Personal Effectiveness: Analyzing Mark Zuckerberg's Skills, Covey's 7 Habits, Learning Style and Skill Development Methods

Personal
Effectiveness

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Task 1...........................................................................................................................................1
Task 2...........................................................................................................................................5
Task 3...........................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
APPENDICES...............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Skill development refers to the advancement of the skills of an individual. It can also be defined as enhancement of productive
capabilities of an individual through training and learning. This process helps in identifying the gap and developing the skills
accordingly which allows the individual to achieve organisational goal easily and effectively (Brock and Von Wangenheim,2019). To
achieve the organisational goal effectively it is very important to have a right set of skills. As right skills help the organisation in
getting the right direction which help the organisation in easy accomplishment of target and also provide success to the organisational
concern. The skill development also helps in economic stability and growth in the lives of an individual. It aids in building
professional network and enhances communication, negotiation and time management skill of an individual. Mark Zuckerberg is an
American entrepreneur who was born on May 14, 1984. He is very well known for founding social media website Facebook. He
launched Facebook in February 2004. He is the Chairman, CEO and controlling shareholder of the company and went on to develop
Facebook (Decety,2020). He was a student in Harvard university but he dropped out in between. On the present day the revenue of the
company is about $17.9 billion and it also caters to 1.7 billion users all around the globe. This file will be based on personal skill and
behaviour of Mark Zuckerberg, Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Successful People and evaluation of own learning style has also been
discussed in the report contrast of two different learning styles for improvement of skills in order to undertake personal skills
development has also been analysed in this report.
MAIN BODY
Task 1
Analyse key skills and behaviours of Mark Zuckerberg
Key skills and behaviours of Mark Zuckerberg
Some of the key skills and behaviours of Mark Zuckerberg are discussed below -
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1. Problem solving – Mark Zuckerberg is a problem solver as he was the reason behind the development of Facebook and boom
of social media. This skill has been developed in him during the creation of Facebook because individuals don't know the way
of expressing their thoughts online while maintaining their privacy and it was a big problem in his path. He usually works hard
on analysing what actually is going wrong and how he can fix it and he can't stay calm without solving the issue (Hoffmann,
Proferes and Zimmer, 2018).
Advantages -
 It helps in mitigating the conflicts among the organisation.
 It also helps in enhancing the potential of the team which can help the company in gaining success.
 It also encourages innovative and creative ideas in the company.
Limitations -
 Lack of team spirit
 It is a time consuming process.
 It increases competition among members in the team
2. Effective communication - Zuckerberg has always tried to build a good communicational relationship with his employees as
effective communication helps in building good interpersonal relationships in the organisation and which helps the
organisation to achieve success.
Advantages -
 It helps in building trust among the members in the organisation
 It improves team work and productivity among the employees.
 It helps in creating good relationships with the client.
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