BSc Business Management BMP4001 Professional Skills Portfolio

This is a personal development portfolio submitted for the BSc (Hons) Business Management BMP4001 Professional and Academic Skills Development module. It includes self-reflection on personal learning and development, focusing on transferable skills already developed and skills to be developed during academic studies, personal life, and the workplace. The portfolio features a personal development learning log documenting activities and lessons learned, an action plan outlining goals and strategies for skill development, and a CV summarizing the individual's expertise, qualifications, and skills. The document reflects on communication, time management, and writing skills, and identifies leadership, innovation, and problem-solving as key areas for future development. It also includes references to support the reflections and plans.

BSc (Hons) Business Management
BMP4001
Professional and Academic Skills Development
Personal Development
Portfolio
Submitted by:
Name:
ID:
Contents
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1.0 Self-reflection on personal learning and development,
and the transferable skills 2-3
1.1 Identification and reflection on my approach to personal
learning and development 2
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed
by attending this module 2
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace 2
2.0 Personal development learning log 3
3.0 Action plan 4
4.0 CV 5
References 7
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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 is the way where a student will identify their own performance and
get to know about their strong and weak skills. Here, an instructor like teacher will
instruct me and I will get to know about my personal experience (Musinova, 2019).
Whenever I have given a task then I will make sure that I will complete it on time and
reflect after competition of task that what skills have developed and what all skills I
have lack behind to develop with the module. Personal learning will further help me
to develop those skills which will help me to develop my professional career.
Communication skill is one of the skills which are related to sharing of information
from one person to another effectively. Hence, I observe others that how they
communicate with each other’s and I learn from my personal observations and try to
follow effective way of communicating.
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed
by attending this module
Transferable skills are those skills of expertise which are used in various kinds of
jobs and occupations. Few of the transferable skills which I have developed during
this module are mentioned below-
 Communication skill- I have developed communication skill by interacting
with more people for completing this module. I have interacted with teachers
to identify how to complete the projects and assignments of various courses in
my academic years. Hence, interacting with more people I know will help me
to develop my communication skill.
 Time management skill- I also learn time management skill by completing all
projects and assignments on time by preparing time table of my each activity
per day and by preparing priority list of tasks that which task should be
completed first and which one should be later (Plato, 2018).
 Writing skills- I also learn writing skills where I get to know that long
paragraphs should be avoided and proper headings and subheadings will
make the written content attractive to read. I also learned that the content
which is written should be grammatically correct and must be have correct
spelling.
1.3 Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies,
personal life and the workplace
I would like to develop few skills during my academic skills and these skills are
mentioned below-
Leadership skills- This are the skills which are used to influence other to
follow my ideas. This skill will help me to gain advantage in my professional life.
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Hence, I would like to learn this skill at my academic studies so that in case I will ask
to handle a team at my workplace than I will handle it appropriately.
Innovative skill- I would also like to develop innovative skill because I am
lacking behind to think innovative way to resolve any quarry (Meissner and Shmatko,
2019). Secondly, this will also help me to develop a good personality in front of
others.
Problem solving skill- I would also like to learn problem solving skill because
this will help me to analyze the issues well and make those decisions which will
solve the issue in such a way which will help to mitigate the risk from root so that it
will not occur again. On the other hand, this skill will also help me to solve various
kinds of problems in academic and professional career appropriately.
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?
20
November
2022
I developed
public speaking
skill because it is
a Debate event
conducted in my
school where
there are various
competitors and I
have to represent
my topic more
appropriately
than others to
win the
competition.
I expected to
learn the
communication
skill and
presentation
skill by this
event where I
have to
influence my
audience
toward my topic
and represent
the topic
appropriately to
attract
audience.
I have learned
communication
skill and
presentation
skill by
presenting the
topic well to
audience. I also
learn time
management
skill as a
appropriate time
is given to cover
all essential
information
about debate.
I would like to
apply this
learning in my
day to day life
my managing
time to
complete each
task on time.
29
November
2021
I have learnt
team working
skill by
participating in
sports activities
at inter school
competition. I
was the team
leader of
basketball team
at my school
where I learn the
ways to manage
a team effectively
to achieve the
goal of winning
I expected to
learn leadership
skill with team
working skill by
influencing and
managing my
team members
appropriately
and clearing
their doubts
about team goal
(Anagün, 2018).
I have learned
team working
skill as well as
leadership skill
by selecting
which player is
good to play
and win and
which is not.
I can apply
this learning in
my
professional
life if I have
given a team
to handle then
I will distribute
roles and
responsibilities
according to
the
capabilities
and expertise
of team
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the competition. members.
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?
Problem
solving skill
Case studies and
practicing more to
take participation in
class activities to
solve any quarries.
I supposed to
solve at least 2-
3 problem
solving case
studies which is
related to
business issues
so that I can
develop this
skill.
When I start
solving problems
appropriately
without taking
instructor’s help
and my instructor
will rate my high
for this skill then I
will measure
success to learn
this skill.
6 months
Leadership
skill
Here, I would
supposed to take
participation in
group activities and
take the
responsibility of
group leader
I have to take
participation in
group activities
and ask my
team members
to rate my
leadership skill.
Then I will mark
my strengths
and weakness
report to make it
improved.
In case my team
members rate me
high for
leadership skill
when I ask them
to provide
feedback
(Expósito López
and et. al., 2019).
8 months
Innovative
skill
I can start coaching
for learning this skill
I have to ask my
teacher about
how I would
develop
innovative skill.
Hence, I must
try to solve the
issues in such a
way which is
new and did not
thought by
others earlier
but solve the
issue effectively.
When my
instructor rate me
high and when I
start solving any
issue with myself
with such an
ideas which is
never thought
earlier and solve
the issue
effectively.
1 year
Conflict
resolution skill
I can opt for
coaching for this
skill. To lean this
skill I would also
Here, I must use
internet sources
and watch You
Tube videos
When I start to
put my point of
view with proper
justification to
1 year
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use internet
sources.
related to
organizational
conflicts and
their resolution
techniques by
an effective
manager.
solve any problem
and able to
influence others
that my ideas of
solving any
organizational
conflict are
appropriate than I
would like to
measure success
in learning this
skill.
Public
speaking skill
I must participate in
debate and
speeches in front of
crowd at school to
mitigate stage fear
and learn public
speaking.
It is essential for
me to mitigate
my stage fear
first. Hence, I
can use dummy
of people at
initial stage to
learn public
speaking and try
to train myself
speaking on the
topic well in
front of dummy.
When I started
speaking in front
of crowd with full
confidence and
having no stage
fear than I will
consider myself
successful in
learning this skill.
Secondly, in case
the crowd/ public
appreciate my
speaking than
also I will consider
success.
1.5 years
4.0 CV
It is the short summary of individual’s career, qualification, skills and personal detail
which attract recruiters to find appropriate skilled and qualified candidate for their
vacant job roles (Tolstikova and et. al., 2021). An example of well developed CV is
mentioned below-
Name- Marry Swonsons
Expertise area- Human Resource and Marketing
Mail id- [e-mail]
PERSONAL DETAILS-
Gender- Female
DOB- 18 May 1989
Phone number- xxxxxx7459
Education-
MBA (HR)- Oxford University,
87%.
B.com (Hnrs)- Oxford University,
79%.
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Address- 365/4, Allen Street, London, UK Work Experience-
ADS corporation- HR assistant
manager (2015-2018)
RTH Solution Pvt. Lmt.- Marketing
manager (2019- 2021)
Skills-
 Communication skill
 Time management skill-
 Presentation and basic computer
skills
 Research skills
Language Known-
 English
 German
 French
Interest-
 I like Music, video games, reading books
and soccer.
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References
Anagün, S.S., 2018. Teachers' Perceptions about the Relationship between 21st
Century Skills and Managing Constructivist Learning
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Expósito López, J. and et. al., 2019. Enhancing skills for employment in the
workplace of the future 2020 using the theory of connectivity: shared and
adaptive personal learning environments in a spanish
context. Sustainability, 11(15), p.4219.
Fork, M. and et. al., 2020. Creating community: How we collectively built an
adaptable postdoctoral program to develop skills and overcome
isolation. Authorea Preprints.
Meissner, D. and Shmatko, N., 2019. Integrating professional and academic
knowledge: the link between researchers skills and innovation culture. The
Journal of Technology Transfer, 44(4), pp.1273-1289.\
Musinova, A., 2019. The development of professional skills in copper embosing
lessons. European Journal of Research and Reflection in Educational
Sciences, 2019.
Plato, K., 2018. Personal and professional skills: something they do teach you at
university. In The Interdisciplinary Future of Engineering Education (pp. 113-
132). Routledge.
Tolstikova, S. and et. al., 2021. Development of teachers’ professional skills in
education for sustainable development. In E3S Web of Conferences (Vol.
250, p. 07007). EDP Sciences.
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