Importance of Transferable Skills in Business Management - Personal Development Portfolio

Personal Development Portfolio
TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................2
Importance of academic and personal skills in business management:.......................................2
Personal development action plan:..............................................................................................4
CV:...............................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Personal development is one of the most important thing for every individual, this allow
person to become more capable and reliable. Every student who seek employment in future need
to have basic skills like communication, critical thinking, problem solving and decision making.
These transferable skills hep individual to get desired position in any business organization, apart
from these basic skills, an individual must have leadership skills which allow them to manage
and lead people. This report will discuss personal development portfolio and will understand
importance of transferable skills in career development process. At last this report will provide
CV (Woo and et,al., 2019).
MAIN BODY
Importance of academic and personal skills in business management:
Every individual need to have basic employability skills and ability which allow them to
reach for employment in any business organization, employability skills are; effective
communication skills, critical thinking skills, decision making skills, problem solving skills and
most importantly leadership skills. It is very clear that every student will apply for job position
any of their desire company, I want to work in multinational company and I want to sharpen my
basic skills and ability (Warnock and Mohammadi-Aragh, 2016). Business management is one of
the most challenging thing which require effective management of business operation and
working, management of business not only mean to manage company but this required critical
thinking and ability to make quick decision with high rate of accuracy. Every individual who
want to become manager of business organization need to be clear that this job position in most
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challenging and skills of person will be pushed to the limit. I want to become business manager
of multination business firm which means this career pathway is tough and I need to develop
both academic and professional skills to meet the requirement of the career pathway. There are
certain academic and professional skills which I have and which I need to develop, these skills
are:
Leadership skills: leadership skills is not common, it can be found rare. This skills require
all basic skills such as communication, decision making and problem solving, leadership skills
allow person to lead and manage people (Farrell, 2017). I have leadership skills which allow me
to become more reliable in my career and employment development process, this skills help me
to meet the requirement of desire job which I will be looking to apply. I believe many business
organization look for those employee who have leadership skills and have ability to provide
effective leadership to the company. I have opportunity to apply for these organizations who
look for leadership quality in employee.
Communication skills: communication skills is one of the most basic skills which help
individual to communicated effectively with others, this skills is most required in an employee. I
have effective communication skills which allow me to communicate effectively with others, it is
very clear that communication skill is incomplete with active listening skills (Thompson, 2018).
This skills help me to actively listen to communicator and allow me to easily decode their
message and purpose of the message. Active listening skills is connected with communication
skills which means a person can be effective if one of these skills are missing from their career
and professional process.
Team building skills: working in a team can be most challenging task for many people
because a team is build on value and importance of every individual. I believe working in team
can be challenging but most challenging is building an effective team, I have ability to build an
effective team in the workplace and with my leadership skill, I can manage and lead my team
towards success (Marasi, 2019). I have ability to work in team because I can work with people
who have diverse culture, I always stay excited to work with people from diverse culture and
background. I have team building skills but I need to develop team management skills as well
because without effective management of team, it is not possible to meet the outcome.
Problem solving: problem solving skills allow person to solve any problem faced by
business organization, in today’s world, this is most required skill which allow business manager
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