LC580: Career Development Action Plan at Bucks New University

This report presents a career development action plan, emphasizing the importance of reflecting on individual skills and goals for personal and professional growth. It identifies work-related goals, such as attaining a higher position and motivating a team, along with strategies to achieve them, including improving communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills. The plan reflects on personal strengths like communication, delegation, and teamwork, detailing methods for enhancement. It also addresses weaknesses, such as problem-solving, time management, and patience, outlining steps for improvement through positive thinking, prioritization, and active listening. The action plan effectively determines areas for enhancement, facilitating personal and professional development, with references to support the strategies and reflections discussed.

CW1 Career Development Action Plan

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................1
WORK RELATED GOALS & STRATEGIES................................................................1
PERSONAL STRENGTHS...........................................................................................1
PERSONAL WEAKNESSES........................................................................................2
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................2
REFERENCES.............................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Reflecting on the individual skills as well as goals is very important as it helps
in determining what is working best and what is not good for personal and
professional development (Wagner, 2016). Considering this, the main aim of the
current report is to reflect on the current strengths and weaknesses and work related
goals. Overall, an action plane for personal development will be prepared.
WORK RELATED GOALS & STRATEGIES
The two most important goals are:
Goals How to achieve them
Getting higher position at
the workplace
This can be attained by employing more efforts and
improving the quality of work. Other than this, there are
certain qualities which are required to be developed
such as communication, commitment, listening and
leadership skills (Wegner and et.al, 2015).
Motivating team for
attaining goals of the
organization
This goal can be attained by encouraging the team
members to work harder by offering different incentives,
bonus and other benefits. I also need to make
improvement in my inter-personal skills and decision
making skills. Further, I need to work in collaboration for
attaining the desired goals (Ryan, 2017).
PERSONAL STRENGTHS
Strengths How to enhance
Good communication
skills
For enhancing this skill, it is important to first learn the
ways of listening to others. Further, it is crucial that
one must check the message prior sending it to
others. Even, understanding the body language of
others can help in enhancing this skill (Bassot, 2013)
Delegation
Through establishment of task hierarchical system. In
addition to this, it is also crucial to trust the other
workers in regards with the quality of work. Further,
through determining the strength and plus point of
other employees, one can easily delegate work to
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others.
Good team work
Through having optimistic mind-set, sharing
experiences and setting team rules will enhance this
skill. Additionally, it is also crucial to know and be
aware in regards with the common goals and aim so
that all can work in collaboration with each other for
effectively attaining the desired shared goals (Shum
and et.al, 2017)
PERSONAL WEAKNESSES
Weaknesses How to improve
Problem solving This can be improved by emphasizing on solutions
and not the problem and through having positive
thinking. Clearing defining of issues and adapting is
also an important way of enhancing this ability (Ross,
2014)
Time management and
planning
With the help of prioritizing of tasks, setting
deadlines, scheduling and learning patterns of
productivity will help in making improvement in the
time management skills (Bradley, 2013)
Learn to be more patient It is important to make sure that there should be no
judgemental feeling and to become a good listener.
Other than this, it can also be enhanced by actively
building a tolerance power
CONCLUSION
Thus, from the above analysis, it can be said that the above action plan has
significantly determined the goals to be achieved and relative strengths and
weaknesses. Through this, areas which need to be enhanced and improved have
been determined effectively, which will further help in personal and professional
development.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Bassot, B. (2013) The Reflective Journal. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Bradley, E.F. (2013) Taken-for-granted assumptions and professionalism in IAG
practice (Doctoral dissertation). Lancaster EPrints.
Ross, J. (2014) ‘Performing the reflective self: audience awareness in high-stakes
reflection’, Studies in Higher Education, 39(2), pp. 219-232.
Ryan, M. (2017) ‘Improving reflective writing in higher education: a social semiotic
perspective’, Teaching in Higher Education, 16(1), pp. 99-111.
Shum S.B., Sándor Á., Goldsmith R., Bass R. and McWilliams M. (2017) ‘Towards
reflective writing analytics: Rationale, methodology, and preliminary results’,
Journal of Learning Analytics, 4(1), pp. 58–84.
Wagner, K. (2016) Benefits of reflective practice. Leadership.
Wegner, J, Turcic II, S.M. and Hohner, G. (2015) Learning from experiences:
examining self-reflection in engineering design courses. Seattle, WA: Paper
presented at the 122nd ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.
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