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2. 2 Month Reflection Report

3. Q1, Describe what you have been doing since
you started your placement.
Answer:
Placement Company: Betfred Company
Position: Assistant Manager
Major job responsibilities:
1. Budgeting,
2. planning,
3. supervising activities,
4. coordinating activities,
5. training up subordinates,
6. reporting to line managers and higher management.

4. Q2, Skills development - what course specific skills
have you had the opportunity to put into practice
(marketing, accounts, PR etc)?
Answer:
Course specific skill: Accounts
Learned technical skills:
a. Microsoft Excel (from beginner to secondary level)
b. Enterprise Resource Planning – ERP operations

5. Q3, Are you having any particular
problems at the moment?
Major problems are:
 Loss of accounting data and records
 Team building skills are low among the entity

6. Q4, State any training received so far?
Answer:
Training received:
 MS Word operation in office environment
 MS Excel operation in office environment
 E-mail communication
 On the job training of managing subordinates
 Handling complex situations with efficiencies
 Communication skill development

7. Q5, What feedback have you had from your
manager about your progress so far?
Answer:
I have received many constructive feedbacks such as:
 Development of professional skills
 Development of communication skill within the organization.
 Habit of learning

8. Q6, Do you feel you are getting the support
you need? If no, what do you need?
I am getting enough support from my line manager's side.
Yet, I was the one who always wanted to do something better. If I could manage a
mentor from outside, that would be very much helpful for me here.

9. 4 MONTH REFLECTION REPORT

10. Q1, How has your role developed since
you began your placement?
 I have increased my decision making skill
 I was able to develop my skill of budgeting
 I was also able to demonstrate the system of the targeting resulting into the
having the capability of forecasting the total thing
 Calculation of budget and cash overflow statement was also learnt here

11. Q2, Describe how your communication skills have
developed since you started your placement?
The communication skill has increased here very perfectly. The skill was developed here
because of the demonstration of many things. The communication skill was developed
here in many ways like
 Face to face communication
 Coping up with stressful situations
 Coping up with conflict situations
 Different formal and informal meetings

12. Q3, Describe how your organisational skills have
developed since you started your placement?
Organisational skills developed:
 meeting activities and deadlines
 target setting and target meeting
 balancing conflicting demands
 prioritising, organising tasks

13. Q4, What benefits have you got from your
placement?
Benefits I have got from the placement:
 Professional activities
 Budgeting skills
 Planning skills
 Socializing skills
 Interpersonal skills

14. Q5, Is there any part of placement that you aren’t
enjoying? If so, what do you think you could do or the
organisation could do to change this?
 In the organization, I found some problems in case of synchronization.
 In the accounts department, I have faced many problems like the collaboration of different
book keepers that was resulting into many kind of mislead here.
 A perfect organizational behavior can implement the entire system.

15. Q6, Describe any situations since your last report
where you feel you have achieved something
professionally or overcome some obstacle?
 I had gained some knowledge related to the urgency management.
 I fell into some problems in the book keeping criteria.
 Basically not only me, it was whole department. We lost some data very unexpectedly and
later we worked together for the management of this problem.
 I was also successful here as well and was not able to deal with it alone.
 The thing has made me understand the strength of the team.

16. END OF PLACEMENT – PROGRESS REPORT

17. Q1. Clearly summarise the activities undertaken
during your placement and the results you achieved
Major activities performed:
a) Budgeting,
b) Balance sheet,
c) Financial Statement preparation,
d) Targeting,
e) Calculating budget,
f) Banking activities,
g) Cash flow and so on.

18. Q1. Continued…….
Skills earned:
o Professional skills
o Budgeting skills
o Planning skills
o Socializing skills
o Communication skills
o Interpersonal skills
o Problem solving
o Soft skills
o MS excel
o ERP operations

19. Q2. Critical analysis and reflection on the above.
■ What worked and what did not?
■ Why?
■ What lessons have been learnt?
 I can say that the whole placement was very much successful.
 Yet there were some problems that are needed to be managed here.
 I have worked and try to increase the team building skill. Irony is, the rate of collaboration
here was really low resulting into the demonstration of low team building.
 From the thing, I have learnt that the importance of collaboration is very much high.
 Even if everyone is working on their own, team building skill will be very much effective for
the achievement of the goal. So, these are the basic lessons that I have learnt here.

20. Q3. Provide a clear justification of the actions you could take
to move forward within the organisation:
■ Who would you talk to?
■ What did/could you read/study to get ideas on ways in
which to improve?
 The organization will be a very good platform for my improvement. I would talk to my
seniors, senior management to consult.
To improve:
 I will need to be more efficient in software like Microsoft Excel and Enterprise Resource
System.
 I will need to nourish so many things like my professional skill, my interpersonal skill and so
on.
 I will need to develop my leadership skill because I will become manager here.
 I will need to increase my communication skill here as well.
 I attended different types of seminar related to the career that has helped me very good in
the way.

21. Q4. General comments
 I can say that the people of Bretford company was very much flexible to me.
 My line manager was also very much helpful who helped me to deal with many
unwanted situation.
 I will be working for the demonstration of these issues in the next periods of my
life and I hope for a very great of Bretford company.

22. Summary Reflective report

23. Introduction
 Reflective reports are usually students report that are made based on the
understanding of the thing they were assigned to do.
 In this section, the reflection report of own placement report will be
demonstrated here.

24. What knowledge have you gained and how
has this helped you in the work place?
 The replacement activities were one of the most effective activity that was done by
me.
 Here, I have earned a lot of skills that are needed to be managed by replacement
activities.
 This is why the understanding of different skills are needed to be managed here.
 I have earn the skill of budgeting.
 I learned about researching for things when some new problems come.

25. What knowledge …work place?...Contd.
I have learned about:
 Budgeting
 Planning
 Forecasting
 Monitoring
 Controlling people and activities
 Critical analysis
 Critical thinking
 Knowing about the company of different departments
 MS Excel
 ERP operations
 Problem solving

26. What transferable skills have you developed?
From the BETFRED Company, I have gained so much transferable
skills. The skills were very much vital for me. Basically, transferable
skills are the skills that will be in me like communication, analytical
analysis and so on.
A list of such transferable skills are:
i. Leadership
ii. Motivation
iii. Prioritisation
iv. Delegation
v. Listening
vi. Communication

27. What transferable skills have you
developed?....Contd.
vii. Analytics
viii. Research
ix. Time management
x. Research and analytics
xi. Administration and clerical
xii. Financial management
xiii. Creative thinking
xiv. Planning skills
xv. Listening
xvi. Face-to-face
xvii. Co-operation

28. What transferable skills have you
developed?....Contd.
xviii.Enthusiasm
xix. Empathy
xx. Flexibility
xxi. Integrity
xxii. Loyalty
xxiii.Motivation
xxiv.Negotiation
xxv. Optimism
xxvi.Persistence
xxvii.Professionalism
xxviii.Resourcefulness
xxix.Responsibility

29. What transferable skills have you
developed?....Contd.
xxx.Teamwork
xxxi.Critical thinking and problem solving
xxxii.Team Management
xxxiii.Unity
xxxiv.Working organisedly
xxxv.Data Analysis
xxxvi.Teamwork Ability
xxxvii.Work Ethic
xxxviii.Learn new procedures
xxxix.Understand and carry out written instructions
xl. Orally convey information to others

30. What transferable skills have you
developed?....Contd.
xli. Observe and assess your own and others' performances
xlii. Communicate in writing
xliii. Use mathematical processes to solve problems
xliv. Speak in public
xlv. Demonstrate professionalism
xlvi. Provide constructive criticism
xlvii.Receive feedback
xlviii.Coordinate actions with other people's actions
xlix. Negotiate, persuade and influence people
l. Motivate others
li. Handle complaints
lii. Train or teach new skills
liii. Delegate work to others

31. What transferable skills have you
developed?....Contd.
liv. Oversee others' work
lv. Perform outreach
lvi. Counsel people
lvii. Build strong customer relationships
lviii.Collaborate with other people
lix. Mentor younger colleagues
lx. Resolve conflicts
lxi. Develop relationships with suppliers
lxii. Demonstrate comfort when dealing with all people
lxiii. Gain clients' or customers' confidence
lxiv.Negotiate contracts
lxv. Design forms, correspondence, and reports
lxvi.Manage records

32. What transferable skills have you
developed?....Contd.
lxvii.Take minutes at meetings
lxviii.Use word processing software
lxix.Use database management software
lxx. Use spreadsheet software
lxxi. Use desktop publishing software
lxxii.Use presentation software
lxxiii.Perform data entry
lxxiv.Keep track of accounts receivable, accounts payable, billing, etc. (bookkeeping)
lxxv.Screen telephone calls
lxxvi.Greet visitors
lxxvii.Analyze information and forecast results

33. What transferable skills have you
developed?....Contd.
lxxviii.Manage your time and meet deadlines
lxxix.Plan and implement events and activities
lxxx.Develop and implement new policies and procedures
lxxxi.Develop a budget
lxxxii.Coordinate and develop programs
lxxxiii.Document procedures and results
lxxxiv.Produce reports
lxxxv.Conduct research using the Internet and library resources
lxxxvi.Generate ideas
lxxxvii.Develop and carry out ideas
lxxxviii.Use computer software that is related to job

34. What transferable skills have you
developed?....Contd.
lxxxix.Use job-related equipment
xc. Install software on computers
xci. Use the Internet, including email and search engines
xcii.Use equipment such as printers, copiers and fax machines
xciii.Troubleshoot problems with hardware, software and other equipment
xciv.Install equipment
xcv.Troubleshoot problems with and repair equipment
xcvi.Maintain equipment
xcvii.Inspect equipment to identify problems

35. Where are the gaps in your skills and
knowledge?
 Team building ability is one of the strongest ability that is needed to be maintained
here because of the collaboration of the team.
 If the collaboration between team is not at the best level, the organization will not be
able to manage to win in the long run.
 As everything was managed by the automated system, I was required to be a part of it.
But because of the less collaboration, some of the data got vanished and specifically
that was about to pose so many problems for the organization.

36. Where are the gaps in your skills and
knowledge?...Contd.
 Another special issue that is needed to be managed here is research style.
 Research was the toughest issue that is needed to be given here.
 I was given with so many files but I forgot to do so many things that hindered me to make
the entire decision making.
 The decision made by me was also problematic here because of the usage of the system.

37. How will you overcome these gaps for
your future learning and career?
 For the solution of the team building issues, I can increase my collaboration with
different community.
 I can do different types of courses that will be helpful for the demonstration of
the entire system.
 Besides, I can get connected in different types of clubs who is working for the
betterment of the society.
 In case of social work, team building skills can be increased very enormously
resulting into the upsurge of the entire skill even if in the corporate sector.

38. How will you overcome these gaps for your
future learning and career?...Contd.
 I am also facing many problems in case of research.
 I was given with so many things and now they are demonstrated in different sectors.
 Practice can be the only way of solving the gap. The more I practice, the more I will be
able to suit in the research system.
 Besides, research is a very strong tool so I should increase my ability of reading.

39. Thank You