Professional Practice Week 4 Portfolio Tasks

This article includes tasks related to emotional intelligence questionnaire results, reflective commentary, and personal development plan. It also includes the steps to develop emotional self-control.

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Task 1. Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Results
a. Copy the results of your Emotional Intelligence questionnaire (class task 2) into the
table below.
Example:
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.
On the basis of the results of emotional intelligence test it was found that there is need to
make some changes in a few areas in order to hike my emotional intelligence. I found Self-
awareness and adaptability as the areas with my strengths. At the same time positive outlook
and Empathy areas performed average.
To improve my performance in these areas I will be taking steps-
Actions such as be punctual, be supportive, giving feedback, trying to understand yourself,
working on my communication, and improving listening skills will help to hike positive
outlook, empathy and emotional self-awareness. One area I would like to develop is
Example Self-Awareness
Score 22/25 Development opportunity or
strength?
strength
Self-Awareness
Score 22 /25 Development opportunity or
strength?
Strength
Positive Outlook
Score 18/25 Development opportunity or
strength?
Average
Emotional Self-control
Score 15/25 Development opportunity or
strength?
Weakness
Adaptability
Score 23/25 Development opportunity or
strength?
Strength
Empathy
Score 19/25 Development opportunity or
strength?
Average

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emotional self-awareness (Boyatzis, 2018) With this regard I would be fabricating my
personal development plan so can address all weak realms with greater efficiency.
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?
In the session I learnt about emotional intelligence. The most interesting thing what I
found was “Self-awareness”. Since for a person it is essential to have good understanding of
its own emotions so can drive its efforts in appropriate manner.
Emotional self-awareness is an ability to perceive personal emotions and their impacts
on owns performance. This has been quite interesting since reverted my insights to me.
One thing I learnt
One thing what I learnt is that how my emotional intelligence was having number of different
components and how they were affecting my overall personality and performance. The
session presented wide picture of emotional intelligence where components such as self-
awareness, adaptability, positive outlook etc. were taken into consideration (Moroń and
Biolik-Moroń, 2021)
It has been quite essential learning from this session which revealed me different
components of my emotional intelligence so I could take advantage and can inculcate best
practises to me.
I’m not sure about...
I am still having some confusion in term of my emotional self-control. I have been
quite good at emotional self-awareness but in sort of disruptive time or time of stress I did not
show good ability in some hostile conditions. It is a matter I am not sure even a bit. There is
need to have strong emotional self-control so in adverse time ones can control itself and can
drive effectiveness under lethal circumstances.
I might have learnt more if ....
If I had idea of controlling emotions, then might have learnt more in this session.
There is need to have some basic knowledge before starting anything new. It gives upper
hand and eradicate all potential barriers which may hinder the way of learning. As it is
proven that the learners with previous knowledge learn more than a green or novice learner. I
found that I did not have any previous knowledge pertaining to emotional intelligence which
pulled me back and kicked off some roadblocks on the way.
Things I want to do now...

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Form this assessment I found one thing that I have some issues with my emotional
self-control. In other realm my performance has been average or with strength. So now I want
to make some changes and would be fabricating a fully-fledged plan to work on the area I did
not perform good. It will be augmenting my capabilities and will also open up new ways for
making growth in professional and personal life. So altogether it can be said that now I will
be striving to improve the weak area and I am supposed to strengthen those areas too where
now I am having great performance.
3. Personal Development Plan
STEP 1: Identify Your Development Needs
A. Why are you seeking development at this time?
I am seeking to develop emotional self-control as it helps in improving performance at work
and to develop good personal relationships and even lead to better health.
B. What are you seeking to develop at this time?
I am seeking to develop ability to control emotion so that I can work more effectively and
achieve goals in limited set of time. Along with this, it is crucial while working in team.
C. Emphasis: What do you need? What is your specific goal?
My specific goal is to be good leader and in order to develop that I need to work on
emotional self-control. Thus, developing this skill is important so that I can build good
relation with others.
STEP 2: Identify Your Development Options
D. What steps could you take to develop the new knowledge, skills and behaviours?
In order to develop self-regulation, I will be reading books and journal related to self-
discipline so that I can get theoretical knowledge about its importance in individual life.
Along with this, I also be exercise control over communication like I will raise awareness of
interaction during changed situation as well as not to deliver citrus comments to other.
Moreover, I will be monitoring body language such as rapid increase in heart rate or a panic
attack so that I can manage my health and control impact of stress and nervousness.
E. Considerations arising from ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’

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I quickly need to adopt this skill as there is high competition in the market so in order to get
good job I will be requiring to develop my personality. This skill development will allow in
enhancing my communication and leadership criteria.
F: Identify Your Development Options
Practicing mindfulness helps in becoming more aware of thoughts, emotions and how it has
been affect our feeling and reaction to events (Lejeune and et.al., 2021). I will be developing
observing, participating and describing abilities as well as to practice non judgementally.
Another method that I will be using is to increase positive emotions through exercising daily
and to control negative response.

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Boyatzis, R. E., 2018. The behavioral level of emotional intelligence and its
measurement. Frontiers in psychology, 9, p.1438.
Lejeune, C. and et.al., 2021. The impact on employees’ job performance of exercising self-
directed learning within personal development plan practice. The international journal of
human resource management. 32(5). pp.1086-1112.
Moroń, M. and Biolik-Moroń, M., 2021. Trait emotional intelligence and emotional
experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in Poland: A daily diary
study. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, p.110348.