Importance of Key Skills in Personal and Professional Life

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Reflective Personal Development Report and plan
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Executive Summary
There are various skills that are required at workplace and in
personal life as well. This present report will show the importance
of some skills such as: Team working skill, focus and attention
skill, public speaking skill and negotiation skill. They play an
important role in a person life as all these skills help them in
performing in effective way. Feedback and self assessment tools
sure an individual about their effectiveness regarding skills and
about their performance. Feedback is the best tool for analysing
performance as it provides suggestions and different views of
different person. Team working skill help an individual in
improving relationship with others by collaborating and sharing
views. Attention and focus skill also help an individual at
workplace because it reduces the chances of errors and mistakes
in work. Focus skill improves the concentration power of a person
by which they can consume their time and energy as well. Public
speaking skill is also an important skill that reduces the fear of an
individual and increases confidence their at work. Negotiation also
decrease the chances of disputes and improves mutual
understanding among employees.

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ENTRY PRO-FORMA 1
What is the core skill to develop?
Public speaking skill: Public speaking is a skill of communicating all the informations and
data in effective manner to an audience and people. I need to develop this skill at workplace
as I am not good at this skill. Due to lack of this skill I have to face various problems. Public
speaking means to communicate and share our views and opinions to another (Jackson,
2015). Ineffective communication is a big barrier and the main reason of conflicts. It happens
because of inability of public speaking.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant
theories and concepts to support your answer)
Public speaking is very useful and important for people as it helps them in their professional
life and in their personal life. It is important for people to have because with the help of this
skill they can gain trust of audience and people. With the help of Johari window model I can
improve my skill as it is a technique that focus on understanding the importance of
relationship with others (Berland, 2017.).
Reflect on your current competence 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 analysed my public speaking skill and I found that I lack in this skill and I need to work on
developing and creating these skills. For knowing my weakness and about this skill I did self
assessment with the help of results. For conforming this I took feedback from my tutors and
seniors also and they told me that this is my weakness and I lack in this skill so I need to
work on improving this skill.
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?
I fell and believe that I can not speak in front of others with confident and it is my biggest
weakness. Because of this skill I have to face many problems like I can not communicate
easily with anyone that create misunderstanding and also become the reason of conflict. As
a tool kit and for conforming I used feedback from my tutors and peers that from which I got
to know that they also think the same as me. They also think that there is a requirement of
improving this skill in order to effective work and for achieving my goals.
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument)

The main aim of choosing and developing this skill is it will improve my another skills which
are my weakness and decrease my performance. I need to improve this skill because it has
various importance as it will improve communication skills, helps in career growth & inspire
others which increases their morale (Ramezani, Larsari and Kiasi, 2016). By using this
skill in practice I will overcome the fear like nervousness and social connection.