IMPORTANCE: Taking the time to think about your skills as a team is a type of reflective practice, an exercise where you really spend time reflecting on things/situations/or skills, in this case, so that you can improve, understand or be able to better express yourself and assess some common team findings; so how do you do this? Great question, one way is by taking inventory using a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is a tool that can be used both personally and professionally to help you and your team to assess and develop your skills:

SmartArt SWOT Example

Start with The Conference Board of Canada: Employability Skills website: https://www.conferenceboard.ca/edu/employability-skills.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

and take another look at the skills that are needed globally in the workforce and when working in teams. Then go to the right hand of the screen and scroll down to the "Related" section and click the Employability Skills Toolkit link.

Next, click the link to download a free preview of the Employability Skills Toolkit. Then read the following pages from theDeveloping your Employability Skills Toolkit PDF from The Conference Board of Canada, the pages are in the order that they are presented in the PDF, you'll need these pages to help you with your reflection:

Page 8 - provides an example of what a skill looks like and examples of how that skill can be demonstrated. Page 40 - provides an example of how to write about your skills and identify if you do not have that skill yet. Page 5 - provides an example of a reflective exercise.o Additionally - you can refer back to the MindTools Personal SWOT Analysis website if you need more help describing skills

Strengths are things that you are good at; think of them as skills that you have mastered S=Strengths

Weaknesses are things that you are not good at; think of them as things that you haven't learned or have trouble learning, essentially these are challenges for you

W=Weaknesses

Opportunities are things that you want to learn; think of them as skills that you wish you had or challenges that you never had the chance to develop

O=Opportunities

Threats are things that can cause issues; think of them as skills that cause problems for you or others T = Threats

HOSP 220- SWOT & Reflection Assignment: Your Team Task: In a Microsoft Office word document, use the headings provided for each page and complete the following:

Skills Inventory:

a) Using the skills from the employability skills website, identify 2 skills for each part of the SWOT (total of 8 skills)

b) Describe what each skill involves and provide an example of how you demonstrate or indicate that skill needs to be developed if you do not have an example - use page 8 & 40 of the PDF to help you with this part

Team SWOT:

c) Complete a SWOT for your team- use a SmartArt or a create a formatted table to complete this. In the SWOT place the skills that you identified in part a, in the appropriate area

Skills Reflection:

d) Reflection write about 3 challenges that your team have that can be turned into opportunities, use the reflection questions from page 5 of the PDF to develop your response.

Additional resources: Smart Art Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y86bhcinaJA Word Table Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNBrCEgzddw