Managing Self and Others: Career Development & Team Strategies Report

This report, submitted for the HRM6001 module, delves into career development strategies and their significance for skill enhancement and lifelong learning. It explores various approaches, including personal development plans (PDP) and SWOT analysis, to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report also examines how high-performance strategies contribute to effective teamwork and individual performance, emphasizing the importance of continuous skill development and goal setting within organizations. The analysis highlights strategies like 360-degree performance evaluations and PDPs to improve performance and career growth. The report also discusses the role of firms in fostering employee development through career progression paths, training, and motivation to achieve organizational goals. The report emphasizes the importance of adapting to changing market trends, new technologies, and the need for continuous learning as part of a lifelong process.

MANAGING SELF AND
OTHERS
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Introduction
Career Development is termed as a planned way by which people learn varied skills and
knowledge that the require in their career development. In this various strategies that can be
utilized through people sp that they can develop successful career. The successful development
of career helps in becoming a good person in any field or profession. Also, doing self analysis
helps in finding skills which need to be improved. So, to recognizes skills needed to be
developed to it is necessary to evaluate own performance. For that there are various models and
tools available that is SWOT, PDP, etc. this enabled in finding out weak areas and improving it
(Tomalin, 2019). It is also vital for business to develop career strategies for their workers so that
firm can develop strategies for workers so that business can form different teams who are able to
perform and work in effective way and attain goals and objectives. Such assessment will also
focuses on Career Development as well as Lifelong Learning as well as High Performance Team
and Individuals.
1.B) Analysis the ways within strategies for skills development as well as lifelong learning can
able career development
Concept of Career Development strategies as well as its significance for skill development
as well as lifelong learning.
Skills as well as knowledge of people is considered as one of the vital part of the people
Career Development. Within this order regarding progress within which career as well as
accomplish pre defined career objectives which is consider as most vital for people in order to
focus on their skills as well as knowledge according to the changing requirements of firm
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(Barden, 2019). The skills is necessary in career growth as well as in grabbing opportunities for
development. In this way it is useful in achieving long and short terms goals in effective way.
Along with that, the strategies play significant role in gaining of knowledge and improving
varied skills. With help of that it becomes easy to take effective decision in building a successful
career and getting desired job role. Furthermore, it makes individual aware about what are their
weak areas, skills need to be enhanced, etc. Besides that, what goals they need to form and attain
(Mikulincer, 2019).
These are the types of the skills that aids within an opening up several opportunities for
people to achieve their main career goals but also gives a clarity to the people regarding their
career as well as goals that they needs to accomplish.
Career Development also aids in enhancing flexibility in people such as they can focuses
on flexibility manage their professional and personal life.
Career Development strategies not only aids people in order to grab opportunities as it
aids them to brings changes in their behavior, enhances performance as well as efficiency in their
work and also to bring creativity in working style. There are several kinds of strategies that can
aids people within skill development, lifelong learning for achieving of professional and personal
goals. Firms can also focuses on several adopting such strategies for increasing the whole
employee retainment , develop efficient workers who can also together attain main goals as well
as objectives of firm and also their personal goals. Various effective as well as efficient career
development strategies that can be adapted by firm for the life long process are.
Personal Development plan for people- It plays a crucial role in order to identify the weakness of
people, also developing a plan by which new skills developed properly. It aids a person within
identifying importance of skills which needs to be developed, ways within which such skills is
improved, resource needed for developing qualities and skills that are vital as well as helpful in
the future growths. To develop an effective PDP, it is vital for people to do swot analysis.
SWOT analysis- It is also another strategy that can be utilized through people for analysis of
their own in built as well as internal skills that are consider as personal strength, weaknesses ,
opportunities to grow in career as well as threats which can affect on their goals. By doing this
aids people to recognize that areas of weakness that can acts as a barrier for them and also make
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it hard for them in order to progress within career. Result of Swot analysis aids people to
recognizes skills that are needed to be developed by them. This analysis outcomes are then
utilized through people in order to develop their personal development plan as well as develop a
successful career as well as accomplish their pre defined career goals both short term and long
term.
Skills audit- It is considered as another strategy that can be utilized through workers in order to
measure as well as recording skills that can be developed through people in their career Analysis
skills that are still needed to improve through them to proceed further in their career. It is also
consider as a strategy that aids people to recognizes skills that can be done improvement for
them so that progress ahead within career . It is also considered as a strategy that aids people to
recognizes skills that are vital for them progress ahead within career and also works on such
skills and becomes successful (Jithisha, and Thomas, 2020).
Career development strategies are not utilized for people in order to becomes successful
within career but also useful for firm as well as mostly utilized for motivating their workers,
increasing their overall performance as well as increases their employee retaining rate. It aids a
firm to develop career progression path for their workers so that they can grow within the firm
feel motivated as well as provides their best in order to attain main organizational goals. Career
development strategies are also utilized through firm so that boosts the morale of workers so that
they can work on themselves as well as developed needed skills as well as increases their
knowledge as well as useful for firm in order to achieves main goals and objectives of firm.
These are the strategies of work which are considered as life long for workers as due to
this changing market trends, requirement of firm as well as introduction of new techniques and
technologies. Learning as well as requirement of new skills can be considered as new skills that
can be developed for people as well as if they needs to becomes successful as well as adopt
career development strategies which is consider as a part of the life long process of learning.
2.b ) How high performance strategies enable you to reflect on how you may work effectively as
part of a team
In an organization there are various types of teams that is formed to work towards common
goal. In every team there are various types of people who possess varied skills and capabilities.
So it becomes essential to work effectively so that goals are accomplished. for that it required to
have high performance. it can be gained with the help of various strategies in it. It is necessary to
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work in effective so that goals and objectives can be achieved (de Bruin, 2020). I found that
there are various type of high performance strategies which can be applied in improving
performance and working in affective where. In this I found that the 360 degree performance
strategy help evaluating performance overall and then weak areas are identified in which
improvement is required. I also applied this strategy which enabled me in finding out weak areas
and improving them. In this way I was able to enhance my skills and capabilities. With this I was
able to working creatively and achieve schools. Also I found that high performance strategies
focus on skills abilities and capabilities. with that it becomes easy to strengthen and develop
skills require to work an effective way in your team.
Along with that, it is essential to develop skills continuously so that growth and development
progress can be maintained. So I also want to maintain my career growth with high performance.
Also I found that high performance strategies provide a framework through which it is easy to
identify that what are the skills that can be developed. Moreover, strategies also helping setting
of goals and objectives in context of skills. The performance is measured as compared with
outcomes and then weak areas are identified. it enables working towards improving that areas so
that skills is developed and performance is improved.
I also evaluated that high performance strategy in enhance performance of individual in a
team which results in putting more efforts in achieving goals. this also motivate other members
in team to develop and gain skills to work in effective way. Moreover, creative working is shared
within team which leads to working different way.
The use of strategies enables in encouraging people to determine their weak areas and
how it can be enhanced. Besides that, it makes things easy to achieve career goals and objectives
by developing PDP and measuring their performance. In this way they are able to increase their
performance and become a part of high performance teams. Apart from it, overall organization
goals are also achieved in efficient way and it results in increasing efficiency of business as well.
Moreover I found that SWOT analysis is also a strategy which enable him finding out strength
and opportunities that can be improved. in this weakness is also identified which is enhanced.
this strategy helping do overall evaluation of an individual add analyzing what needs to be
improved to work in effective way. So on basis of that I’m able to make improvements in my
own skills and abilities. besides that, I am able to find out opportunities in which I can work to
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set goals. it will enable me to develop those skills which I need to in order to gain high
performance.
In addition to that I found that PDP is also a high performance strategy which can be
useful in working in effective way in team. the plan you consist of skills which I need to develop.
It also contains strategies through which I can level up to skills and also ways of finding that
whether I have developed skill or not by taking feedback from others. It also includes time frame
in which I can develop my skills. Thus, the PDP help me maintaining my progress in high
performance. Along with that PDP is useful in setting of smart goals to improve my
performance. With that I am able to develop required skills I know how can effective way in
team. The strategy not only help me in improving performance but also measuring progress of
my goals with outcomes. So in this way I am able to identify weak areas and enhance my
performance. Also I am able to compete with other colleagues as my performances enhanced. so
it helps me in long term growth of my career. Also I’m able to focus on my goals letter to
improve performance.
Also, these strategies help organization in improving overall performance of team. It
allows in giving training to them by rich individual performance is improved that leads to
increasing efficiency of overall team (Modlin, 2019). Besides that it is useful and motivating
employees to work effectively and put more efforts in order to attain rewards. This also changes
the way of doing work. Besides that other employees also engaging in developing their skills to
enhance their performance. so this leads to creating an positive environment and creative
working in which all employees are involved. Along with that, high performance strategies allow
to strengthen abilities as well by gaining knowledge. It also changes way of performing task and
continuously improving performance. Hence, all goals set are achieved one by one in effective
way. It shows that many strategies focus on improving efficiency of staff and fulfilling their
career goals and objectives. Also, their weak areas are improved and they are able to perform
high and work in team effectively. In addition, they contribute in more effective way by
engaging with others. Along with that, it is essential to develop skills continuously so that
growth and development progress can be maintained
Therefore, the high performance strategies focuses on improving areas and developing
skills which is required to work in team. besides that I’m able to maintain my progress and set
goals accordingly. Also with the help of it I’m able to gain knowledge required to work in
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effective way (Steffan, 2020). I can develop various types of skills such as problem solving,
decision-making leadership communication etc.
Conclusion
Hereby, it is summarised that to proceed in career there are some strategy which needs to be
applied. The role is that developing new skills as well as such skills are useful for them. It also
aids them within developing knowledge as well as skills that are considered as useful for them
and in addition to this aids them in dev eloping high performance team and individuals and aids
them in motivating workers so that work upon them to bring improvement within current
knowledge, skills as well as qualities. It has been also evaluated that employee performance can
be improved by developing required skills and knowledge. This can be done with help of PM
strategies so that workers can works more effectively which is considered as a part of team.
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