Manage personal work and Professional development | Study

Manage personal work
priorities and professional
development
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
ASSESSMENT 1.............................................................................................................................3
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ASSESSMENT 2...........................................................................................................................11
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ASSESSMENT 3...........................................................................................................................16
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CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19
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INTRODUCTION
Professional development is defined as process to learn as well as maintain professional
credentials like attending conferences, informal learning, formal coursework and others (Akiba
and Wilkinson, 2016). This has referred as collaborative and intensive, incorporating evaluation
phase. It is very important for individual to manage personal work at priority basis so that they
can attain goal and objectives. This is very essential for individual to manage priority work and
develop their professional and personal growth and success in an effective manner. It helps in
describing both knowledge and skills that is required to create process and system in order to
organise task and information at priority level. The organisation selected for given assignment is
Big W which was established in 1964 at Australia. It is chain of discount stores that operates 182
shops which deals in clothing, books, furniture, snack food, electrical appliances and so on. The
given assignment is divided into three parts where first is written report and other two are
practical part. The main aim of report is to establish personal work goals, setting own work
priorities and developing as well as maintaining professional competence. It also covers personal
development plan, training analysis, work life balance.
ASSESSMENT 1
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Role model is defined as those who inspires and encourage team to perform in better manner
so that goal and objectives are attained in an effective and efficient manner (Choy and Chua,
2019). The eight ways in which person can act as a positive role model to work in team are
described below:
 Presenting Positive Attitude- Individual should possess positive attitude in order to
work in team so that each and every members are motivated for better performance
(Leadership: 7 Ways to Become a Role Model Manager, 2020).
 Earning and Building Trust- When individual are able to earn as well as build trust
then they can act as positive role model in team work. It is very important to build trust
among all member of team so that they achieve goal and objective of business.
 Exhibiting Integrity- Good manager of respective organisation will focus on making
decisions for betterment of business which leads team to perform in positive way.
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 Leading and Inspiring- It is responsibility of authority to lead and inspire people to act
as role model for team work.
 Making Time for Employees- Manager has to make time for each and every employee
so that they work effectively in order to achieve goal and objectives (Coventry, Maslin‐
Prothero and Smith, 2015)
 Learning about Employees- If manager knows about their employees then they assign
them work accordingly and act as role model for them to attain desired goal and
objectives.
 Offering Support and Encouragement- It is the important way to act as role model
because employee prefers support as well as encouragement so that they perform in better
manner.
 Open Communication- It is another way to know about employees and their problem so
that matter can be solved properly and act as role model to work team.
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It is very important for organisation to ensure about work goals, plans and activities which
should reflect own responsibilities and accountabilities (De Harlez and Malagueno, 2016). This
is possible by making different strategies which are as follows:
 Making Visions and Mission- It is important for organisation to make proper mission
and vision statement and work accordingly so that goal and objectives can be achieved.
 Allocation of Roles and Responsibility- This is the strategies which assist business to
ensure work goals, plans and activities. With the allocation of roles and responsibility
among employees help them to carry out proper work in effective manner.
 Taking Regular Feedback- In this strategy, organisation has to take feedback on regular
basis from their employees so that they can know about weak point and improve it in
effective manner.
 Motivating Employees- It is important strategies because all employees working in
organisation should be motivated for better performance. This helps in achievement of
proper goals, plans and activities of business in effective manner.
 Assisting Workforce- When employees are working in organisation then they should be
helped by their superior for better outcomes. Such strategy also assist in ensuring own
goals, plans and activities of business (DiPaola and Wagner, 2018).
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 Providing Training and Development- In this strategy, employees should be provided
with training and development programs on regular basis so that they can enhance their
skills and knowledge for good performance.
 Open Communication- All employees should be provided with opportunity to put their
thoughts, points and views so that they can get solution for their problems. For this, open
communication strategy should be followed.
 Optimum Utilisation of Resources- The employees has to achieve goal and plans of
business by optimum utilisation of resources so that productivity is maximum and profits
are high.
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In order to work in organisation, individual requires professional development needs for
attainment of goal and objectives in an effective and efficient manner. They can assess own
current personal knowledge as well as skills for determining professional development needs
with help of following methods which are described below:
 Putting in Real Situation- This method helps individual to know about their own current
personal knowledge and skills for determining professional development needs. If
individual are put in real situation then how they overcome from it with help of their
knowledge and skills assist to attain goal and objectives of business.
 Asking to Prepare Self Assessment- It is also another method to be used by individual
to assess own current personal knowledge and skills for professional development needs
(Donelan, 2016). With this method, individual has to prepare for self assessment to know
about their skills, knowledge, attitudes, strengths and weaknesses. It also helps in
determining professional development needs of individual and improving it accordingly
for positive outcomes.
 Getting Feedback from Team- For development of team as well as self, it is essential to
take feedback from team on regular basis so that improvement can be done in most
effective and efficient manner for better outcomes. This method is used to assess own
current personal skills and knowledge to gain effective results at workplace. For example,
if team provide feedback on frequent basis then they can know attain better results.
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Maintaining healthy work life balance is defined as ways through which individual
maintain their personal and professional life without disturbing one another. It is very important
for person to maintain healthy work life balance by following ways:
 Prioritising Time- It is the way where individual has to set prioritises time for each and
every activities and work in an effective and efficient manner (20 tips for maintaining a
healthy work-life balance, 2020). They have to prioritise task into four parts such as
urgent as well as important, important but not urgent, urgent but not important and lastly
is neither urgent nor important.
 Set Work Hours- It is also another way to maintain healthy work life balance. In this
they have to set time for office work as possible they need to complete their work at
workplace only. It is important to set time for each and every activity to achieve positive
results.
 Have Holiday- This is the most important way which helps in maintaining healthy work
life balance where individual has to take holiday from their regular schedule so that they
can give time to their family, parent and children (Elliott and et. al., 2015)
Stress is managed by people through following ways:
 Keeping positive attitude
 Accepting those events which are not controlled.
 Respecting own feeling, thoughts, opinions and many more.
 Eating healthy, balancing diets.
 Making time for interests, hobbies and relaxation.
 Seeking out social support along with spending time with family, friends.
 Seeking treatment with psychologist as well as mental health professional who are
trained in stress management or feedback in order to learn to live healthy and stress
free life.
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Prioritising project work is very challenging for member of team in industries and
business. The shifting of priorities are natural part of working life. Different practices are used to
prioritise as well as facilitate competing demands on team. Some of them are described below:
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