BSc BUS115 Portfolio: Personal & Professional Development Analysis

This portfolio delves into personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of continuous growth and skill enhancement for career advancement. It highlights the significance of setting SMART goals and outlines the stages involved in creating a personal and professional development plan, focusing on identifying areas of development, defining goals, and reflecting on learning. Self-assessment is presented as a crucial tool for gaining insights into work performance and identifying areas for improvement, with benefits including work review, idea sharing, and challenge discussion. The portfolio also touches upon reflective practice as a key element for organizational learning and self-management as the ability to handle behavior and emotions effectively. Furthermore, it discusses the 360-degree performance appraisal review as a method for gathering detailed feedback on employee performance and improving overall company performance. Desklib offers a range of resources including past papers and solved assignments to aid students in their studies.

Personal and professional development
• Personal and professional development help people deal with whatever come in their way and help
to achieve something in life. Learning new skills in order to improve career growth allows them to
move up into various roles and responsibility in the company.
• If people wants to fully embrace the advantages of professional and personal development, one
should set target for themselves. So, they should keep in mind that all the goals must be SMART
which means specific, measurable, achievable, reliable and time.

Continued….
 In order to create personal and professional development plan, one should always
follow stages such as- firstly they need to find out area of development and strengths,
identify goals with the help of SMART goals so that they can achieve vision statement.
 After that for continuous professional development one must focus on
learning best things in order to complete series of business activities. This process
moves from finding out development needs through plan and achieve final targets,
along with reflection of learning and applying it. The best way to record development is
keep track on development needs and goals, on regular basis.

Self assessment
 The major goal of self-assessment is to develop professional and personal development
and provide true and fair insights into how people can perceive their work performance
and reflect on it.
 With the help of self-evaluation one can view their own performance so, it is an
opportunity to look at things from another point of view.

Benefit of using self-appraisal and self-assessment in
order to improve professional and personal
development
 Helpful in reviewing work and provide idea about where
improvement is needed
 It will help people reflect on projects and task in the company
 It provides large platform to share ideas and perspective with the
help of supervisor
 This method will be beneficial to discuss tricky situations and
challenges

Ways to write a self appraisal method
 There are many ways to express and write a self-appraisal method
 Understanding use of self-appraisal is important part
 Outlines accomplishments in order to start evaluation with work contributions

Reflection
 Reflective practice is helpful to enable organisational learning and development
practice as it is essential element of successful work experience.
 employees need to reflect on the past experience and feelings towards the task of
company given by managers.
 n reflection, employees critically reflect about their experience with respect to events,
thinking about what happened with them, providing detail about experience and
feelings and also about results.

Self management
 It is the ability to maintain and handle behaviour, attitudes, emotions in as really
effective way.
 It means employees or people need to understand personal responsibility and roles in
different aspects of their life.
 There are many ways to manage things with respect to self-management such as
solving problems, effective communication, time management and sharpening memory
with the help of learning skills and information skills.

360-degree performance appraisal review
 It is the method used by company’s managers to provide detailed information about employee’s performance
on the basis of work.
 This is used by many company where performance of employee is being judged by managers and leaders.
 Professional development plan based on feedback system effectively improve the performance of company
and its employees.

Reasons to use 360-degree performance
appraisal system
 Find out strengths and weaknesses of employees
 Understand performance of company
 Collect constructive feedback

360 degree Appraisal review
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5
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productivity
Team work
Communication skills
Interpersonal skills
Self confidence
Time management
skills