EMPLOYABILITY AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Task 1...............................................................................................................................................31.1 Own current skills and competencies against organizational objectives...............................31.2 Evaluation of own development need....................................................................................41.3 Personal and professional development plan.........................................................................41.4 Reflection on own developments...........................................................................................5Task 2...............................................................................................................................................62.1 Communicating in variety of styles.......................................................................................62.2 Time-management strategies.................................................................................................7Task 3...............................................................................................................................................83.1 Team roles..............................................................................................................................83.2 Alternative ways to complete task achieve team goals........................................................10Task 4.............................................................................................................................................114.1 Tools and methods for reconciliation..................................................................................114.2 Strategy for resolving problem............................................................................................124.3 Evaluation of the potential impact of strategies...................................................................13Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14References......................................................................................................................................152
Illustration IndexIllustration 1: Belbin’s Team Roles...............................................................................................10Illustration 2: Critical path ............................................................................................................17Illustration 3: Ishikawa Fishbone model .......................................................................................19Illustration 4: Gantt chart ..............................................................................................................203
INTRODUCTIONEmployability skills and personality development is a prerequisite in a current scenariofor getting and performing the job. These non technical skills are highly required these days toperform the technical work in an effective manner. The reason for crucial requirement is thatcompanies have become global and competitive and to survive in this competitive world,requirement of these skills are must (Andrews and Russell, 2012). This report is focused on theemployability and professional development of an IT manager at Golden Fleece RecruitmentCompany. This organization is a recruitment agency. This report has been generated with an aimof providing an opportunity to assess and develop the understanding of own responsibilities andperformance at the workplace. Further, it is also being discussed about the requirement of interpersonal and transferableskills and dynamics of working with others in a team which require leadership andcommunication skills (Pool, and Sewell, 2007). Furthermore, the discussion has been made onthe ability of identifying and developing problem solving strategy. TASK 11.1 Own current skills and competencies against organizational objectivesOrganizational objective of Golden Fleece Recruitment Company is to replace the SmallBusiness Server 2003 with cutting-edge computer system so that it can fit well with their rapidexpansion (Bailly and Léné, 2013). For this purpose, company has recruited me as an ITmanager to manage the changes which is to be made in the organization. This has to be donewithin a given time and budget. To manage such changes, I should firstly assess my own currentskills and competencies in accordance with company's objectives. Some of the skills of minebeing an IT manager are as follows:Good Change Agent: Company is planning to bring new technology in organization. So,for this purpose, changes have to be made. I have a quality of a change agent so that I caneasily provide counseling session to employees of a firm and would develop them toadopt the change. I am a qualified post graduate in IT management and thus, I possess thequality of change management because practical aspect had been taught during thelecture hours which developed this competencies in me.4
Conflict Management: While implementing change in an organization, many conflictsmay arise. For that purpose, effective management should be done in order to minimizethe level of conflict. I have been qualified from a government institute and there manyconflict used to get arise for the fulfillment of demand of student unions. Moreover, I wasin a conflict management team of my college due to which this quality of conflictmanagement got evolved in me. Therefore, this will aid in identifying and preventing theconflict (Cassidy-Rice, 2014).Team Player: While implementing change in an organization, teams will be made andbeing a manager, I possess the quality of good team player. I can effectively work alongwith the others in a team.The quality have been developed in me because during anMBA course, I used to work in team for the completion of projects. 1.2 Evaluation of own development needsAccording to the organizational objectives and standards, there is a need of more skillsinside me in order to cope up with the objectives and goals of an organization (Joanna, 2014).There are some of the development needs which are required by me:Time-management Skills: For implementing change in Golden Fleece RecruitmentCompany, time management skills should be perfect in an IT manager. I lack in suchskills and need to develop this skill so that change can be implemented in an efficientmanner.Delegating Skill: To bring out the change effectually or within a given time limit thenmanager should delegate the responsibilities and authorities to their subordinates(Jackling and Natoli, 2015). But I do not possess this quality and prefer to do multi-tasking. But these create chaos and work does not get completed on time. Thus, I shoulddevelop this quality.Self-Motivation Skill: To meet the organizational objective in an effective and efficientmanner, it will take a long process. For this purpose, self motivation should be required. Ihave to develop this skill so that while implementing change, I can motivate myself andother employees also.5
1.3 Personal and professional development planTable 1: Personal and Professional Development PlanDevelopmentNeedActionsSuccessCriteriaApplicationTime-lineTime-managementSkillTraining orcounselingsession ontime-managementskills.Voluntarytime-managementby delegatingworkloads.Able tocomplete thetask in a giventime line(Parente,Stephan andBrown, 2012).At workplace,whileimplementing thechange and it canalso be applied atpersonal work.3-4 weeksDelegatingSkillsFirstly learndelegatingless importantwork and thenbiggerresponsibility.Taking properreview afterdelegation ofwork.Manager will beable to relievethemselves fromthe work whichare lessimportant andcan focus onmajor workswhich will berequired inimplementingthe change.At the time ofimplementingchanges intechnology.2-4 weeksSelf-motivationSkillsLearning self-motivatingAble to adoptthe soft skills toTo motivatethemselves and4-6 weeks6
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