Skills Audit- Personal assessment of skills and areas of required improvement:-

Managing Self

I've identified 'Managing Self' as one of the skills areas most in need of development or most important for me to develop further. This skills area includes the following skills: 

• Managing my time well
• Managing my pressure to avoid stress
• Delegating work to others
• Organising myself

Personal Development planning

I've identified 'Personal Development Planning' as one of the skills areas most in need of development or most important for me to develop further. This skills area includes the following skills:

• Identifying my personal goals
• Identifying my areas for personal development
• Identifying opportunities for developing myself
• Making a personal development plan

Communication Skills

I've identified 'Communication Skills' as one of the skills areas most in need of development or most important for me to develop further. This skills area includes the following skills:

• Actively listening
• Handling interpersonal conflict
• Delivering business presentations
• Communicating assertively

Managing others

I've identified 'Managing Others' as one of the skills areas most in need of development or most important for me to develop further. This skills area includes the following skills:

• Demonstrating effective leadership
• Managing the performance of others
• Disciplining others
• Building a team

Commercial Awareness 

I've identified 'Commercial Awareness' as one of the skills areas in need of development or most important for me to develop further. This skills area includes the following skills:

• Being commercially aware
• Understanding how the economy affects businesses 
• Describing how businesses achieve commercial success
• Understanding how a business is different to competitors

Digital technology

I've identified 'Digital technology' as one of the skills areas in need of development, as it is a key skill area required for this Media Print Brief. This skills area includes the following skills:

• Camera application and utilization
• How the Mise-en-scene is structure within each frame
• How to effectively utilize space within a frame

Post Production

I've identified 'Post Production' as one of the skills areas in need of development, as it is a key skill area required for this Media Print Brief. This skills area includes the following skills:

• Photo editing and adaptation 
• Product assembly of multiple images
• Rendering and designing within the photoshop program

Research and Planning

I've identified 'Research and Planning' as one of the skills areas I feel more confident in within this project. This skills area includes the following skills:

• Identification of key information or concepts
• Gathering of useful information, or ideas
• Application of acquired information and techniques
• Structured analysis of presented information

Using conventions of real Media Texts

I've identified 'Using conventions' as one of the skills areas I feel more confident in within this project. This skills area includes the following skills:

• Identifying the key conventions within other media texts
• Being able to apply these conventions to the current text
• Being able to spot multiple conventions working to create a product