ACADEMIC SKILLS (LCBB4006)

GROUP REPORT

PETRONELA HURMUZACHE

STUDENT NUMBER:2114679

DANICA KANCHEVSKA

STUDENT NUMBER:2124692

TATIANA CEBOTARI

STUDENT NUMBER: 2123377

TUTOR:LLOYD BEHARRY

ASSESSMENT 2

25.04.2022

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 Executive Summary

Outlining all the concepts of this report, it has been presented that, academic skills plays a great role
within the life of the individuals. In the context of academic skills, there are various acknowledgements
among which motivation, teamwork and reflection is been presented here in this report. In all the three
sets of skills, this report customises the particulars of concept with the concern of important areas and
benefits are been reflected. Analysing all these, the report has addressed the positive viewpoints over
most important and least essential skill sets categorising motivation and teamwork, respectively. Summed
up all the things, it has been identified that, skills in the life of the individuals plays essential role in the
development of individuals with which they accelerates their professional works also.

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 Table of Contents

Introduction 3

Overview of Academic skills 4

Teamwork 5

Motivation 7

Reflection 9

Conclusion 12

Reference 15

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Introduction
Academic skills refer to the inclusion of better strategies and habits that are attained by the learners in
their learning curriculum that moreover appeals to better success in a career setting ( McCormick et al.,
2021). This moreover plays great importance in the life of the individuals regarding skill upliftment with
personality development that will result in their betterment. This report will deliver clear aspects of three
of the essential skill sets that are teamwork, reflection and motivation. This report will further develop
and conceptualise the key concepts with the importance of teamwork, motivation and reflection that could
uplift the academic standards as well as maintains skills for professional improvement. Additionally,
based on analysis, this report will also provide the particulars of the most important areas. Also, this will
categorise the three skills based on least or relatively unimportant.

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Overview of Academic skills
Academic skills resemble the certain abilities that are gained by the individual through empanelling
themselves with the academic settings that will improvise their career goals. There is ample of the
importance of academic skills that are been examined by the enlisted points –

Better time management

Within the inclusion of the academic curriculum, it has been observed that the students develop a great
ability for time management with which they maintain time in a scalable way. This can be considered as
beneficial as concerning time management, the individuals attain the potential of managing time with
great efficiency that will inculcate their productivity level with better aspect.

Efficient researching abilities

Concerning the plus point of academic skills, it gets improvised that, the researching abilities of the
individual will attain the potential level that moreover improves their critical thinking ability. With the
better inclusion of researching skills, the individuals can effectively perform better approaches to empanel
with the standards of employability.

Further, various types of academic skills will suit the betterment of the candidates. Among all the
necessary skill sets, teamwork, reflection and motivation is been considered as prior.

Time Management
Time management refers to one of the essential skill sets that set up the organising processes with which
planning of actions are been taken place with suitable references of time (Sainz et al., 2019). With the
improvement of this skill sets, the individuals makes effective planning for operating the tasks in a better
manner. For the successful completion of a project with the maintenance of deadlines possesses the active
inclusion of this skill sets. Additionally, there are various important areas of time management that are
been examined through the following notes –

Reduction of stress level

Through the maintenance of the scalable level of time management, the individual gets connected at a
personal level with better management of time schedules. This smoothes the workflow and also helps the
employees in attaining a great scale of strengths within them. Further, the employees also attain the level
of approaches for mitigating each other issues with full potential. This moreover benefits the employee

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engagement process and could uplift the level of joy within the workplace. Linking this to the aspects of
an academic setting, when the students are connected in a better frame then they will improvise their
abilities along with their work performance.

Potential achievement of goals

Through the assistance of effective time management, it has been improvised that, candidates can attain
the organisational goals in a standard way with their potential and work performance. Time management
among the employees plays a great role in the creation of cooperative work culture that could lead to the
maintenance of a positive work environment. Regarding this, it has been suggested that, for this action,
managers play a great role in maintaining a proper schedule aligning with time management for attaining
better success in work operation.

Teamwork
Teamwork refers to a process in which a group of people works collectively to address the same
objectives that will eventually be effective for their development and growth (Schmutz et al., 2019). In an
organisation, this relevant skillset helps in attaining scalable success in work operation which will
ultimately plays important role in attaining success measure. In teamwork, people with different abilities
perform the work operations in a collective way for addressing success in an improvised way. During
work performance, people aligned with each other are summed up with different values and beliefs that
are essential in collective approaching the same goal with a constant level of potential. Further, the
relative importance of teamwork has been examined with the assistance of the following listed points –

Developing self-monitoring aspects

With the better implementation of teamwork, it has been confined that, the development of self-
monitoring aspects gets evolved within the individuals. By working as a team, it has been conceptualized
that, people acquire competencies among the skills with each other that could result in the wholesome
development of all the people.

Faster creation of innovation

With the conceptualised performance of an action, a conclusion has been drawn that clarifies the creation
of innovation standards within the teams that can better execute operations regarding creativity.
Considering a problem-oriented scenario, when the people collectively face a problem then with their
abilities, they figure out innovations for mitigating the issues.

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Development of learning abilities

Addressing each other expertise and capabilities of doing operations with a detailed perspective, people
learn better from each other. Further, by executing the work operations with each other, individuals could
identify core strengths of each other and could develop better working conditions on a better scale.

Promotes strong work relations

Operating work with each other helps the organisations by stimulating the work performed at a great
scale. In a teamwork, people work effectively with each other in a cooperative way for attaining success
in their assigned tasks. Further, during this process, people working on a project effectively implies better
communication standards and supporting each other with motivation. Further, it also gets acknowledged
that in a team people collectively address each other with the healthy competition that moreover helps in
enhancing their ability and capability standards.

Important areas of teamwork in professional work

Maintenance of trust

Inclusion of teamwork will help the individuals by inculcating better trust factors. It appears as working
within the team, the individuals get aware of each other in a better way. They know in and out of each
other behaviour, skills and others. Confronting this into action, teamwork helps the individuals in
maintaining strong bonding among each other that will act beneficial for them in their skill growth and
development. Thus, within the professional setting teamwork helps the individuals to perform the task
effectively with the addition of trust level. It will moreover act beneficial for the betterment of the
individuals along with the organisational improvement.

Encouragement of risk-taking

With the better inclusion of teamwork among the employees, the development of a risk-taking spirit gets
improvised within them. This is the result of inclusion and the maintenance of trust with which the
candidates maintain an adequate amount of importance within each other. Linking this within the context
of employability and business settings, this approach leads the corporation to attain a better frame of
success. In addition to this, the team among them shares the result of success and wants more
achievements to be added to the insights. Concerning this, the confidence within them gets boosted up
that can reflect the better possibilities of action along with revolutionaries’ ideas.

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Improvisation of motivation

Through better involvement of teamwork, the candidates take the initiative of maintaining a great level of
motivation within the teams by encouraging each other skill sets in a better way. Involvement of
motivation among the candidates could effectively enhance their work efficiency which could moreover
be important in improving the productivity level of the organisation. Through the assistance of this
approach, the individuals within the team assist and promote each other skills by maintaining their
confidence level to a better extent. Moreover, it can be accessed that, the involvement of motivation
among the candidates helps them in doing the work effectively by maintaining all the standards of work
culture.

Resolution of conflict

Involvement of teamwork among the candidates assists in the management of their internal bonding that
will lead them to avoid conflict conditions. Further, analysing the important areas of teamwork, and
maintenance of conflicts in the work culture helps the candidates in accessing success rather than staying
attached to conflicts across each other. This will moreover address potential values among the individuals
which will strengthen their resolution skills with which issues can be managed within them.

Further, with the inclusion of teamwork, ample benefits are been improvised within the individuals with
which they can maintain the success level of their organisation. These are been examined with the
assistance of the following listed points –

● One of the key benefits of teamwork is the promotion of workplace engagement with the scalable
maintenance of positive standards. As addressed in the important areas of teamwork, it helps
effectively in the maintenance of resolving the ability of conflicts within them. Analysing this, it
can be accessed that, when there will be no conflicts in the workplace then the level of
productivity within the organisation will get enhanced.
● Performing teamwork with the maintenance of effective connection among each other helps the
individuals to attain better objectives and goal-sets that will foster new opportunities for their
future corporation.

Motivation
Motivation refers to a process that initiates the level of working spirit among the individuals with which
they can exaggerate their potential as well as performance level (Kuswati, 2019). Among candidates,

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motivation plays a key role in the maintenance of standardisation with which they reflect their best
credibility in performing tasks. Acceleration of work efficiency with the encouragement of potential is all
act of motivation. Further, it can be proclaimed that there are several importance of motivation among the
employees. A vital source of importance are been examined through the following notes –

Development in productivity

Motivation acts better in the inclusion of great productivity standards among the learners with which they
can scale up their pace. Moreover, this can improvise the ability of the candidates to perform better in
their work. Upgrading of skillsets can be possible through motivation which can turn the employees into
action by maintaining their work efficiency.

Leads the better stability in the workforce

The maintenance of effective work culture is a process that is caused by the inclusion of motivation
standards. Further, through the effective inclusion of work culture, the employees collectively maintain
the full potential of work. This maintains their willpower for doing the work with the maintenance of
kinds of issues.

Benefits of motivation

Greater satisfaction

Development of motivation leads the individual to the self-accomplishment of desired goals. Through the
maintenance of motivation, the individuals work with full potential and this helps them in attaining
greater satisfaction levels. Further, with the indulgence of motivation among them, the desire of
continuing the work process with the stable maintenance of quality factors grows within them. Moreover,
motivation assists the learners in conducting their professional work at a great level. In an organisation,
this appeals to the reduction of employee turnover with the maintenance of employee retention rate.

Maintenance of consistency level

Through the assistance of a great positivity factor that resides within the individual in a great way, the
individual develops a consistent level of perception in a clarified manner. It moreover turns the level of
leadership within the learners with which they turn their performing factors in an enhanced way. In
addition to that, the turn-up of motivation level also gets followed within them. Maintaining the
motivation factors helps the candidates in the conduction of tasks in a better way than assists them in the
delivery of potential outcomes.

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Enhances work performance

Through the assistance of motivation, the willpower of the individuals grows at a distinct level that
moreover approaches the great level of the execution process. As motivation appeals to the positive
factors and with that, it helps the individuals in the maintenance of their consistency level at a scalable
approach. Thus, it acts better in the proclamation of task with the enhanced potential value and thus, the
deliverance of improved outcome relies on this.

Reflection
Reflective learning or reflection refers to the practice, which can help in evaluating an experience or event
(Colomer et al., 2020). The reflective learning or reflection intends to highlight the strong points as well
as slacking points from the past event, situation or experience. The utilisation of reciprocal linkage
between learning and coping can make reflection or reflective approach a desirable and impactful skill
(Lapina, 2018). It can later be utilised for overcoming challenges in future projects along with
transforming the skills or surface knowledge into effective skills or deep knowledge. Across the myriad
business sector, it is vital to practise business-related skills inaccurate manner, and it needs an adequate
amount of management based research. Action research can be conducted with the help of reflective
learning. Thus, reflection has a pivotal role within the business management context (Shani and Coghlan,
2021).

According to Shani and Coghlan (2021), In the business learning curve reflection can help in developing
prominent strategic thinking. It can be utilised in relevant business models and plans formulation. This
can also help an individual with future scope regarding homogenous projects or situations. Thus it is
evident across the different sectors, specifically for the business-related context.

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Important areas of Reflection

Active addressing feedbacks

Reflection or reflective approach can be very useful in designing feedback or addressing feedback for any
significant challenges within the previous experiences. These feedback developments with the reflective
approach can improve the skills, specifically significant problem-solving skills.

Acquiring information from summative assessment

Reflection is also very important for acquiring knowledge from summative assessment. It can also be
integrated with feedforward and feedback, which will help in analysing explicitly the previous
experiences. It is important for the conduction of any kind of self-evaluation

Showcases assistance in employability programs

In today's world, any sector for knowledge gathering or professional employability respective population
requires to present a unique portfolio to improve the potential chances. Reflection can help in designing
an e-portfolio, which can be very beneficiary regarding relevant contemporary learning (Slepcevic-Zach
and Stock, 2018).

Increment in self-efficacy

Reflection can help in increasing self-efficacy, and it can help with enhanced motivation. These aspects
make reflection a skill that can benefit the individual in increasing the quality of knowledge gathering
(Bruno and Dell’Aversana, 2018). This important area highlights that the increment within self-efficacy
helps the individuals by connecting them with the sole approach. When the individuals are better
connected with each other then it helps them in showcasing their issues at a great level which moreover
leads them towards growth and development.

Further, there are ample amount of benefits of reflection that are been identified with the assistance of the
presented points –

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Self-motivation

With the active implementation of reflective learning, an individual develops self-motivation within them.
Thus, it can refrain that, the development of self-motivation helps the learners to boost their work
performance and productivity at the same time. Through reflective learning, the individuals attain the
figure of potential growth by identifying their needs and demands with scalable approaches.

Monitoring of self-performance

Monitoring self-performance helps the individuals in attaining better growth of themselves as they are
aware of the level of their skill sets with which they attain better development. It moreover identifies the
strength and weaknesses of the individuals and thus, the learners identify the potential solution to their
reflective problem. Thus, acting with these metrics helps the learners in determining potential sets of the
solution to their reflective problems.

Identification of the most important area within the highlighted skill sets

Among the presented three skill sets, which are teamwork, motivation and reflection, it gets addressed
that, motivation plays the role of the most important area within individuals for leading them towards
prosperity. In both academic settings as well as professional works, motivation helps the individuals by
levelling up their performance rate in a positive scenario. However, there are the active role of teamwork
along with reflection among the individuals but it can be visualised that, the significance of motivation
appeals as important here among all.

Least important or unimportant factor among all the skills

Comparing all the three skill sets that are teamwork, motivation and reflection, it has been difficult to
select one least important among them as all the factors resemble great significance level. Further, after
realising, teamwork is been selected as the least important among all. One of the main reasons behind this
is that the individuals can perform better work in a lone state with a better reflection of their skill sets and
positive motivation. Further, with suitable approaches towards time management, candidates can actively
improvise their level of better sustenance.

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Conclusion
After analysing all the potential aspects of this, it has been visualised that, performing academic skill sets
empowers the moral level of the individuals with which they can attain significant success. Among the
most important skill sets, this report has targeted three skills that are teamwork, motivation and reflection.
Developing an ultimate level of confidence within the individuals is the key result of motivation. Further,
it has been customised that, reflection assists the individuals in figuring out a better level of connection
with their soul. In addition to this, the concept of teamwork accessed here within this report holds the
presence of doing the task in a collective way with which, the opportunities are been accessed within the
individuals. Comparing all the three, motivation appeals as the most important area whereas teamwork
falls in the section of the least significant section.

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