Reflective Personal Development Report

This report explores reflective personal development, focusing on four core skills: time management, teamwork, conflict resolution, and focus. It examines the importance of each skill, analyzes the author's current competence, and identifies areas for improvement. The report utilizes relevant theories like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Tuckman's Stages of Group Development, and the Dual Concern Model for conflict resolution to support its analysis.

REFLECTIVE PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT AND REPORT PLAN

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In this report, we have covered reflective personal development which comprising core skills
such as time management, team work, conflict resolution or assertiveness, focus and attentions.
We have also covered summary of 3 areas for development of these skills. It includes different
theories such Maslow theory for developing time management skills, Tuckman's theory for
increasing team work skills and Dual concern theory for exploring conflict resolutions skills. We
have covered that develop skills in different areas. We have covered other skills' communication,
decision making, learning, problem solving and motivation in above skills.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Reflective journal comprising 4 core skills............................................................................4
Summary highlighting 3 areas for development..................................................................12
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to assess their skills and
qualities. It also considers aim in life and set goals in order to realise and maximize potentials. It
is conscious movement of personal growth by expanding self-awareness, knowledge and
improving individuals' skills. It is important for self-actualization which refers to self-fulfilment
and needs to reach full potential as a human being (Andrews, 2017).
In this context, study is based on reflective personal development which comprises of
four core skills that is time management, team working, assertiveness or conflict resolution,
focus and attention. It also includes summary of 3 areas for development.
Reflective journal comprising 4 core skills
What is the core skill to develop?
Time Management: It is a process of organizing and planning to divide time between specific
activities. Effective time management enable to work smarter, not harder. It helps to increase
productivity, professional reputation, decrease stress and enhance opportunities for
advancement. With the help of skills and techniques, it is completing tasks and projects.
(Boket and et.al., 2016). It is important to develop time management skills for completing
work related tasks and activities. It is to set up the priorities, reduce the time on non-priorities’
activities to modify behaviour with deadlines for developing this skill. It is necessary in any
project development. It is the combination of procedures, tools, techniques and methods.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant
theories and concepts to support your answer)
I am selecting time management skills. It is important for completing tasks with fewer efforts.
It helps for me to improving ability. With the help of time management, I will improve my
decision making ability. I am improving my decision making ability to work related activities
by managing time. I can achieve my goals and objectives by time management practice and
self-discipline. I will set my priorities for managing my time. I am selecting Maslow theory for
managing time. It is a very popular theory formed by Abraham Harold who is an American
psychology professor (Time management Theory, 2018). This theory is teaching me that how
to manage my time with needs. This theory focuses on understanding desires, time limits for
completing needs.

Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence? (use your self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and your tutor,
plus your own reflections on your thoughts, feelings and behaviours to answer this
question)
I am not able to manage my time for completing work, so that I am trying for increasing my
speed. I am setting the priorities work for completing. Therefore, I am managing my time and
accomplish my projects. I am developing my capacities and ability for accomplishing the tasks
and activities. I am improving feedbacks for better performance in the workplace. My tutor is
giving proper guidance and advice for time management. I am assessing myself and finding
out the problems and its solutions in managing time. By managing time, I am increasing my
productivity and enhancing opportunities for progress. I am using different kinds of techniques
and tools for time management.
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a
match between how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?
As per my opinion, I will improve my time management skills by following Maslow theory. In
the contrast, this theory is not helpful for managing time for others. I am achieving goals and
objectives by managing time. I am identifying my weaknesses by this theory. In the contrast,
my other team members are not adopt this theory for time management.
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument)
Time management will help me in performing various tasks in the workplace. It will help for
achieving objectives of career development. It helps me to develop my potential competencies
and growth. Managing time will help me for making decisions at the company. It helps to
increase ability for competition in work. It will improve my productivity.

What is the core skill to develop?
Team Working: It is group of people who are working together for achieving common goals
of team. (Butt and Zahid, 2015). Team work is the collaborative way to complete tasks in the
most effective and efficient manner. For effective team work, there must be high level of
mutuality among team members. It increases trust and taking risks from open communication.
They give positive attitude and behaviour of all team members, such as sharing common
vision of future, giving support and encouragement, active learning and resolution of conflicts.
It is important of developing team work skill for completing tasks and activities in less time.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant
theories and concepts to support your answer)
I am selecting team work skill because it is important to give support and more effective way
of working. It helps me in increased ability for responding to changes. It is essential to
improve communication by open discussion and cooperation among team members. Team
work is providing positive attitude for resolution of any conflicts at workplace. It helps in
sharing ideas and opinions between team members. With the help of team work, I will increase
motivation level. I am selecting Tuckman's theory of team work (Team work theory, 2017).
There are four phases that are including in this theory such as forming, storming, norming and
performing. It helps in developing the relationship between team members.
Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence? (use your self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and your tutor,
plus your own reflections on your thoughts, feelings and behaviours to answer this
question)
I will give suggestions and ideas for solving the problems. I will take responsibility for
complete tasks. I will take advice from my leaders in difficult activities. I will try to solve
problems and issues in the tasks. I will improve my own performance for working in team. I
will develop my skills, knowledge and ability by getting new ideas. I am completing task with
the help of time management and team work. I will develop my competencies according to
tasks, so that I will finish my task on time. I will improve my communication from discussion
among team members. I will try to work effectively and efficient manner.

Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a
match between how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?
As per my opinion, it is necessary to improve my team work skill. With the help of Tuckman's
theory, I will increase my relations from my team members. In the contrast, as per my team
leader's opinion, this theory is good for team work. I will follow rules and policies which are
established for a team. I will take my duties and responsibilities of team work.
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument)
Team work skill will help me to improve communication, ability and competencies. This skill
will help in giving positive attitude. With the help of optimistic knowledge, I will achieve my
goals and objectives. I will increase my productivity and growth in team at workplace. These
skills are increasing employability. I will develop my knowledge by team work.

What is the core skill to develop?
Assertiveness/Conflicts Resolution: Assertiveness is an attribute of being self-secure and
confident without being aggressive. It refers to social and communication skills training on a
regular basis. It means standing up for personal rights, expressing ideas, feeling and values in
direct, honest and proper ways (Cowley and Beard, 2014). Conflict resolution is the concept as
the methods and processes which are including in facilitating peaceful ending of rectification.
Conflict refers to some form of dispute or discord arising within a group. With the help of
skills and knowledge, it is resolving the conflicts. The term is using in interchangeable with
dispute resolution. This concept can be thought to include use of nonviolent resistance
measures to upgrade effective resolve.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant
theories and concepts to support your answer)
I am selecting conflict resolutions and assertiveness skill for improving communication skills
by training. It is important skill because it requires individual learning to do things differently.
It also helps me to find solutions to problems. It builds strong relationship by involving
everyone in the conflicts. It is beneficial for me for achieving goals and objectives. This skill
also leads to new insights and ideas. These ideas often arise from conflicts and creative
problem solving that requires reaching a resolution. It is enhancing commitment between
conflicts partners. I will adopt dual concern model for conflicts resolution (Conflict resolution
theory, 2018). In this theory, five strategies are including such as avoidance, yielding,
competitive, conciliation and cooperation.
Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence? (use your self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and your tutor,
plus your own reflections on your thoughts, feelings and behaviours to answer this
question)
Conflict resolution skill is beneficial for maintaining positive and social relationship. It is
forcing conflicts style for maximizes individual's assertiveness. For developing this skill, my
tutors are giving training and guidance. Through training, I will assess my competence and
ability for resolutions of conflicts. It created an opportunity for involving in the conflicts. It is
beneficial for involving high assertive factors. It is important for facilitating in solving

conflicts. Therefore, I will develop my skills and assertiveness for resolving conflicts. This
skill helps me in getting new ideas and thoughts for resolving conflicts. Therefore, I will
develop my assertiveness.
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a
match between how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?
This skill is important for completing any projects and activities without facing any issues and
problems. I will adopt dual concern model for resolution of conflict, because this theory is
maintaining stable and positive social relationship. In this theory, five styles are included such
as avoidance, yielding, competitive, conciliation and cooperation. As per my opinion, it is best
model for resolving the conflicts.
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument)
Through online training, I will improve my skills for resolving conflicts. I will increase
productivity by active listening and improve team work. I will increase my relationship from
team member by involving in conflicts. I will improve my weaknesses by solving the conflicts.
This skill is help me for quickly and effectively solving problems.

What is the core skill to develop?
Focus and Attention: It is an ability of attention or concentration on completing target. It is
behavioural and cognitive process of concentration on aspects and information. It is taking
possession for clear mind. It is also referred to as enthralment. Focus helps people for paying
attention to remove distractions to sustain the efforts as well as energy which need to reach a
goal (Häfner, Oberst and Stock, 2014). It has described as allocation of limited cognitive
processing resources. There are different factors for increasing ability to keep attention on
activity which are included such as personal, environmental and stimulus. These factors
increase the level of motivation.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant
theories and concepts to support your answer)
It is an important skill for controlling thoughts. I am selecting focus and attention skill for
working more effectively and efficiently. This skill is reducing distractions, noise. It is
important for improving memory and ability to study. It is essential for increasing ability of
awareness. For focusing on task, it is essential to select the priorities. The importance of
attention is to improve communication, develop literacy and social development. It is to
identify the problems regarding listening. It decreases stress and increased in productivity.
With the help of focus and attention, I will quickly solve the problems. I will achieve goals
and objectives by focusing on complete task.
Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence? (use your self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and your tutor,
plus your own reflections on your thoughts, feelings and behaviours to answer this
question)
I will improve my focus and attention skill. I will take advice and guidance by my tutors. I
will increase my competencies and abilities. I will clearly focus on my tasks without any
distraction. I will improve my abilities according to feedbacks from my peers and tutors. With
the help of focus on work, I will remove my stress. I will improve my performance by clearly
focusing on work. I will develop my communication skill and listening. I will also define my
goals by focus and attention. With the help of focus, I will increase my productivity.
Therefore, I will achieve target and objectives. I will solve my problems with the help of

proper focus and attention.
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a
match between how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?
As per my opinion, it is essential for developing focus and attentions skill. I will identify that
my ability is not improving by focus on work. With the help of this skill, I will develop my
abilities and competencies. It will help for better performance from other members by clearly
focus and attention.
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument)
This skill helps in future for developing ability to solve problems. I will develop my skill for
achieve target. This skill helps in making quick decisions. With the help of focus, I will
develop my motivation level. I will improve my memory by attention and focus. I will
improve my communication and learning skill.

Summary highlighting 3 areas for development
Self-Knowledge: For developing time management skills, I will set my priorities, use
particular planning tool, get organized and schedule time appropriately. For time management,
my strengths are to understand every activity in the work. I am not able to manage my time.
Therefore, I will avoid distractions and completing task on time. I will adopt Maslow theory for
improving my time management skills.
In this theory, Maslow teaches importance of matching time management with other
needs (Loughry, Ohland and Woehr, 2014). This theory focuses on understanding needs and
setting time limits. I will improve my abilities and competencies for completing work on time. I
will improve my weaknesses. I will improve this skill because it is important for any projects'
development. With the help of time management skills, I will increase my productivity. I will
develop my time management skills with the help of decision making ability, self-motivation and
appropriate planning. I will work effectively from others by clearly focus and remove my stress.
Self-Awareness: For developing conflicts resolution skills, I will develop my active
listening that include group collaboration activities to improve team work. I will decrease stress
and improve nonverbal communication. With the help of online training, it allows time for
personal reflection. This time reflection gives ability to assess my behaviour and action. I will
follow dual concern model for conflict resolution (Oettingen and et.al., 2015). It includes
different styles that is competitive, avoiding, collaborative and cooperation. With the help of this
skill, I will solve problems and give solutions for effective. Cooperative style is minimizing
assertiveness because low concern of self and high concern of other member. With contrast,
avoiding style of resolution refers both the partners have low concern. Therefore, I will develop
my assertiveness by adopt competition style of resolution of conflicts. I will create ideas and
innovation for quick resolving conflicts. It helps to increase relationship between team members.
Self Esteem: For developing team work skills, I will develop my skills and ability. I will
improve interaction and learning skill for effective team work. I will discuss everything from my
team members. I will develop my problem solving skills, so that it is easy to solve any kind of
difficulties. I will not avoid any kind of condition. With the help of team work skill, I will
increase motivation level and productivity (Singer, 2018). I will build up my trust and respect

among team members. I will take all my responsibilities and duties for completing the tasks. I
will maintain my work balance and relation from my team members. I will receive my feedback
and improve it. I will follow Tuckman's theory of team works skills. In this theory, five stages
are included such as forming, storming, norming performing and adjourning. I am unable to
manage my time, so that I did not completed work on time from other members. I will improve
my time management skill. I will develop my ability to follow direction and adaptability to
change conditions. I will help of my other team member on their work (Wulf and et.al., 2016).
CONCLUSION
In this report, it can be concluded that reflective personal development which comprised
of 4 core skills such as time management, team work, conflict resolution or assertiveness, focus
and attentions. It was also discussed about three areas for developing of these skills. It can be
discussed that different theories in the above skills.

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