Personal and Professional Development Reflection

Reflection 1
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT REFLECTION
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The program has been very beneficial to me since it has enabled me to acquire various
key skills that I need in my career. Some of the major skills that I have developed from the
program include;
Strategic management skills: Through interaction with the management of the
organization, I was exposed to organizational goals and objectives setting, and how to
continuously plan, monitor, analyze, and control all necessary factors to ensure that the goals and
objectives are met, and also the formulation of contingency plans to be used in case the initial
plans fail. Secondly, I developed my skills on how to analyze various risks that may deter the
achievement of organizational goals and objectives, and how such risks can be controlled
proactively. Thirdly, I acquired skills on how to manage corporate social responsibility (CSR)
and how to integrate it in the long-term plans of an organization. Fourth I learned how to manage
international businesses which have their operations in different international markets. These
skills will help me to effectively and efficiently manage an organization, formulate, implement
and control strategies to achieve organizational goals in my future career (Hitt, Ireland, and
Hoskisson 2012).
Change management skills: I developed knowledge on analyzing how a particular change
will impact the organization now and in the future, determining the stakeholders who will be
affected by the change and how they will be affected, making decisions on whether or not to
adapt the change in the organization depending on its viability, formulating a change
implementation plan, implementing the change as per the change plan, and controlling the
change to ensure that the intended purpose of the change is realized by the organization. I also
acquired crucial skills on how to ensure that any change that is to be adopted in the organization
meets the established moral and ethical standards. The skills will be important in my future

Reflection 3
career in the sense that they will enable me to make quality changes in my organization putting
into consideration all other factors in order to sustain the competitiveness of the organization in
both local and international markets (Anderson and Anderson 2010).
Stakeholder management: As we developed the new corporate social responsibility plan,
I acquired skills on how various stakeholders in an organization are included in decision making.
Some of the key ploys of stakeholder inclusion that I learned and practiced include; stakeholder
mapping which focuses on analyzing how the particular stakeholder relates with the organization
and grouping them according to common interest, representation of each group of stakeholders
by one or two individuals during important meetings, and stakeholder mobilization in order to
gain their support (Freeman 2010). Also, I acquired skills on how to manage people who are in
different countries putting into consideration their different cultural believes and interest. The
skills are essential to my future career in the sense that they will enable me to be an open-minded
manager who includes the stakeholders in decision making thus leading to quality decisions that
are supported by all parties.
Interpersonal and Learning Theories While working with the group
Working with group contributed a lot to promoting my personal and professional
development since we embraced teamwork, collaboration and continues development. Learning
was mainly by interpersonal learning which can be defined as the ability of a person to interact
with and understand other people and social situations (Sullivan 2013). Interpersonal learning
intelligence is highly founded on the ability to communicate and understand people. It