Managing Self and Others

This document discusses the importance of managing self and others in career development. It covers topics such as SWOT analysis, strategies for skills development, lifelong learning, and performance management. The document provides insights into the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in career development and offers strategies to enhance skills and knowledge. It also emphasizes the significance of performance management in measuring and improving performance.

MANAGING SELF AND OTHERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................3
Question 1........................................................................................................................................3
SWOT Analysis...........................................................................................................................3
B. Report that can assess importance and ways by which strategies of skills development and
lifelong learning can make able in career development..............................................................6
Question-2....................................................................................................................................9
A. Blog on performance management...................................................................................9
b). Discuss about evaluates how HigCh performance strategies enable them to reflect on the
work effectively as part of team................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Self-management is based on the ability or capability to manage or control time, priorities. It
help to recognise specific goal and objective, decide what must be done, accountable to complete
all kind of essential actions. This report will discuss about the strategic planning which may
support for individual person to recognise the current performance within organization.
Basically, this report will describe about the different strategies that will be used by team
members in order to achieve the desirable goal or objective. it will discuss about the skill,
knowledge development opportunities for evaluating both strength or weakness. This report will
describe about the SWOT analysis as tool or platform that will support for analysing internal
aspects. Afterwards, it will be produced the effective personal development plan to find out the
all essential skills which help for improving own ability. Moreover, this documentation will
describe the importance of development strategies and lifelong learning plan which will inspire
or motivate team members towards career development. However, it will identify the different
kind of higher performance strategies in the organizational goal achievements.
Question 1
SWOT Analysis
Strengths
 Written communication skills- Written communication skill is one of the strength
which enables to write effectively
 Time management skills- This skill enables to effectively allocate time for different
activities and also ensure timely achievement of objectives (Teoli and An, 2019)
 Stress management skills- Stress management skills is one that is helpful in managing
stress and anxiety and also ensure that stress does not affect quality of work

Weaknesses
 Oral communication skills- This is a skill that is related to ability of one to
communicate effectively. This is one of the weaknesses as I find it difficult to express my
thoughts.
 Research skills- This is a skill that enables individual to search for, locate, extract,
organise and evaluate and present information related to a topic.
 Analytical skills- This is ability to analyse data as it has become important in profession
of management and this is why I consider it as one of my weaknesses to not have
adequate efficiency in analytical skills.
 Technological knowledge- This is another important skill that is required and helpful in
growing in present professional times. I have limited knowledge of technology and this is
why it becomes my weakness.
Opportunities
 Management related professions- Skills and abilities that are my strengths on the basis
of which I believe that management profession can be an opportunity for me.
 Masters in management- This is also an opportunity through which one can grow and
develop in their desired career field (Křupka, Kantorová and Haile, 2018).
Threats
 Increasing competition- This is a significant threat for individuals in which individuals
have to work hard in order to achieve their desired professional objective.
 Requirement of technical knowledge- This is also a threat for me as technological
knowledge has become very important for professional success because of my limited
technological knowledge this is a threat.
For achieving the more success, it would be required to identify current strength and
weakness. Therefore, it will be supporting to focus on the particular skills and try to improve
themselves. Usually, I have been focused on the different kind of technique or method which

always influence or motivate to examine the specific needs. That’s why, I have tried to adopt the
best method to improve own skills (Caldera, Deshaand Dawes, 2019). Sometimes, an effective
plan was made by me to eliminate or convert into greatest strength. I have always tried to
motivate with innovative idea which help for me to develop the inspiration to gain more idea and
then trying to implement within organization growth or development.
Each and every planning should depend on the current situation or condition of
organization because it has been continuously changing the perception of individual people
towards growth and development (Alatailat, Elrehailand Emeagwali, 2019). That’s why, I have
being change own ability on the basis of needs. Nowadays, it is mainly focused on the
communication skills which participate as major role to engage with one or more people. I have
focused on developing suitable PDP plan to find out all essential skills and then use different
technique. Afterwards, it will improve in step by step manner.
B. Report that can assess importance and ways by which strategies of skills development and
lifelong learning can make able in career development
For career development there is requirement in individual of having effective skills and
knowledge. Without having skills and knowledge, people cannot develop career. Rather career
development, skills and lifelong learning can help people in taking advantages of several external
opportunities and growing professionally. Skills and knowledge plays a vital role in both
personal and professional life and it can only be possible when people make use of effective
strategies (Forret, 2018). So, it can be said that career development strategies play a vital role in
increasing skills and also providing several advantages to people in the future and in their
professional life. There are some common and effective strategies that can help individuals in
increasing skills and knowledge for developing career, taking advantages of employment and
others.
Strategies for increasing skills for career development
There are several strategies such as proper training relevant to professional, practical practice,
jobs and others can help people in increasing skills and knowledge among people for their career
development. It is important for people to become aware from all these strategies because it can
change their life as it does not only help them out in career development but also can help them
out in living stressed free life, improving performance. Improved performance can boost

confidence of people and it is one of the main key of success and living a qualitative life. It also
provides clarity of their goals that they want to achieve along with right direction with that help
they can accomplish goals in an effective manner (Huda, 2019). These strategies can help them
out in reducing errors and boosting confidence. With boosted confidence they can get
employment opportunities that they want to get. It also increases self motivation among them as
self motivation can help individuals in career development and become successful in the future.
There are several strategies that can help individuals in increasing career development by
increasing skills and knowledge. SWOT analysis and personal development plan are known as
effective and better strategies of career development.
Importance of career development strategies
In addition, in regards to importance of strategies for increasing skills for career development it
can be said that it can make people flexible or able to adapt changes. In this competitive and
digital era it is important for individuals to adapt changes for being in the competition without
getting affected in a negative manner. Strategies of career development like training, experience
that people can get from job and practical practice, they can make themselves able to change
their behaviours, become polite, become proactive rather reactive (Al-sharafi, Hassan and Alam,
2018). These changes they can get only from training as it develops their mind. These changes in
behaviours also makes individual able to think positively, remaining calm in difficult situation
and rather reacting, thinking about strategies that can help them out in come out from these
situations. Companies can also make use of all threes strategies like training, group tasks and
others. These can increase knowledge of their employees that can increase overall performance
and can make them able to stay with the company for the long run. It is beneficial for both
employees and employers (Oertle and O’Leary, 2017). There are several other strategies that
people and companies may use for increasing skills for career development of their employees.
All these strategies are being discussed in detailed manner:
Effectiveness of strategies in career development by increasing skills among individuals
includes:
SWOT analysis: It is one of the effective strategy that can be used by individuals for knowing
their own strengths as well as weaknesses. With self analysing and on the basis of previous job

experience, people can know their own strengths and weaknesses. It can helo them out in
knowing that as per the required employment opportunities which they posses and what
strategies they actually need to improve. After identifying strengths and weaknesses, they can
make use of other strategies like training as it can reduces their weaknesses and can help them
out in career development (Bódi and Gotea). Results of SWOT analysis helps an individual to
identify skills that are required to be developed by them. On the basis of results they can also
identify future opportunities and threats and accordingly they can make changes in strategies.
Personal development plan: After identifying own strengths and weaknesses it is
important for people to make use of personal development plan. One of the main reasons of
using this plan is to increase strengths and reducing all weaknesses. On the basis of strengths and
weaknesses, people can make an effective plan and can make use of appropriate activities,
resources and strategies that can help them out in decreasing weaknesses. For example: if
individual lacks in time management skills then by developing plan they can make use of
resources like developing time table, reducing procrastination, making use of Trello and other
tools (Choate and et.al., 2019). It can also help them out in knowing time period in which they
can develop skills. So, overall it can be said that after SWOT analysis, PDP can help individual
in increasing skills and developing career.
So, from the above discussed strategies of increasing skills that can help people in career
development it can be said that these play a vital role. By making use of all above discussed
strategies individual can increase their and their organizations performance help their company
out in taking competitive advantages, help them in making a balance between personal and
professional life. Companies can also make use of these strategies for their employees and can
motivate them, make them able to increase productivity, able to take advantages of promotional
opportunities (Pickett, 2019). By getting all these opportunities, employees can increase their
morale and it can also increase self esteem that is the last level of need. These strategies can also
work lifelong learning for employees and individuals as with this they can be in the competition
and make an effective position in the market. Lifelong learning makes people able to make use
of techniques, bringing innovation in the market and overall taking advantages in the future.

Question-2
A. Blog on performance management
I completely agree that company must measure performance of employees so that weak area are
identified and it is improved. This also helps in finding out what is current performance level of
individual and how it can be improved. Besides that, current skills and abilities are analysed
and then accordingly goals are set. Basically, performance is measured on certain criteria in
which goals and objective are also included. This gives insight on what needs to be developed
and why. Moreover, if goals are not set then it becomes difficult to measure
performance(ZHANG, 2018). The goals are basically skills and capabilities which needto be
enhanced. Thus, by developing required skills performance is increased and high performed
people are developed. Hence, performance management is best way as well as method to
measure and evaluate performance.
Besides that, it is continuous process as performance varies with development of skills
and abilities. Thus, on basis of new goals planning is done that how it can be enhanced. When
the evaluation is done than on basis of that weak areas are identified. Then, plan is developed
that how those areas can be improved. So, with help of this process it becomes easy to strengthen
all those area which require improvement. In this way high performance people are developed.
Besides that, it allows in maintaining progress as well of how much development is required and
by reviewing entire performance decision is taken. Moreover, feedback is also taken as well
through different ways such as 360 degree review, smart objectives, etc. with that information is
collected about performance level. Thus it is easy way to be high performed in all areas.
But i think that performance management can be one sided as well because it only
contribute in personal development but not overall team. So, it may influence behaviour of other
team members as their performance is not enhanced. In addition, if PM is not initiated in
effective way then it goals are not attained. So, then focus in on attaining previous goals that
were not achieved. Thus, it results in taking more time and then entire process is started from

beginning. The main component of PM is that in it SMART goals are formed. It helps in
focusing on specific and time bound goals. Hence, it highly benefit individual in their career
development. However, by continuous monitoring and reviewing of performance changes are
made in it. this means that focus is on overall areas rather than just focusing on one area.
Similarly, by improving one area then other one is enhanced. This is done in systematic way
which helps in improving overall staff performance. Besides that, main purpose of PM is to
ensure that whether skill is developed or not. Then, further progress is done to allow abilities to
be improved. The goal set in performance management allows employees to perform best out of
their abilities and increasing their efficiency in productivity. The high performance teams are
developed when all people in it perform their best to achieve goals.
Continuous Performance management aids within reviewing performance through comparing it
with set goals. Therefore if tasks are not attained then changes are made into it. Thus the main
purpose of such performance management is to enhance the people’s efficiency. It also assist
finding out the opportunities within people so that the performance can be increased.
Here I am not fully agree that without the performance management the individual’s high
performance cannot developed. As it is will be hard to focuses on the weak areas as well as
measures the high performance. Hence no goals will be set as well as no improvement will be
made during performance. Basically within Performance management it is focuses on that like
how much extent abilities can be increased. For such it needs to measure performance as well as
take consistent feedback and can be useful within evaluates the people’s effectiveness. Thus
efforts are made to develop individuals.
But within order to develop high performance it is vital to have a systematic PM. It gives
a framework that how people abilities as well as skills requires to be announced. Therefore by
the help of the performance management it can be recognised the individual’s weak area as well
as what current skills and capabilities they possess. Training is provided to them so that improves
their weak areas so that efficiency can be enhanced. Thus is able to perform more systematically
in order to complete tasks. Thus the PM provides vital information that can be needs within
several areas. Therefore, by developing required skills of the individuals within enhanced as well
as makes them people posses of high performance. Thus it is concluded that high performance
individuals can be developed from effective PM. Thus the progress can be measured on the basis

of such improvement can be done. Thus Performance means to analysis the people both in
professional and personal context.Also , rewards are provided to those who are well performed.
So that it leads to enhances them to makes more efforts in order to achieves task. Thus, it results
within increasing their performance. Within such way high performance individuals are
developed. It encourages the morale that results within increasing their productivity(ZHANG,
2018). PM also analysis current as well as past performing individuals. Thus the major thing is
associated to measurement of the performance. By such idea increases the productivity, regular
PM means to proactively developed through covering the development requirements. By the
regular catch – ups individuals as well as frequently meet to the performance of the workers,
possible development plan and opportunities.
b). Discuss about evaluates how High performance strategies enable them to reflect on the work
effectively as part of team.
High performance strategies are based on the concept that help for supporting the
enterprise to gain more competitive advantage in global marketplace. High performance
strategies involves training and development session, establish an engagement during task
executions, effective communication skill used. These are considered as important strategies
used in the high performance working which may reflect on the work as team.
This is not only useful for increasing overall business production and sales but it may
support for enhancing the importance of brand within global world (Alatailat, Elrehailand
Emeagwali, 2019). Organization can be achieved the goal and objective through effective High
performance strategies.
Basically, it can be used different behavioural learning theory which may support for
improving the individual differences, motivation, perceptions, attitudes, communication, learning
and development. These are considered the most important aspect of high performance working
while developing confidence level or motivation organization goal or objective. this can possible
when team members are discussion on meeting and handle the entire activities.
In recently, each and every enterprise are focused on the growth and development which
is totally depended on the staff members where they can do their task effectively and efficiently.
High performance strategies plays important role in enhancing the entire business performance in
which brings more happiness among staff members (Alatailat, Elrehailand Emeagwali, 2019). At
certain point, it can be identified the effective high performance strategies that always influence

or inspire team members towards organizational goal and achievement. By using effective
strategies, it will support for individual people to meet their specific need or requirement
(Caldera, Deshaand Dawes, 2019). Sometimes, High performance strategies involves staff
member’s motivation that always encouraging other people to manage or control any kind of
complex task within organization.
At that time, organization can develop or create a healthy working environment or culture which
plays important role in the workplace. A high performance work team is basically refers to group
of different individual people within specialised expertise and having complementary skills.
Through this way, each and every team members have established a better coordination with
running project of enterprise and then afterwards, it will be generating consistently superior
result or outcome (Caldera, Deshaand Dawes, 2019). High performance enabled to reflect on the
backbone of team members where they can improve their contemporary daily work style. There
are various kind of executive team run Entire Corporation. This can possible due high
performance working which may influence project team to create or develop new product or
services. it help for team members to participate within different organizational activities. in this
way, high performance working are consider as essential part to organise the carry out the
different complex task in proper manner (Oberauer, 2019). As a resulting in identified the
superior performance of every members. Sometimes, it is consider as important aspects for
organization to gain more competitive advantage in global marketplace.
High performance strategies are related to the group of individual people whereas they
can establish a strong correlation with staff members. To function effectively, high performance
strategies are enabled to identify the purpose, commitment of team members towards their goal
or mission. Sometimes, it is relatively more ambitious performance goal which are
comparatively average teams.
High performance strategies are considered such as work leadership, Addressing
problems quickly, enhance team work culture, build an effective communication and other kind
of pay attention (Caldera, Deshaand Dawes, 2019). These are type of different strategies
participating within organizational goal and objective where helping to develop creative culture
or environment. So as each members participating to improve their own personal and
professional growth. Sometimes, organization can focus on the training program which always
encouraging team members to build a strong skill and gain more knowledge (Sunand

et.al.,2019). High performance strategies are considered the important aspects for enhancing
trust, loyalty among staff members. Furthermore, there are different technique or method which
may include in the high performance strategies in order to meet both personal goals. Afterwards,
it will be motivating the team members whereas automatically increases level of performance
during task execution.
An effective high performance will be depending on the interest of team members where
how they can adopt current environment or working culture (Sunand et.al.,2019). Afterwards, it
can identify individual needs with high performance so that if in case require a proper
requirement of skill enhancement. It would provide the better training session of their employees
which bring more improvement in their skills, knowledge. on the other hand, high performance
strategies are consider as process while setting or defining high quality of standards on the basis
of team members demand’s. thus, it can identify the major support for team members so that they
can achieve desirable goal or objective. in most of cases, enterprise is basically focused on the
development of efficient high performance strategies. in this way, it become easier for
identifying the any kind of operational issue within organization. So as it is more difficult for
individual team members to handle the competitive strategy because it is totally depending on
the current high performance within task management (Alatailat, Elrehailand Emeagwali, 2019).
Moreover, organization has been adopted the high performance strategies in the workplace. It
helps for every staff members to inspire or motivate which make a better problem-solving and
contribution in the complex operational activities.
The effective strategies inspire employee to work as team so that it can easily identify
any kind of operational problem or issue. It will help for creating a proper standards or norms to
engage with team members (Sunand et.al.,2019). Through this, employee can learn new thing
and identify the significant roles and responsibilities. In future, it will support for gained more
benefits, advantage within global marketplace (Caldera, Deshaand Dawes, 2019). Furthermore, it
is clearly explaining the importance of high performance strategies that plays important role
within organization. It often to enhance the overall performance of staff members and focus on
the need of personal development.
As per discussion, it has been summarised that high performance strategies can motivate
or inspire their potential staff members to do work within team. Each and every members have
been shared their innovative idea which may support for implementing innovative idea within

organization (Sunand et.al.,2019). This will help for increasing overall business profitability as
well as productivity in global marketplace. On the other hand, team members have been
established a strong coordination with other executives so that it help for identifying the actual
need or requirement. Afterwards, it automatically increasing the high performance whereas team
member can achieve their desirable goal and objective.
CONCLUSION
In above discussion, it has been summarised about the career development strategies which
may support for enhancing own skills and gained more knowledge. it is not only support for
achieving desirable goal but implementing suitable approach to gain more popularity. In this
report, it has been analysed the important of high performance strategies which may support for
enhancing overall individual need or requirement. By using SWOT and PDD, identifying the
current skill and knowledge which brings more improvement within career development or
growth in the organization.

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Appendix
SWOT Analysis
Strengths
 Written communication skills
 Time management skills
 Stress management skills
Weaknesses
 Oral communication skills
 Research skills
 Analytical skills
 Technological knowledge
Opportunities
 Management related professions
 Masters in management
Threats
 Increasing competition
 Requirement of technical knowledge

Skill Audit
Skills Personal audit Rank (1-5)
Communication skills Written communication skills are
effective
Not effective in oral
communication skills
4
2
Time management skills Planning of time utilization
Achieving objectives in
determined time limit
4
4
Technological skills Knowledge of different
technologies
Ability to operate different types
of technology and operation
5
4
Stress management skills Ability to manage stress in
difficult times
3
Research skills Ability to research in limited
time
Researching from reliable and
valid sources
1
2

Personal Development Plan
Skill Method Resources Time scale Expected results
Communicati
on skills
Participating in
programs and
workshops that are
aimed at
developing
communication
skills.
Books, internet
sources and
financial resources
for participating in
programs
8-10 Months Effectively
expressing
thoughts and
communicating
efficiently and
confidently
Research
skills
Reading books and
collecting
knowledge through
different online
sites.
Books and
Internet.
4-5 Months Ability to
undertake research
that is effective
and reliable and
relevant to topic on
which research is
being made.
Data analysis Participating in
programs and
workshops that
provide learning for
data analysis
Financial
resources and
internet
10-12 Months Ability to analyse
data and on the
basis of that
making decisions.
This will enable to
make decision that
are more reliable
and rationale.
Technological
knowledge
There are different
classes and
programs through
Financial
resources and
internet
10-12 Months Able to work on
different
technology. This is

which one can
develop
technological
knowledge.
also aimed at
having knowledge
of existing and also
technology that is
likely to develop in
future (Rimmer,
2018). This also
involves
developing
knowledge for
technology that is
utilised for
managerial
activities.