Professional and Academic Skills Development - Personal Development Portfolio

This article discusses personal and professional development, transferable skills, and personal development learning log. It also includes an action plan and a CV for a business manager.

Professional and Academic Skills Development
Personal Development
Portfolio

Contents
1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development,
and the transferable skills 3-4
1.1 Identification and reflection on my approach to personal learning
and development 3
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed by
attending this module 3
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace 4
2.0 Personal development learning log 4
3.0 Action plan 5
4.0 CV 6
References 8

1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development, and the transferable skills
1.1 Identification and reflection on my approach to personal learning and development
Private learning and development is the component of determining peoples needs and
goals for developing and growing in a specific area and utilize his full potential. It is the
continuous process that is begun as a young child in their adolescent years and continues into the
human old age. It empowers individual to form their objectives, examine and learn current skills
and grow their personal traits. I will grow myself personally and professionally with the
assistance of the personal training and development. It is key factor for me to find my skills in
which I need improvement and betterment for enhancing my potential to do the assign tasks
efficiently(Cottrell, 2020.). When I read about module, then I came to know that personal
learning and development includes several activities that will help in improve my potential and
capabilities, improved my living, accomplish our life goal and objectives and developing myself
as a most valuable human asset. I completely understand that the formal and informal plans of
actions that is very vital in forming career in the field of enterprise and managements. It will
assist me in achieving the success, work satisfaction and developed me as a whole. Personal
development program will help me to improve my skills, expertise and abilities and further, I
will be capable of identifying the opportunities in which I have to work(Sinfield, and Burns,
2022). In my sessions, I came to know that the most of the people is underperforming in the
respective career as they do no pay much attention on their weaker points but in case of mine I
am paying full attention to the weaker areas of in and attaining expertise in that field. I certainly
believe that it is beneficial for me to found the aspirations whether that is short, medium or long
term, as well as preparing an effective plan while working everyday in in order to accomplish the
better results and establish my career in most effective manner. Hence, I understood that the
personal leaning and developing is giving me a way to find and examine the skill set,qualities,
expertise and abilities while performing the life goals to achieve mine full potential(Siddiqui, and
Lokhande, 2019).
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed
by attending this module

Skills which is related to any field referred as peoples traits to run their businesses with a
motivation to achieve the set target. As I chosen that I will pursued my career in the field of
businesses and management, then I should totally pay attention on the sectors which I need to
focus for improving and growing my skills to accomplish my goals. During the sessions of
mine, I realised that I have already posses various skills in becoming a good businessman. Few
of the key skills that that I have to posses in order to pursue my career in the field of businesses
and management(Wakefield. and Gips, 2022). They are as follows:
 Communication skills: It is a one of the key elements to run the businesses smoothly.
The skill of effective communication helps in putting out the opinions and perceptions of
theirs in front of each others. I understand that if I want to grow in the respective field I
must have to full command on the communication skill for convincing others with my
point of view. During the sessions, I formulated this skill to talk more often to my piers
and my mentors. In addition, while doing interactions among various peoples I also
developed skills to listening carefully. It helps me in understanding their viewpoint
easily.
 Team management skills: Pursuing career in the businesses and management is not easy
task as they have to deal various teams of individuals who are belonging from various
backgrounds. For accomplishing the common goals in the future I came to realized the
importance of working in a team. I came to understand that how to effectively work with
people who has various approaches and the ideas, but for accomplish the common targets
, me and my friends has to work in a team for producing better outcomes.
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies, personal life and the
workplace
These are the few skills that I want to develop in me during the sessions:
 Decision-making skills: This is the most important skills for becoming a great leader in a
businesses. I want to develop mentioned skill in me as it will make me full of confident
and assist me in effective decision-making in the course of businesses. This skill set will
help in future to solve different problems which will raises among the employee's. In the
end it will give me confidence to deal with any issue(Plato,2018).

 Leadership skills: it is considered as a one of the important skills which helps in
motivating and inspiring the followers of the business. I will certainly develop this skill
set in order to create strategic plans for the businesses and to enhance motivation to the
employees and the teams to attain the common goals. I want to became a desired example
for my other teammates by mastering these skills.
 Time-management skills: This skill particularly going to help me to do my assign tasks,
assignments and projects on specified time-limit. If I developing these skills, I will be
more efficient and effective at my organisation(Anderson, Hargiss, and Norland, 2022).
By implementing and acquiring this skill, it will increase my ability to accomplish my
goal.
2.0 Personal development learning log
Date of event What was the
development
activity?
What was I
expecting to
learn?
What have I
learned?
How will I
apply this
learning?
20th May 2021 Seminar This seminar
is structured
with prime
objective to
serve
knowledge to
the scholars
who have
enthusiasm to
have their
career in the
field of
business and
management.
After I have
attended the
seminar, I
learned about
the my qualities
that is how
easily I manage
the people and
business. I also
came to know
that time
management is
the key
component in
order to
accomplish the
I will certainly
use all the
concepts that I
came to know
during the
seminar. In the
future, I will
try to do all the
work which is
assign to me
on time. I will
also try to
maintain
balance
between my
personal and

business goals. professional
life.
10th July2021 Conference With the help
of this
conference we
came to know
the conflicts
and challenges
which has
been arises at
the workplace.
I came to know
that handling
peoples is
difficult. To
manage them we
required
patience,underst
anding and right
way. After being
in the
conference I
learned a lot of
concept related
to managements
and by using
that at the time I
can eliminate
any challenges
and conflicts at
the workplace.
In the
situations in
which I have
to deal with
challenges I
will implement
those concepts
which I have
learned during
the conference.
It will help me
to take right
decisions for
my
employee's.
3.0 Action plan
What do I
want to learn?
What support
and resources
will I need?
What do I have
to do?
How will I
measure
success?
Target date for
review?
I want to learn I will request my For completing If I get the results 1 year

the skill of time
management.
mentor to set a
time-limit to
complete a task.
the all assign task
will make a list to
identify which
task have to be
complete prior
and within time
limit.
which I desired
then I will
compared it with
my past
performance.
Leadership skills I request my
mentor to provide
me a group of
individuals to
whom I can lead
and polish on my
leadership skills.
I want to lead a
team which
consist more than
5 members in it. I
will motivate
them to
accomplish the
common goal of
the team, try to
eliminate the
issues that they
are faced and the
challenges that
they are facing in
the group or in
the organisation.
Furthermore, I try
to communicate
often with my
team to know
problems and ask
them to present
The level of
satisfaction of my
group will define
my experience.
6 months

their viewpoints
to me.

4.0 CV
Michael Clark
Business Manager
[e-mail]
Profile:
Currently I am a business manger at Costa Coffee and wanted to develop my career in the
mentioned field. As a business manager, I have a experience of 4 years but I want to explore
new opportunities with other companies.
Experience:
 As a role of the manager-4 years (Costa Coffee, United Kingdom)
 As a role of the mentor-2 years (Costa Coffee, United Kingdom )
Education:
Master of Business Administration in the field of finance and marketing
from University of Oxford, 2015-2017
Bachelor of Business Administration (business and administration)
from University of Oxford, 2014-2017
Interpersonal skills:
 Openness to feedback
 Listening skills.
 Positive attitude.
Reference:
Languages: Spanish, France
Hobbies:
 Reading books
 Listening music

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Anderson, Z.D., Hargiss, C.L. and Norland, J.E., 2022. Skill development using interdisciplinary
problem solving in a natural resources capstone course.Natural Sciences
Education,51(1), p.e20078.
Cottrell, S., 2020.Teaching study skills and supporting learning. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Plato, K., 2018. Personal and professional skills: something they do teach you at university.
InThe Interdisciplinary Future of Engineering Education(pp. 113-132). Routledge.
Siddiqui, D.M. and Lokhande, V., 2019. An overview of employability skills for students of
professional educational institutions. Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative
Research.
Sinfield, S. and Burns, T., 2022. Essential Study Skills: The complete guide to success at
university.Essential Study Skills, pp.1-100.
Wakefield, A. and Gips, M., 2022. Professional Security in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
InThe Handbook of Security(pp. 731-750). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.