CW2: Individual Reflective Report
CW2: Individual1500-word reflective report
Assignment Task
You are required to complete an individual 1500-word reflective report. The module is structured around three compulsory challenges designed to develop essential skills for university success. Active participation in each challenge is mandatory. Your report should provide a comprehensive summary of the business aspects of each challenge and a reflection on the personal skills developed, identifying areas for continuous improvement.
Your report must include the following sections:
1. Challenges Analysis:
o Provide an in-depth analysis of each challenge, focusing on the business aspects such as branding, finance, and operations.
o Support your analysis with key academic concepts covered in this module and other modules. Examples of relevant concepts include PESTEL, SWOT analysis, target markets, profit and loss statements, etc.
2. Skills Reflection:
o Reflect on the personal skills you demonstrated during the challenges. These skills include but are not limited to: Communication skills (Oral and Written), Emotional intelligence, Teamwork, Time management and meeting skills, presentation skills and the use of Excel spreadsheets.
o Identify areas where you excelled and areas where there is room for improvement.
3. Action Plan:
o Develop an action plan outlining how you will enhance these skills over the next three years.
o Ensure your action plan includes SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) goals.
The three challenges you will reflect on include:
I. Apprentice Challenge
II. Presentation Challenge
III. T-shirt ChallengeAlthough this is a reflective report, you must use an evidence-based approach. Support your discussion of both the challenges and skills with references to core module materials covered in seminar sessions and additional external research. Incorporate materials from the Graduate Challenge module and other Level 4 modules, such as: Branding concepts from Principles of Marketing, Teamwork theories from Introduction to People Management, Business analysis skills from Global Business Environment and Financial Accounting.
You are encouraged to use visuals in the appendix related to the tasks completed, such as T-shirt designs, key visuals from slide presentations, and Excel pricing worksheets.
If you are registered with the Disability and Inclusion Services or have a disability, please contact your module leader to discuss how your reasonable adjustments will be applied to this assignment.
This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:
LO 2 Workeffectively in a team.
LO 4 Develop business skills, including presentation skills, emotional intelligence and meeting skills, use of spreadsheets
Practicalities: Referencing, presentingandsubmittingyour work
Please see your programme handbookfor information on the standard referencing style, presentational requirements and process for submitting your work.
Please reference your work according to the Harvard style as defined in Cite Them Right Online (http://www.citethemrightonline.com). This information is also available in book form: Pears, R. andShields, G. (2019) Cite them right: the essential reference guide. 11th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Copies are available via the University library.
This assignment should be submitted electronically. Please use the relevant Turnitin submission point in the Upload My Assignment area on LSST Connect.
Please ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format. Turnitin will only accept the following file types: Microsoft Word and PDF. Yourfile must also contain at least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size.
In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations. Please also note that work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be considered a late submission. Late submissions will be marked, and the actual mark recorded but will be capped at the pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a passing standard. Work submitted after this period will not be marked and will be treated as a non-submission.