When developing personal effectiveness you will be expected to:

• identify current personal and/or team working skills relevant to your project or challenge
• identify any additional personal and/or team working skills likely to be needed
• plan for developing and improving skills

Skills audit

A skills audit can be used to assess the level of expertise across a range of skills. It is important to analyse a skills audit once it has been completed. This is because a skills audit identifies which skills need to be developed.

You should think about what skills are needed to undertake your community activity, which will be one of the following:

• a social/welfare opportunity
• a neighbourhood enhancement opportunity
• a coaching opportunity

A skills audit should note the following points:

• type of skill (ie people skills or personal skills)
• skills required
• a skill you currently don’t have
• a skill you have used in the past, but you’re not an expert in using
• a skill that you use regularly and feel confident using