Reflective Report on Participation in Four Major Challenges

To complete a reflective report as evidence of developing skills and knowledge through the participation in 4 major challenges. The report will summarise the business angle of each challenge and reflect on the personal skills developed and potential areas for continuous improvement This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO 2 Work effectively in a team.

LO 4 Develop business skills, including presentation skills, emotional intelligence, meeting skills and use of spreadsheets

The module will be organised around four compulsory challenges to help develop your skills required for success at university. You must get actively involved in each challenge.

You are required to write an individual report to evidence your participation in the Challenges and to reflect on what you have learned through your involvement.

The report must include coverage of the following-:

The Challenges: An analysis of each challenge which focuses on the business angle eg branding, finance, operations. What knowledge did you learn about how businesses actually work? The Challenges are as follows-:

weeks after submission deadline

The Skills: A reflection on the skills you have demonstrated during the challenges to include the following -

· Communication Skills/ Emotional Intelligence

· Teamwork

· Time Management and meeting skills

· Business skills and competencies developed e.g. presentation skills, use of Excel etc.

Action Plan: An action plan on how you will develop these skills over the next 3 years at university.  The report is a reflective piece but still requires you to demonstrate an evidence based approach to the coverage and consequently there is a need to support the discussion of both the challenges and the skills with reference to core module materials covered in seminar sessions and with additional external research.

The research will represent not only materials covered on the Graduate Challenge module itself but also from other level 4 modules eg coverage of branding from marketing lectures, the inclusion of teamwork in from Introduction to People Management, business analysis skills from Global Business Environment or Financial Accounting. As the report is a reflective piece you do not need to worry about formal style, you can write in terms of “I”, “my” etc.

The use of visuals in the appendix that are related to the tasks completed is highly advisable to add  interest -for example t-shirt designs,key visuals from slide presentations and excel pricing worksheets.

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria as defined by your programme team.

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Have you read and understood the assessment criteria?

Have you met the learning outcomes? You will lose marks and your work may even be failed if you have not.

Have you demonstrated you can think and write critically in the completed work? This means you have supported your arguments/explanations appropriately e.g. using relevant academic sources and you have offered discussion points which extends your own or others’ viewpoints to make reasoned conclusions/judgements.

Have you maintained an academic tone throughout your work? Is your work formal, focused, developed and clear?

Have you checked that the referencing in your assignment is in line with your programme requirements?

Have you proof-read your work and used spellcheck software to check your spelling  and grammar?

Have you checked the presentation of your work is as specified by your tutor, for example, are font size, colour,style, line spacing and margins as the tutor specified?

Have you kept to the word count (or equivalent)? If you are not sure, check with your  tutor.

Can you confirm that the work submitted is your own and not plagiarised?