Business Environment | Reflection on professional degree

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Reflection on professional degree
Self-awareness is one of the essential aspects in order to learn and acknowledge
growth, which will be considered as part of discussion in this reflection. The key intention of
this discussion is decision making for the professional course that I intent to take as part of
my career development. Reflection is one of the ways to learn through experience, for which
there are various models propounded, like Driscoll reflective model. As per this model there
are three questions to carter that is What?, So what? And Now what?. These reflect the past
experience, the consequence and understanding, or learning from the experience and lastly
how the learning could be apply in future and what actions are going to be taken in near
future (Bailey, 2018).
As per my knowledge from past internship experience and current academic
experience, business is the trading of goods and services for exchange of money with the key
purpose to provide goods to the society and earn revenue. Business reflects any transactions
and various functions are integrated as part of business. These functions include the
management of various activities and resources as the economic principles reflect the
business resources to be used optimally due to limited resources available and gap between
demand and supply. The business is influenced by the external and internal environment,
which includes various forces. Like the internal forces include customers, suppliers,
distributors and market intermediaries which are directly associated with the business
strategic decision making. On the other hand, external suppliers include political, social,
technological, economic forces (Peters & Ryan, 2015).
The key reason for selection of this course is because of professional learning and
enhances managerial knowledge. My eventual goal for my career is to be part of top level
management, for which I need to gain knowledge and skills to manage human resources,

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financial resources, operational resources, and most importantly possess leadership skills. As
per the analysis, I understand that through professional degree I would get the exposure in
management field through practicing various workshops, classroom activities, live projects,
and assignments (Hall, Horgan, & Murphy, 2019).
From my past experience the area in management which I found most interesting is
marketing and business development. I personally believe that understanding consumers and
inducing them to purchase goods or services over other is a talent. Other than that, it can be
said that the actual trading can only be done through this field. Marketing includes activities
from researching the consumer needs and offering them with the products that will add value
to the consumers. This also includes promotion of brand and products (Carton, 2014).
My current academic profile and past experience in internship could help me and
guide me towards being a marketing manager and peruse for this course. From the current
study I am able to gain knowledge of environmental forces where consumer behaviour has
also been studied. Moreover, I have been in interaction with consumers directly as part of my
internship. Moreover, I have able to improve my time management through my current
experience which could also be helpful in being prepared for this course (Brooks & Normore,
2015).
It is relevant to know if the course will actually be able to meet my actual goals or
outcomes that I am looking for. I am looking towards enhancing my communication skills,
negotiation skills and leadership skills. I will ensure to get these skills through practicing
them throughout the course. This could be done by actively participating in class interactions,
and taking assignments as part of acquiring experience. Moreover, for managing and
monitoring the successful conclusion of the course considered. This will be done by
monitored on time span basis that is one the weekly basis. This will be done through