Managing Self and Others: Personal Development and Skills Development Strategies

MANAGING SELF AND
OTHER

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
QUESTION 1..................................................................................................................................3
a. Personal Development Plan.....................................................................................................3
b. Strategies for skills development and lifelong learning may enable career development.......7
QUESTION 2..................................................................................................................................9
a. High performance people be developed by effective performance management....................9
b. High-performance strategies enable you to reflect on how you may work effectively.........11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Personal Development refers to the activities through which an individual improves his/ her
talents, prospects, awareness, employability and capacity to perceive dreams and generate
wealth. In simple words, it can be defined as what a person does to enhance him/her in prospects
in life. This is the lifelong process where people analyse their qualities and capabilities, sets goal
and try to achieve them with their full potential. This report deals with the topic managing self
and others, where various topics can be analysed and understood in detail. Report emphasise on
concepts associated with the career development strategies, analyse the evolution of lifelong
learning and skill development with the help of my own PDP and SWOT. Further this report
elaborate about the topic of high performance of individuals and team; by discussing that how
high performance people are developed by the effective performance management in form of a
blog and later illustrates that how high performance strategies allows to reflect my work
effectively as a part of team.
QUESTION 1
a. Personal Development Plan
PDP is an arranged and supported process that is taken over by an individual to evaluate
his/her own learning or performance or achievement related to their career, educational and
personal development, as PDP provides a roadmap to achieve the goals in one’s life (Shaheen
and Hameed, 2020).
Before I make my own PDP, I will analyze my core competencies to know my capabilities,
creative skills that helps in completing specific tasks, I will also highlight my weakness that I
have to work on, opportunities that I may grab and the obstacle or threat in my life which stops
me achieve my goals with the SWOT analysis. I am a 25 year graduate working with TokTok,
currently into 2 year graduate recruitment programme. I joined Telecom Company while I was at
university and at my workplace I was encouraged to enter into certification course on managerial
leadership and management development course and rejoin my department as junior manager.
Strengths
According to my personal administration, my
basic skills that are must at workplace our good
and the in depth knowledge is of sound level
basically in comparison to level of training
Weakness/Areas on which further
development is needed
Due to imbalance between the work-life, lost
the physical fitness and did not made any time
for physical fitness, as a result I am gained lot

provided to me.
I am quite confident that I can pursue
leadership and management course, by
sleeping less and making out time anyhow. I
was evaluated nonchalant while working and
rendered clear direction.
I got an opportunity to lead a team for the time
period through that i got to know that I have
capability to give manage people easily and
give them clear directions on specific tasks.
of weight and become more stressed.
I need to gain some more experience in
planning, because I take more time while
briefing the task to my subordinates and work
on providing them with the correct solution not
presenting them problem (Stewart, 2016).
I think my understanding on approximate
planning process is superficial and requires
time and more experience.
Need to build more confidence in decision-
making by gaining more experience of
managing teams in different scenarios.
Opportunities
I have got a brilliant mentor i.e. the line
manager who guides me about different things
and on personal development.
TokTok annual appraisal process is source of
feedback by analysing it, I can definitely
improve and work on myself.
Tell my employer that I am doing the
management and leadership program and also
through that I am also helping or leading teams
to attain certain tasks. Also the structured
approach of evaluating problems helps me
giving accurate solutions and that will add
value of my part in the company.
Threats
Failing to balance the work & own
commitments.
The following demonstrated below is my detailed PDP Plan for setting Goals –
Skills Activities Resources Time Period
Thorough knowledge
of TokTok’s business
activity
Complete leadership
and management
development program
and also enrol and
complete the
TokTok’s Young
Join Training Centre
for Young Manager
program and
complete certification
from university.
3 – 12 Months