Reflections - a structure to develop this skill.

When helping my partner with a job application I came across the use of the acronyms CARL and STAR to think about and reflect on skills.

I think this will be useful in my role as a team leader and practice support provider to help others and myself become more reflective of their skills and actions.

For each of your skills write a skills statement as follows:

Context: the context or situation in which you believe you demonstrated the skills

      a university or workplace group activity, for example)

Action: what you did to solve the problem, lead the group, advance the project

Response: how others involved reacted to your actions, recognised your contribution

Learning: what lessons you drew from all of this, and how you them would do things differently in future as a result

or

Situtation: set the context for the

Task: what you were required to do

Action/Approach: what you did to solve the problem

Result: how others involved reacted to your actions, recognised your contribution

Situation

What was the situation? This is a brief outline of the situation faced and your role.

Task

What were the main issues involve with the situation?

What needed to be done?

What task/s needed to be achieved and what was the desired outcome?

What obstacles had to be overcome?

Action

What were the steps you took to complete the task?

This will include allocation of resources, people involved etc.

Results

What was the outcome?

How did it change things at work?

What lessons did you learn from this event?