Self Development and Responsibility: Reflective Statement and Action Plan

This report discusses the importance of self development and responsibility in personal and professional growth. It includes a reflective statement on a group presentation, areas to be developed, and an action plan to enhance skills like team working, problem solving, time management, confidence, and presentation development.

Preparing for
Success: Self
Development
and
Responsibility

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Reflective Statement...............................................................................................................1
Areas to be developed............................................................................................................3
Action Plan.............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
For every person it is essential to conduct self development activities in order to perform
responsibility in effective manner. Self development is also consider as personal development
which include achievement of heightened self awareness, striking on ideal work life balance,
development of potential and improving marketable skills as well as knowledge. Through
personal or self development a person able to perform each and every activities effectively by
taking its responsibility (Anderson and Stillman, 2013). The respective report include reflection
statement of a person performing in group presentation in order to indicate their learning and
aspects need to improve. Along with this, it will also include areas need to develop further as
well as it will include action plan in order to improve lacked skills.
MAIN BODY
Reflective Statement
While I am conducting group presentation I go through several situation as well as I also
experienced various aspects through that I get know more about me. During presentation I able
to identify my skills which can be denotes as strengths as well as it also help in identifying my
skills which are weak and I need to enhance those skills for future. There are numbers of skills
that are required while delivering group presentations at school, college, workplace or any other
place. Such as verbal communication skills, delivery skills, leadership skills, selling/ persuasion,
humour, storytelling, written and visual communication, self awareness, emotional management,
adaptability, facilitating, listening, interpersonal relationship, network skills, stress management
skills and many more (Bowen, 2013). From all these skills, some are my strengths whereas few
are my weak point which I need to enhance but I also want to polish my those skills which are
my strength so that I can make effective as well as bright career or future. On the other hand
there are some skills which shows my weakness such as Team Working Skill, Problem Solving
Skill, Time Management Skill, Confident and Presentation Development Skill.
Moreover, while I am conducting presentation I learn various things like in a group
presentation I always need to conduct work in team and for that I have to effectively understand
each and every person as well as I also need to conduct effective communication with them. This
is so because through that me and my team members can deliver presentations in proper manner.
Along with this, I also learn that for delivering best presentation a person required numbers of
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skills and abilities. Furthermore, while conducting group presentation I go through several
situation from which some went well and some are not such as. Things which went are we all
communicate or interact with each other effectively as well as we also gather all the necessary
informations in proper manner which help us in develop proper presentation outline. In addition
to this, there are some situation which didn't went well like from group no have proper
knowledge of develop attractive presentation so at the time of developing it we go through
several issues. Moreover at the middle of developing presentation there is conflict arise because
every members belongs to different culture and departments due to which working style get
differ (Dembo, 2013). But while working in group we all share several good time as well as we
also learn from each other that is interesting thing for me because I able to improve my skills and
abilities as well as I also learn numbers of new culture, working style and so on.
While I am developing and delivering presentation I identify skills which are my
strengths such as communication, understanding, leadership, humour, storytelling, self
awareness, adaptability, listening, facilitating, interpersonal relationship, and many more. On the
other hand skills which are my weakness are presentation development, networking, time
management, confident, showmanship, gesture, problem solving and so on. Now I need to
improve my skills in which I am lacking behind because through that I can conduct my work in
effective as well as successful manner. By enhanced these skills I will able to increase all of my
weak skill and it will also help me in polishing my skills that are strength for me through this
procedure I can able to deliver group presentation in proper manner at school, college, workplace
or any other place. By getting new skills, knowledge and informations I able to conduct numbers
of things in effective manner such as I able to develop attractive as well as advance presentations
by my self. I also able to deliver my presentation in proper manner along with appropriate
gestures which attract as well as it will also help me in conducting my work in organized way so
that presentation will get accomplished timely. Furthermore, through new knowledge and skills I
able to understand my teammates according to which I can solve their problems in successful
manner.
While conducting all activities related to skills enhancement and learning new things,
there are some factors which I not able to understand as well as it also make me confuse because
I not able to understand how to reach or solve that issues. For example while conflict arise
among the team members due to diverse working style I not able to understand how to resolve
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this issues because everyone is right at that time as in team there are numbers of members and all
belongs from different area. So at that time I decide to develop a common guidelines or policies
according to which every team members need to work, through this all have a common style to
conduct work that directly help in delivering presentation in proper manner. Moreover, at last I
am very happy that I get such huge opportunity to enhance my skills, abilities and knowledge
that will help me in future.
Areas to be developed
There are numbers of skills (academic as well as professional) which I need to develop so
that I can conduct my work in effective manner. Skills which I need to enhance in order to
deliver best group presentation are Team Working Skill, Problem Solving Skill, Time
Management Skill, Confident and Presentation Development Skill. By improving these skills I
able to deliver group presentation at school, college, workplace or any other place in effective
manner as well as it will also support me in my future career plan. Such as by enhancing
presentation development skills I able to use Microsoft presentation software in effective manner
as well as by improved knowledge I will be capable in developing attractive presentation.
Moreover, by enhancing my team working skills I can conduct work by considering each and
every members of team as well as it will also help in avoiding situations that may arise conflict. I
also need to improve my confident because if I have low confident level then I will not able to
perform effectively in front of others as well as it also impact on my time management skill. This
is so because due to lack of confident I am not able to conduct perform work in proper time
which impact on time management skills of mine. Furthermore, I also need to develop my
gestures skills so that I can deliver proper presentation in front of others or senior as well as it
will also help me in avoiding shameful situation due to wrong or improper gesture in front of
others. I also need to enhance my problem solving skills because through it I able to understand
issues or problems of others which help me in developing strategies by which issues can be
resolve effectively. In addition to this, I am also taking in team working so I need to improve this
skill because through that I can perform effective in team or group at any place or for any project
or situation. Through improving this skill I also understand how to deal with other without
harming them or their emotions. Along with this, emotion management is another skill which I
need to improve according to this skill I need to be prepare for rejection too because in many
situation peoples learn numbers of things through rejections. Moreover there are also some other
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skills that are essential for delivering an effective group presentation at school, college,
workplace or any other place.
Action Plan
In this section of report I need to develop action plan which help me in my personality
and professional development for future. For this I can develop PDP (Personal development
plan), which is consider as a procedure through which an organisation or individual can attain
their desire goal by improving skills, abilities and knowledgable (Dyllick, 2015). Through
respective plan I able to analyse what I want to attain or where I want to go, in the long, medium
or short term in my career. Moreover it will also help me in assessing current realities by
evaluating my skills, knowledge or competences.
Personal Development Plan
S.
No.
Learning
target
Present
Proficiency
Target
Proficiency
Development
Opportunities
Criteria for
Judging
Attainment
Time
Scale
1 Presentation
Development
Skill
5 10 By developing this
skill I able to develop
more effective
presentation which
will include all the
informations in
systematic manner.
Along with this, by
enhancing respective
skill I also able to
develop presentation
based on advance
technology.
Respective skill
will judged by
my senior and
peers. This is so
because I will
deliver
presentation in
front of them so
they can
evaluate my
skills in more
effective way.
60
Days
2 Confident 8 10 By enhancing this
skill I will able to
enhance my
It will also be
judged by
senior who will
50
Days
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confident which help
me in delivering high
quality presentation
in front of my senior
or other members at
any place like school,
college or workplace.
Moreover, by
enhancing this skill I
also confidently
conduct my work as
well as present my
view points in front
of anyone.
take my
presentation as
well as it can be
also evaluated
by my team
members.
Along with this
it can also be
judge by me
because if their
will be any
progress I can
feel it within
my
performance.
3 Time
Management
Skill
7 10 By improving this
skill I able to conduct
my each and every
work in systematic
manner as well as at
proper time. In
addition to this it will
also help me in
improving my skills
related to organize
the work for
conducting it in
effective manner.
Moreover it will also
help me in delivering
my whole
This can be
determined or
judged by
supervisor,
colleagues and
my group
members.
40
Days
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presentation in given
time.
4 Problem
Solving Skill
6 10 By improving this
skill I can solve
problems of mine as
well as others in
effective as well as
effectual manner.
Through this I also
able to provide
advice to others in
proper manner so
that they can
overcome their issues
or problem
successfully.
My respective
skill can be
judged by
manager,
senior,
members who
come to me
with any issue.
60
Days
5 Team
Working
Skill
8 10 By enhancing this
skill I able to conduct
work in effective
manner at any kind
of team. This will
also help me in
interacting other in
proper way which
also help in
minimising conflict
situation at
workplace, college or
school.
This can be
judged my team
member. As
well as I can
also judge this
skills that after
enhancement
how effectively
I able to handle
others in team
or group.
30
Days
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Through this action plan or personal development plan I able to enhance my
knowledgable, skills and abilities which are required for attaining goal of delivering best group
presentation every time as well as everywhere.
CONCLUSION
By conducting evaluation of above discussed point it can be determine that a person need
to improve their skills as well as abilities on regular basis so that they can develop effective
future or career. For this process, it is essential for them to evaluate their skills, abilities and
capabilities because through that they can know their skills which shows strength as well as they
also able to know skills which are weak and they need to improve. After identifying weak skill
an individual need to develop action plan which include strategy, time required, future scope and
many other factors.
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