Reflection on the development of academic and professional skill in year one
In this paper I am going to reflect on my professional and academic skills development throughout my first year at University. I began this course as a mature student hungry for education and a fresh challenge. During semester two, I found university quite hard as I am currently having family problems; as a result I had to learn to balance university life, part time job and regular trips back home (and that is Bulgaria).
At these times, in compound business environment and growing competition, to be able to compete on the job market you need to possess outstanding skills and be always a step ahead of others. Being a good learner and constantly developing one’s
Knowing what good team-work is and what it comprise, I can see some of the mistakes my team and I did in past works, in terms of lacking enthusiasm and initiative which are crucial to the completion of a task. I used Belbin’s Team Role Self-perception Inventory (1981), to reveal and evaluate my behaviour in the team-working process. The results showed that my role in a team is a Shaper.
Leadership
In the place I work most of my duties involve organising and managing big and small events. I had to make sure that everything was done according to the company’s high standards. Because of my position as an assistant manager I had to follow certain rules and at the same time be a good leader too. My boss always said “lead by example”. Trusting my capability to motivate and bring out the best in others, we were pretty efficient and always met our deadlines; I was born to be leader. To decide if I was good in leadership I used Daft questionnaire (Campbell, 2010). The results showed that I was a person that behaviour is based on leadership abilities to develop new ideas and use non-traditional approach to anything.
I think that during some of the group assignments that I took part in University my leader traits were proven to its best. I organised all the group meetings and made sure that we all had equal parts of work to be done, after every