Reflective Essay

Word count: 1200 words

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Referring back to your Green Steps Enrolment and drawing on your experience of
your on-campus project:
a
b
c

How well do you feel you interacted with others in Estates and your group?
(Communication, Team working, Self-promotion, Networking, Influencing, being a
change agent)
a
b
c
d
e
f
g

How has this supported you in achieving your main reason/s for undertaking
Green Steps (developing an employability skills, learning about sustainability at
Warwick)?
What did you gain? Was this in-line with what you were looking to achieve?
What did you learn? Was this in-line with what you were looking to achieve?

What feedback did you seek on your performance and the information you
presented?
Did any areas for improvement emerge?
How well did you manage to communicate your ideas or information?
Did you influence any decisions?
Did you work with others? How do you feel this went?
Did you identify any signs of stress in yourself or colleagues? If not, what would
you be looking for in future? What support or resolution strategies could you use
to help resolve stress?
How did you organise information in a format suitable for interpretation by other
staff and for dissemination within Estates? What kinds of information/materials
did you collect and communicate to staff?

How well do you feel you organised yourself and your time during the Project?
(Action planning/Organisation, Initiative/Self-motivation, Time Management,
Adaptability/Flexibility, Project Management, report writing, research).
a
b
c

How did you agree and negotiate your work goals and objectives in line with the
project and organisational requirements?
How did you assess and prioritise your workload to ensure tasks were completed
within the time frame you had?
How did you self monitor your achievement of project tasks and adjust your
strategy as you went?

How well do you feel you dealt with any problems that
arose (Problem solving, Initiative, Flexibility/Adaptability,
Decision making)
a
b

What did you learn about yourself while working on a sustainability project in a
professional context? (Self-awareness, Willingness to learn, Commercial
Awareness)
a
b
c
d
e

Did you have problems with any part of the project what went wrong, how did
you deal with this?
Did anything unexpected happen what happened, how did you deal with this?

Did you possess the knowledge and skills necessary to complete your project? If
yes, please give an example. If no, how did you overcome this gap?
What personal learning needs and skills gaps did you identify in carrying your
project?
Which ones would you prioritise as important for your ongoing implementation of
sustainability projects?
How has your view of your own transferable skills changed and why?
What would you do differently in the future?

How has your Green Steps experience supported your current studies,
development of your employability skills, choice of further study and/or future
career?