BMP4001 Professional Skills: Business Management Personal Portfolio

This document is a personal development portfolio submitted for the BSc (Hons) Business Management BMP4001 Professional and Academic Skills Development course. It includes a self-reflection on individual development and learning, focusing on transferable skills acquired through the module, and identifies skills for future development in academic, personal, and workplace contexts. A personal development learning log details activities and learning outcomes related to communication, time management, creativity, computer skills, and management skills. The portfolio also presents an action plan outlining steps to improve specific skills, and concludes with a CV highlighting career goals, experience, qualifications, and skills relevant to business management. The portfolio is properly referenced using books and journals.

BSc (Hons) Business Management
BMP4001
Professional and Academic Skills Development
Personal Development
Portfolio
Submitted by:
Name:
ID:
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Table of Contents
1.0 Analyse self-reflection on individual development and learning along with the
transferable skills ..................................................................................................................3
2.0 Personal development learning log ....................................................................................5
3.0 Action plan............................................................................................................................7
4.0 CV ...................................................................................................................................8
References................................................................................................................................10
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1.0 Analyse self-reflection on individual development and
learning along with the transferable skills
1.1 Identifying and reflecting on my formulation to personal
development and learning
Personal learning and development is a lifelong that consist the appraisal of
contemporary talents and skills as well as enhance an individual based on that
assessment (Bennett-Levy, 2019). This will helps them to achieved their goals and
improved their quality of life in effective manner. This will help me to improve myself
as well as make me focus on building up my own knowledge, skills and awareness
along with the overall sense of identity. This plays an important part in my growth
and progression. Individual development can not only crucial for my self-self-
reformation but can also assist me to grow professionally in effective manner. By
pursuing personal learning and development I can also learn more about my abilities
and aspirations in effective manner. This will help me to identify where my beliefs
and value lie that helps me to set my clear and well informed goals for my future in
effective manner. With my unsubtle and realizable targets I will be more intended to
actually fulfill them in effective manner. In order to achieve my targets and goals,
personal development plan help me to track my progress in effective manner. This
will make me more productive in order to carry out task that I set for my self as well
as more able for completing them with a high standard. Personal development is
apart from my professional living, but it is a great way to accomplish my career goals
in effective manner.
1.2 Identifying the transferable skills I have already developed by attending this
module
Transferable skills are those skills that can be use in any job or field in order
to perform a task in effective manner. The skills that includes in transferable skills
are analytical reasoning, problem solving, leadership, critical thinking, adaptability,
communication, teamwork, listening, writing, creativity, project management,
attention to detail, relationship building, management and computer skill (Gottlieb
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and Travis, 2018). All these transferable skill are important for an individual in
order to makes their future career more effective as well as achieve their goals in
effective manner. Personal learning and development module help me to learn
various skills in order to make my future career more better and great in effective
manner. The effective skills I have learn in this module is problem solving skills. This
will help me to identify the problem, what cause that problem as well as find a
effective way to implement a solution in effective manner. I have also learn critical
thinking skills which makes me to evaluate and interpreted information in order to
make a effective judgment. Leadership is an another skills that I will learned from this
module. It provides me an ability in order to manage and supervise a team in
effective manner. It also make me able to take a lead on the project and get a team
to follow through and accomplish shared goals in effective manner. Adaptability is
also an important transferable skill I have learned from this module. I have also
learned teamwork skills that helps me to learn how to work effectively with other
members within a group in order to achieve a common goal (Gubbins and Hayden,
2021). It provides me an ability in order to adapt changes that may occur while
performing my task effectively. Teamwork skill and leadership skill are linked with
each other, if the I manage my work with my team members effectively I can also
manage other team members work also that makes me an effective leader for
managing my team in more efficient manner. All these transferable skills includes
extensive skill set in which I can tap into when I needed most. These skills are
equally important to me and play a key role that help me to grow my career in
effective manner. The main aim of my learning all these skills is to manage and
operate my future business in more efficient manner. These skills makes me more
strong and diverse in order to manage my business and different resources in more
effective manner. These can not only useful for my future career, it can also help me
in my academic and personal life also.
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace
Besides from all those learned skills, there are some ability that I need to
develop during my personal life, academic studies as well as at the workplace
(Rajashree, 2021). The main purpose for developing certain skills is to manage my
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future business in more efficient manner. The skills I would like to develop is
communication, time management, creativity, computer and management skills. The
communication skills is important skills that can be used in each and every field in
effective manner. It provides me an ability to share information and ideas in more
concise and clear manner without creating any misunderstanding (Rojas and Tuesta,
2020). It helps me to communicate and interact with others in more effective and
efficient manner so, they can understand my message. It makes me more confident
and assertive in order to present my ideas or information in front of audience in more
effective manner. The another developing skills is time management, it makes me
more able to manage my time with other tasks in more effective and efficient
manner. This will help me to learn importance of time in my life. It will enhance my
productivity that help me to complete many work in less time, even when I am
working under any pressure. Creativity skills are used to design or develop any thing
or idea in more effective and efficient manner. This will help me to conduct my future
task in more creative manner in order to achieve desired outcomes in more effective
manner. The another skill is computer skill, it helps me to operate certain task or
work effectively through information technologies and systems. More and more
people in all over the world are using digital technologies in order to perform their
certain task in more effective manner (Sasirekha and Suresh, 2020). This will help
me to learn how to use a computer systems and digital technologies in more efficient
manner. Further I need to develop my management skills, this provides me an ability
to manage future business operation with different resources in more effective
manner.
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?
04 March 2022 Communication
skill
I am trying to
learn verbal
communicati
I have learned
about the
importance of
I will apply
these skills
in my
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on skills in a
more
efficient
manner.
communicatio
n skills in
personal and
professional
life.
organisatio
nal and
social life.
02/04/22 Time management
skill
I am learning
how to
manage my
time in
different
task.
I have learned
how time
management
is important in
my life.
I will apply
this skills in
my
academic
and
professiona
l career.
05 May 2022 Creativity skills I will learned
how to
conduct a
task in
creative
manner.
This will help
me to think
more creative
manner while
performing a
task.
I will apply
my this
skills in my
future
professiona
l career.
15/09/22 Computer skills I will learned
how to
operate
different
application
and software
of computer
in effective
manner.
I will learned
how to
operate
computer in
order to
complete task
in easiest and
effective
manner.
I can apply
my this
skills in my
academic
and
professiona
l career.
25/12/22 Management skills I will learned
how to
manage
organisation
al task and
I will learned
how to
manage and
operate a
business
I will apply
this in my
organisatio
nal career.
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resources in
effective
manner.
organisation.
3.0 Action plan
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?
Communicatio
n skill
Reading books
and
magazines, by
taking online
courses and
seminars can
help me to
improve my
communication
skills.
For improving
my
communication
skills I have to
do more
practices,
learning
vocabulary,
taking advice
from experts.
I can measure
my success in
communication
skill by taking
feedback from
others.
03/05/22
Time
management
skill
Clocks and
calendar are
needed to
improve my
time
management
skill.
By starting task
early, setting
limit for each
task and
prioritize each
task.
By completing
task on time can
help me to
measure my
success in time
management
skills
06/04/22
Creativity skills Proper
knowledge and
By creating
compassionate
By asking from
others about my
25/06/22
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advice from
expert.
and accepting
environment as
well as
presenting new
and effective
ideas help me
to improve my
creativity skills
each and every
ideas.
Computer
skills
Computer
system,
internet access
and experts
advice are
needed to
improve my
computer skills.
By more
practices,
reading
manual,
learning tools
and techniques
in computer
helps me to
improve my
computer skills
By performing
certain computer
tasks help me to
manage my
computer skills
01/07/22
Management
skills
Proper
communication
and
professional
training in
business
management
help me to
improve my
management
skills
By strengthen
my decision
making,
building trust
among others
and taking
proper
management
training help
me to improve
my
management
skills
By managing
and operating a
business can
help me to
measure my
success in
management
skills.
08/08/22
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4.0 CV
Curriculum vitae
Business Manager
Contact Details:
XYZ, UK 1258
(789)240-371232
[e-mail]
Future Career Goals
Basic career objective is to become an effective business manager in order to manage
company's different functions with their different resources. To learn several professional
method of manage resources and to advantage growth in operating business organisation and
to achieve organisational goals within a time period.
Experience
· Conducted management dealing for a small retailing enterprise.
· Pursued various webinars and seminars related to business management for the
development of better understanding in business management.
· Gone through a internship for management in an enterprise.
Qualifications:
● PHD degree in Business Administration.
● Master’s degree in Business Administration from London University.
● Bachelor degree in Business Administration from London University.
Skills
· Time management and team work skills
· Decision making and critical thinking skills in order to manage any kind of situation.
· Leadership and communication skill for interacting and managing people.
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References
Books and Journals:
Bennett-Levy, J., 2019. Why therapists should walk the talk: The theoretical and
empirical case for personal practice in therapist training and professional
development. Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry, 62,
pp.133-145.
Gottlieb, A.S. and Travis, E.L., 2018. Rationale and models for career advancement
sponsorship in academic medicine: the time is here; the time is
now. Academic Medicine, 93(11), pp.1620-1623.
Gubbins, E.J. and Hayden, S.M., 2021. Professional development. In Critical issues
and practices in gifted education (pp. 349-360). Routledge.
Rajashree, K., 2021. Dissecting the Dichotomy of Skill and Social Justice Theory of
Law School Legal Aid Clinics in the USA and India: A Re-look of the Past
and the Present. Asian Journal of Legal Education, 8(1), pp.79-94.
Rojas, J.E.Q. and Tuesta, J.E.Q., 2020, March. Work in Progress: Semi-Dual
apprenticeship for the development of skill in professional training of the
engineer. In 2020 IEEE World Conference on Engineering Education
(EDUNINE) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
Sasirekha, K. and Suresh, G.S., 2020. Classroom Experiments and Experience
Using Skill Genie. In Innovations and Technologies for Soft Skill
Development and Learning (pp. 72-80). IGI Global.
(Bennett-Levy, 2019)(Gottlieb and Travis, 2018)(Gubbins and Hayden, 2021)
(Rajashree, 2021)(Rojas and Tuesta, 2020)(Sasirekha and Suresh, 2020)
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