Professional Development for the Workplace Report 2022

Title: Professional Development for the Workplace / MNG10
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Words: 2500
Reference Style: Harvard
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Executive Summary
The aim of this report was to understand my strengths and capacities and to identify my
career goal in order to identify internship opportunities. The report followed the SODI model
for the professional development plan. Findings of the report suggest that my personal trait is
of a protagonist, and I am a born leader. Based on this, I had determined my career goal to
become a successful manager in the Australian retail industry. Industry analysis detailed that
in Australia, employment opportunities in the retail industry involves many prospects. I had
identified 5 priority career goals which were presented in order of priority. The report
concluded that determining a career goal and developing a professional development plan
was a multistage process and that the “SODI model” is particularly useful in this aspect.
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction........................................................................................................................5
2 Self-Awareness..................................................................................................................5
2.1 Personality...................................................................................................................5
2.2 Values and Motivators.................................................................................................5
2.3 Emotional Intelligence.................................................................................................6
2.4 Leadership...................................................................................................................6
2.5 Influence, Power and politics......................................................................................7
3 Opportunity Awareness......................................................................................................7
3.1 My Career....................................................................................................................7
3.2 Industry Sector and Location.......................................................................................8
3.2.1 Brief overview......................................................................................................8
3.2.2 Industry opportunities..........................................................................................9
3.2.3 Industry Challenges..............................................................................................9
4 Decision Making and Planning..........................................................................................9
5 Goals................................................................................................................................10
5.1 Career satisfaction:....................................................................................................10
5.2 Status and respect:.....................................................................................................11
5.3 Learning and education:............................................................................................11
5.4 Material rewards and possessions.............................................................................11
5.5 Personal relationships................................................................................................11
6 Conclusion........................................................................................................................11
Reference List..........................................................................................................................12
Appendix 1: MBTI results.......................................................................................................14
Appendix 2: GEIT test.............................................................................................................15
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1 Introduction
This report is intended to understand my strengths and capacities and to identify my career
goal in order to determine internship opportunities. The assignment involves careful thought
and planning for career development or internship planning. The report is structured under
headings and subheadings based on the SODI model. This is a model of self-assessment
which helps in recognizing and appreciatingpersonal characteristics that have significant
influence over the choice of career, learning and work contexts. The model was first devised
in 1977 Law and Watts (Statnickė & Čeledinaitė 2018). While the components namely
“opportunity awareness”, “self-awareness” and “decision-making”develop the different
sections of this report, the implementation component is exempted. Based on the outcomes of
SODI analysis, SMART goals have been developed, followed by concluding statements of
the report.
2 Self-Awareness
It is the concept that encapsulates individual knowledge and understanding regarding own
development and the type of personal resources such as personality, emotional intelligence
and values that an individual can bring into their professional context (Jackson & Wilton
2016). Here, for understanding my self-awareness level, I have tried identifying my Values
and motivators, personality, emotional intelligence level, and leadership capacities.
2.1 Personality
I have taken the MBTI test for understanding various aspects of my personality (ref to
appendix 1). “The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator” is an inventory of personality
types involving 16 different personality types based on combinations of different personality
characteristics. My personality type came to be a protagonist with a combination of ENJF-T.
I am more extroverted than introverted, more intuitive than observant, I depend more on my
feelings than calculative thinking, and I am judging and turbulent. As per the MBTI
personality, I am a firm believer of people. I have a good capacity for self-reflection and are
born leaders. As a protagonist, I radiate authenticity, altruism and concern. I am both
charismatic and passionate towards things I believe in.
2.2 Values and Motivators
“Values” are defined as general beliefs that a person can have regarding life. Values can be
terminal or instrumental. Terminal values for a person involves beliefs regarding happiness,
self-respect, family security, freedom, inner harmony, whereas instrumental values include
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