Understanding and Analysis: Professional Development

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Name of the student:
Name of the University:
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Section 1
Understanding and Analysis:
Professional development is the process of learning or maintaining professional
credentials like academic degrees for formal coursework, informal learning opportunities and
attending conferences situated in practice. This can be described as collaborative and intensive
ideally incorporating evaluation stage. There are different approaches to the professional
development that includes consultation, communities of practice, coaching, mentoring, lesson
studies and reflective supervision. This is important because it is not possible for a person to
possess all the skills needed for the profession. Moreover different companies have different
style of working therefore they train their employees with all the needed skills. In addition to
this, keeping oneself updated with the changing scenario increases scope for being more
acknowledged in this competitive business conditions. In my case, the career vision is to get
placed in a reputed international company where I will be utilising all my already possessed
skills and where I will be able to get trained about the upgraded business factors.
My mission statement as an applying candidate of management is to strive the best
person I can be. I want to establish myself to be a hardworking and competitive factor within the
next five years and will be helping the company’s growth by utilising my skills at its best.
Section 2.
Literature Review:
After the industrial wave of globalisation, the expectations of the companies have
changed. This is the reason why the management of the company have been changing their skis
in order to meet these expectations. They include the capacity to perform executive duties in the

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organisation while avoiding the crisis situations and solving issues whenever they take place.
According to Beenen, Pichler and Davoudpour (2018), management skills can be defined as the
certain attributes and abilities which make them effective in the decision making process. The
managers in this competitive companies possess skills in three sections that include technical
skills, conceptual skills and interpersonal skills. All types of problems of the organisations have
been solved with these skills starting from planning, ethical decision making, communication,
delegation and to keeping the employees motivated all come under the responsibilities of the
managers.
According to the study of Mencl, Wefald and van Ittersum (2016), in this competitive
business scenario, the importance of the transformational leaders are needed. These leaders are
marked by their effective decision making skills, communication and motivational initiatives.
The managers make numerous decisions knowingly or unknowingly and making decisions is
needed either to bring the success factors of the organization or ruining it. Therefore decision
making supported by foresightedness dictating to achieve the organisational goals.
According to the study by Felix (2020), possessing communication skill is a crucial factor
for the teams by ensuring that the team members at as a unified workforce. Through
communication the issues like conflicts depending upon the differences of culture or ethnicity,
knowledge and understanding can be solved. The management as have the responsibility to
manage the information flow within the organisation, through proper communication system the
confusions will be overcome in one hand and the employees will be motivated on the other.
Proper planning system reflects the efficacy of the management in utilising available
resources like time, labour and money. This is also a set of actions to pursue as well as achieve
the organizational objective by utilising resources and developing strategies. The motivation of