Personal Development Portfolio for Business Management Students

This portfolio provides insights on personal learning and development, transferable skills, and action plan for business management students. It also includes a CV and references.

Business Management
BMP4001
Professional and Academic Skills Development
Personal Development
Portfolio
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Contents
1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development,
and the transferable skills 3-4
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 4
2.0 Personal development learning log 5
3.0 Action plan 6
4.0 CV 7
References 8
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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 an essential part in an individual's life
whether he or she is a student or an employee in a company. It is important to
develop skills and knowledge in every stage of life. It is meant by identifying the
needs and objectives of a person that he wants to grow and develop in a particular
area so that he can reach out his full potential to do any task. It deals as an ongoing
process that begins as young children in the teen years of life and continuous long
into the older age. With the help of personal learning and development, it provides
me a way to acknowledge the key areas and analyses my skills and qualities that are
important for me to achieve the aims of my life. Moreover, it helps to develop
aspirations so that it can be realized and increase my potential to do any task,
activity or projects assigned to me. Through this, I can also grow and build my skills
personally and professionally. I want to develop my career in management field and
want to become an entrepreneur in my further life for which I need to develop various
skills, knowledge and qualities within me so that I can work and behave accordingly.
When I went through my learning sessions, I came to realized that personal learning
and development involves different activities of learning that can be used to improve
my potential and abilities to do tasks. Moreover, it also helps to improve quality of my
life. It support me in the achievements of my life aspirations to become an
entrepreneur and grow me as a most vital human capital. I found that it involves both
formal and informal plans of actions that can be beneficial for developing my career
in the business and management. It can assist me to get success in various areas,
provides me satisfaction at work. PDP is supporting me to identify and reflect my
skills, abilities and expertise. By developing the key areas of improvement will also
help me to grab career opportunities. During my learning and academic sessions, I
came to realized that there are many persons who are under performing in their
career because they did not focus on the areas of improvement, but in my case, I
paid greater attention on development of skills as I knew that it is important for my
dream. I understood the value of setting goals and aspirations for my life. I found that
there are mainly three goals of life, such as short-term goals, medium term goals and
long-term goals. They all have their own value and importance in an individual's life.
Developing an effective action plan is important for me as it would help me to know
the paths and directions so that aspirations can be attained. I know that working on
regular basis will help me to grow in many areas. It would also help me deliver best
outcomes at my work. Hence, I found personal learning and development very useful
in my life as it provides me a path how I can find my developing areas, qualities, and
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knowledge while considering my dream career that is to become an entrepreneur.
Overall, it helps me to reach my maximum level potential.
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed
by attending this module
Skills refers to the individual's attributes to undertaking an organisation with a
purpose to reach the desired goals. As I chose my career in the business and
management and want to become an entrepreneur, I was required to pay attention
on the areas where I need development and improvement so that I can fulfill my life
goals. I found many skills that I have developed while attending my sessions in the
university. The following discussion is based on those skills which I have developed
while attending the module:
 Communication skills: I have developed my communication skills while
attending the module. I know that a good entrepreneur must have great
communication skills so that he or she can convey the message to his
employees in an effective manner. There were many activities held in my
sessions in which i and my teammates were required to talk with each other. It
also helped me to listen others' perspectives and views as well, which
simultaneously helped me to improve my knowledge on some aspects. By
making group presentations i and my fellow members used to talk and divide
the work so that work could be represented very well.
 Team-management skills: This is an another important skill which I have
developed while attending my learning sessions. As an entrepreneur, it is vital
to manage the employees as well as whole organisation so that the desired
outcomes can be attained. As I discussed earlier, there were many group
activities held in my sessions in which I put efforts to manage my team and
their work. I intended to direct and guide my team members and tried to
resolve their problems as well which I thought I could resolve in the best
possible way. By taking such initiatives in the team work, I was able to
develop my team-management skills.
 Ability to learn new things: I found that learning is a never-ending process
and for any person it is very important to learn at every stage and any
situation of life. I realized that for an entrepreneur, I need to develop a high
ability to learn new things, accept new situations, success or failure and so
on. All such things are vital in the entrepreneurship. I developed the skills of
learning new things as I believed that it is important to acquire new knowledge
and one should willing to learn new things as they can be used at any stage of
life. I tend to take participation in different activities, interact more with other
with an aim to acquire new knowledge which could help in my future.
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace
I found that having those skills is not enough for me to become a successful
entrepreneur and to run a company effectively. Hence, I need to develop more skills
and knowledge so that I can perform my duties and work in the most effective way
as an entrepreneur. The following are the skills that I would like to develop for my
career in the business and management:
 Decision-making skills: Making an impactful, smart and strong decision is
very important for an entrepreneur as his decisions can affect the whole
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business in the positive and negative terms. I would like to develop this skill
as I believes that my taken decisions can affect the whole company and it can
also affect my employees as well. By making smart decisions will also help to
have a good confidence level that reflects my abilities as an entrepreneur.
 Time-management skills: It is the most important skill that one person must
have in his life. It is useful in both personal and professional life. I would like to
improve my time-management skills as I think that I need some improvement
to manage my time and schedules so that work can be done on time. By
having such skills within me I can completed my work in the productive
manner, meet deadlines and tackles my priorities as well. It will also help me
to maintain a good work life balance through which I can also focus in my
personal life, I can give my time to my family as well.
 Leadership skills: In order to become a good and successful entrepreneur I
would also like to develop leadership skills within me. By developing such
skills will help me to understand my employee's needs, help me to direct
them, help me to enhance the individual and organizational productivity as
well. Leading is the most crucial task as a leader and as an entrepreneur.
Hence, I will find ways to develop leadership skills within me.
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?
20th Dec. 2021 Conference This
conference
was planned
in my
university
which motive
was to
provide the
learning of
various
business and
management
skills. My
mentors
asked my to
attend this
conference in
order to
develop my
leadership
skills through
I can better
guide and
direct my
employees. It
I learned that
leadership
involves
several critical
activities and
skills to direct
employees
effectively. I
found that a
leader cannot
deal with his
employees
with one
leadership
skill, rather he
is required to
acquire many
skills and
patterns
through which
he can
understand his
follows and will
be able to
make them
I will use
different
styles and
patterns of
leadership
that suits as
per the
situation in
my
company.
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was aimed to
provide the
knowledge
about leaders
and
leadership
patterns that
is needed by
an individual.
work in the
business.
3rd January 2022 Seminar It is planned
with an aim to
facilitate the
learning
about
business and
management.
I learned about
the various
theories of
management
that can be
applied in the
business. I
learned about
motivational
theories such
as Maslow
Hierarchy
theory of
needs,
Hertzberg
theory and
many more.
I can apply
these
theories in
order to
understand
the different
need of
employees
in the
business. I
will also
apply
different
techniques
of
motivation
so that
workers will
work
productively
.
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?
Time-
management
skills
My mentors and
teachers
I will ask my
mentors to
provide work
which has
certain
deadlines so
that I can work
within the time
limit or before
time. I will also
overlook my
I will see the
results that I met
deadlines or not.
Also, I will
measure my past
performance with
my current
performance.
2 years
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priorities so that
prior work can
be done
effectively.
Leadership skills
I will ask my
mentor to give
some group
activities in
which I can lead
at least 4-5
people.
I will try to give
my direction to
my fellow
members so
that can work
accordingly. I
will also try to
communicate
more with them
so that I can
know their
issues facing
the completion
of work.
Through
satisfaction level
of my fellow
members I can
know how I well I
lead my team.
The result of the
team work can
also represent my
leadership skills.
1.5 years
4.0 CV
Joni Johnson
Business Manager
[e-mail]
Profile:
Currently I am working as a business manager in Starbucks Company and want to build my
career in the respective area. I have a good 7 years experience as business manager and
looking forward to grab new opportunities in the other corporation.
Experience:
 7 years as business manager (Starbucks, UK)
 3 years as mentor (Starbucks, UK)
Education:
 MBA (marketing and project management) from Oxford University, 2009-2011
 BBA (business administration) from Oxford University, 2006-2009
Interpersonal Skills:
 Team-management skills
 Time-management skills
 Effective communication skills (both verbal and non-verbal)
Reference:
Languages:
English, Spanish, German
Hobbies:
 Learning new skills and knowledge
 Travelling and reading books.
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