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RNCM Skills Audit pro forma

This Skills Audit has been designed to help you to identify your strengths and areas for

development so that you can use the seminars, workshops and classes within ProfessionalSkills and Academic Studies to your best advantage.

Professional Skills introduces you to important professional attributes, opportunities andexpectations to support your development as a performer and composer throughperformance skills, research, writing and presentation, music business, instrumental & vocalteaching and the working musician.

How to complete this audit

Place a tick in the column that best describes your ability level and then in the final columndecide the priority for !" in the development of this skill.

SKILLS # amgoodat this

# needmorepractice

$ow important is this foryou to develop%' very important( ' )uite important*' least important

ORGANIZAION O! L"ARNING

# have strategies to help me to plan and manage my time

# am able to effectively prioritise my activities

# am able to work to deadlines

R"SARCH SKILLS

# am able to use a variety of different sources to findinformation+e.g. books, electronic resources

# am able to access and search electronic resources +on-linedatabases, electronic ournals /0-1!2s

# am able to use search gateways on the #nternet to findinformation +e.g. 3oogle Scholar

# am able to use and evaluate the information # find

R"A#ING AN# NO"MAKING

# can decide which parts of a book # need to read

# have a system for storing the information +e.g. book, author,date

# can make effective notes when reading

# can make effective notes when listening +e.g. during lectures

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$RIING % LIS"NING COM&R"H"NSION

# can analyse assignment )uestions to determine what is expected

# can recognise elements in musical performance and identify anddescribe these in writing

# can produce a written plan to answer an assignment )uestion

# confident to use punctuation, grammar and spelling correctly

# am confident # can express my ideas clearly in written form

# understand the need to reference my work to avoid plagiarism

'"R(AL &R"S"NAION

# am able to express my views verbally

# am confident speaking to an audience

# can prepare, plan and deliver a presentation

# can use visual aids to support a presentation

# communicate well as a member of a group or team

# am able to listen to and respond to the views of others

IN!ORMAION "CHNOLOG)

# am able to use word processing to produce my assignments

# can use a variety of different computer software +e.g. 4ord,PowerPoint

SR"SS MANAG"M"N

# know what causes stress

# am aware of my personal symptoms of stress

# can use strategies to help me cope with my stress

&"RSONAL #"'"LO&M"N &LANNING

# am able to identify my personal goals

# am a good udge of what my strengths and areas fordevelopment are

# am able to identify opportunities for learning outside my course,e.g. volunteering, societies, clubs

# am able to plan for my personal development

&lease keep this a*d use it to refer +ack to o,er this -ear. &lease *ote/ there is a*optio*al assi0*me*t usi*0 this Skills Audit as a +asis for -our ow* reflectio*s.5ate 6uchanan, 0irector of Professional Studies

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/heryll 0uncan, 7earning Support Tutor