Personal and Professional Development (Essay)

Personal and Professional
development (essay)

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
REFLECTIVE ESSAY....................................................................................................................3
Definition and Description of my Quality...................................................................................3
Evaluation of Quality...................................................................................................................3
Attributes, behavioural preferences and values underpin this strength?.....................................4
Difficulty and challenges in workshop exercises........................................................................4
Contradiction evidence................................................................................................................5
Benefits of communication in future...........................................................................................5
EXPERIENTIAL ELEMENT.........................................................................................................5
WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES EVIDENCE.......................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................8
VALUE ADDED ELEMENT.....................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development can be defined as the process through which an
individual and organization engaged in learning procedure so that they can meet out challenges
and desire goals. Report will lay emphasis on me as an intern participating in career and
employment workshop. The main purpose of workshop is to enhance decision making skills of
emerging aspirants. During workshop, I have identified my key strength which was my
communication skills. Report will define and describe my quality. Evaluation of quality will also
be done in assignment. It also explains about how this quality will assist me in future.
REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Definition and Description of my Quality
I participated in career and employment workshop in order to explore more career
opportunities and also to enhance my decision making skills. During the workshop, I realised
communication is my key strength. Workshop assisted me in gaining practical skills, so that I
can select suitable employment (Ragan, 2018). Definition of Communication: It basically
means sharing of information from one person to group of other person. It includes listening,
communicating new ideas, feelings, speaking, understanding and empathising. During
workshop, I realised that me as an intern have good non-verbal interaction power and emotional
control. Communication theory: Communication accommodation theory perfectly describes
my quality as I realised that I have the ability to adjust my interaction style according to others
(Bennett-Levy, 2019). This has assisted me in gaining lots of experience from workshop. Also
constructivism theory can also explain my quality.
Evaluation of Quality
Constructivism means that individual has power to make scientific messages into simpler
one. As I am more cognitively complex, I can be a very successful communicator. I have the
ability to create customized and sophisticated messages that pursue multiple communication
goals. This theory explains that how attitude form and change through a logical thought process.
I analysed that communication is my key strength, I have the skill to modify my way of
interaction according to suitability of other person. So this can also help in my career, I will be
able to create better bond with my colleagues. This quality displayed when I was working in a
team and making other members understand about their roles and responsibilities.

Attributes, behavioural preferences and values underpin this strength?
As communication is my key strength, I discovered that other than that, this strength also
has several attributes (Trorey and Cullingford, 2017). Like for example, during employment
workshop when I was interacting with my supervisor, I have made use of complete sentences.
Information passed by me contains all details about my interests, so that it become easy for them
to evaluate career options available for me. Messages which I was delivering to my mentor was
also clear, it precisely describes about gaols and objectives that I wanted to achieve.
Behavioural preferences in communication has assisted me in facilitating better team
work (Jaeger, 2018). I was able to create interpersonal strategies and also showed appreciation
on ideas deliver by others, which helped me in making better relation with my mentor and peers
presented in workshop. While interacting, I also made sure that someone’s value and beliefs did
not get hurt because of me, by this way I was able to positively engaged with my team.
Difficulty and challenges in workshop exercises.
During workshop exercises, I faced lots of challenges like for example there was lack of
trust during the activities performed by teams. Team members were not being acquainted
personally and professionally, there was lack of understanding. So, this created conflict and
tension while achieving team goals. Also they were not engaged in sharing information which
reduce efficiency and productivity of team. Tuckman theory of team development can be used to
make teams more efficient. Forming: In this step, leader must make clear roles and
responsibilities of each member while forming team. During the employment workshop, team
members needs to be engaged in knowing each other, as there exists lack of trust in team. (Tod,
Hutter and Eubank, 2017). Storming; The team starts to address the task suggesting ideas. In this
step team must be managed effectively so that activities in workshop can be completed
effectively. They must be engaged in working towards achieving common goals and objectives.
Norming: Harmonious working practices must be implemented at this stage in order to enhance
productivity (Tuckman theory of team development, 2017). All rules and regulations must be
implemented so that team members follow it and trust develop between them (Dias and Cadime,
2016).Performing: At this stage team needs to be made aware about their rights and
responsibilities so that their efficiency increases. They must be working towards shared vision.
Adjourning: Implementation of plan must be revised, to know if they have any gaps during this
process.