Personal Professional Development

This report focuses on personal development and the enhancement of employment skills. It includes a presentation on the leadership of Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, and a reflective journal on employability skills. The report emphasizes the importance of skills and capabilities in organizational productivity.

Personal Professional
Development

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................1
Covered in PPT............................................................................................................................1
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................1
Reflective Journal............................................................................................................................1
Preparation of reflective journal with respect to completion of above task................................1
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

Introduction
The process that is liable for improvising oneself via activities like enhancement of
employment skills, building wealth and consciousness is referred to as personal development.
The growing success for self-help as well as personal development movement assisted business
managers within attainment of motivated and qualified personnel for firms (Bukor, 2015).
Different approaches as well as strategies are being utilised that leads to enhancement within
organisational productivity. When people have impelling capabilities it becomes easy for
organisation to deliver their services as well as enhance brand awareness. This report has two
parts in which part 1 comprises of presentation and other is reflective journal. Both these sections
will provide an insight into Chief executive officer of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. Within presentation
emphasis will be laid on leadership. The other section of will provide overview of employability
skills that will aid within carrying out business operations through usage of reflective model.
Task 1
Covered in PPT
Task 2
Reflective Journal
Preparation of reflective journal with respect to completion of above task
Skills and capabilities are aspects which make each individual different from one another
even if they are working with same project and sitting besides. Skills denote ability that involves
usage of one’s knowledge in an efficacious as well as readily manner in terms of performance
and execution (Cottrell, 2017). Skills are crucial for each organisation as it aids them within
effective execution of business activities. Individual presentations are regarded as opportunity as
a chance is being given to speak with people and create an affirmative impact on their overall
skills. These skills aided Jeff Bezos to deal with challenges which came in their way while
running their business. While doing research with respect to CEO of Amazon I have analysed
various skills and capabilities that assisted within for improvisation of understanding as well as
knowledge. Furthermore, it leads to increase my confidence level as I expressed and shared my
opinions with others. But while do so I also acknowledged that there certain aspects which needs
to be enhanced as I was weak in them and can create problems for me within corporate
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environment. It is necessary to work on some aspects like statistics aids within critical thinking
ability when decisions with respect to some numerical aspects have to be made but I am weak in
this. For an example, Jeff Bezos have various employability skills which aid them within
managing performance.
There are different learning models through which skills can be improvised as this will
lead within effective acknowledgment of weaknesses and accordingly bring in enhancement
within these aspects so that different tasks can be conducted in an effectual manner (Wald,
2015). Gibbs reflective model illustrates it is necessary that adequate bind prevails among
employer as well as employees as it aids within creating a strong working environment along
with adequate enhancement within skills can be attained. While look for capabilities and skills
possessed by Jeff Bezos, I was working with head manager of organisation where I emphasised
on enhancing my knowledge by making use of this model. It has been specified beneath with
respect to improvisation within my learning and experience:
Description: It is the initial stage in which person is required to determine facts associated
with what is being happening, when along with where and many other aspects are involved
within this. While working on Jess Bezos I have to develop a presentation. For this, I have to
gather huge information and read them for understanding how a person can lead a certain group
of people and taking the organisation to new height. This assisted me within improvisation in
communication skills both in written and verbal. Written in context of I have to develop a
presentation and verbal explaining this. But these were secondary aspects as while working with
manger I have to communicate with them about what I have found so while talking with seniors
a formal language is being used and way they talk was also analysed not only in terms of words
they spoke but also in their body language as sometimes it speaks a lot.
Feelings: This involves thoughts as well as feeling at particular instance of time and
cover the query what you feel. This stage aids within understanding mental state of individuals
(Lawson and Cowling, 2015). There were situations where I was not able to analyse exactly what
capabilities are being possessed by Jeff Bezos which frustrated me but sometimes I was satisfied
when I gathered adequate knowledge. While formulation of presentation I tried to cover all the
crucial aspects in calm manner which lead to boost up my confidence as well as assisted me
within grabbing adequate knowledge with respect to employability skills.
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Evaluation: It is associated with identifying experience along with abilities of an
individual that creates good as well as bad impact on distinct conditions. I was nervous to present
my work the reason was not that I was not prepared for it but it was due feeing of if someone
will cross question me and I won’t be able to answer then what they will think my hard work will
go in vain. But the skills like problem solving ability, IT and confidence that I have gained while
working on this report assisted me to deal with these with challenges. Confidence,
communication skill and knowledge assisted me within completion of project and also there was
an affirmative impact on my personality as I handled the situation in a precise way.
Analysis: The next stage within Gibbs reflective model is analysing conditions which are
being faced while working on this report. I fumbled when delivering the presentation as resource
management skill created a problem. The reason behind this was that I found a lot of information
related with Jeff but I do not know what has to be included this has created various problems
while working on this project.
Along with this, there are some skills which assisted me within dealing with challenges
like communications skills added me to gather knowledge from different sources whether it was
interacting with others to capture it or reading online sources to acknowledge those aspects. The
major difficulty which i faced while doing this was time management.
Conclusion: This involves brining in alteration within process through which I can be
better next time. This assisted to have an affirmative experience. This stage involves
understanding what is being learnt from situations while completing the project. From this I
found that there are certain skills on which I need to work like leadership, communication,
problem solving and leadership that will lead me to have improvised organisational performance.
This can be attained by taking adequate measures through which all these skills can be enhanced
and will aid within attainment of objectives as well goals.
Action Plan: It illustrates all the actions along with plans that are required for enhancing
skills (Moyo and et. al 2016). I have found that the adequate knowledge can be acquired by
communicating with people about recent trends that prevails within market along with reading.
This aids to enhance knowledge that automatically brings in confidence while working on
different projects. Some skills with respect to this have been specified below:
Communication skill: This is important skill which has to be developed within each
individual. The reason behind this is that while communicating certain problems can be easily
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resolved. I have adequate communication skills which aids me to present myself in front of other
peoples as well as understand their point of view while having discussion.
Usage of ICT: Information and communication technology is being utilised by individuals
for purpose of enhancement of quality of education (Swain, 2016). Through acquiring adequate
knowledge related with technological aspects it will become easy to deliver services quickly. I
opt for this while working, like usage of email to send any document or message to different
personnel instead of doing phone calls to each individual. This is a time consuming process and
technology is being designed to smoothen things which I ensure that I make its use. Along with
this, internet is major source through which I have gathered lots of information.
Team work: It becomes easy to deliver work in team but only in case if mutual
understanding is being developed among members otherwise it can be painful to complete the
work. I found that Jeff Bezos works in team which aids them in attaining their goals on time.
This enhances understanding related with people as well as has high productivity. While working
in a team, I have found that innovative and amplified results can be attained as each individual
have different have their own thoughts.
Time & self-management skills: Time is regarded as important aspect while working on
any project as it leads to make sure projects will be delivered on time (Bukor, 2015). It aids me
within delivering my work on time as well as management all the crucial activities associated
with this.
Problem solving skill: I have critical analytical ability which provides me to think for
particular situation in an appropriate manner by taking into consideration different positives and
negatives associated with this. It aids me to solve the problems in an appropriate time and ensure
that the negative impact is minimised.
The above illustrated are some essential employability as well as study skills which are
being utilised while formulation of projects and ensure adequate performance is being attained.
Conclusion
From above report, it can be concluded that, there are different skills as well as
capabilities that are being required for appropriate completion of project. It is necessary that
different learning models are being utilised to understand what is being possessed, what needs
improvement and what new skills are being needed to make sure that individual can sustain
within market successfully. Gibbs reflective cycle has been used from doing this.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bukor, E., 2015. Exploring teacher identity from a holistic perspective: Reconstructing and
reconnecting personal and professional selves. Teachers and teaching.21(3). pp.305-
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Cottrell, S., 2017. Critical thinking skills: Effective analysis, argument and reflection. Macmillan
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Lawson, C. and Cowling, C., 2015. Social media: The next frontier for professional development
in radiography.Radiography.21(2). pp.e74-e80.
Moyo, M. and et. al 2016. Healthcare practitioners’ personal and professional values. Advances
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Swain, J., 2016. The effect of Phase One training on young recruits' personal and professional
development in the British army.Journal of Youth Studies.19(1). pp.117-132.
Wald, H. S., 2015. Professional identity (trans) formation in medical education: reflection,
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Online
About. Jeff Bezos and its leadership role. 2020. Available through:
< https://www.biography.com/business-figure/jeff-bezos>
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