BSc Business Management BMP4001 - Personal & Academic Skills Portfolio

This portfolio presents a comprehensive reflection on personal learning and development, focusing on transferable skills acquired and skills targeted for future improvement across academic, personal, and professional spheres. It includes a self-reflection on personal learning approaches, an identification of developed transferable skills such as communication, attention to detail, problem-solving, teamwork, adaptability, and listening skills. The portfolio also outlines skills to be developed, including time management, public speaking, leadership, creativity, and negotiation. A personal development learning log details specific events and learnings, followed by an action plan outlining steps to achieve development goals. The portfolio concludes with a CV showcasing qualifications and experience. This document is available on Desklib, where students can find a variety of study tools and solved assignments.

BSc (Hons) Business Management
BMP4001
Professional and Academic Skills Development
Personal Development
Portfolio
Submitted by:
Name:
ID:
1

Contents
1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development,
and the transferable skills p-p
1.1 Identification and reflection on my approach to personal learning
and development p
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed by
attending this module p
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace p
2.0 Personal development learning log p
3.0 Action plan p
4.0 CV p
References p
2

1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development,
and the transferable skills
1.1 Identification and reflection on my approach to personal learning
and development
Personal Learning and development is the procedure of whole life in which every
person has to consider and thought about their life and should focus on themselves in
order to enhance their life in the future. It is basically said to be a procedure for
improvement in themselves which also enables an individual to give a thought on
developing various skills and capabilities in their life. This can be achieved by a person
independently or through the work environment(Boyatzis, and et. al., 2021). There are
different types of advantages that an individual can get from personal learning and
development are discussed down below:-
 It helps a person to grow their skills which moreover enables them to enhance
and improve their career.
 These learnings helps an individual to get a good work life balance and improve
their lifestyle.
 It helps people to make a feasible goal in their life which moreover enables them
to be motivated towards the self development and reach the goals.
 This personal learning and development helps the person to make attainable
goals that can be achieved(Brown, and Thomas., 2022).
 It helps an individual to get an understanding about their qualities in their life
more accurately.
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed by
attending this module
Communication skills: This is basically a quality of the people that enables
them to get acknowledge of various informations more accurately. I have realized that I
had to focus on various skills in order to be good at this skill like listening skill,
observing, speaking etc. This skills also make it able for me to improve or enhance my
3

coordination with my loved ones because it overall enables me to conduct an effective
conversation with them. This skill also help me to resolve the conflicts with the person to
whom I have some issues.
Attention to detail: This skill is very vital for a person that helps them to perform
less mistake. I develop this skill in order to notice the small things and consider it
properly to improve my efficiency towards conducting the activities(Byars. and
Subramaniam., 2021). This skill enables me to pay more attention while performing the
activities and then helps to find out the errors and then deal with the same error in order
to correct it. It also helps me to enhance my knowledge as well as skill because at the
giving the attention to something it automatically enhances the skills that I already
possessed.
Problem solving :- This skill helps an individual to identify and analyse the
complex issues and then find out the solution for the same issue. It is advised as a
capabilities which a person use in an effective manner to solve the difficult issues. This
skill enables me a lot in finding out the solution for the issues at different scenarios. It
enables me to be relax free from the upcoming issues.
Team work :- It is a skill that enables a person to do the work in a group or team
and achieve a same goal. This skill helps me to get an understanding that a work can
be done much more effectively if it is done by a whole team or group. It provides me a
capability to work in a team and makes it able to enhance my collaboration skill. This
also helps me to get an understanding about the behaviours and attitudes of team
members which moreover enables to perform more accurate and proper activities.
Adaptability:- It is the capability of a person that helps to get adjust in the
various situations which are upcoming and then tackle it properly. It is basically a skill
that enables me to get involve in the complex situations without any problem(Kim., Yun.
and Sol., 2021). It helps me to adapt the undesirable change that are going to come in
the future and it also enables to accept the views as well thoughts of other person
without conducting any debates. This skill has play a major role in improving my lifestyle
by countering the daily issues of my life. It has also enabled a quality in me to perform
an effective work under the stress.
4

Listening skill :- This skill is very important for an individual to communicate
properly with someone. I has developed simultaneously at the time of communication
skills. Without this skill, I can not able to properly communicate with other individual
because to conduct an effective communication a person must listen the thoughts and
views of other person(Salīte., and et. al., 2021). This helps me to better understand the
words of person to whom I am communicating. This also plays a major in solving the
conflicts because without properly knowing the other individual perception a person
would not able to resolve the conflict.
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace
Time management:- It is basically a procedure for assigning the time to perform
the activities. This skill helps an individual to divide the activities and identify that which
activity requires how much time. It enables a person to perform the same task in a less
stress and time. This skill has a great importance in performing and completing the work
within the given time by the client. It enables a person to make an effective plan and
follow it in order to do the work in the given time. This skill has a lot of benefits such as
it provides a person a lot of free time to do the activities they like and want to do. It
helps the people to reduce their stress level as well as enhance the level of confidence
which moreover enables the person to do more focus and improve the overall
performance(Vargens., and et. al., 2021).
Public speaking :- This is basically a skill in which a person has to speak in a
stage in front of a large number of people. I want to develop this skill because it has a
lot potential in boosting a confidence of an individual. This skill has a lot of use in
various field whether it is educational institutions or corporate organisation. A person
has to speak publicly in front of a group of people or a large audience in order to
achieve a success in the life. It has also been seen that all the successful person are
doing public talk in order to motivate their listeners.
Leadership skill :- This skill enables an individual to provide proper and
accurate guidance to their followers so that it helps them to enhance their life. This skill
helps a leader to deal with their team members or their followers and ascertain their
5

problems and then provide them the solution. I want to develop this skill because it will
help me to deal with the issues of employees and handle it properly. The most vital
thing a leader has to focus on is improving their emotional intelligence and to conduct
an effective communication with the followers or team members. This skill will help me
in handling a lot of people at the same time as well as offer them the best advice to
achieve or attain their desirable goals.
Creativity skill :- It is basically a capability of an individual to think to solve a
problem in a very different way(Vongkulluksn., Matewos, and Sinatra., 2021). This skill
has a lot of importance in order to solve the complex problems in much more effective
way. It arises a quality in a person to think of a new ideas or techniques to solve the
same problem that was earlier solving by some traditional method. This skill enables a
person to look at the issues in some unique way and analyse it properly in order to do it
with some different technique.
Negotiation skill :- This skill basically helps an individual to conduct an effective
communication with other person in order to reach to an agreement. This skill is
basically considered as a strategy in order to win from the other person in negotiating. I
want to develop this skill because it can helps me a lot in my workplace in negotiating
regarding the hike of a salary or to get a holiday for a personal reason.
2.0 Personal development learning log
Date of event What was the
development
activity?
What was I
expecting to
learn?
What have I
learned?
How will
I apply
this
learning
?
Tuesday Webinar for
speak effective
in public
I was
expecting to
learn the
methods to
speak
I learned the
ways to handle
myself and
boost my
confidence
This
learning
can be
applied
by regular
6

effectively in
front of large
audience.
while speaking
in public.
practising
in front of
a group
of people.
Thursday Seminar to
develop
leadership
quality
I was to
expecting to
learn the
methods to
be an
effective
leader.
I learned the
ways to deal
with a group of
people and
provide them
proper and
accurate
guidance.
This
learning
can be
applied
by
conductin
g various
sessions
of
leadershi
p.
Saturday Event for
enabling
adaptability skill
I was
expecting to
learn the
techniques to
enable the
skill of
adaptability.
I learned the
methods to
adapt the
different
situations
without any
problem.
This
learning
can be
applied
by daily
practising
of this
skill.
3.0 Action plan
7

What do I
want to
learn?
What support
and resources
will I need?
What do I have
to do?
How will I
measure
success?
Target date for
review?
I want to learn
to speak
publicly.
The resources
required to learn
this skill are the
audience and a
platform.
I have to work
on boosting my
confidence and
start practising
to speak in
public.
This success can
only be measured
if I am able to
speak fluently in
front of large
audience.
This skill can be
achieved in the
next 2 months.
I would like to
learn to
manage the
time.
There is not any
specific
resources
required to learn
this skill.
I have to work
on the daily
routine that how
much time I
have to give to a
specific activity.
The success can
be measured here
when I able to
perform all the
activities and
have a lot of free
time to do what I
want.
This skill can be
achieved in the
next 3 months.
I want to
develop a
leadership
skill.
There is not any
specific
resources
required in order
to learn this skill.
I have to work
on handling a
group of people
and provide
them a proper
guidance.
The success for
this skill can be
measured when I
able to handle a
group of people.
This skill can be
achieved in the
next 6 months.
4.0 CV
Name:-
Address:-
8

Phone number:-
Email:-
Qualifications:-
Work Experience:-
Languages:-
Area of Interest:-
References
Boyatzis, R.E., and et. al., 2021. Thrive and survive: Assessing personal
sustainability. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 73(1),
p.27.
Brown, E. and Thomas, L., 2022. Dissonant discourses: constructing a consistent
personal tutoring experience across the whole university. The Higher Education
Personal Tutor's and Advisor's Companion: Translating Theory Into Practice to
Improve Student Success, p.29.
Byars, N. and Subramaniam, A., 2021. Reflections on the Talk, Touch, and Listen
Facilitator Learning Community: Braiding the Personal, the Professional, and
Liberation. In Therapeutic Cultural Routines to Build Family Relationships (pp.
159-171). Springer, Cham.
Kim, Y.O., Yun, S. and Sol, Y.H., 2021. The long-term effects of an international
teaching practicum: The development of personal and professional
competences of Korean pre-service teachers. KEDI Journal of Educational
Policy, 18(1).
Salīte, I., and et. al., 2021. More personal knowledge for more sustainable higher
education. Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 23(1), pp.150-165.
Vargens, A.F., and et. al., 2021. The impact of mentoring on the personal and
professional development of different classes. Revista Brasileira de Educação
Médica, 45.
Vongkulluksn, V.W., Matewos, A.M. and Sinatra, G.M., 2021. Growth mindset
development in design-based makerspace: A longitudinal study. The Journal of
Educational Research, 114(2), pp.139-154.
9