Professional and Academic Skills Development Portfolio

This portfolio includes self-reflection, personal growth, action plan, and CV for professional and academic skills development. It covers topics such as communication, technical skills, conceptual skills, leadership, self-reflection, and professional skills. The SWOT analysis is also included to improve business management conditions. The challenges faced by business managers and the importance of training and education are discussed. The references include books and journals related to the topic.

B. St. (Hons)
Business Management
BMP4001
Professional Abilities and Academic Skills
Development
Portfolio of Self
Development
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Contents
1.0 Self-Reflection Based on Individual Experience...................................................................3
1. Evaluation and Reflection on my Approaches to Individual Experiences, Learning and
Development..............................................................................................................................3
1.2 Identification of my skills and those skills that I has developed by attending this
programme.................................................................................................................................3
1.3 Skills that would be developed during my academic classes, personal and professional
life at the workplace..................................................................................................................4
2.0 Personal Growth and improvement learning log................................................................4
3.0 Action plan...........................................................................................................................5
4.0 CV.........................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................8
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1.0 Self-Reflection Based on Individual Experience
1. Evaluation and Reflection on my Approaches to Individual
Experiences, Learning and Development
Professional and personal development involves the improvement in the set
of skills in order to gain desire position in the workplace and in order to maintain
good relations with people. The personal development basically involves knowledge
of operation in interested field, communication, proper management and planning of
time in order to achieve objectives and aims. The report will involve the
competencies and skills against the professional standard of the organization as well
production of the personal development learning log and action plan in order to
develop the skills in the next 12 months and in addition to that it involves personal
development plan that includes a CV. Personal learning is basically a way to
manage the requirements and needs in order to gain position in the company and
improving the set of skills. The personal learning can be applied as per the goals and
individuals that could be achieved through professional and personal development
(Tight, 2021).
1.2 Identification of my skills and those skills that I has
developed by attending this Programme
Self-learning is an approach that helps the managers to pace, procedure and control
the content of their personal learning. There are various approaches in order to
maintain the self-managed learning. Transferable skills are basically those skills that
can be used in various occupations and roles that involve skills such as self-control,
communication and problem solving skills. There are various transferable skills
which I developed during my modules (Xu, 2021).
Communication: It is the process of sharing and transferring information from one
person to another. It involves the process of converting ideas into words which could
be easily understood that involves spoken arrangement, questioning frequently,
effective learning and displaying skills.
Technical skills: It involves the information of the certain field that involves
manufacturing, electronic computer, engineering science, management
accountancy, social science and various fields.
Conceptual skills: It involves the usage of content in order to resolve the various
industry problems for knowing the organization and betterment of the business
framework (DiPaola and Wagner, 2018).
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1.3 Skills that would be developed during my academic
classes, personal and professional life at the workplace
In order to identify the development needs is very tough job and the major
development opportunities involve the goal setting. As after setting of goals I have to
develop few skills in order to develop my academic skills in both my workplace and
personal life. It involves
Leadership: It is the process of influencing the behavior of people by making them
strive voluntarily towards attainment of organizational goals and objectives. The skills
of personal leadership helps in providing a lot of learning benefits that involves
mentoring, coaching, team development, teamwork, motivation and various other
skills. The personal development skills involves helping individuals to worth with their
highest potential through maximizing the impact and pursuing self-mastery (Alt,
2018).
Self-reflection: It involves the opportunities in order to think through professional
priorities and personal priorities in order to examine the learning needs and
attachments. The personal reflections help in regularly recording about the work
practice that involves areas of professional development that can help in achieving
future goals and objectives.
Professional skills: It involves practicing and learning academic skills that helps in
building up the professional capabilities into behavior and personal attitude. The
development of professional skills basically depends upon the individual contribution
and individual attention. The main aim of learning is to secure employment in the
future (Al-Issa, 2020).
2.0 Personal Growth and improvement learning log
Date of event Description of
the
development
activity?
What was
expected to
learn?
Outcomes
that were
learned?
Application
of this
learning in
my life?
Leadership Reading the
tactics of
leadership in
order to
improve the
leadership
Qualities and
competencies
of a good
leader in
order achieve
organizationa
l goals and
objectives.
The tactics of
leadership for
developing
skills for being
a good leader
in order to
achieve
organizational
goals and
objectives.
Through
observation
of leading
people and
reading
tactics in
order to
improve the
leadership.
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Decision making In order to
interact with
team members
in order
develop and
enhance quick
decision
making.
In order to
learn the
effective tools
and
techniques
for taking
better
business
decisions for
achievement
of
organizationa
l goals.
Various
learning and
personal
development
skills in order
to take
decisions
related to
organization.
Focusing on
the past
decisions
and
including
team
members
for meeting
the future
needs of the
organization
s.
Language To learn new
languages in
order to interact
with other
people who
comes from a
different
background(Ng
hia, 2018)
Languages in
order to
develop my
language
skills for
initiating
interaction
among
people who
have different
backgrounds.
Learned new
languages that
helped in
interacting with
other people
who belong to
the different
culture and
diverse
backgrounds.
Through
joining
training
classes in
order to
interact with
other people
who belong
to diverse
background.
3.0 Action plan
Requirements
and
enhancements
required in
learning?
Resources and
guidance and
support
required?
Actions and
plans
required?
Criteria to
measure the
success?
Time limit to be
reached and
achieved?
Team working
Support from
team members
and various
resources such
as time to time
schedules.
To actively
participate in the
team meetings
for improving
interaction
among other
people.
Through
comparing my
past goals with
my present
objectives and
performance.
1 month
Time
management The plan of
activities and
Prior planning of
activities in
order to gain
Through regular
checking upon the
time frame
2 months
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various other
resources for
ensuring
management of
time.
knowledge
about the use of
various
resources(Succi
, and Canova,
2020).
involved in past
and present
operations.
Decision making
The use of
activities and
reviewing past
activities and
collection of
review in order
to enhance
decision
making.
Focus on
participating in
decision making
process for
achievement of
organizational
goals and
objectives.
By continuously
keeping a check
on the decisions
and their
effectiveness in
the organization.
2 months
4.0 CV
The standardization and high quality helps in developing the communicating abilities
in a person with the business fields which are required for the candidates in order to
develop professional in communication field. Through self-evaluation, I have
analyzed various skills against the professional standard of manager. Through
evaluation there have a been a strong command on the decision making, different
languages, time management, planning of operations and other major areas in order
to meet the organizational objectives and high position. Moreover, the self-
evaluation helps in utilization of resources and motivating the staff for consideration
of staff members as well as proper management of time according to the day
operation (Link, 2020).
Swot Analysis
Strength
 Good experts and trainers for the
objective of management studies
 Positive lessons related to morals
of a business and loyalties.
 High strength of professional
employees and good
administration.
Weakness
 Shortage of project leadership
managers and laborers.
 Lack of physical assets, human
valuable and intangible assets.
 Weakness in management
workflows efficiencies.
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 Allocation of capital and enough
resources (Seifert, 2019).
Opportunity
 Employment opportunities
 Training and campaigns
 Professional skill development
opportunities.
 Account handling operations.
Threats
 Lack of Reliability
 Threat in account management
and financial management.
 Improper time management
disputes and budget charter.
The skill which is really important but I lack in Professional skills.
The SWOT analysis in business management helps in conveying a candidate to
learn skills related to professional skills. The SWOT analysis helps manager to
organize process of actions with steps and implementations (Lillis and Bravenboer,
2020).The project summarizes various important elements about the management
studies that are done in a business. It also focuses on highlighting the importance of
academic careers, professional skills and knowledge skills in personal career growth
in business and management. In addition to that SWOT analysis has been analyzed
in order to improve the business management conditions. The most common
challenge in the business management field study involves the time management.
The business managers deal with typical challenges in order to regulate and
organize their tasks through scheduling of time frame. The higher level of challenges
occurs in the performance level of employees which affects the entire management
team of business firms. The performance of employees decreases with failure in
productiveness and decrease in the flow of firm production. Lack of training emerges
hard challenges to flourish the business. Training, proper learning and tut ions helps
in developing educational skills in candidates (Ding and Bruce, 2017).
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References
Books and journals
Al-Issa, F., 2020. Professional Development in Context: Investigating In-Service
Development Programs for Syrian Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
During Times of Military Conflict (Doctoral dissertation, Syracuse University).
Alt, D., 2018. Science teachers' conceptions of teaching and learning, ICT efficacy,
ICT professional development and ICT practices enacted in their
classrooms. Teaching and teacher Education, 73. pp.141-150.
Awoyemi, R. A., 2019. Core Competencies and Innovation for Library and
Information Science Professional in 21st Century Digital-Based Environments.
In Handbook of Research on Promoting Higher-Order Skills and Global
Competencies in Life and Work (pp. 264-280). IGI Global.
Ding, A. and Bruce, I., 2017. The English for academic purposes practitioner. Cham,
Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
DiPaola, M. and Wagner, C. A., 2018. Improving instruction through supervision,
evaluation, and professional development. IAP.
Lillis, F. and Bravenboer, D. W., 2020. The best practice in work-integrated
pedagogy for degree apprenticeships in a post-viral future. Higher Education, Skills
and Work-Based Learning.
Link, C., 2020. A Quantitative Assessment of the Effectiveness of a Global Online
Professional Development Course to Enhance 21st Century Skills in STEM
Instructional Design (Doctoral dissertation, University of Missouri-Saint Louis).
Nghia, T. L. H., 2018. External stakeholders’ roles and factors influencing their
participation in developing generic skills for students in Vietnamese
universities. Journal of Education and Work, 31(1). pp.72-86.
Seifert, T., 2019. Customized Consultation to Enhance Teacher Educators' Techno-
Pedagogical Skills. In Handbook of Research on Faculty Development for Digital
Teaching and Learning (pp. 99-118). IGI Global.
Succi, C. and Canovi, M., 2020. Soft skills to enhance graduate employability:
comparing students and employers’ perceptions. Studies in Higher Education, 45(9).
pp.1834-1847.
Tight, M., 2021. Twenty-first century skills: meaning, usage and value. European
Journal of Higher Education, 11(2). pp.160-174.
Xu, Y., 2021. Instructional Leadership Strategies Enhance Teacher Professional
Development on Student Motivation of Learning 21st Century Skills. International
Journal of Social Science and Education Research, 4(2). pp.147-160.
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