Student Name Fetcher Rosenthal

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):
Time management 7
Working with others 11
Speaking in front of people 3
Motivation and staying motivated 5
Effective use of session time 6
Getting started on work 2
Presentation skills 4
Use of IT skills 12
Writing skills 8
Memory 9
Evaluating own work 1
Reading skills 10

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.

Time management 7 – create a planner so that I can get things in on time.

Working with others 11 – try not to be so nervous and put myself out there
to talk to more people.
Speaking in front of people 3 – everything isn’t as daunting as it seems so I
need to work on my anxiety.
Motivation and staying motivated 5 – complete the work in chunks rather
than trying to complete the whole project in one go.
Effective use of session time 6 – stay focussed on the work rather than
listening to music.
Getting started on work 2 – try not to get intimidated by the size of the task
and have a go at anything.
Presentation skills 4 – don’t be afraid to present everyone else has to do it
also.

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

I work independently a lot when I do most of my work and this could come in
handy when doing esports as not everything is a group activity.
Other Transferable Skills (Dealing with things)

Use my hands Assemble/make things

Safety conscious Follow instructions
Drive vehicles Repair things
I am good at following instructions and this may come in handy in esports as I
need to follow my team and listen to what they have to say, following a strategy.
Dealing with Data

Analyse data or facts Working with spreadsheets

Locate answers or information Research

I have had to do a lot of research tasks throughout my academic life and am

quite good at it when I know the topic I am researching. This will come in handy
during esports as if I need to research a game or opposing team then I will know
how to do it.
Creative, Artistic

Artistic Perform, act Expressive

Draw, sketch Play instruments

I used to take flute and piano lessons in secondary school and excelled at the
piano. During esports I could use this skill to make soundtracks for games.
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

When working with people I am very sensitive and listen to whatever they have to
say. I could use this during esports to absorb information if I wanted to be an
agent and fight for a teams’ best interests.
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

In everything you do you have to explain things to others so having to do it in

esports will apply to everything.

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.

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 – 6/10 – Being on time is very important to make sure you

don’t miss anything important.

2 Motivation – 5/10 Being motivated is very important because it allows me

to output better quality of work.

3 Review your work (at end of session or assignment) – 6/10 – This is very
important as it helps highlight things I could do improve.

4 Plan ahead – 4/10 – Planning ahead helps a lot as it gives you a clear path
to work on.

5 Be organised – 6/10 – Being organised allows you to work at your best.

6 Create good workday habits – 5/10 – Having good workday habits can
help you get into routines which can help you later down the line in life.

7 Keep promises to colleagues – 9/10 – Keeping promises to colleagues

can help you build a good reputation.

8 Prioritise work – 7/10 – Prioritising can help you work at at your best for
the best possible results.

9 If unsure, ask – 6/10 – There’s nothing wrong when needing help.

10 Maintain concentration and focus – 7/10 – Maintaining focus can really
help when you’re working on everything.

11 Watch your language – 10/10 – This helps with politeness and can help
build good relationships with people around you.

12 Give positive feedback to others – 7/10 – This helps motivate others to

help produce and improve their work.

13 Share the credit – 9/10 – Sharing the credit helps others feel involved
and that they did their parts.

14 Be a team member – 6/10 – Being a team member means that you are
able to commit yourself to your team and work.

15 Avoid complaining – 8/10 – May bring the team down however

complaining can also be healthy for the team if it’s considered venting, this
can bring the team up from dark times and help resolve problems.

16 Find a mentor/become a mentor – 4/10 – This can help other people and
yourself as it develops peoples skills.

17 Effective time management – 5/10 – having effective time management

can only improve your skills.

18 Taking a short break – 7/10 – Taking regular short breaks is essential as

they can be the difference between keeping and losing motivation..

19 Recognising errors or mistakes – 7/10 – Recognising errors can help

make your work the best it can be but making mistakes is also the best way
to learn in some cases.

20 Seeing opportunities – 7/10 – Seeing and acting upon opportunities is

the best way to make plans for your future.
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.