Personal Development Portfolio for BSc (Hons) Business Management

This portfolio includes self-reflection on personal learning and development, identification of transferable skills, skills to be developed, personal development learning log, action plan, and CV for BSc (Hons) Business Management course.

BSc (Hons) Business Management
BMP4001
Professional and Academic Skills Development
Personal Development
Portfolio
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1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development,
and the transferable skills p-p
1.1 Identification and reflection on my approach to personal
learning and development p
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed
by attending this module p
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace p
2.0 Personal development learning log p
3.0 Action plan p
4.0 CV p
References p
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1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development,
and the transferable skills
1.1 Identification and reflection on my approach to personal
learning and development
Personal learning and development is a lifelong process that every individual should
focus on in order to improve their future life. It is basically considered as a procedure
of self improvement in the upcoming life in which a person has to focus on building
up various skills and qualities in their own life. This can be achieved independently or
through the environment of workplace(Bennett-Levy., 2019). There are various
advantages of personal learning and development in a persons life that are written
down below:-
 It helps a person to get acknowledge about their capabilities and skills in
much more effective way.
 It enables an individual to set a very clear vision and goals in their own life.
 A well defined goal in the life helps the people to be always motivated in order
to accomplish the goals.
 It enhances the persons life and enables them to get a good work life balance.
 This helps an individual to improvise their career through the enhancement of
skills.
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed
by attending this module
Creativity: - It is a capability of an individual to think in a very different way as
compared to some typical person about the different tasks. This skill has helped me
a lot in solving the difficult issues by enabling a different approach in thinking about
the problems. It helps me to easily find out the opportunities and the strategic way to
grab those opportunities. It requires a creative mind as well as problem solving skill
in order to be good at this skill.
Adaptability: - This is the skill that enables a person to quickly get involve in
the changing situations. It basically enables a quality in an individual to easily able to
learn something new like skills or behaviors. This skill helps me to manage the
unwanted situations in more effective way and increases the chances of succeeding
in the life. This skill majorly helps me to face the adversities of my life and enables to
get stability in the life. The benefits that I get from this skill are written down below: -
 It enables my mind to adapt the change that is going to come in the future.
 It helps me to easily accept the views of different people without any debates.
 It helps me to get adjust to the upcoming situations and encounter it perfectly.
 It enables to do an effective work under the pressure or stress.
Leadership: - It is the skill of a person to guide or influence their followers in
order to improve their life (Chen., Huang. and Hu., 2019). The qualities that help the
leaders to guide their followers much more effectively is by focusing on their
emotional intelligence, by focusing on developing the other individuals and by
enabling an effective communication. It helps me to increase my confidence level,
enhance my negotiating skill and enables to develop my personality. Through this
skill it gets me an understanding that to achieve something great in the life it is very
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vital to become an effective leader. It teaches me about to handle a lot people at the
same time by providing them the guidance and improving their lifestyle.
Time management: - It refers to the procedure of planning to divide the time
for doing the activities (Tymms., 2018). This helps me to define that how much time I
have to spend on the various types of activities. This enables a person to complete
the same task in less time with a less stress. It helps to grab more opportunities
rather than wasting time in some trivial activities. I personally believe that this skill
has a lot of importance in my life because without this skill I would not able to
achieve the other skills(Goncharov., 2020). A proper planning must be done in
conducting the activities within the given time frame and according to the activity
assign the time. The benefits that I realized it came into my life through this skill are
written down below: -
 It helps to reduce my stress level and enhance my confidence.
 It enables to get a lot of free time to do more things that are vital for me.
 It increases my focus as well as improve my performance.
 It helps to keep me all the things are easier and simpler.
 It enables to get me less distracted in conducting the work and increased my
efficiency.
Problem solving: - This skill enables an individual to determine the problem
and find out the solution for the same problem. It is basically a skill to use to strategic
methods in an effective manner to solve the complex problems. This skill helps me a
lot in solving the difficult problems in different circumstances. This skill enables me to
deal with different kinds of problems at the same time and that too be solve all the
problems without any mistakes(Sierra and Alcántara, 2019).
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace
Communication skills: These skills are the skills an individual operate while
giving and receiving exclusive styles of information. This skill also contains listening,
speaking, watching and understanding. It is likewise beneficial to apprehend the
variations in a way to speak via face-to-face interactions or conversations and virtual
communications like electronic mail and social media. I believe that this skill would
help me in my career growth as well as enhance my confidence while talking some
other individual. It helps me in improving my relationship with my relatives and other
persons as well as it has improvised my living style. This skill has a major
involvement in improving my qualities or capabilities.
Collaboration skills: - These are the skills that enables every individual to
conduct a specific work some other person in order to achieve the common goal.
This skill includes some other capabilities as well such as to communicate clearly, to
listen carefully, and respecting the cultures of other team members. This skill has
improved many individuals in working with their teams and solving the issues. This
however enables to conduct more efficient processes as well as innovation(Meng. and
Guo., 2018). The various benefits of this skill is that it enables an individual to develop
other skills like problem solving, adaptability etc.
Innovative thinking: - This skill is used to generate a creative ideas and
solutions for the problems. It is a very difficult thing to ascertain new techniques to
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approach the problems. This skill enables an individual to find different ways to solve
an issue. There is always an alternative way to solve the same problem that some
people are doing very hard work to do it. It enables to be always ahead of the
problem.
Public speaking: - This skill is very in current decade because it has a great
weightage in improvising or decreasing a person career. It is basically an art of
speaking effectively in front of a lot of people(Shapiro., 2020). This skill can help a
person to gain the trust of their listeners and build a level of respect.
Writing skills: - Writing skills are the capabilities which assist writers
positioned their thoughts into phrases in a significant shape and to mentally engage
with the message. This skill has a lot of importance because by writing an effective
phrases or words, it can help you connect with some other individual. A good writing
skill enables the quality in an individual to understand someone very clearly from
their words. This skill helps an individual in various forms like to being professional in
the workplace or boost the performance as well as confidence.
Negotiation skills: - Negotiation skills are the qualities that enables two or
more parties to agree on a common logical solution. At work, it is very useful for an
individual to demonstrate their negotiation skills in various situations such as
Negotiations about a salary increase with the HR manager, negotiating about a
project deadline with the manager etc. This skill has also a lot of importance like
building a relationship or delivering the best solutions.
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
?
Monday Webinar for
critical thinking
I am
expecting to
learn the
quality to
critically think
about the
problems.
I have learned
to solve the
complex
problems with
strategic
methods.
This can
be
applied to
solve the
giant
problems
in the life.
Wednesday Seminar for
personality
development
Expecting to
enhance my
personality
The tools
which will help
me to improve
myself.
This is
can be
applied
by using
the tools.
Friday There was an
online session
for making an
effective goal
and the ways to
I am
expecting to
learn different
methods to
make better
I learned to
make the most
effective
method to
achieve the
This can
be
applied in
my
learning
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achieve it in the
future.
goals in my
life.
desirable
goals.
through
making
an
effective
decision.
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?
Communicatio
n Skills
Not any
resources
required for
learning
communication
I had to read
books and
articles and
communicate
regularly with
someone to
improve the
communication
skills.
This success can
be measured
when I started
speaking without
taking any issues.
The
communication
can be
achieved in the
next 3 months.
Public
speaking
The resources
required to learn
this skill is the
audience and a
proper set up for
public speaking.
I had to boost
my confidence
and try my level
best to not
hesitate at the
time of
speaking.
This success can
be measured by
just speaking in
front of a large
audience.
This skill can be
achieved in 2
weeks.
Writing skills
The resources
required for this
skill is paper
and pen.
I had to work on
my handwriting
and learn the
new words.
This success is
measured by the
opinion of
different people
about the phrases
or words.
This can be
achieved in the
next 21 days.
4.0 CV
Name
Address
Phone
E mail
Skills
Experience
Education
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Area of interest
languages
References
Bennett-Levy, J., 2019. Why therapists should walk the talk: The theoretical and empirical case for
personal practice in therapist training and professional development. Journal of behavior
therapy and experimental psychiatry, 62, pp.133-145.
Chen, G., Huang, S. and Hu, X., 2019. Backpacker personal development, generalized self-efficacy,
and self-esteem: Testing a structural model. Journal of Travel Research, 58(4), pp.680-694.
Goncharov, V.N., 2020. CONCEPTS OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF
INTELLECTUAL PROCESS: INTERCULTURAL ASPECT OF COMMUNICATION.
In Сборники конференций НИЦ Социосфера (No. 19, pp. 28-31). Vedecko vydavatelske
centrum Sociosfera-CZ sro.
Meng, X. and Guo, J., 2018, January. Study on Approaches to Personal Development of Young
University Teachers. In 2017 5th International Education, Economics, Social Science, Arts,
Sports and Management Engineering Conference (IEESASM 2017) (pp. 574-577). Atlantis
Press.
Shapiro, E.R., 2020. Liberation psychology, creativity, and arts-based activism and artivism: Culturally
meaningful methods connecting personal development and social change.
Sierra, J.A.J. and Alcántara, A.C., 2019. The influence of the passionate teacher on students’
academic improvement and personal development. Estudios Sobre Educacion, 36, pp.31-
51.
Tymms, M., 2018. Implementing educational innovations: A staff perspective of personal development
planning. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 23(4), pp.463-478.
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