Personal Development Portfolio: Importance of Academic and Professional Skills and Gibbs Model of Reflection

Personal Development
Portfolio

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
The importance of academic and professional skills..............................................................3
Gibbs model of reflection.......................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development plays a vital role in life of an individual. It is
necessary for a person to understand the development of academic and professional skills so that
they are able to successfully achieve their career objectives (Mamvuto and Kangai, 2021). In this
report there is discussion related to portfolio that includes all the skills that will help to start a
career in business and management. Reflection that shows the experience of learning and
development related to transfer able skills while academic studies, personal life as well as work
place is also discussed in this report.
MAIN BODY
The importance of academic and professional skills
`It is seen that there is need of several skills in order study effectively. Academic skills
refer to all those skills that are important at the time of studying. It is seen that a person that has
good and effective skills is able to study in an effective manner and achieve their goals and
objectives successfully. Skills are the expertise in a particular field that help in individual to
work with talent and complete the activity with good grades (Matvienko, 2021). A person
having good academic skills is able to form strategies to study and complete the work on time.
The students are generally more attentive in the class and get good marks at the time of
examination. They are given more importance in the class as well as they are able to analyse
information in an effective way. The students with sharp academic skills are able to help others
and that help them to build relationships. So there is vital importance of academic skills in the
life of a student.
At the same time it is necessary to discuss about professional skills. To get a job there is
need of ability is that help to manage the work life as well as personal life. Professional skills are
the skills that help to get a good job as well as complete the desired work in an effective manner.
Where is use importance of academic skills in the life of a person who wants to do a job. It is
seen that it helps them to manage the team work in an effective manner that is necessary while
working in corporate world (Little-Wienert and Mazziotti, 2018). At the same time effective
communication skills have them to build relations as well as interacting and effective enough for
that all the task assigned to them are completed in an successful manner. Along with that a