Skill Development

ISMS Academy for Advance Learning takes pride in ensuring that our students are provided with Skill Development programs so as to provide the society with graduates who are equipped with appropriate technological knowledge and professional skills. Students are encouraged to explore methods to improve personal and professional skills to meet organisational and own goals and objectives, carry out a personal skills audit which identifies preferred learning style and to prepare and implement a personal development plan.

Skill development programs include and are not limited to.

Professional skills:
Counseling and mentoring to support students with their own learning and development requirements, coaching skills, multitasking, leadership skills, theories of leadership, management styles, leadership styles, continuing self-development to meet requirements for industry sector professional bodies, leading and chairing meetings, delivering effective presentations.

Personal skills:
What and why time management is required and how it is beneficent, analysing time spent over a period, monthly logs; setting objectives, prioritising work tasks, effective delegation of tasks and monitoring, procrastination, comfort zones, dealing with interruptions to planned work, planning aids, stress management (recognising stress, dealing with stress), problem solving.

Language Skills:
Emphasis on listening and writing skills in English language, study of Phonetics, effective communication, practice tests in PTE (Academic) and also BEC (University of Cambridge ESOL programs)

Skills audit:
personal profile using appropriate self-assessment tools, psychometric testing, personal SWOT analysis (listing Strengths, Weakness, identifying Opportunities for improvement or career progression, identifying Threats to such progress), assessment against relevant management competence standards, importance of feedback from others, defining the gap, identifying learning and development needs to meet organizational objectives, identifying own learning style

Personal development plan:
strategy for developing a plan, importance of having a plan — to provide a systematic or structured approach to decisions about what is needed to learn and how to plan to learn it; setting objectives for life and career planning, identifying resources and support needed and available to meet objectives, identifying obstacles to achieving objectives and how to overcome them, review and monitor plan — the importance of self-review, provide a reflective record of management experience; gaining support from others to achieve goals and work objectives