Professional Portfolio Information 2022

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Professional Portfolio
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Reflective Blogs.........................................................................................................................3
Blog 1.....................................................................................................................................3
Experience..........................................................................................................................3
Reflective observation........................................................................................................3
Conceptualization...............................................................................................................4
Active experimentation......................................................................................................5
Blog 2.....................................................................................................................................5
Experience..........................................................................................................................5
Reflective observation........................................................................................................5
Conceptualization...............................................................................................................6
Active experimentation......................................................................................................6
Blog 3.....................................................................................................................................7
Experience..........................................................................................................................7
Reflective observation........................................................................................................7
Conceptualization...............................................................................................................8
Active experimentation......................................................................................................8
Blog 4.....................................................................................................................................9
Experience..........................................................................................................................9
Reflective observation........................................................................................................9

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Conceptualization...............................................................................................................9
Active experimentation....................................................................................................10
Blog 5...................................................................................................................................10
Experience........................................................................................................................10
Reflective observation......................................................................................................10
Conceptualization.............................................................................................................11
Active experimentation....................................................................................................11
Summary..................................................................................................................................12
References................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
Reflection is an effective way of learning. It enhances understanding and insight as
one can look at their learning experience in retrospect and understand the interactions that
they had with them (Irwin and Coutts 2017). It enables one to find key take away points,
which they can later use in life for their personal and professional development. Throughout
the course, we learnt many aspects of management. The learnings of the module helped us
understand various aspects of personal and workplace management. Kolb’s learning model
provides a framework for learning reflection. It includes four parts concrete experience,
reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation (Tomkins and
Ulus 2016). In this report, Kolb’s model will be used to reflect on the learning of the five
modules each. Additionally, it summarizes the overall learning and experience followed by a
learning contract.
Reflective Blogs
Blog 1
Experience
In module 1 we received a lectures and seminars about self-awareness and developing
personal skills and qualities. We learnt about Hollander’s model and the Johari window, two
of the most effective self-assessment tools (Collaborative 2018). I learnt that before we
embark on journey to manage others, we first must become aware of our own selves,
strengths and weaknesses.

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Reflective observation
When I was introduced to the activities and tests I could do to gain better
understanding about my own self, I was quite captivated by it. We were given a skills audit,
which shows me that critical thinking and problem solving, adaptability, research skills,
stress management and taking part in discussions are my strengths. These I feel are essential
abilities for future development in any professional genre. My personality strengths are
empathy, flexibility, honesty, perseverance and integrity, which gives me many aspects on
which I can build by career on (Refer to Appendix). I also recognized much of my
weaknesses like, numerical skills, crisis management, time management and planning which
might be a setback in my future career path. Moreover, there are also lack of patience, self-
discipline, initiative taking and enthusiasm on my part, which might create barrier to my
development.
I also took the Johari window test, from which I came to know about my public,
blind, hidden and unknown qualities, which I can use to help me build my career (Gamayanto
et al. 2019). I feel that I participated well in the activities and was able to learn new things
about myself, which was quite exciting, though sometimes I disagreed with the result.
Conceptualization
The module learning. activities and seminars has created a deep impact on me. It
helped me develop concepts such as:
 Understanding self is the first step to understanding others and managing a workplace
(Oliver and Duncan 2019).
 Self-esteem, self-determination, self-discipline are important factors for personal and
professional growth.
 Various models and tests are available and all of them are more or less effective.

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 The information that I found gives me insight about my core psychology and the
strengths that could build my career planning on and the weaknesses that need to
convert to strengths for further development.
 I have the ability to contribute and taken part in discussions but I need to show more
initiative.
Active experimentation
In order to ensure that I build on my strengths and become more proactive, I plan to
ensure to be prepared about the activities, talk to people more and share ideas. This would
help me in developing network, build relationships, develop my communication skills, which
is my weakness and perform better through the course (Jaeger 2018). In future, when I work
in any managerial role, I would be able to use the skills that I develop now and the
understanding of core psychology to plan development for people working with me.
Blog 2
Experience
In the second module, we had lectures, seminars and activities regarding leadership.
Here we learnt about the different theories of leadership like process theory, contingency
theory, behavioral theory and psychodynamic theory and many more (Nawaz and Khan
2016). I also learnt about the different kinds of leaders and specifically the transformational
leader and their traits. We took part in activities like identifying leadership style from videos
and case studies.
Reflective observation
Through the learning of the second module, we learnt one of the most fundamental
aspect of management, which is leadership. While management and leadership might seem
completely different, both of these are quite connected to each other. We learnt much about