Manage Personal Work Priorities/Professional Development

This document is about managing personal work priorities and professional development. It includes a project task template, career goals, current professional development needs, SWOT analysis, and an action plan for improving skills. The document also provides information on training preferences and the impact of training on managing personal and work priorities.

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Manage personal work priorities/professional development
PROJECT TASK TEMPLATE
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1. Career Goals – Complete the following questions for 2 long-term goals
that you wish to achieve. (Long-term goals usually take 4 years or more to
achieve)
LONG-TERM GOAL 1
To attain employment in the field of customer service management
a. What do I want to achieve?
I want to achieve to the good post in the large scale company.
b. Why do I want to achieve this goal?
I want to achieve this goal for attaining success
c. How will I achieve this goal? What is required to achieve this goal? (Outline your
SMART short to mid-term goals that will assist you in achieving this long-term goal)
In order to achieve this goal in rightful manner, I have personally developed SMART objectives
as the short term goals that would help accomplish it in the decided time frame. For achieving
this, it is highly important for me in achieving long term goals.
Short term goals
 To attend personality development classes for enhancing communication skills daily for
time of one month.
 To undertake training for improving time management skill for 2 months
d. When do I want to achieve this goal by?
I would initially achieve this goal in the coming year but it would be accomplished quickly in next
five years completely.
e. What obstacles can I expect?
I might face problem related to my lack areas in terms of skills as it is not always possible to
develop every skill with the development classes.
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f. What are the solutions to the obstacles?
The proposed solution to this problem is that I have to work hard on myself for grooming so that
I could achieve developed goals.
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LONG-TERM GOAL 2
To establish my own business in retail sector.
a. What do I want to achieve?
I want to establish my own business in retail sector
b. Why do I want to achieve this goal?
I want to achieve this because I have seen my father giving his whole in this sector as the
employee and I want to it establish this business for him.
c. How will I achieve this goal? What is required to achieve this goal? (Outline your
SMART short to mid-term goals that will assist you in achieving this long-term goal)
I will achieve this goal by working hard and taking appropriate guidance from my father towards
the same. I have to invest appropriate time for accomplishing this goal.
d. When do I want to achieve this goal by?
2025.
e. What obstacles can I expect?
I might feel obstacle related to finances/
f. What are the solutions to the obstacles?
In order to resolve this I could take bank loan and convince some investors to provide me
support with finances.
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b) Research current job advertisements and position descriptions to enhance your
answer and include a copy in your project.
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2. Assess your current professional development needs. Consider the skills list carefully below.
Tick where you have perceived a weakness or believe you would benefit from training /
improvement to achieve your career goals. (Hint; use your current job description as a guide). Ask
your supervisor or manager to identify your weak areas also and tick them. Seek feedback from
your supervisor or manager to supply reasons and or examples for their choices. Please list these
in your project. Do you agree with the feedback? If not, give reasons.
Skills List
Self
Assessment
Score out of
10
Supervisor
Assessment
. Score out
of 10
Agree/Disagree with
Feedback. Why?
EXAMPLE ONLY:
Communication / interpersonal 7 8
Agree. My communication
skills are quite strong, I need
to continue to improve my
English though.
Communication / interpersonal 8 7
Disagree as my tutors has
judged me at some wrong
time. But still I think
improvement is must for me.
Conflict management 6 8
Disagree, As I believe I am
not able to handle conflict and
tackle the situation. It is
important for me to develop
this for accomplishing
success.
Negotiation 4 3
Agree, I am not at all good in
negotiation which affects my
decision making process.
Problem – solving 6 8
Disagree, As I believe I am
not able to understand the
core reason behind conflict. It
is important for me to develop
this for accomplishing
success.
Decision – making 8 9
Agree, My strong decision
making skill supports my team
members a lot in
accomplishing our respective
company goal.
Technological 5 6
Agree as I do not belong to
technological background
which makes it difficult for me
handle advance technological
tools.
Analytical and research 8 9
Agree, as I have done lots of
research in my academic life
for scoring good marks. This
have also developed my
analytical skills as I am quickly
able to analyse things.
Written presentation / report writing 7 9 Agree, as I am able to express
the things in written form
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effectively.
Cultural awareness 7 6
Agree, as I do not have good
knowledge about different
cultures.
Leadership 9 9
Highly agree, My strong
leadership qualities supports
my team in winning things
quickly.
Creativity and innovation 7 6
Disagree, I am not having
good sense of creativity which
makes it difficult for me to
bring innovations.
Enthusing, influencing and empowering
others 7 8
Agree, I hold influencing
personality, which supports
me in influencing interest of
team members to accomplish
goals quickly.
Knowledge of relevant legislation 8 8
Agree, My good reading have
developed my legislation
knowledge associated with my
field. This ultimately helps me
out in accomplishing
organisational objectives with
any sort of legal obligations.
Assess your current professional development needs by completing a personal SWOT
Analysis.
Strengths
What advantages do you have?
What do you do really well?
What personal resources can you access?
What do others see as your strengths?
Weaknesses
What tasks do you usually avoid?
What do others see as your weaknesses?
What are your negative work habits?
Do you have unhelpful personality traits?
Communication / interpersonal
Decision – making
Analytical and research
Written presentation / report writing
Knowledge of relevant legislation
Negotiation
Technological ‘
Problem – solving
Conflict management
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Leadership
All these are strong skills of mine, which makes
it easier for me to work in corporate world and
accomplish goals quickly.
Opportunities
What new technology can help you?
Do you have a network of contacts?
What trends do you see emerging?
Is there a need that no one is filling?
Threats
What obstacles do you currently face?
Is anyone competing with you?
Is your job changing?
Does changing technology threaten you
Development of technological knowledge and
strong communication skill would definitely
help me to out while working as CRM
Introduction of new technology would definitely
make it difficult for me to perform my work
because lack of technological sound
background is not at all good for me to accept
new technological background.
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1. Draw up an action plan for improving those skills you have identified as being in need of improvement.
Skill Gap Learning
Activity/Course
Type of
Training
Assess
ment
Method
Time-
frame Cost Professional Development Benefits
EXAMPLE ONLY:
Technological – Need to
improve my knowledge in
desktop applications.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Advance Training Course
at
Odyssey Training Co.
Face to face
in classroom
course.
Test
1 day
(6 May
2015)
$300
A. acquisition of more skills in manipulating
data and objects
B. Creation of interactive presentation
Negotiation
Guidance from
superiors
On the job
training TEST 6
days - We will able to negotiate well in the
near future.
Technological
Proper training
sessions
Off the job
training TEST 30
days
$25
0
We will able to make use of several
advance technological tools in quicker
manner and execute the whole work
in less period of time
Problem – solving
Guidance from
superiors
On the job
training TEST 12
days -
After development of this skill I would
be able to handle problems in
appropriate form.

Questions:
a) Explain what sort of training would most suit your needs – internal / external, face-
to-face, distance, online, on the job, coaching etc. How will your learning
preferences impact on the training / learning program you undertake? (50 - 100
words).
I personally believe that on the job training suits me the most as it would make me learn things
while performing my work. Also, I could definitely practice things at the time of working only. My
learning preferences would definitely place impact over the learning program undertaken by me
as if would not be of my choice then it will not make learn things quickly.
b) How you would expect the training to impact on your ability to manage personal
and work priorities. (50 – 100 words)
Training definitely places impact on my ability of managing personal and work priorities as it
provides opportunity to me to develop myself and accomplish organisational my personal goals.
Also, it provides guidance to me to handle work according to its priorities. This definitely
supports me in accomplishing my personal as well as professional goals quickly.
c) What subscriptions and networking processes would assist your professional
development?For example – Facebook or going to seminars is a networking process
because it can help you meet new people and extend your network. (List at least 3
subscriptions).
Seminar, Workshops, Facebook

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