Self-Development and Responsibility: Mini Project Workshop and Use of Appendix

Preparing for Success
at University:
Self-Development and
Responsibility

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Mini project workshop...........................................................................................................3
Use of Appendix.....................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................7
Appendices for the Portfolio..................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Self-development is called the acquisition of the information and skills needed for an
effective professional life, with the aim of maintaining this knowledge throughout life. Self-
development contributes to both satisfaction and success for long term in life. It helps to embrace
self- improvement skills such as communication skills, interpersonal skills, employability skills,
etc. In addition, it improves strength, improves mental health and even maintains solid
relationships (Efron, 2020).
Self- development is an ongoing process. It is the responsibility of a person to maintain
knowledge and skills throughout lifetime. Strategies must be put into action to improve skills and
improve quality of life. Self- development also includes embracing other people’s skills and
personality such as by providing professional service, personal competency and others. The
report discusses the contribution of project mini-workshops to the development of social and
ethical awareness and accountability.
MAIN BODY
Mini project workshop
The personal growth of an individual is very critical because it helps in the development of
the skills and also the self-awareness within aim of improving the quality of life for achieving
various goals. All those individuals who want to improve their skill should participate in a
variety of courses or workshops that can help them to do so. From a workplace point of view it's
all about maximizing the capacity, developing strengths and also strengthening work force
capabilities in order to be more competitive and productive at the workplace (Lauermann, 2017).
I have enrolled myself in a few mini projects workshop that has immensely contributed
towards my development in social unethical awareness and responsibilities. They are discussed
below:
● Goal setting and achievement: there are many types of people who work really very hard
every day to achieve their goals but they never manage to get there. So by learning how
to set goals properly I will be able to fulfil all my dreams and wish list will be
accomplished by setting goals.
● Improvement of communication skills: this skill is very important for all the individuals.
My meeting improvement upon my communication skills I will be able to develop social

skills with the help of this workshop. This is to help me to recognise my self-control over
my emotions and also will develop a skill that relates to listening and speaking. With the
help of this skill I will develop the skill of decision making and this will also help me in
identifying all the communication roadblock.
● Time management: Having strong time management skills will allow me to prioritise all
my tasks and it will help me to avoid distractions so that I can maintain all the focus upon
my work. This also will help my social and ethical awareness and responsibilities that I
have towards society achieving potential task deadlines (Su and et. al., 2018). Time
management comes under unethical practice of an individual.
With all these three workshops which I am attending to develop my personal skills will help
me immensely to contribute towards a society as I will implement all these skills into my
employment which will increase my employability skills. There are various reasons for which I
pursue these workshops as it will help me in building good habits which indirectly will help
society as all the practices which I will be doing in my employment or in career future will be
ethical and will be done keeping in mind the benefit of the society at large. With the help of all
the skills I will be able to develop a network who might later be my potential partners in business
in future. For all the skills to be developed by me the most important is the communication skill
which will help me to communicate with a variety of people (Garland, 2020). This will further
enhance my listening skills.
With the help of this workshop I also learnt that it is very important to respect each and every
individual and differences in the culture. This helps me in enhancing my social responsibility and
also understanding the ethical behaviour which I must possess within myself so that there is no
negative impact of my activities upon the society.
Use of Appendix
Appendix is basically the set of supplemental materials that are not required reading for a
document but it can be very useful in offering a more thorough interpretation of content that is
too lengthy to be used in the main body of the report or in an article.
In my report I have used 12 documents or appendices that will help me in providing the
additional information relating to my self-development plans and responsibilities. The usefulness
of all the valid documents that I have compiled are discussed below.

 Personal development plan: it serves as a graphic overview and development guide and
assists in developing a well-structured schedule and time table to achieve my objectives.
 Personal SWOT analysis: it helps in the creation of my plans for achieving objectives it
aims at gaining a deeper understanding of who I am as a person. It enhances talent while
maximizing my flaws. It also measures chances of achieving my objectives.
 Reading log: it will help me assess the time I am spending up on reading and developing
on my critical thinking skills (Fordham and Robinson, 2019).
 Weekly schedule: it is very important and Critical to the ultimate success of a project. It
is regular preparation that will help to chart progress and decide whether or not I am on
track.
 Effective communication skills: the benefit of this is that it helps to compare the
effective and ineffective communication skill and draws the benefit of effective
communication.
 Comparison of good and bad attributes: this comparison generally helps in the social
and ethical awareness and realising what improvement I must be doing for my self-
development.
 Academic writing skill: by this I will be able to show all my academic skills and what are
my strong points and my weak points. It will also portray the benefit that particular skill
has for me.
 Employability skill: this will put all the specific skills that are required while attending
my workshop and how it has read my chances to get the desired job.
 Reflection note: this will provide detailed learning of all my lessons and experiences and
will portray my observations upon its basis.
 Curriculum vitae: this is a very short document that will show all my best skills and
experience to the employer (Melo and et. al., 2020).
 Action Plan: this mainly will show all my steps, time frame, resources and the process by
which I will be completing my goal.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above report that it is very important to incorporate a self-
development plan so that an individual may know all the process and progress of their own

development in a well systematic manner. This plan helps in development of the skills and also
what all things and it may pursue to improve upon the skills which are very important for that
employment all for the future success.
REFERNCES
Books and Journals