Professional Practice Week 4 Portfolio Tasks

This article discusses the portfolio tasks for Professional Practice Week 4, including emotional intelligence questionnaire results, reflective commentary, personal development plan, and more.

Professional Practice Week 4 Portfolio Tasks
Task 1. Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Results
a. Copy the results of your Emotional Intelligence questionnaire (class task 2)
into the table below.
Self-Awareness
Score 22/25 Development opportunity or strength? strength
Social Skill
Score 18 /25 Development opportunity or strength? Development
opportunity
Positive Outlook
Score 21/25 Development opportunity or strength? Strength
Emotional Self-control
Score 23/25 Development opportunity or strength? Strength
Adaptability
Score 20/25 Development opportunity or strength? Strength
Empathy
Score 16/25 Development opportunity or strength? Development
opportunity

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b. Reflect on the results and what changes you will make to your behaviour.
Consider whether this is an area that you need to develop and if so, add it to
your Personal Development Plan, then create a method for improving your
skills.
I have been able to identify that I have a very strong level of self-awareness which is
related to the ways in which is the ability to be able to recognize the feelings. It has
helped to be more responsive to the habitual events and recognition. It is also
considered to be the factor which helps in generation of good sense of own abilities.
Although I have decent level of understanding with the social skills it is very
important for me to manage, influence and inspire the emotions in others. It has
been the main reason that is able to handle the emotions that are related to my
emotions. Hence, I need to focus on more ways to influence others as the practice of
inspiring other with my presence. Me having a great sense of positive outlook has
been the reason that helps me the simple way of thinking in a well positively rather
than negatively. It is essential for me to generate better and more positive
understanding of the good opportunities in the situations which can be bad.
Emotional self-control is also considered to be the ability to be able to disrupt the
emotions and impulses in order to maintain the effectiveness of stressful or even
hostile conditions. My self-control in emotions has been the very effective due to
which I have been able to develop my understanding and experiences that is related
to the ways in which I deal with others in emotional situations. Adapting in the current
times is a very important aspect of the study as it has been the key factor that has
been able to bring the strength which it is able to generate the growth. I need to
improve my adaptability a little event though (Martin, D., and et.al., 2021). Empathy
is the ability I need to sense and understand the prosperity of the situation and
respond to other feelings which is the main area in which I lack. Hence, it is the
section in which I would like to develop my personal experiences.
Task 2: Reflective Commentary (300-500 words)
Answer the following questions on this week’s sessions. You may choose to
answer the questions one at a time or write in paragraphs.
Which aspect of today’s session did I find most interesting? Why?
For me the Self-awareness sessions can be said to be the most effective I have
been able to develop some strong sense of self-awareness with the help of my
experiences that help in the growth of the development. The reason I have self-
awareness because I have been able to make a good sense of the own abilities and
current limitations which are required for generation of self-awareness schemes.

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One thing I learnt
From this session I have been able to successfully develop strong sense of social
skills which are very useful for me to develop the ability to handle emotions in
relationships and also be able to influence others with inspirations.
I’m not sure about...
I am not sure about my ability with adaptability as I lack the experience for being a
professional with relations to the different sets of adaptability operations. It has been
considered that I am not aware of the actions that needs to be taken under certain
emotional situations.
I might have learnt more if
I can be able to learn even more if I am able to generalize the factors which
contribute towards the development of the influences that bring the essential
foundations of skills and success to the team and their leadership. I need more
opportunities in order to be more responsible related to the work I want to
accomplish.
Things I want to do now...
I want to be able to develop my adaptability and empathy which is going to
automatically push my social skills to its peak. This is because in the social
conversation being able to be adaptable would allow me to the access to positive
reforms whereas empathy is going to help me understand the importance of
developing social skills and empathy in my nature towards others. It is going to be
required for the personal development in my growth.
3. Personal Development Plan
Think about the results of the questionnaire you did and the information from today’s
lesson. What have you learnt about yourself and your skills? Are you satisfied with
your results? Is this an area that could be improved? If so, consider making this topic
one of your Development Episodes.
Complete the PDP below by answering the questions fully with specific details.
Remember that it is normal for your ideas and PDP to change as the course
continues and your priorities alter.
STEP 1: Identify Your Development Needs
A. Why are you seeking development at this time?
In the life of person student life is the time in which they learn the most about the ways in
which they interact with the society. It is the time in which we build relations. Hence, for the
development of relations we would like to focus more and more on the ways in which we can
perform the development which is very important for the growth of my mental health (Hill and
et.al., 2020).

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B. What are you seeking to develop at this time?
I am seeking to develop my social skills in this time because it is the time in which I can build
on relations with other. For which I need to be very adaptable and also be very attentive in
order to be very effective with the ways in which I interact with others. Hence, it is very
effective practice for the ways in which I am going to be able to gain the knowledge and
experience related to the study of the operations. I also want to develop empathy skills as
they are considered to be the one of the most effective for being able gain the growth that is
essential and effective.
C. Emphasis: What do you need? What is your specific goal?
I need to be able to gain more experience in the ways in which I interact with the individuals.
It is also very essential for me to be able to be able to interact better with other people. In
this situation my focus would be on the ways in which I can identify the experience of how
society works. During this learning I would also need to make sure that I need to gain a
specific goal which is the factor that is responsible for the ways in which the I can develop
my interpersonal relations.
STEP 2: Identify Your Development Options
D. What steps could you take to develop the new knowledge, skills and behaviours?
In order to develop my social skills it is going to be very important for me to be able to do the
following,
Engage with other for better experiences in the ways of developing social skills.
Starting with small ways in order to be able to generate the growth that is required.
Asking myself with open-ended questions would also be able to achieve the social skills.
Practising proper ways o maintaining eye contact (Molla, T. and Nolan, A., 2020).
Think about your own learning preferences and adapt the task to suit.
My learning preference related towards the learning of social skills are going to be the
practical from of ways that are going to help me to develop the social skills. It has been
found that I will be able to adapt with things much better If I am able to gain personal
experiences related to them. For me it is going to be the key factor that brings out the best
me in the type of action I want to take as an individual.
E. Considerations arising from ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’
I want to develop my social skills in order to be more effective for the learning practices that are
able to guide me the practices that are essential and effective for the operations. The reason I
want to develop my social skills is considered to be the factor that is essential for me to analyse
the growth which is able to contribute to the success of the personal development.
F: Identify Your Development Options

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I have the development options of either learning social skills via literature or
learning them through experiences of others.

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STEP 3: Plan for Development Activities
G. Write down the steps you will take to accomplish your task.
Developing a goal
generating mindset
taking first step
Continuing to completion
What could go wrong with your plan?
My introvert behaviour can be the issue in socialization.
What will you do if your original plan does not work well?
Develop social skills through literature.
Think of an alternative way to achieve your goal.
With the help of books and journals.
STEP 4: Undertake Development Activities
H. List your development activities completed throughout the semester
My development activities are going to be,
 Group project
 Team building activities
 Collaborative reports
 Debate
 Discussions
STEP 5: Apply new knowledge/ skills/ behaviours in the workplace
New skills I have developed in the workplace is degrading motivation.
STEP 6: Review and Repeat
It has helped me to develop my professional practices and be able to act more
sincere and take responsibilities of my actions and words.

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References
Hill, J.E., and et.al., 2020. The effectiveness of continuous quality improvement for
developing professional practice and improving health care outcomes: a systematic review.
Implementation Science. 15(1). pp.1-14.
Martin, D., and et.al., 2021. Developing a framework for professional practice in applied
performance analysis. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport. 21(6). pp.845-
888.
Molla, T. and Nolan, A., 2020. Teacher agency and professional practice. Teachers and
Teaching. 26(1). pp.67-87.