Personal and Professional Development: Reflective Essay

Personal and
Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
Online...................................................................................................................................10
Appendices.....................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development are the part of the student journey and
professional career. During my course and professional career I have analysed that my personal
quality is self management (Husdal and et. al., 2021). My self management skills and abilities
are my core strength since my school days to my personal life and also at the time of my first
experience as an employee. Other than this quality there are several qualities that an individual
build in the life-span. There are two types of skills hard core and soft core skills. Hard core skills
are the tangible abilities such as typing speed, computer and coding skills, proficiency in foreign
language etc. on the other hand the soft core skills are the intangible skills that are also also
known as interpersonal skills such as communication, leadership, motivational, team working
etc. the skills are crucial to be develop with the experience in order to describe the individuals
personality. The present report is the reflective essay of my personal quality that I have
recognised during my academic course. The essay will discuss how my quality impact my
behaviour in university and during interaction with my colleagues at workplace. The report will
discuss the theories like Big Five Personality Test, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Gibbs
Reflective cycle, Planned Happenstance, Locus to Control and Emotional intelligence to support
my quality and also to help in finding my other abilities.
MAIN BODY
Personal Quality- Self Management
According to the Munro, (2021), the self management skills are the critical
employability skills. The self management skills is a intangible ability to manage the own
behaviour, thoughts and feelings in a productive and conscious manner. A person with good self
management skills is aware of its reaction in particular situations. Basically, the self-
management is the concept in which individual understand its own responsibility in different
phase of life and needs to fulfil that responsibility (Clark and Sorum, 2021). From the business
perspective, the self management ability is essential for the effective functioning of an

workplace. Also, the self management skills are important for the empowering employees to be
more innovative and creative in their work for the better output of work. Hence, self
management is the essential skills at workplace in order to stay conscious of the feelings and
thoughts and also for the need of improvement.
I have analysed that my key personal quality is self management ability during my
workshop activities occurred at the University. Our module leader asked me and my peers to find
out more about my personal quality and for that he also suggested some activities. At first I took
my Big Five
Personality Test and results of the test reflected my greatest quality. I answered multiple
personality related question during the test in the format of questionnaire with 5 ranking criteria.
From the personality test, I identified that I have characteristics that are required to be good in
self management skills.
The Big Five
Personality Test comprises of five dimensions of personality i.e. Openness. Conscientiousness,
Agreeableness and Natural reaction. The results of the test are given below:
(See Appendix 1 for full report)
From the above results of the Big Five Personality Test it is discovered that percentage of
Conscientiousness is the 65% which is leading among the other factors of my personality test
(Schermer, Bratko and Bojić, 2020). From the personality test I able to discover some traits and
characteristics are useful and needed for successful self management skills such as: disciplined,
well organised, Conscientious, efficient, strong sense of responsibility and duty, detail oriented.
Skills that help to increase and enhance the self management skills are Role clarity,
Illustration 1: 123test.com