Student Name

Professional Development: Task 2 – Working

Practices and Skills (U3: LO 3.2, AC 2.1 & 2.2))
You are required to carry out the following three tasks to complete this
assignment. I’ll be looking for these headings on your page:

Skills Audit Analysis: This section is designed to get you thinking about your own
strengths as well as identifying things you’d like to be better at.

Transferable Skills Analysis: We’re then going to look at skills you feel can be
applied to the course and your career as an Esports professional, which you may have
learned in other aspects of your life.

Identifying and applying effective working practices: Finally, we’ll look at some
established effective working practices which you’ll discuss the importance of. You’ll
then grade yourself out of ten for each one.

You can copy and paste the relevant tasks of this worksheet on to your
Weebly page in order to complete for submission

• Use this worksheet to help you construct your response to this section of
the assignment brief.
• You will be given certain assignment tasks to be completed in class
• You may also undertake ‘extended learning’ outside of the class time
when required
• You will use your Weebly page for your response. No hard copy is
required, but you are advised to keep any work safe by uploading it
digitally.
• You must reference ALL sources that you use in researching this
assignment, and this must be made clear in your response.
• Remember, plagiarism will result in your work being failed and possible
disciplinary action taken.

The first task we’re going to look at is a skills audit…

Task 1 – SKILLS AUDIT ANALYSIS (Do this task on your Weebly page)

Part 1: Look at the twelve skills and place them in order of difficulty, with the most
difficult first (you can do this by cutting and pasting them in order):
Speaking in front of people
Reading skills
Memory
Time management
Working with others
Motivation and staying motivated
Presentation skills
Evaluating own work
Getting started on work
Effective use of session time
Writing skills
Use of IT skills

Part 2: Now use the ‘traffic light’ system to highlight which you feel is the most or
least difficult for you (you can do this by changing the text colour)
Red – major priority which needs working on a lot
Amber (or yellow) – difficult, but manageable
Green – confident

Part 3: Write a few lines of what you can do to turn each of the red and amber
priorities into green.

Speaking in front of people: Just think that if you mess up nothings going to happen.
Normally people forget about it a few minutes after it happening.
Reading Skills: Try reading more to improve speed and improve confidence with it when
reading out loud.

Memory: To improve my memory skills I could focus on what I need to remember more.

Task 2 - TRANSFERABLE SKILLS CHECKLIST (Do this task on your Weebly

page)

This is the second task. It’s about skills which you can use on the course which
you may have used in other situations…

Highlight as many of these transferable skills which definitely apply to you…

Key Transferable Skills

Meet deadlines Work independently

Ability to plan Accept responsibility
Instruct others Desire to learn/improve
Good time management Solve problems
Talk in public Team player
Written communications Computer/IT skills

Other Transferable Skills (Dealing with things)

Use my hands Assemble/make things

Safety conscious Follow instructions
Drive vehicles Repair things

Dealing with Data

Analyse data or facts Working with spreadsheets

Locate answers or information Research

Creative, Artistic
Artistic Perform, act Expressive
Draw, sketch Play instruments

Working with People

Patient Care for others Persuasive

Pleasant Sensitive Outgoing
Supportive Help others Tactful
High energy Diplomatic Adaptable
Open minded Take orders Speak in public
Listen Trustful Negotiate

Using Words, Ideas

Articulate Innovative Communicate verbally

Logical Remember information Remember names
Research Create new ideas Design
Speak in public Presentations Edit information
Write clearly

Leadership

Arrange an event Motivate people Decisive

Plan Delegate Empower others
Explain things to others Self-motivated Get results
Think of others Team builder Solve problems
Take risks
Next, choose ONE transferable skill from each coloured section which you might
identify as being your strongest (you might highlight four skills for Leadership,
but which is your strongest?).

Write a little next to each of these Identifying how you have used each of these
chosen skills AND how this skill might be useful on the Level 3 Esports course.

Computer Skills – With having good computer skills it helps massively because
the esports course using a lot of computers. It just makes it easier to get work
done.

Following Instructions – By following instructions I can complete the tasks I get

set in the course with help from the lecturer.

Researching – In the course it is most definitely that researching about esports

will be involved in the course. Therefore, being able to research information on
the internet it will make it be easier.

Artistic – By being artistic your work and ow you present presentations will be a
lot better. And it will score you higher grades if its clear.

Care for others – Caring for others will make better friendships between other
colleagues or classmates.

Presentations – Becoming good at presentations you will get higher grades

because the esports course has presentations for topics.

Motivating People – Motivating people can make them succeed with you and it
will increase their performance of working.

Task 3 – IDENTIFYING AND APPLYING EFFECTIVE WORKING PRACTICES

(Do this task on your Weebly page)

OK, for this one I’d like you to give a brief description of how you can apply
each of the following twenty effective working practices to the Level 3 Esports
course and why these are considered important. Also grade yourself out 10
for each one

1 Punctuality

Punctuality is important in the course because by wearing the correct

things and being ready to work helps the lesson move swiftly and to keep
on top of your work
2 Motivation

Keeping motivated in the course will allow yout to keep on top of work and
to compete the work better (more effort)

3 Review your work (at end of session or assignment)

By reviewing your work, you can see what you need to improve on in your
work and find out where you made mistakes and how you went wrong.

4 Plan ahead

By planning ahead of the lesson or coursework, you can be more ready for
what hard works comes at you. Planning your work also helps you build up
the final piece and to not make any mistakes.

5 Be organised

By being organised you can keep on top of the work an a schedule for
when doing homework or in college work.

6 Create good workday habits

By creating good workday habits you can et through your work or day
more easier and faster.

7 Keep promises to colleagues

By keeping promises to colleagues, you can gain their trust and become
good friends with them, then they can help you with any work and you can
help them with work.

8 Prioritise work

By prioritising work before doing free time activities, you can get
everything done at good quality rather than completing your work last-
minute rushing it.

9 If unsure, ask
When you’re unsure on work or what to do, if you ask you can proceed
through the work quicker rather than doing the work slower but unsurely
and could be wrong.

10 Maintain concentration and focus

By maintain concentration and focus you can get work done faster and at
higher quality. Don’t get distracted by things or other people.

11 Watch your language

Don’t swear much

12 Give positive feedback to others

By giving positive feedback to others helps them with their work and to
gain more friends to help you with your work.

13 Share the credit

Sharing credit is always good so that the other people that helped can get
acknowledged as well.

14 Be a team member

By being a good team member, your team can work better and produce
higher quality.

15 Avoid complaining

By avoiding complaining you will get more work done.

16 Find a mentor/become a mentor

Finding a mentor can help you by gaining more knowledge of the topic and
help you proceed further.

17 Effective time management

By managing your time more effectively you can get more work done rather
than not doing anything and messing around.

18 Taking a short break

By taking a short break it can help cause less stress or help you not
overwork yourself. When you overwork yourself a lot, your work will be at a
lower standard.

19 Recognising errors or mistakes

By recognising errors and mistakes you can work on what not to go wrong
the next time you do a task.

20 Seeing opportunities

Seeing opportunities can help you further in your tasks and evolve your
knowledge.

Worksheets can be completed digitally or by hand.

If completed by hand these must be scanned in or photographed to a decent standard.

This document must be completed on your Weebly site in the page allocated for
Professional Development. The headings can be reproduced within the page or the
document can be embedded using a Scribd window.