would be distributed appropriately. Next is at the starting of the assignment we will be choosing or approving a leader who will be taking responsibility of accurate completion of the assignment or task. So that even if any kind of issue arises some one will be there to resolve it. According to me these two things will help me in working together on a team project or assignment in a proper manner.
CONCLUSION
From the above reflective journal, I have learned that there are various skills that are required to be developed within myself in order to build a successful career. This reflective journal helped me in identifying importance of all kinds of skills and ways in which they are important in studying or while building our own careers. Other than this with the help of this reflective journal I was able to identify my key personal strength i.e. things or skills in which I am quite good at. Some of the skills were my main strength that helped in in completing assigned task in a better manner such as research skills, ICT skills and many more.
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