evaluation of skills finalised

Self-evaluate to identify where you want to be, your needs, and skills gaps

Skills area
Generic skills
Can I tick the box?
Do I have a plan?
Communication skills
Spoken communication
Yes

Written communication
Yes

Performance and public speaking
No
Yes

Graphic or design skills
Yes/No
Yes
Teamwork and leadership
Working in groups
Yes

Interacting with others
No
Yes

Relationships with customers or clients
Yes

Teaching and mentoring
Yes

Working with those of different skills and backgrounds
Yes

Self-awareness and critical reflection
Know what my strong points are
Yes

Know what my weak points are
No
Yes

Act to address my weaknesses
Yes

Receive and use feedback
Yes

Problem solving
Identify issues
Yes

Ability to deal with change
No
Yes

Flexibility and adaptability
Yes/No
Yes

Initiative and resourcefulness
Yes

Organisational skills
Planning skills
Yes

Time management, timetabling and working to deadlines
Yes/No
Yes

Assigning priorities
Yes/No
Yes

Managing resources
Yes

Basic and extended skills set
Foreign Languages
Yes/No
Yes

Sporting achievements
Yes

Work placements
No
Yes

Plan how these needs will be addressed

Skill needed
How to gain or improve the skill
Measure of success
Performance and public speaking

My plan for public speaking is to gain more confidence and speak in front of small groups and then progress onto bigger groups. I'm shy when it comes to big groups but when I start to feel comfortable I will be fine and suddenly blossom.
I will measure my success by keeping a record for every public speech I do. This will help me keep a record for how I did and to see how I improved.

Interacting with others

I feel that I'm ok when the other person is very welcoming and is similar to me but when it comes to someone who isn’t so confident and isn’t like me then it’s quite hard to communicate with them smoothly. My plan for this is to try and be more open and less nervous about what they think of me and just be happy and try to help them communicate with me as much as I'm communicating with them. My bar work is very helpful for interacting with people because I have to take random peoples drink orders and questions.
I will keep a record of each new person I interact with; to make sure I'm doing a good job at interacting with new people and I will then become more confident in the future. I will give myself feedback and a score from 1-10, 1 being bad and 10 being good.
Graphic or design skills
I feel that I have loads of ideas in my head but when putting it to paper; I struggle because I don’t know how to lay it out. My design skills aren’t the greatest in the world because they're very basic. My plan for this is to try and get my idea down onto the paper as soon as it comes into my head and then assess the idea to see if it works. I will also practise drawing ideas and constructing different ideas. I will also look at videos on YouTube to help me in a ‘step by step guide’ to get me to understand.
I'm going to keep a record of the ideas I have and try to use them and see if they will work and if the idea works, I will give myself feedback and then try to design the idea and if it works then I will comment saying ‘successful’ and if it doesn’t work I will put ‘unsuccessful’.
Know what my weak points are

I can identify some of my weaknesses but I really want to improve them. My plan is to improve my confidence, so I can then go up to other people in the group and just speak to them and bond with the other students who will be with me for the years to come. I also want to improve my work ethic because I need to start getting up and going to the library at a good time because recently I have been slacking. The way I'm going to improve this is, I'm going to speak to more people and then start to build a constructive relationship with them. I have started setting 8 alarm times.
I will keep a growing record of my weaknesses, so that I can improve and this will have a record of comments to do with my weaknesses improving.
Ability to deal with change

I have a plan to deal with change because it is very important to be flexible. If I improve my ability to deal with change, then I will start to become more confident in groups, it will also help myself and the group. My plan is to use the motto of ‘go with the flow’ when it comes down to the changes. This is because I will be able to adapt and learn that everything can be vesicle.
I will need to get feedback from my group, so that I can write down their comments on my record. This will help me in the future for different problems because I will be more adaptable.
Foreign Languages

My plan for this is to learn and research the language and accents because I am very interested in Portuguese because of my best friend. Rafael is Brazilian and has planned for me and him to go back to his dads in brazil for a couple of months to learn the language and work for his dad. This will increase my ability of speaking and writing this language. I'm currently learning to make a conversation about food and what my favourite sports and places to go are.
I'm going to try and speak as much Portuguese as possible when around my Brazilian friends so that I can become even better and fluent. I will keep a record of how well I did and what I struggled with.

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Communication Skills e.g. presentation, performance, written skills, others such as graphic skills

Evidence (need only be brief notes)
Date
Group presentation (semester 1)

Mooting (semester 2)
12/05/2014
Group presentation feedback (semester 1)

Reflective commentary

The ability to communicate is one of the key skills required by law students. Your reflective commentary should provide examples of occasions where you have demonstrated this skill.

I have used my ability of reflective commentary during the group presentation and throughout the moots which I have been involved in. I have also used this skill while playing football because I didn’t agree with the tactics which my manager was putting out so I changed it and my tactics worked very well, this caused our team to win the match from being 2-0 down to come back and win 4-2.

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Teamwork and leadership
e.g. working in groups, interacting with others, relationships with customers or clients, teaching and mentoring, working with those of different skills and backgrounds

Evidence (need only be brief notes)
Date
Group presentation (semester 1)

Group presentation feedback (semester 1)

Football coaching

Team captain for my football tea

Team captain for my swimming team

Team captain and coach for my futsal team

Reflective commentary

This should describe an occasion where you were involved in a group activity. It should explain your role and how you contributed to its organisation.

It could also provide details of where you have shown leadership or positions of responsibility.

I have used this skill while playing football because I didn’t agree with the tactics which my manager was putting out so I changed it and my tactics worked very well, this caused our team to win the match from being 2-0 down to come back and win 4-2. I have used my leadership skills to take the rains and lead my teams to victory and my groups to a high mark in recent years.

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Self-awareness and critical reflection
e.g. strengths exploited, limitations identified and overcome

Evidence (need only be brief notes)
Date
Group presentation (semester 1)

Group presentation feedback (semester 1)

PDP (semester 2)
15/05/2014

Reflective commentary

This should cover feedback obtained from the modules; Legal Method and Skills and Constitutional and Administrative Law, and how you have acted upon the feedback.

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Problem solving
e.g. project work, ability to deal with change, flexibility, adaptability, initiative and resourcefulness

Evidence (need only be brief notes)
Date
Group presentation (semester 1)

Group presentation feedback (semester 1)

PDP (semester 2)
15/05/2014

Reflective commentary

This should describe an occasion where you had to deal with change or show initiative and resourcefulness.

I have had to flexible when one of my team members got injured during a football match and we didn’t have another player who can play in the players position so, I volunteered to go in his position for the team. I also had to be very adaptable when I was undertaking the group activity because I had no clue what I had to do and I didn’t understand some of the words which the group were using. I then researched the words to gain an understanding and then went on from there.

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Organisational Skills
e.g. time management, planning, undertaking and completing specific tasks, enthusiasm, motivation, management of information and resources

Evidence (need only be brief notes)
Date
Group presentation (semester 1)

Group presentation feedback (semester 1)

Reflective commentary

For this section you could describe/reflect on your preparation for a typical tutorial and provide an example(s) of how you actively participated in the tutorial.

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Basic and extended skill set
E.g. Research skills, IT skills, language experience and qualifications; assets such as driving license, first aid or lifesaving, professional affiliation etc.

NB This may be the section where you choose to collect and record evidence of any skills which do not fit the categories above, or evidence of specific skills gained from such activities as volunteering or work experience e.g. intercultural awareness, commercial skills

Evidence (need only be brief notes)
Date
Group presentation (semester 1)

Group presentation feedback (semester 1)

Reflective commentary

This could provide details of foreign languages spoken/written, including level of fluency (basic, intermediate, or fluent)

The reflection on research skills must include the ability to research using the Law databases; Westlaw UK; Lexislibrary and Lawtel. You should include the date when you obtained your research certificate for Westlaw UK (Basic or preferably Advanced) or Lexislibrary to show that you have achieved competence in using these databases.

This section should also reflect on your main current interests and sporting/social activities. For example, you may be playing sport for the University.