Personal & Professional Development

Personal & Professional
Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Personal quality description.........................................................................................................1
Quality as a strength.....................................................................................................................2
Attributes and values of strengths................................................................................................3
Challenges faced..........................................................................................................................4
Contradictive experiences............................................................................................................5
Future benefits of quality.............................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development both require an individual to have personal
quality and skills. The personal quality chosen in this essay is leadership quality. This project
talks about the ability of an individual for evaluating individual and professional qualities in a
business environment. This project will have the application of the concepts of self-reflection for
explaining the personal and professional behaviour of effectiveness. In this project the
identification and appraisal of work-based skills, competencies and values is done for
understanding their impacts on the behaviours of the individual. With the help of this project
investigation is done on the conceptual underpinning of the individual's behaviour in the context
of a business.
MAIN BODY
Personal quality description
My personal quality is leadership. Leadership is known as a very important quality which
is needed for a good leader who is responsible for the introduction of integrity, accountability,
empathy and decision-making. Leadership has its place in both personal and professional
development of an individual. Its importance is mainly seen in the decision-making of the
individual in both the personal and professional life. Leadership is very important for an
organization as it helps it with organizing, planning, decision-making and also motivating the
other member of the group. My quality of leadership can be explained better with the help of
theory. The theory used for understanding this personal quality is the concept of transformational
leadership (Chicca, Frank and Hagy, 2018). This theory was first introduced in 1978 and defined
transformational leadership as a process in which the leaders and followers help one another to
reach higher levels of motivation and morality. According to this theory the leader which in this
scenario its me have the following,
Integrity and fairness :
I have noticed in myself that I have this extreme quality being fair to even people who I
have nothing to do with. It can be said that I have a good leadership quality because I notice
integrity and fairness in the decision in make in the personal and professional life.
Sets goals :
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I am one of those persons who believe in having a goal set for all the activities I do. This
is important as I believe that the people who have no goals do not quite know how to reach
success, whereas I believe that it is important to have a goal that you can accomplish.
High Expectations :
One of the reason I believe I have good leadership skill because I have very high
expectation about every thing. I expect more from myself and also people around me this makes
me a great leader (De Nobile, 2018).
Supportive :
This quality of leadership of mine is reflected even better as I have a tendency to be very
supportive to the people around me and I also don't hesitate to get recognized and it makes me
feel more confident.
Understanding people emotions :
I have understood that I am very social, and can easily connect with other team members
and followers. This allows me to understand the emotions of the surrounding people which I
used for motivating them and changing my decision (Harrison, 2017).
Quality as a strength
The leadership quality of mine is known as my strength because of many reasons. It helps
to me understand and motivate the people I am working with. This quality of mine has made me
be fair to others and develop integrity in my decisions in both personal and professional life. This
quality has also been a strength due to the fact that it makes me set my goals prior to what I want
to accomplish. Due to this leadership quality I have developed high expectations in everything I
want to achieve and also have developed high expectations from others. Leadership has made me
very supportive to others this has been very important as by supporting others I can not only
build good relationships with them but also motivate them to get the work done. Leadership
quality has provided me the strength of understanding the peoples emotions which is very
important for motivating them and tuning their performance (Keskes and et.al., 2018).
Strength-based Leadership is a leadership theory that explains that the ability of
identification in an individual gives them the strength to utilize both own and others strength for
benefits of the group. According to the strength based leadership theory a leader has the
following friends for producing effective team performance a strong leadership in the group.
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