Personal and Professional Development: Reflection on Skills and Values

This reflection discusses the impact of personal values, leadership skills, emotional intelligence, and effective reading techniques on personal, professional, and academic development. It also covers career planning, CV and interview skills, negotiation, and coaching skills for professional development.

Reflection

Contents
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Professional development.......................................................................................................3
Personal Development............................................................................................................5
Academic development..........................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Professional development refers to the development of new skills after entering in the
workforce with simultaneously continuing the education and career. The purpose of this
development is to give an individual a opportunity to learn new skills and knowledge, and apply
the same knowledge and skill in their job and further in their career. Personal development refers
to the activities that is designed to improve the talents, potential, etc. by learning new courses. It
helps to embraces a person potential and enhances his or her quality of life by improvising
himself in terms of skills and knowledge. The skills and knowledge used by the people in the
past in their school time and the same skills and knowledge is now used to perform some
professional activities in the workplace. This development is known as Academic development.
MAIN BODY
Professional development
From week 1 I got to understand that by identifying the values and taking appropriate action
towards the same values shows that how I live a life of dynamic, meaningful and fulfillment.
Knowing my values helps me to make suitable decisions, take appropriate actions and focus on
moving towards the life a person desires. Values helps me to be always in discipline towards the
work and sincere about the life and profession. It keeps me stable and helps to develop new skills
with the continuation of education.
From week 2 I analyzes that the procedure of career planning helps me to determine which
professional path is most suitable to my interests, goals and personality. Once you have started
working certain goals, it helps you to track your growth, and the new skills in your career and
professional development. Few steps that helps me in career development and that will help you
to grow according to your interests are: -
 First thing is to examine about yourself that is consisting of analyzing about your goals,
personality, values, strengths, aptitude, weakness and objectives.
 The next step is to learn about you career planning and conduct research in your career or
professional planning and development.
 Now, you have to rank your skills, goals, interests, challenges and expectation according
to your preference.
 Deeply analyses the interests, abilities and opportunities that helps me to grow.

 The next step now is to analyze your current status of professional development and then
develop new skills whichever is needed.
From week 5 I got to understand about the significance of cv in professional development, a cv
shows what you are, it is basically a short brief about your all the details like your skills,
experience and qualification. It is very important to have a good cv because whenever you apply
for the job, first the HR manager of xyz will want is your cv. It depicts what you are and what
you have done in the past like education, work experience, area of interests and the projects that
you have done. From week 6 it can be analyzed that interview skills are very important to crack
any job because now a days every organization conducts a personal interview before giving the
job to the employees. So while improving your interview skills it simultaneously enhances your
professional development.
Now from week 8, I got to analyze about assessing myself and it can be done by identifying the
benefits of performance appraisal that is discussed below:-
 It helps me to find out about the areas in which I am capable to do it.
 This helps in personal as well as professional development by overcoming the weakness.
 It acts a motivator that boost me to do my work effectively and efficiently.
 It is also beneficial to identify the best talent in the areas of your interest.
In week 9 I got a wisdom to do an analysis of work context that mainly includes coaching and its
benefits and styles. A professional coaching is a type of development in which a learner tries to
achieve their goals and objectives by getting proper guidance and training. It provides the
opportunities for me to improve the skills and capabilities and the main goal by doing this is to
develop the skills as well as getting the education. There are various styles of coaching that helps
me to enhance my professional development that are discussed below: -
 Democratic Coaching: - It is a style in which it gives the team freedom and
accountability, in this method a person will be always boost and in control towards the
work.
 Authoritarian Coaching: - It is a method in which all the decisions are made by the coach
like what to do, how to do and when to do. This technique produces the results proper
and effective and that is ideal for my future life.

 Autocratic Coaching: - This approach is always in control and eagers for perfection all
the time. This helps me to be disciplined towards my work which moreover increases the
professional development.
 Holistic Coaching: - It is a life coaching style which shows the way of living the life
happily in order to encourage the growth in the workplace.
 Vision Coaching: - This style encourages and empowers the clear direction and strategies
for achieving some objectives and encouraging the focus in my life.
Personal Development
From Week 1 I get an understanding that personal values are very important to develop the
personal development. These values are the beliefs that motivates my actions and guide me
through all over my life. It differs from person to person according to the behavior, beliefs and
attitudes. Knowing your life values helps you to lead a more reliable and satisfying life, which is
a driver for your personality and actions. Discovering my own personal values I got to realize it
has following advantages: -
 It increases the self-awareness about your faults, strengths, weakness, personality and
skills.
 When you try to understand yourself and prioritize or rank your values in life, you will
get to know how to apply your strengths. With this you will able to exercise greater
control over the outcomes when you get to know how to hold the change.
 It overall improves the quality of life by identifying your motivations and then setting the
boundaries and after that making a important decisions for the life.
From Week 3, I acknowledge that a leadership skill plays an important role in an individual
life. The best leaders believe that personal development and the leadership development both are
identical. So, to become an effective leader you have to develop various skills that are explained
below: -
 Communication skills: - One of most important element to become an effective leader is
by developing yours communication skills. It helps me to make an effective relationship
with the team members.

 People skills: - Great leader finds various ways to make a connection and building trust
and relationship with the teammates. It helps me conduct any work very effectively and
efficiently.
 Change skills: - The environment and surroundings is not stable, it will always change
according to different circumstances and situations. So this skills helps me always to be
ready to deal with the unwanted change.
 Influence skills: - Best leaders are capable to accomplish everything through some other
people by influencing them, it plays an critical role to become an effective leader in this
century.
 Learning skills: - A good leader should always desire to learn something new. This skill
helps me to continuously learning new skill that moreover helps me to become an
effective leader.
From the study of week 4 I get to know about the relationship between emotional
intelligence and leadership. An effective must have a balance on his or her emotional
intelligence that means to have a balance on capability to understand and manage your own
emotions in a good way to conduct an effective communication, to overcome from the stress
and challenges or to resolve the conflicts. Emotional intelligence skill is important for leaders
because emotionally intelligent leaders are capable of developing new skills and maintaining
an efficient, positive and creative workplace. The theories of emotional intelligence is
discussed below: -
 Self-awareness: - It depicts that the emotions can understand, if you have a wisdom to
acknowledge how an individual actions and emotions can affect me and my behavior.
A self aware person is always active and energetic that helps to enhance the
leadership skills.
 Self-regulation: - It is a skill that a person needs to practice. It includes of being
flexible in life and managing the conflict and it helps me for having an ability to
acknowledge and manage my behavior and my reactions for the feelings and
situations that usually happens around the surroundings.
 Social skills: - This element of emotional intelligence depicts that interacting with
other people in an effective manner. It includes verbal communication, active
listening, etc. that helps a person to conduct a effective social skill.

 Empathy: - It refers to be able to have a knowledge about the feeling of some other
people. It enables me to have a sense of power to understand the feelings of another
person.
 Motivation: - It is considered as intrinsic motivation which means that a person is
motivated to meet his or her needs or goals rather than getting motivated by rewards
such as fame and recognition.
Academic development
From week 1 and week 7, I analyzes that the personal values and effective reading skills
plays an critical role in improvising the academic development. Personal values have a
significant role while getting an education or skills and applying in the future for further
development in life. This element influences the behavior of a person in a positive way and it can
be refers as the interests, goals, desires, needs and standards of preferences that basically support
the same theory. And, Effective reading is the way that helps me understand the whole text
efficiently and effectively. There are various effective reading techniques that are discussed
below:-
 Scanning: - It is the reading technique that is used by an individual for getting the main
points from the whole text. It saves my lot of time by just highlighting the pivot points or
it helps me to getting a preview of the whole essay without reading it completely.
 Skimming: - This reading technique is used for getting the general meaning of the whole
text. It is very useful for understanding the whole passage in less time and that to be
without losing any topic.
 Detailed Reading: - This technique is used to gather the accurate information from the
whole passage. It is used for understanding every word of the meaning in the complete
text of passage.
 Active Reading style: - This reading style main purpose is to get the deep understanding
of the whole document. This technique is usually an individual when he or she wants to
get a depth knowledge about some specific topic.
 Speed Reading: - This technique is basically used to increase the speed of reading
without losing the meaning of text reading. Various strategies used by a person to do
speed reading are such as Identify the words without focusing on each letter or by not
sounding out or vocalizing all the words.

CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above writing that there are various skills such as reading
skills, leadership skills, communication skills etc. that have a great impact on the professional,
personal as well as academic development. Due to enhancement of personal development it will
automatically develop various skills like communication and interpersonal. And, due to the
enhancement of professional development and academic development, it helps me to become a
more skillful person and to grab more opportunities in the life. In the above paragraphs, I had
written about the personal value and its benefits in life and in the career. It has an impact in all of
the above discussed development that is personal, professional and academic. Personal values,
career planning, significance of cv and interview skills, negotiation skill and coaching skill are
the main elements that is discussed in the reference of professional development. And, with the
reference of personal development the main elements that are discussed above are personal
value, leadership skill and emotional intelligence. Where as in academic development the
elements that are discussed above is personal value and effective reading technique.

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