Learning Through Organisation: Professional, Personal and Academic Development Skills

This report covers the importance of skills in personal and professional life and discusses different types of skills required for personal, professional and academic development. It covers skills such as self-leadership, interview skills, referencing, communication, reflective writing and more.

Learning Through
Organisation

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Professional Development...........................................................................................................3
Personal Development.................................................................................................................4
Academic Development...............................................................................................................5
Learning Logs..............................................................................................................................7
Personal Development Plan.........................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Skills play an important and crucial role in an individual life from which they can be
able to develop and grow in the future. Skills are the ability which a person have from which
they can be able to deliver the effectiveness and can get the profitable results. These different
types of skills helps the person in their academics and professional life as well and supports
them to achieve their goals (Tursunovna, 2022). The report will illustrate the professional
development plan from which an individual should have required to adopt for the better
professional growth.
MAIN BODY
Professional Development
An individual person is required to adopt the different types of skills so that they can be
able to improve their own skills and abilities and can grow definitely. In my opinion, when I
identify that skills play an important role in my life as it will help me to increase my knowledge
and capability and can strengthen me at personal and professional life. During the module, I had
learned many types of skills which make me believe and ensure me to learn and adopt the
numerous skills which will be very beneficial for me at my professional development. Recently,
I am working as a security officer at the company named SECURTY SERVICES where for
achieving this position and role I met to different areas of development of my own from which
today I am able to get the opportunity to work as this position (Karnieli‐Miller and Neufeld‐
Kroszynski, 2020).
Being a security officer I met to many difficulties at first to achieve the position and job
role. For achieving this job role firstly I had assessed and identify the different occupational
choices and identify that which job role and position is suitable for me to apply. Researching
ability and skill is required to be adopted and enhanced by me so that I was able to recognize and
examine the suitable job role and position. Throughout the researching I find out many
occupational choices such as government contract security guards, in-house security, contract
security, patrol guards and such more where I had chosen to adopt and apply for corporate
security officer job role at the Security Services company. As, I was able to identify my suitable
job role I learn and adopt the CV writing skill and interview skill which is the next step for me to
cover up. Applying for a job, I am required to write a CV or resume of my own for the selection
in the interview process (Lawson, Gill, and et.al., 2019). For learning the CV writing skills it

includes the basic grammar, vocabulary and spellings which helps me to write an appropriate CV
for applying for a job. After the CV writing skill, now I required to learn the interview skill
which help me to get selected for my chosen job role. The interview skill includes the
preparation, confidence or motivation and most importantly listening skill which helped me to
achieve the opportunity to get my suitable job position.
I learned and adopted the coaching skill as it will be very beneficial and useful for me to
coach and guide the security guards under my position. For being a security officer I am required
to understand and adopt the guiding and coaching skills where I learned this skill for giving the
appropriate instructions to the guards (Kim, 2019). After the selection in the interview, I learned
the coaching skills which helps me to guide my colleagues. Negotiation skills are used to
maintain the positive interaction and minimize the aggressive behaviour of the people. Adopting
and learning this skill help me a lot to perform and conduct my job responsibilities effectively. I
learned so many skills which helped me a lot to improve myself at professional level and can
earn the profitability accordingly. Learning the skills helps and supports me to grow and develop
myself as a professional and made me to grow in my career.
Personal Development
Personal development plan is the activities where an individual person focus on their own
strength and development areas. There are different types of skills which I need and required to
be obtained and improved by myself which helps me to a lot in growing myself accurately. In my
personal growth and development I analysed that I am required to learn self-leadership skill
which helps me to develop myself appropriately. Self-leadership skill is an ability and act which
helps me to lead myself to achieve the set goals and targets and can deliver the effective result at
professional level as well (Jensen, Beaulieu, and et.al., 2018). By evaluating myself, I understand
that I am required increasing or improving my self-leadership skill or ability which helps me
conduct myself appropriately from which I can be able to grow in personal and professional life.
Adopting this self-leadership skill generates a feeling of willingness to achieve my set goals and
targets so that I can grow at my organizational level.
Adopting the self-leadership skill helps me to focus and be in discipline which is the most
important area to encourage me to become a security officer at the mentioned company. Along
with this, I am also required to improve my communication skill which is one of the important
factor as communication is first thing an individual person adopts to convey their speech and

sayings. I learned that there are mainly two types of communication skill which are verbal and
written. These both skills are useful and essential to be adopted by me as it helps me to convey
my speech and information to another person. Communication ability helps me at every area
either personal or professional where I can be able to give my opinions, concerns and
suggestions to the people or management at workplace (Dwyer, 2019). Learning and adopting
the communication skill by taking part in social public speaking helps me to enhance my
communication skill verbally and for written skill I used to do practise on regular basis and
utilized the dictionary which helps me to understand the meaning of different kinds of words.
By learning this ability it helps me to perform well at my job role of security officer
where I am able to communicate with the people in effective manner. Also, problem-solving skill
is also important for me to develop as it will help me to grow individually and can be able to
obtain fruitful result at organizational level. Problem-solving skill is defined as an individual
person can be able to solve their issues by understanding the problem effectively and can take the
action according to the situation. This skill can help me in effective manner at my job and
provides the solution definitely. For improving my problem-solving skill I had required to
enhance my researching and analysis skill which can help me a lot in understanding the issue
accurately and can take the actions (Hill, Overton, and et.al., 2019). By learning the problem
solving skill it helps and supports me to achieve my target of getting the job role of security
officer and can manage the situation easily.
At personal level, understanding the problem-solving skill can help me identify the
solutions of my own experience and situation where it also will be very beneficial for me in my
future career where at professional level from this skill I will be able to deliver the effective and
appropriate solution of the issue and obstacle. At last, I had understood and learned the
emotional intelligence skill which defines as an ability to manage own emotions and feelings
from which an individual can overcome their issues and challenges positively. Having the
emotional intelligence skill helps me to communicate and interact with the clients and people
more effectively from which an adequate manner of security check activity can occur. This skill
help me to grow definitely and can improve myself at professional level.
Academic Development
The academic development of person can be done when an individual person have
adopted academic skills. Academic skills is the ability to learn, research, report writing and

presentations in the academic level which increases the knowledge of a person and helps to
perform well. For growing in professional level, academic skill help me a lot in making my
career at successful level. Time management skill is very beneficial for me to adopt and improve
as it will help me to work effectively from where I also can manage my time for personal and
professional areas. Working at professional level, requires to have a brief understanding about
the time management skill which is important to be considered by me as it will help to complete
my project on time. Time management is very useful and effective skill each and individual
person should carry out and can obtain the beneficial results (Nisha and et.al., 2018).
The time management skill motivates and encourages me to handle the organizational
work and activity and can deliver the effectiveness. In academic, I improved my time
management skill by creating a definite plan and schedule of my working with a definite
deadline which helps me to manage my work and time accordingly. I prioritize my work which
helps me to complete on time and can submit my project before the deadlines. Also, I had
learned about the reflection skill which refers as an individual person can be able to express their
experience and can adopt the knowledge and can learn from the experience definitely. Writing a
reflection is one of the most important academic skill which can help me to express my feelings
and experience at effective level (Dillahunt, Lam, and et.al., 2018). For reflective my experience
I used the Gibbs model of reflection at my academic where I learned the reflective writing which
helps and supports me a lot in learning from my experience.
This reflective skill help me at professional level where I can be able to show and express
my experience in definite manner from which my colleagues and staff members can understand
the situation correctly and can learn from my experience in definite way which also helps to stay
aware of such things according to my experience. This reflective writing is quite difficult at first
but when I learned this skill I enjoy writing the reflective areas and reflective myself which also
helps other people and increase their learnings and knowledge. Along with this, I also learned
reference skill which helps me to avoid the copyright works and plagiarism by making it clear
that the written format has been written by me and not copied from any other sources.
Referencing skill ensures that the content and information I gather and collect is not copied and it
also expresses the academic structure.
At professional level, referencing skill is important to be utilized at organizational level
where it helps to interact and acknowledge the working of the people effectively (Newman,

Black, and et.al., 2021). Academic skills helps me a lot in making my career and job at
appropriate track from which I am able to obtain the fruitful results at professional level.
Learning and implementation of the academic skills helps me to conduct an academic structural
area from which I can create a good image and reputation in front of the entire organization and
can earn the maximum profit.
Learning Logs
Self-leadership: Self-leadership skill means how an individual person manage and lead
themselves which helps me to increase their self-leadership skill. It is important to be adopted by
the individual as it helps the person to manage their own areas which can help them to achieve
their set goals and targets definitely.
Interview Skill: These skills are important for the people to express their own ability and skill
during the interview time at the professional level. It has to be acquired as it helps the person to
stay motivated and allows them to become more comfortable during the interview process.
Referencing: Referencing simply means a source from where an individual person can be able
to connect with another subject. This skill helps an individual to avoid the plagiarism by making
it clear that the written material is not someone else copyright.
Personal Development Plan
Smart objectives Resource Time-frame
To develop CV
writing skill
For improving my CV writing skill
I am required to keep my focus on
grammar and have to join the
literature classes.
1 month
To enhance Emotional
Intelligence
For improving this skill I am
required to meditate which will
increase my focus and helps me to
improve my skill.
2 months
To increase
Communication
I will improve my communication
skill by taking part in public
speaking which helps me to
increase my communication skill.
2 months

To acquire Reflective
skill
Improvement in reflective skill, I
will read the journals which help
me to increase my reflective skill.
1 month
CONCLUSION
The report has concluded the importance of skill in personal and professional level as
well. The report has mentioned the different types of skills which helps and supports the
individual person to grow at definite position. It has performed one specific job role which
requires different types of skills to be adopted by self so that an individual can acquire the
benefits by getting the effective results from the skills. This included the three sections personal
development, professional development and academic development skill which contains
different types of skills which an individual can adopt and implement according to their situation
and can grow and develop.

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