Report on Personal and Professional Development and Leadership

This report delves into the realm of personal and professional development, exploring various strategies and tools to foster individual growth and enhance leadership capabilities. The report begins with an introduction highlighting the significance of continuous learning and skill development in achieving personal and professional goals. Task 1 focuses on the leadership qualities of Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, analyzing his leadership style through situational and behavioral theories. The report emphasizes Bezos's traits such as being a big thinker, having high standards, strategic patience, and being a good learner. Task 2 examines the role of employment and study skills development programs, including IT improvement, research skills, teamwork, and time management. It highlights the benefits of these programs in improving communication, reasoning abilities, and problem-solving skills. The Gibbs reflective cycle is introduced as a model for reflecting on learning experiences, detailing the stages of description, feelings, and evaluation to promote deeper understanding and self-improvement. The report also explores how various skills can be developed to achieve the desired level of outcomes in personal and professional life.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:.....................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1:...........................................................................................................................................1
TASK2”...........................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................5
References:.......................................................................................................................................5

Introduction:
The personal and professional development is a process which helps in achieving the desire
goals and objectives by learning various skills and capabilities. These development plans helps
in improving the knowledge about how to perform the task and activities in the most effective
manners and have better personality of the individual person in the personal as well as in the
professional life of the person. It is very important for the individual to develop or continue
learning the new skills and capabilities at personal and professional so that they are able to have
the competitive advantages at the organisation management level or in the professional career..
under this report, it is based on development of personal and professional growth of the
individual by using different tools and technique analyses . (Brody, and Hadar, 2015)
TASK 1:
The leadership is one of the important skills which helps the organisation to achieve the goals
and objectives in the most effective and efficient manners. here the Jeff Bezos is a great leader
and CEO of the Amazon organisation. he holds good leadership skills which helps he in
becoming one of the leading leaders in the competitive world and provide the required strategies
which helps the organisation to expand their business at the international market places.
Jeff Bezos, is a founder and CEO of the one of the world largest organisation known as
Amazon.com . he have effective quality of the leader such as risk –taker, building the empire on
the new and productivity innovation in the market. (Bryce, Wilmes,. and Bellino, 2016)
He is a person who holds the vision that matters for the growth of the organisation and achieve
the desire level of the success for the company in the long run. His main motive is to serve the
target customer as they were customer centric in their policies and strategies which helps them to
make the productivity results in their organisation. He is one of most influence leader where he
motivates the its employees to perform better in the given task and activities so that organisation
are able to achieve the desire results in the most profitable manners in the work environment.
Jeff bezos have the clear thinking process to helps in simplifying the message of its customer
where they can expand their business to the next level. Some of the leadership theorise and
model which are used by the Jeff bezos are stated as follows:
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Situational theory: according to this leadership theory, the Jeff Bezos follow the different type
of the leadership style as per the need and want of the situation present in the organisation and
its work environment . here the leadership style depended on the type of task and activities which
are being incurred in the organisation, nature of the followers of the company and external and
internal work environment. The leader are required to follow the various type of the style
depending on the need of the organisation and the competition in the market so that organisation
are able to achieve the desire level of outcomes in the most profitable manners. He is able to
switch to another leadership style so that he can inspire employees to perform better in the task
and accomplished the desire results in the most effective and profitable manners and within the
set time period (Enyashina, 2015. )
Behaviours theory: this leadership theory is used by the Jeff bezos in their management team as
this theory helps the leader to behave in certain way which lead to achievement of the
organisation goals and objectives in the most proper manners .according to this theory, great
leaders are not born , they are made by providing various different training and development
programs. Here leader learn the various different behave according to the condition and focus
on studying the specific behaviours of the leader and influence the another people of the
organisation to become the effective leaders in the organisation and stay focus on achieving the
desire outcome of the Amazon in the international market. He always have good behaviours
with its employees at the organisation so that employees feel that they are the important part of
the company and give the desire level of outcomes in the management level and stay focus on
achieving the organisation goals and objectives in the time period and take the competitive
advantage in the target market place. There are various people who looks up the Jeff Bezos
leadership style so that they also become successful person in the life and in the profession they
are in and achieve their goals in the most effective manners.
Some of the most important traits of the Jeff Bezos which helps him to become the most
successful leader in the organisation and influences the employees to perform better in the
organisation
Big thinker: Jeff Bezos is great big thinker , which helps them to come up with the valuable
ideas and innovation at the management level . this traits provide the Jeff to expand and grow
the business at the international market and achieve the target segment.
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High standards: jeff Bezos have a high standards while working for the Amazon as well as in
his personal life as he is very smart person, talented and motivated who always come with the
innovative and effective solution for the problems which occur while performing various task.
Strategically patient : the good leader needs to be patient to provide the better solution to the
organisation. and have the long term vision for the organisation which are to be beneficial for the
organisation growth in the market places. He is able to make the effective strategies for the
Amazon to able to reach out the target customer and serve the different type of goods and
services and focus on growing the operational activities of the organisation at the international
market place.
Good learner: the Jeff Bezos is effective learner which helps them to become the great leader
in the world as well as for the productivity leader of the organisation. he has a curiously about
the new things , ideas which helps them to achieve the goals and objectives of the organisation
within the set time period. With this quality he was able to lead the huge team who are working
for achieving the desire results in the profitable manners
The Jeff Bezos is one of the great and influencer leader who like to motivates the people of
provide the better solution to the problems or the different situation in the organisation which
helps them to capture the desire profits or margin by serving the customer at the international
market places. He provide innovative ideas which helps the organisation to achieve their
objectives in the most effective and profitable ways and in real life also he was a successful
person .
TASK2”
With the help of employment and study skills development program the individual are able to
improve their skills and knowledge which lead to accomplished the personal and professional
objective in the most profitable and within the set time frame. These development and learning
programs helps the person to enhance their communication skills, having reasoning abilities and
are able to make the sound business at their personal zones and in the work places. The
development programs include the employment and study skills such as research skills, team
work capabilities, time management and problem solving skills which are developed into the
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person by going thought the different development programs. There are IT improvement areas
which helps in using technology in the effective manners like making the good PowerPoint
presentation in the office or in the college work so that the information can be shared among
themselves and educated themselves on various prospective of life and career filed. The
individual need to have research skills which helps he finds the important information about
the concern topic and make the effective and efficient decision about the research . another
aspect of employment and study skill is that person is able to make the effective decision about
this life and the professional filed which will helps him to enhance their current situation into
the better or next level in the organisation and improve their personal living standard in the
community . further the person is able to solve the circuital problem in the most effective and
profitable manners which comes in the work environment which lead to improvement in their
skills and knowledge about the certain things. (roll,and Dussias,, 2017)
During online classes , we have learned various things which improve IT skills and different
skills which helps us to provide effective work and complete the task in the proper manners.
We have also involved with personal and professional development programs which helped me
to develop the employment and study skills to achieve my goals in the private and work places.
And we also gained various different skills such as how to make the sound decision in life and
build the research skills so that task can be complete within the time period. the Gibbs reflective
cycle is a model which is used to reflect the what the person have learned and experienced
thought these development process.
The Gibbs reflective cycle: is model which give the structure to learning from the experiences
the individual go on. Its provide framework for examining and evaluating the experiences and
draw the effective conclusion and enhance the person personality which lead to achieve the
desire level of outcomes in the personal and work life. This model helps the person to learn
while having the experiences , it can be either stand –alone experience or a condition one go
frequently. This cycle will helps in understanding what we have learned in the online classes and
what skills we have developed in the class which will helps us in finishing the task in better
manner It includes different stages which lead to better experience for the individual which are
stated as follow:
Description:
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During the online classes we have understand that under this stage, what is situation is defined
by the person like what happened at the event, where the event took place, who were involved in
the given situation and what are reason for such situation in person life. This stage also incurred
what did I and another people learn from the situation and what is the outcome of condition.
We have taken the development course on the employment and study skills which helps in
improving the competitive skills that are essential for the person to perform the task in the most
effective manners. this development was conducted in the organisation where person can learn
skills like use of the information technology which make the work simply and make the proper
use of the advance technology .. (Markham,Gentile and Graham, 2017)
Feelings: it is second stage in the person experiences, it shows what people thoughts are for the
event and situation. Here we have realize that event of employability is very important for the
organisation and for employee so that they can enhance their productivity in the organisation.
another employee also feel that learning new skills and abilities helps them to achieve the desire
outcomes with the effective results. The individual is able to examine what are his feeling before
joining the such programs and what they feel during the such study skills where the activity is
taking place in the organisation or in their personal life cycle. Basically the person take notes of
their feeling at various stages in the learning about the employability and study skills which
helps them to get aware about their thoughts in the learning skills.
Evaluation : under this phase, the one need to evaluate the what worked for the themselves and
what didn’t work for in the given situation. We have examine what are the positive and
negative aspect of the event and condition or the situation at the work place or in their personal
life. The person measure the skills which are crucial for the activities which are to be performed
for the organisation. we and another member of the organisation have evaluated that information
which is shared among himself are transferred by the use of technology so that many people can
use them at the same time and perform their part of task in the effective manners. (Sanz, Molt
Puerta 2015)
Analysis: under this part of the cycle ,is that what we have learned from the particular events,
situation and condition present at the organisation. here we was able to count positive and
negative experience in learning new employability skills such as making the good decision ,
how to have effective and productivity time management skills, and how to solve the problems
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in proper manners. we was able to analysis the abilities which are necessary to make the task
work in the personal and professional place in the perfect manners.
Conclusion: here the person are able to draw a conclusion after examining the events , situation
and what they have learned from the given situation and individual are able to examine skills
which they need to develop for better performance in the given events. we have learned about
my strength skills and will focus on improving the skills in research field where i need more
capabilities to evaluate the events and finds out the best and better solutions for the circuital
problems which arises in the person life. we have also learned about how the use of the
information technology(IT ) skills are important for the achieving the goals and objective in the
most effective manners in the professional as well as in the personal life as students are able to
work with the advance technology . we have develop skills which are essential to perform in the
team work and finds out the efficient solution for the problems
Action plan: under this phases, the person make the various different plans for the coming
events in the personal and work places. we have make the different plan to handle the similar
kind of events in my life as we have learned skills such as how to make the strong and good
communication skills which helps in completing the task in the most effective manners we need
to focus on enhancing the skills on the area of the information and advance technology so that
my work can be performed fast and in the most effective sound methods. (Shuler, and Keller-
Dupree, 2015)
While going thought online class of the employability and study skills, we have effectively
develop the various skills and knowledge which will help me to have growth in my personal
and professional area of my life. we was able to make the good and effective PowerPoint about
the different topic which helps in understanding the topic in effective manners. Further we have
develop the team work which will improve my work in the coming years as working in team are
very important part of the any organisation. also learned about the how to solve the problems in
the proper manners and within the set time so that ultimate goals of the person can be achieved.
Finding the accurate solution to the given problem require lot of skills and abilities to
understand the events and give the most achieve ways.
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Conclusion:
According to the above discussion, it can be concluded the personal and professional
development have huge impact on one personality at their real and work life. further there was
discussion on the leadership style of Jeff Bezos which make him successful leader of the
organisation. reflective journal which is explained with the help of the Gibbs reflective cycle
where what individual experience while learning new skills and knowledge about the certain
events and situation in person life.
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