Personal Development Portfolio for BSc Business Management Students

This portfolio provides insights on personal learning and development, transferable skills, personal development learning log, action plan, and CV for BSc Business Management students.

BSc (Hons) Business Management
BMP4001
Professional and Academic Skills Development
Personal Development
Portfolio
Submitted by:
Name:
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Contents
1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development,
and the transferable skills 3
1.1 Identification and reflection on my approach to personal
learning and development 3
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed
by attending this module 4
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace 5
2.0 Personal development learning log 6
3.0 Action plan 7
4.0 CV 8
References 9
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1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development,
and the transferable skills
Professional skills refers to those competencies and capabilities that are
widely useful at work place and beneficial for the job performance (Avlaev, 2020).
These skills are collection of both hard and soft skills. Academic skill are the abilities
and habits that student help to succeed in their subjects. These both types of skills
are important for students and for their future career development. Skills are
beneficial to learners by making them goal oriented, helps in motivating, performing
tasks and learning new concepts of academics (Cornell and et. al., 2018).
Developing these skills provides the more advantage to students not in their
academics but also improves their creativity, productivity and develop confidence
which will be needed at their professional career growth.
Personal development refers to the moving forward with more focus on becoming
better version of yourself. Personal development will lead to enhance self
awareness, increases self esteem, skills and help in achieving desired goals.
Transferable skills are the abilities that can be used at varieties of duties and
roles to be performed. These transferable skills also known as portable one which
you can take from one job to another. It includes the communication, leadership,
problem solving and decision making skills that are needed at every role and
responsibilities at work place.
Self reflection is ability to evaluate own perspective, emotions and behaviors
as individual. Skills that I needed to improve in myself are team work, adaptability,
critical thinking and self control. These improvements will help me in my future
career growth plans and as well as beneficial for my future job profile at work place.
1.1 Identification and reflection on my approach to personal
learning and development
Personal learning and development is important aspect in terms of
professional and academic life of an individual. Personal development provides
many growth opportunities to students as well person through implementing new
talents and skills (Guccione and Hutchinson, 2021). Developing skills improves my
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confidence level and motivates me to achieve goals in career. Some factors that are
necessary in personal growth and development are discussed below -
Social -
This approach reflects the different ways to improve social interactions with
various people and help them in developing personal skills. Social skills are must for
person as human can not live alone and every time need some one to relay on.
Learning different kinds of languages help me in connecting with people of other
communities and its make me more adaptation e towards new learning.
Emotional -
This approach of learning or developing personality was not considered by
many people. When ever I feel low or have low motivation in that situation I will go
for night walk under the sky with full of stars. This technique helped in developing my
motivation power and self confidence.
Mental -
This is important aspect for human minds to have positive mental health.
Mental health can be improved by the regular meditation and exercising on daily
basis. It includes the activities such as reading novels, playing mind games like
chess and Sudoku. Good mental health reflects the positive attribute towards
personal development.
Physical -
Physical approach is major aspect in developing personality and has focus on
improving body structure and gestures. This can be improved with the help of daily
exercising and work outs, health diets and life styles. These should be followed in a
way to adopt physical approach in development.
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed
by attending this module
Transferable skills are those which can be be transformed from one job place
to another job profile (Mayorga-Toledano and Fernández-Morales, 2018). These
skills can be used at variety of job and roles for improvement in their career profile.
Transferable skills are must to develop during academic sessions to improve their
abilities and knowledge. Critical thinking, team work capability, adaptability and self
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motivation are the skills which I already have. Some of the skills that I have
developed while making this module are mentioned below -
Communication skills – This skills is important for me to develop.
Communication skill helped in to understand the message communicated by other
effectively (Neenan and Dryden, 2020). This includes the effective ideas to
communicate, listening other while conversing, and providing a feedback through
giving and receiving message. I was very shy person and bad at communicating my
message to others. During completing this module I have learned to communicate
effectively with good practice at schools. This will increase my communication skill
and provides me a confidence to speak in front of others.
Leadership – This skill is used to organize other people in order to achieve
shared objectives. This skill is useful to motivate large number of employees or
workers to get the work done according to schedule. Good leadership must have
qualities of being patient, empathy, positive aspect, creativity and have ability to lead
group of people. This skill is important for students to gain at their academics and
would help them in their professional growth. While completing this report, I have
learned the ability to lead a group of people and to manage them effectively. This
was my first experience which helped me in improving my leadership skills.
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace
While studying I would like to develop some skills that are important for my
personal growth as well as for my professional career also. Skills plays major role in
developing career of individual and to enhance their competencies and productivity
in future work place (Rose, 2018). Developing skills would make me recognized in
group of people during job search and increases the chances of getting hired
comparatively with lower skilled person. Skills are not only required for professional
growth, these will also have part in personal life and at academic levels. Some other
skills that are required to developed in my self are as follows -
Decision making skills – These skills are mainly used at work place such as
making quick decisions, implementing solutions to problems and to handle a major
task (Thorpe and Mason, 2018). When I was the leader in project and I have to make
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quick decisions to over come the consequences. Now for future aspect I would like
to develop decision making skill for self improvement.
Problem solving skills – While making this module I have come to
conclusion that I needed to do more focus on problem solving skill to enhance my
growth as professional student. This skill would help me in solving my problems
related to the academics as well as to future work place.
2.0 Personal development learning log
Date of
event
What was the
development
activity?
What was I
expecting to
learn?
What have I
learned?
How will I
apply this
learning?
16/05/19 Cultural activities Cultures of
different
traditions
From this
activity, I
would get to
learn about
the various
cultures in
effective way.
This can be
apply in my
day to day
schedule.
20/07/20 Group discussion How to
communicate
perfectly
From this
activity, I will
get the
opportunity to
learn about
the various
ways and
techniques to
present my
thoughts on
topic in
effective
manner.
I can use
this learning
in my new
project
assignments
.
07/09/20 Athletics I was learning
new techniques
used in football
game.
I was
expecting to
learn football
in tournament
but later on I
was ended up
with learning
volley ball.
With the
help of this
learning, I
can play
better in my
future
tournaments
with
improved
version of
myself.
02/12/21 Writing I get to know I was I can use
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competition about good
content writing.
expecting to
learn new
methods to
write but later
on I was
taught
regarding
making
catchy
phrases and
attractive
lines.
this skill to
make my
part time
earning from
the content
writing. The
same can
be useful for
developing
stories and
creating
imaginary
world to my
siblings to
read.
3.0 Action plan
What do I
want to
learn?
What support
and resources
will I need?
What do I have
to do?
How will I
measure
success?
Target date for
review?
Confidence
level
To support my
confidence level,
I would like to do
more task and
projects.
I have to do my
task and
projects in
proper manner
with efficiency.
To check the
improvement
level. I would
check the
accuracy of task.
16/08/22
Digital
knowledge
To gain digital
literacy, I would
need proper tools
and trainers to
learn.
I would like to
get regular
tuition and
guidance to
increase my
digital
knowledge.
This can be
measure in the
terms of how
effectively I am
able to solve any
technical issues.
02/10/22
Effective
reading skills
Novels, books
and tutor to
guide.
Do more of
reading books
on regular
basis.
Stop watch or
Time reader will
help me in
identifying the
achievement of
my goal.
19/12/22
Public
speaking
Audience, plat
form and mike.
Practicing on
daily basis will
perhaps can
lead to increase
in effective
public speaker.
This can be
evaluate on the
basis of
competitions such
as debates and
group discussions
16/01/23
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at high level.
4.0 CV
Name - XYZ
Address - 10/C, London street
Phone no - ********
I am looking for a job according to my skills and capabilities. I wanted to pursue a job
in which my skills and competencies can be utilized in order to achieve organization
goals. I have qualities of good leader and can handle the group of employees if
required. Being an effective communicator improves my conversation and help in
converting customers with use of proper tools and knowledge.
Educational Qualification: -
 Graduate [BCOM (HONS)] from Romania college.
Work Experience
Fresher
Skills
 Leadership
 Communication
 Good learner
Hobbies
 Traveling
 Swimming
Declaration
Here by all the information provided is fair and accurate to my own consent and
sincerity.
References
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Avlaev, O.U., 2020. The role of social intelligence in personal
development. JournalNX. pp.692-698.
Cornell and et. al., 2018. Learning and personal development. In Into TA (pp. 381-
412). Routledge.
Guccione, K. and Hutchinson, S., 2021. Supporting Personal Development Planning.
In Coaching and Mentoring for Academic Development. Emerald Publishing
Limited.
Mayorga-Toledano, M.C. and Fernández-Morales, A., 2018. Coordination,
transversality and professional skills in actuarial education. In ICERI2018
Proceedings (pp. 2714-2719). IATED.
Neenan, M. and Dryden, W., 2020. Cognitive Behavioural Coaching: A Guide to
Problem Solving and Personal Development. Routledge.
Rose, C., 2018. The personal development group: the students’ guide. Routledge.
Thorpe, G. and Mason, J., 2018. Core academic skills. y IP address 192.168. 10.4
on 2022/09/19. p.35.
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