leading and working with others
leading and working with others
Activity 16.3 Revised skills and experience audit
You began to consider your strengths and weaknesses in Chapter 1. Go back to that now.
Use the list of key skills outlined there to update your lists of strengths and weaknesses.
These skills include:
● number
● communication
● information skills
● leading and working with others
● learning
● problem solving.
You may now be able to identify specific relevant skills under these broad headings – for example, presentation or report writing under communication skills, networking under working with others, or facility with particular software packages under information skills. Looking at advertisements for appealing jobs can highlight other areas of strength and weakness. Remember to add experience as well as skills to your list. Again, your trawl of websites and advertisements should give you an idea of the kinds of experience that you need to be able to offer. This might be, for example, to have worked in a particular sector, or a particular function such as sales, or a particular context such as a ‘lively creative team’, or have demonstrated a particular skill such as leadership.
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Managing and collaborating with others
Managing and collaborating with others
Activity 16.3 Re-Assessment of abilities and experience
In Chapter 1, you started thinking about your strengths and weaknesses. Return to that immediately.
Update your lists of strengths and weaknesses with the list of critical skills given there.
These abilities include the following:
● number
Communication is important.
Informational abilities
● leading and working with others
● learning
● problem solving.
You may now be able to identify specific relevant skills under these broad headings – for example, presentation or report writing under communication skills, networking under working with others, or facility with particular software packages under information skills. Looking at advertisements for appealing jobs can highlight other areas of strength and weakness. Remember to add experience as well as skills to your
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Self-improvement action planning
Self-improvement action planning
Activity 16.4 Self-improvement action planning
Develop a set of action plans to improve your employability by focusing on your primary strengths and shortcomings. Now you must follow them! Monitor progress at regular intervals and update the plans regularly.
Activity 16.5 Exploring your vision
You can also ‘interrogate’ the vision you developed in Activity 16.1. What was it that felt good about the job you visualised? What does this tell you about yourself? Revisit Activity 1.5, with your initial thoughts on good and bad aspects of working life, and see how they have altered since then. If they have not altered much, or if you found your imagination didn’t come up with much, spend some time talking to family, friends
