Personal and Academic Development Portfolio for Business Management Students

This report discusses the Personal and Academic Development Portfolio for Business Management students, including personal and academic goals, the CREAM strategy, the VARK model, Tuckman's model, and reflective statements. The report also explains two models of academic and personal development and how they have improved the learning of the author.

FdSc Business Management
BAM4008
Academic and Personal Development Plan
Assessment 1
Personal Development Portfolio
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Contents
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Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................3
Portfolio evidence (1)....................................................................................................3
Portfolio evidence (2) ...................................................................................................5
Portfolio evidence (3)....................................................................................................6
Portfolio evidence (4)....................................................................................................6
Reflective statement (including 2 x models).................................................................7
a)Reflect on being an effective student of Business Management in higher
education...................................................................................................................7
b)Reflect on how acquisition of skills through completion of this module would
assist me to achieve personal and future success...................................................8
Explanation of two models of academic and personal development and how this has
improved my learning. .................................................................................................9
Model 1..................................................................................................................9
Model 2................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION:...........................................................................................................11
Reference List:............................................................................................................12
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Introduction
Academic development can be defined as the societal change and the
disciplinary changes which in terms of the contributors in the area of study and also
related to the social groups as well. When talk about the personal learning in the
subject of academics, it can be defined as the formation of new skills and the
information’s which basically helps in the deeper study of the field of subject (Ann
Stolz, B., 2022). The personal development in academics can be defined as the
planned process which is basically conducted by the students and helps them in
reflecting their own learning, their performance and their success which is only
possible when an individual plans his educational growth as well. Therefore, the
personal as well as the academic growth helps the students of higher education to
improve their employment prospectus by having self awareness and in addition to
this the ability to express whatever they have learned. In addition to this, it also helps
the students to recognize their strengths as well as the weaknesses in order to make
the appropriate strategies to cope up with them and make them right. In this report,
the personal portfolio evidences has been discussed along with the reflection of the
skills which helps in the future success and also the effects of being a business
management student. Lastly, two models of academic and personal development
has also been discussed.
Portfolio evidence (1)
PERSONAL GOALS:
Personal goals can be defined as those goals in any person’s life which helps
them to overcome the struggle to achieve the goals one has always wanted.
Personal goals basically are made to set yourselves accomplish some goals in the
field of career, relationships, finances, and many more areas of one’s life (Bandi, S.
and Kothari, A., 2022). Talking about my experience, I personally think that personal
goals are always not about the behavior and the performance of anybody but instead
they are the things which helps in activating the energy.
LIFE GOALS:
Life goals can be defined as the goals in an individual’s life which helps the
people to aim and at the same time attain and maintain something which is
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achievable in the life of their own. I personally feel that when any person starts to set
his life goals, he is basically making a planned life for himself and at the same time
he is committing to achieve the goals with the desired outcomes or the results
expected.
CAREER GOALS:
A career goals in anybody’s life can be defined as the statement which is
describing the whole professional life that person is having, which basically a person
is ready to work upon while his whole career I personally think that the whole
academics and the higher education sector is basically doing all of this work just to
make sure everyone is having the quality skills to get a professional jobs
ACADEMIC GOALS:
Academic goals or the educational goals can be defined as the objective or in
other words the ambition of the students at in the higher education which can be
accomplished by them in their academic years.(Li, L and et. Al., 2022). Lastly, the
academic goals plays a very important role in students life as it makes them
motivated to accomplish their goals on time which will help them in acquiring all the
skills
seven step formula given by brian are:
 step 1: to decide what you exactly want to do in a particular filed and also to
write it down with full details which will help the goal to be measured and to be
specific.
 Step 2: the next step is to set up the deadline for accomplishing that particular
goal. Id the final goals is big and will take too much of time and will be a very
long process, then it has been advised to break the goal into smaller part.
This will make sure that the goals are being accomplished at the given period
of time.
 Step 3: now, one has to make a list, which they have to do in the process of
completing the goal. This list has to be added when a new or creative idea
comes up in completing the process.
 Step 4: the next step would be to organize the list of all the actions which are
needed to be performed to complete the plan. The plan list of the organization
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basically have two categories of the priority and the sequence (Dang and et.
Al 2022).
 Step 5: next step is top identify all the problems or the issues which are
holding the individual from accomplishing his/her organizational goals. This
step also includes a questions of why did the goals is not achieved yet?
 Step 6: next step is to take action on the obstacle you have faced ion the
process.
 Step 7: the last step includes to develop a continuous habit and planning
each day and its goals and make sure that you achieve them on that day only.
Portfolio evidence (2)
CREAM STRATEGY ARE AS FOLLOWS:
 C: the letter C in the cream strategy is for creativity. Creativity is an rational
inventiveness. Any individual who is creative in his/her own style will have a
confidence to use that particular style in the work they are doing. For the work
or in general, they do not copy the work style of any other person, but instead
they use their own creativity and imaginations in their leanings.
 R: The letter R refers to the reflective. The person who has reflection in
them will always analyze and calculate their own performance and will take
out results from them as well.
 E: the letter E refers to the word effectiveness. An effective individual; will
always organize his/her space, time and most importantly their priorities as
well. In context with the students, the effective learning skills must be followed
in order to be organized in the life and also to enhance their learning skills as
well (Gong, Y. and Chen, Q., 2022). In order to become an effective learner in
the educational filed, they have to learn how to set the priorities in their lives
and know the importance of the tasks.
 A: the letter A in the cream strategy stands for the activeness. In relation to
an individual, he/she will always be an active listener in their work as well as
in their personal lives as well. In order to become an active listener, one has
to take participation in all the activities as well as the projects actively and in
addition to this, they also have to have group discussions for good results.
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 M: the last letter is M, and in the cream strategy it stands for motivation. It is
a kind of learning strategy which helps the student to achieve their future
goals. In context with a motivated individual, they will always think about the
ways that can help them to achieve their set up-ed goals.
Portfolio evidence (3)
Vark model was introduced by Neil Fleming in the year 1987. this model basically
helps students to have a way to learn more about their preferences.
 Visual learners: students with this style will always prefer to sit in front of the
class and they will always use some kind of highlighters or connectors to have
more detailed notes (Liang and et. Al 2022).
 Auditory learners: these students carefully listen the speech given by their
seniors and will have more benefits by having supplemental resources as
well.
 Read/write learners: these students mostly prefer to have their notes of
educational filed in some kind of detailed format. they first write and then
again rewrite their notes for the class preparation as well.
 Kinesthetic learners: they have the best technique of hands-on learning
chances. Students which have this type of learning style in their educational
field become more distracted as they need to be active in the classroom.
Portfolio evidence (4)
Tuckman's model is a very useful explanation which basically helps the group of
individuals in order to make maturity and the ability, the relationship establishment
and also the changes in the leadership style as well. The four stages of team
development according to tuck man's theory are:
 forming: this stage has high dependency on the leadership of having the
direction and guidance. The roles and responsibilities of the individuals are
very unclear. The leader of the group should be prepared to answer all the
questions which the team members have in mind and the members of the
team also test the tolerance of their leader as well.
 Storming: in this stage, there is a lack of agreement in the group decisions.
The clarity of the team members however boost ups the productivity as well
(Gongora and et. Al 2022).
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 Norming: in this, the agreement and the consensus are formed largely
between the team members, who are the first ones to respond to the
command of the leader.
 Performing: the team in this stage tries to increase the strategic awareness.
The vision of the team has also been shared among them. And this also helps
them in achieving the organizational goals as well.
Reflective statement (including 2 x models)
a) Reflect on being an effective student of Business
Management in higher education.
Growth has been continuously increasing in all filed and especially the higher
education sector as well. It can be seen that the public demand for the higher
education is soared and is at the same time growing at an upper secondary rates
nowadays. The higher education sector has expanded in many stages and across
many countries as well with different regions. Everyone now understands the
importance of higher education in student’s life and in their future goals as well. The
main measurement of the student’s success in the higher education filed is basically
determined by how the students are prepared to complete their academic as well as
their personal goals thought-out the journey of gaining knowledge. I personally thing
that there can be steps which can be taken by the institutions in order to enhance the
success of the students and to increase the graduation rates as well. They can make
their first impression as to last forever (Mantwill, F. and Multhauf, V., 2022.). They
can make them understand the opportunities they all have by studying here and
making the full use of the campus and the tutors for themselves.
The faculty should make the students motivated all the times; it includes the times
when they have scored low in their assignments. It not only make them realise their
with but also help them not to lose the confidence in themselves in the path of
success.The main and the most important step which can be done by the institution
and the elders as well is that to give early age expose to the students of higher
education along with the relevant labour market data which also includes the data of
the job sectors, the most growing sector and the salaries they provides. The required
skills and the qualifications which are also needed at that time. All of these plays a
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very important role in building a successful career for the students (Retzer and et.
Al., 2022).
b) Reflect on how acquisition of skills through completion of
this module would assist me to achieve personal and future
success.
Personal development skills are termed to be very important as they basically allows
us to create various kinds of strategic techniques and the tactical plans which are to
be for the personal as well as for the professional growth in the future. The skills
which anyone can always help you with achieving your personal as well as the
career goals and also helps in the advancement of your career. i basically have
improved many of my skills and also learned some of the new ones while completing
this project which will help me in polishing my strengths and my talents as well. It
also helped in making me a better version of me and also in the fulfilment and the
increased satisfaction level by completing any work. While completing this project,
my communication skills become much better and this set of skills is very important
for my future professional career as it is the base for any interview (Ribeiro and et. Al
2022). Every organization needs an employee who has the confidence of talking to
other people and at the same time is fluent in whatever language he is speaking.
Secondly, the interpersonal skills set which includes the social skills or the people
skills, which can normally be defined as the interactions with other people. This also
plays a very important role in the future careers and I feel honored that by
completing this project, I tend to lean a lot of new skill sets and include them in my
personalities as well. In addition to this, my problem solving skills as well as the
confidence of completing the tasks have also increased. I have also got the slightest
hints of the adaptability skills which is very important when you have a sudden new
surrounding around you. I realized that in the process of completion of this project, I
got myself adapt in the situation along with the pressure of completing the project on
the given period of time is a task in itself (Shen, and et. Al 2022).
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Explanation of two models of academic and personal
development and how this has improved my
learning.
Model 1
PERSONAL GROWTH MODEL:
Everyone is looking for their personal growth in their lives. It is just that is different
from person to person as it is again a very particular thing to have in one’s lives.
Personal growth can be in any filed like intellectually, emotionally, spiritually and
maybe physically as well. The personal growth model was given by Mind Elevator
which basically shows five major steps to have in person development (Sovacool,
B.K., 2022).
 BELIEF: the first world definitely will be to change you existing beliefs. This
will majorly include the perceive success and the efforts involved. The things
which I believe are very instrumental in attaining our goals.
 PLAN: next step would be planning. The model suggests in setting effective
goals which can always motivate you to accomplish my goals. Planning on the
other hand also involves organising all the information and the tasks
according to the time as well. And in addition to this, plan the strategies to
make the decision making easy in higher education for me as well.
 ACTION: the hardest part in any task is to take appropriate actions. In other
words to execute whatever I have planned. This part also helped e in
developing some habits which are basically conductive with my plans for thr
future.
 RESULT: second last would b the result. It can however come in many
different ways which totally depend what i have planned and did I act
according to it or not. In my case it would be my academic results in higher
education.
 REVIEW: the last step would be to review all those results and identify what
went wrong in the planning and at the action part, that the expected results
are not arrived. In addition to this it helped my tracking down my progress and
also assessing my actions regarding my future goals Stamps (D.C. and Smith,
C.M., 2022).
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All of the steps of this model will help in accomplishing my future goals and
will help me to do my task efficiently and on time like I have completed this
project. At the same time, it will also help in making a better person for the
society and for my successful career paths as well.
Model 2
EXPERIMENTAL LEARNING CYCLE:
This is basically a model of learning which is introduced by David Kolb in the year of
1984 (Coşkun and et. Al., 2022). This theory basically works on the two levels of the
learning cycle which includes a four stage learning cycle of learning ion higher
education and next is the four separate learning styles in higher education. The main
focus of th theory is concerned with the learner’s internal cognitive processes.
Effective learning in the field of Academics is basically seen when the students or a
personas progresses through a cycle of four stages which are as follows:
 DIVERGING: this is basically the factor which helps the students in
performing better in the situation which mostly requires the ideas- generating
processes. For example, it is something like brainstorming. People as well as
the students tend to have a broad culture and interests and are most likely to
have gathered information.
 ASSIMILATING: this basically involves the concise and the logical approach
in completing the tasks. It states that the ideas and the concepts are even
more understanding than the other people. Student’s which have these
learning styles in their academic years are more focused on the ideas and the
abstracted concepts rather than the people opinions (Zhao and et. Al 2022).
 CONVERGING: this involves the solving problems. Students which have
these learning styles tend to have the best way of finding the practical
solutions as well as the ideas and the concepts for the academics.
 ACCOMMODATING: this is the last learning style and is like hands on which
basically means to rely on the intuition rather than the logic or the concepts.
Students tend to rely more on other’s information instead of carrying out their
own analysis for the assignments or for the academics.
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CONCLUSION:
From this respective report, it has been concluded that Academic development can
be defined as the societal change and the disciplinary changes which in terms of the
contributors in the area of study and also related to the social groups as well. The
personal development in academics can be defined as the planned process which is
basically conducted by the students and helps them in reflecting their own learning,
their performance and their success which is only possible when an individual plans
his educational growth as well. The personal portfolio evidences has been discussed
along with the reflection of the skills which helps in the future success and also the
effects of being a business management student. Lastly, two models of academic
and personal development has also been discussed
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