Personal Development Portfolio for Business Management Students

This portfolio provides insights on personal learning and development, transferable skills, action plan, and CV for business management students. It includes identification and reflection on personal learning and development, transferable skills, and skills to be developed. It also includes a personal development learning log, action plan, and CV.

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 3-5
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 3
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 6
References 7
1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development,
and the transferable skills
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1.1 Identification and reflection on my approach to personal
learning and development
Personal and professional development is an ongoing activity of identifying one's life goals
and objectives and developing required skills and knowledge to reach the potential. These
developments support a person in achieving success, maturity and satisfaction. Personal
development skills refers to the abilities and qualities that assist a person to grow
individually and professionally. It is essential for a person to acknowledge those skills that
will help him to maximize his potential (Ekström, Hilletofth and Skoglund, 2021). While
attending the module, I came to realise that personal development and learning involves
activities that improve an individual potential and capabilities, develop human capital,
improves quality of life and facilitate employability and accomplishments of life goals and
aspirations. It can also consist formal and informal actions for building others in roles such
as guide, teacher, manager, mentor, counsellor or coach while it is not restricting the self-
development. I also understood that personal development plan can be very beneficial for
building career in business and management. This PDP will help me to reflect on my abilities
and knowledge and also I will be able to find the opportunities to improve the areas where I
am lacking. During my learning, I realized that most of the people underachieve in their
career as they do not focus on the areas of development which will help in attain mastery in
any area. It is important to set a goal for the career, make a required plan and work on daily
basis, which will result in progress and personal development within the career. Hence, it
refers a direction in which an individual can identify and assess his skills, knowledge and
qualities, ascertain their life goals and develop them with an intent to realise and increase
their potential. It is important that a person must identify the skills that needs development
as well as that allows to create tactical and strategic plans for the growth and development.
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed
by attending this module
Skills required in business and management refers to the attributes that a person requires to
run his business with an intent to attain goals. As I chose my career in business
management, I must assure the essential skills that are needed to develop my career in such
field. While attending this module, I came to realise the important skills that are essential to
build career in business and management. Some of the important skills that I developed
while attending this module are mentioned below:
 Communication skills: Communication is very vital to put one's thoughts and ideas in
front of others. In order to seek opportunities in business and management, I came
to realise that I have to be good at my communication which represents my
thoughts, ideas and opinions very clearly to my peer, employees, clients, media or
suppliers. While attending this module, I developed my communication skills by
communicating with my classmates, teachers and mentors (Garcia, 2019). I tried to
interact more with them in order to understand their point of view as well.
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 Critical thinking and problem solving: I also understood that critical thinking and
problem-solving skills are important to grow my career in business and
management. I developed these skills while attending this module because I know
that any organization needs such skills as they face complex challenges in their
internal and external environment. In order to analyse the situations and make
careful decisions for the company I developed these two skills within me. I took
active part in my learning and found solutions to problems which helped me to
enhance these skills. Creativity: As I want to develop my career in business and management, I
understood that creativity is also very important in any kind of work. It is important
for me to find new methods and ways or put creativity in my work that captures
other’s attention and rise me on the top of the field. It is important for me to think
outside the box and put creativity and innovation in my work so that I can be able to
perform my work with uniqueness.
 Interpersonal skills: While learning this module, I also developed my interpersonal
skills as I know it is also important for me to build my career in business and
management. I developed this skill because I know that to deal with people or to
earn the respect of my colleagues or my seniors it is important for me to develop
such skills within me. Therefore, I tried to spend more time with my team members
by socializing them.
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace
I realized that in order to develop my career in the chosen field, it is important to
improve my skills which will help me for the better future. Skills that I would like to develop
are discussed below:
 Leadership skills: Leadership skill is a key skill in order to guide people in the
company. It is important for me to motivate my subordinates in order to get best out
of them and to enhance the overall productivity (Lowe and Feldman, 2018). As I
want to be a manager of any respective organisation, it is important for me to
support my team members and solve their issues in the best possible way which will
help me to improve my skills, experience and knowledge.
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 Organisational skills: It is also important for me to develop organisational skills, as
the role of a business manager consists with multiple responsibilities. I will require to
manage my workload training sessions, overlook the work of my subordinates, carry
out appraisals and also review policies of organisation. By developing organisational
skills effectively will help me to reduce the stress and my work will be completed
within the deadlines and it will also help me to save time.
 Time management skills: Managing time is also very important in the organisation. I
want to develop this skill which will help me to complete my task on time, allows me
to relieve stress and assist me to balance in my personal and professional life.
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?
1.12.2021 I want to
develop my
leadership skills
(Mak and Wong,
2018).
I was trying to
be a good
leader that
motivates
and inspire
others.
It is important
for my career
to develop this
skill because
generate lead
and
productivity I
have to inspire
others to work
hard.
I will take
part in such
activities
which
provide me
a chance to
guide,
motivate
and inspire
others so
that can
work
mutually
and help
company to
generate
leads.
1.01.2022 I have to work
on my time-
management
skills.
I was looking
to improve
my time-
management
skills as it is
important to
meet
deadlines at
work.
Earlier I was
not able to
manage my
work on time.
I plan my
work on a
sheet,
prepare
time-table
which will
help me on
this
(Nkalane,
2018).
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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
I will ask my
mentors and
seniors to
provide me a
certain time
limit.
I prepare a time-
table, list the
work which has
to be done on
prior basis.
By checking
previous results. March 2022
Leadership skills
Activities that
give me a
chance to guide
and lead others.
I will try to show
the right
direction to my
team and
inspires to work
on mutual basis.
Ask my team
members about
my leadership
skills (Zhong and
Et.al., 2018).
May 2022
4.0 CV
CURRICULUM VITAE
Alexa Johnson
[e-mail]
Profile
Hard working business management graduate with proven organisational, leadership and
product development skills looking to apply my abilities and knowledge to the position of
business manager at Amazon.
Experience
Associate Sourcing Manager
Land’s End, UK (April-2016 to present)
 Handling the product development process from concept to market, merchant pricing
and sharing designing strategies.
 Answerable for over costing of each component of the product and services in order to
gain year on year rise in gross profit.
 Negotiate pricing, lead time delivery, quantity for products from factories,
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manufacturers and suppliers.
 Designing report formatting, streamlining information, leveraging several database
systems.
Analyst
Spotify - Stockholm, Sweden (Jan 2014 - Feb 2016)
 Managing wide and complex data that are received from multiple platforms.
 Assessing potential areas in business that are associated to financial operation.
 Timely provided financial statements and completed 12 projects in in a single year.
References
Most proud of
Awarded
- Excellent reporting and presentation skills.
- Highly proficient with MS Excel, PLM and MS Access.
- Lead costing negotiations to increase gross margin by 12% on key products.
Language
English
Hobbies
 Reading and learning about start-ups and business.
 An important part of local soccer team.
 Like to socializing with different people.
References
Ekström, T., Hilletofth, P. and Skoglund, P., 2021. Towards a purchasing portfolio model for
defence procurement–A Delphi study of Swedish defence authorities. International Journal
of Production Economics, 233, p.107996.
Garcia, R., 2019. MM VOCAL PERFORMANCE/PEDAGOGY PORTFOLIO (Doctoral
dissertation, Johns Hopkins University).
Lowe, N. and Feldman, M. P., 2018. Breaking the waves: Innovating at the intersections of
economic development. Economic Development Quarterly, 32(3), pp.183-194.
Mak, P. and Wong, K. M., 2018. Self-regulation through portfolio assessment in writing
classrooms. Elt Journal, 72(1), pp.49-61.
Nkalane, P. K., 2018. E-portfolio as an alternative assessment approach enhancing self-
directed learning in an Open Distance Learning environment (Doctoral dissertation).
Zhong, H., Liu, C., Zhong, J. and Xiong, H., 2018. Which startup to invest in: a personalized portfolio
strategy. Annals of Operations Research, 263(1), pp.339-360.
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