University Management Skills: Professional Development Plan Analysis

This assignment showcases a student's professional development plan designed to enhance their management skills. The plan outlines specific goals, including developing accountability, time management, meeting management, and stress management skills. It includes a self-assessment of strengths (empathetic nature, positive attitude) and weaknesses (anger issues, time management), followed by identified skill gaps and development objectives. The student details strategies for improvement, such as communication practice, decision-making training, and anger management classes. Networking is emphasized, with a focus on professional associations, co-workers, online networking sites, and senior employees to overcome weaknesses and achieve professional goals. The student plans to track feedback and opinions to become a successful manager, emphasizing the importance of continuous improvement and a horizontal communication system within the workplace. The assignment concludes with a bibliography of relevant sources.

Running head: MANAGEMENT
Management
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author’s Note:

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Professional development plan
Professional goals are-
2weeks or 1 months Goal 1, attend and include the
time frame
To complete on time
 I will be trying to
develop my
accountability skill.
Goal 3-Time management
skills
I believe that time
management skill is one of the
important skills that is needed
for carrying on all the
operational and management
work with proper precisions
and in a time optimizing
manner
Time management
4 weeks or 2 months Goal 2-work over the meeting
and the management abilities.
This will help me in carrying
on the meetings in a right
manager by preparing the
minutes of meeting and also
take care of all other details so
Goal 4- Stress management
course or activities, to
improve stress levels over
time, include formal and the
informal training
Stress management is one of
the most useful skill that will

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that they can be needed to deal with all the
project works in a proper
manner
Required skills
skills knowledge Attributes
Communication skill I will need the verbal
and the non verbal
communication skill for
conveying all important
business decisions to the
employees working in
different departments
I will have to convey the
important messages and also
take due feedback from the
employees so that the
communication process is
carried on properly
Decision making ability I will try to develop a proper
understanding of pros and
cons of an particular decisions
Improvement of assessment
quality
Stress management I will try to take short breaks
between the
Ability to work under time
constraints and also under the
influence of external pressure
Strengths and weakness are-

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strengths
Empathetic nature This will help in understanding about the needs
and demands of the employees and support
them at each instance
Positive attitude This will help me to maintain an approachable
nature and all the employees will be able to
take all the doubts and their queries to me
whenever they want to
weakness
Anger issue I am often unable to work under huge work
pressure so I tend to make some mistakes in
the work
Time management skills I try to finish all the work within the assigned
deadline but due to my over perfectionist
nature and lack of confidence I often tend to
make some r the other kinds of mistakes.
Priorities are-
Identified gap Suggested
development
objectives Details By what
Communication
ability
Practice and
coaching
To develop the
verbal and also
Making a to do
list ready
Daily
weekly

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the non vernal
communication
skills
Attending the
workshops and
seminars on time
Decision making
power
Learning from
the practical
experiences
To develop a
detailed domain
knowledge and
also take the
opinion from all
the employees
Group discussion
and the personal
interview
sessions with the
employees
2 weeks
Anger
management
issue
I will try to
enroll myself in
the anger
management
classes and also
take short breaks
in the midst of
ongoing classes
Improve the
stress levels by
taking active
participation in
various activities
Join the interest
groups, take
timely meals,
exercises and
variety of work
On-going
I have realized that there are several areas of strengths and weaknesses that are present within
every individual. In order to overcome the areas of weakness it is required to develop some
strong networks so that they can slowly overcome the weaknesses or the drawbacks that are
present within them. I will also develop some kinds of connections with different networks so
that I can get he needed coaching and can actually overcome the drawbacks.

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Professional association is one of the major networking platforms that I will be using.
This is because as per my perception this is one of the strongest platform that can help them to
overcome my weakness, one among them is the communication. I spend the majority of my time
in the workplace among my co workers. It is for this reason that I will be undertaking
communication with all my team members on a regular basis. This will help me to overcome my
problem of lack of confidence. The more I speak with my colleagues I will be able to know
about the grounds in which I will have to improve. The colleagues are the ones who will be able
to give me meaningful feedback.
I will also select an online networking association as well. This will help me to
understand about the anger management issues. This is because I have been that where many
bloggers and activists which are coming up on the online sites like face book, twitter, blogs and
other such platforms. They are coming up with the different innovative ideas about overcoming
the anger issue. However I feel that this is one of the most useful platforms to carry on with the
discussion. These are like the one discussion forums that always help in understanding about the
ways in which the employees can deal with their problems and then try to develop a cool and
organized mind set. I have also selected this platform or this online networking site as I can use it
both at my professional and my personal filed as well. I will be able to share my thoughts and
opinions and also get shared across the online sites. Therefore as per my understanding this
online site will turn out to be one of the most useful platforms for exchanging the views and the
opinions in different matter.
The other network that I will be selecting is my boss and the senior employees. As they
are much more experienced they can help me out at every instance. They will always help me to
know about the right ways of making a decision. Whenever I will be in any dilemma or any

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confused state of mind I will be contacting with the senior officials and will be able to know
about the different pros and cons that can arise after taking any particular decision. I will be able
to get over that weakness by undertaking some practical situations in hand. I will be able to take
the help from my seniors in order to know the different ways in which the issues can be solved.
Therefore keeping connection with all these networks will be helping me in.
Thus it can be concluded that keeping a proper network is of utmost importance as it
helps in understanding about the different areas of weakness and the ways in which I can also
overcome the same. I will have to make sure that I am keeping a proper track record of the
different opinions and the feedbacks that are being shared by the different people which are
involved in that group. I will always try to overcome the areas of weakness by making sure that I
am being able to make sure that I can become a successful manager in future. In order to do that
I will have to maintain a step by step method in order to make sure that I am being able to
overcome all the different drawbacks that are present within me. In future I will have to maintain
a proper connection with the all the different networks so that I can work towards attaining my
goal of becoming an able administrator and also an ideal manager. Therefore I will also develop
a horizontal communicate system with all my employees and make sure that I am being able to
take their feedbacks and their opinions in order to attain my objective.

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Bibliography
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