Personal Development and Skills Learning Portfolio

This personal development portfolio provides a comprehensive overview of personal learning and development, focusing on the introspection of learning strategies and the identification of transferable skills acquired through a business and management module. The portfolio includes a reflective journal detailing the adopted learning approach, which involves preparing and revising notes regularly, and improvements in skills such as decision-making and time management. It highlights the development of portable skills like time management, teamwork, and leadership through module activities, including a group presentation. The portfolio also outlines competencies to be developed in academic studies, personal life, and the workplace, such as communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, and active listening. A personal development learning log documents various development activities and their impact, while an action plan sets out goals for skill development with specific timelines and resources. Finally, the portfolio includes a CV summarizing career goals, work experience, qualifications, and skills.

Personal Development
Portfolio
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Table of Contents
1.0 Introspection journal on personal learning and development as well as transferable
skills .......................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Recognizing and reflecting on my adopted strategy for personal learning and
development ...................................................................................................................3
1.2 Identification of the portable skills that I have already developed by enrolling in this
module .............................................................................................................................4
1.3 Competencies that I would like to acknowledge during my academic studies,
distinctive life and the place of work ...........................................................................5
2.0 Personal development learning log ...........................................................................5
3.0 Action plan..................................................................................................................6
4.0 CV ..............................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8
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1.0 Introspection journal on personal learning and development as
well as transferable skills
1.1 Recognizing and reflecting on my adopted strategy for
personal learning and development
Self-directed learning can be defined as diverse variety in regards with
educational programs, institutional approaches and distinct learning needs (Elfeky,
2018). It is considered as a path in regards with education that take place for
discovering the strengths and interests for creating unique experience based on
specified traits of individuals. It enable individuals in better understanding their
learning capabilities. During my university curriculum, I have joined a module which
is based on the development of skills in business and management which will be
used by me for making my career effective. My learning approach during this module
was to prepare the notes and revising them on a routine basis. This practice had
helped me in learning the lessons of the module. For preparing notes and revising
them, I had made a schedule which contained all my routine activities that I had to
undertake.
I has analyzed that I am not capable of remembering the notes for a longer
time period in respect to a specified subject. For this, I have adopted this approach
of preparing notes and revise them on a continual basis.
Personal development is concerned with looking forward and moving ahead
by focusing on the ways which help in attaining per-determined objectives in an
effective manner (Rose, 2018). For enhancing my personal development, I had
decided to improve my existing skills such as decision-making and time
management. For enhancing my skills, I had joined this module of business and
management for learning new skills which will help me in my employability in future
years.
During the module tenure, I have learned numerous things and improvised my
skills in an effective manner. I have joined lectures in regards with online and offline
aspects. For enhancing my communication skills, I have participated in an interactive
session which is performed on the basis of learning from the module of business and
management. I also read some business journals and magazines which help me to
build relevant notes for my personalized learning in a strategic manner. Through this
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approach, I have gained my knowledge regarding managing time in an effective
manner for preparing my notes.
1.2 Identification of the portable skills that I have already developed
by enrolling in this module
Portable skills are concerned with competencies that are needful for a
specified job or field (Olsen, Sverdrup and Kalleberg, 2019). For example, coding
and programming skills are considered as important for software development
companies. These skills are considered as important for me as it significantly
contributes to the success of a team, individuals and organization in a strategic
manner. This also encompasses of some soft skills such as relationship building as
well as communication.
These transferable skills can be assessed in individuals through performing
self-assessment in a strategic manner (Andersen, 2018). I have developed time
management skills and teamwork skills by attending this module. These skills are
developed by me through adopting a leaning approach of preparing the notes. At the
module activity, we have given a task which is a group one and comprises of
preparing presentation on lessons which have been taught to us till date. I am not
comfortable with making presentation as I believe it to be a time consuming process.
I had consulted with my team members about our strengths and weaknesses in a
strategic manner. We get to know that working in a team is an easy task as all of us
have some sort of skill which can be used as strength.
We work as a team by bifurcating our jobs such as doing research, preparing
presentation and writing notes on the basis of the task. I have also developed
leadership skills by managing a team task. Through gaining effective leadership
skills, I have gain the attributes which help me to understand the task and delegate
responsibilities to team members in an effective manner. I got to know that it is the
responsibility of leader to smoothly run their team and prepare them for unfortunate
events as well as attaining organizational objectives. On the basis of this experience,
I have analyses that development of these transferable skills allows me to take
control of my career path and determine my desired job position in an effective
manner.
Time management skills are considered as crucial for individuals as it help
individuals in managing their responsibilities and prioritizing their tasks (Morris,
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2018). Time management skills will also help me in managing the given tasks and
responsibilities in an exponential manner. These transferable skills are considered
as vital for me to move further after completing my university curriculum.
1.3 Competencies that I would like to acknowledge during my
academic studies, distinctive life and the place of work
There are varied skills which needs to be undertaken by individuals for their
academic studies, personal development as well as workplace. I like to develop
presentation and communication skills during my academic studies. Communication
skills are considered as important for individuals as it help them in interacting with
others regarding describing their point of views in an effective manner (van der
Vleuten, van den Eertwegh and Giroldi, 2019). For developing communication skills,
I would like to attend online classes and webinars. This would help me in enhancing
my communication skill as well as my confidence. I also want to develop
presentation skills through taking online classes and practicing.
In relevance with personal life, I want to develop problem-solving skills. This
skill is considered as vital for individuals as it aid them in solving varied issues in
regards with academic and personal life (Carpenter and Moser, 2020). I want to
solve my issues in context to studies, attending classes on time and preparing for
exams with this problem solving skills. These skills will be developed by me through
brainstorming creative solutions for a specified issue in a strategic manner. For this I
will focus on root cause of the issue for understanding it in a better way.
In accordance with workplace, I want to develop critical thinking skills and
active listening skills. I will learn these skills by attending the module of business and
management in an effective manner. Critical thinking skills is one of the most
important skills which is used by an individual to develop understanding about facts
and evidences which is related to projects to task assigned within an organization.
These skills are required to be developed in order to develop understanding about
various aspect related to developing understanding over situation.
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?
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15/06/22 The
development
activity is
Continuing
operations
Understandin
g about
various
operations
Management
operations
It is
applied
within
managem
ent
activities
20/05/22 The
development
activity is
Research.
Core
elements
involved in
business
Tactics of
research
It applied
in relation
to
introduce
innovation
within
business
25/05/22 The
development
activity is
Improve job
performance
Professional
ethics
Ethical values It is
applied for
improving
profession
al
standards
27/06/22 The
development
activity is Skill
Based Training.
Learn about
various skills
Operational
skills
It is used
for
conductin
g
operations
profession
ally
30/05/22 The
development
activity is
improving
duties
Conflict of
interest
Issues faced
by employees
It is
applied for
solving
conflicts
within an
organizati
on
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 skills
Attending online
lectures and
classes
Require to
prepare speech
By taking
feedback from my
colleagues.
One month
Presentation
skills Books and
In order to
develop this
Success can be
measured by Two month
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journal
skills I am
required to learn
usage of
Microsoft
presentation
using 360
feedback method
Problem
solving skills
Attending
physiology
classes
Requires to
study about
human behavior
This skills can be
improved by
understanding
about employees
Three months
4.0 CV
Curriculum vitae
Marketing Manager
Contact Details:
areana, UK 1238
(789)540-379252
[e-mail]
Career Goals
Main career goal is to become a professional marketing manager who is able to lead
a team of large number of people. To learn various professional techniques of
performing marketing operations and to gain growth in working business
organisation and to achieve business targets in a set period of time.
Work Experience
·Performed marketing operations for a consultancy organisation near my house
·Attended various seminars and webinars related to marketing in order to develop
technical understanding of marketing.
·Gone through professional internship in a famous marketing organisation.
Qualifications:
●Bachelor degree in Marketing management
●Master’s degree in Marketing management
●PHD degree in Marketing management
Skills
·Time management and communication skills
·Problem solving and logical skills in order to deal with any type of situation.
·Leadership and motivating skills to lead large number of workers.
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References
Andersen, J., 2018. Transferable Skills. In Research Management: Europe and
Beyond (pp. 319-332). Elsevier.
Carpenter, T. P. and Moser, J. M., 2020. The development of addition and
subtraction problem-solving skills. In Addition and subtraction (pp. 9-24).
Routledge.
Elfeky, A. I. M., 2018. The effect of personal learning environments on participants’
higher order thinking skills and satisfaction. Innovations in Education and
Teaching International.
Morris, B., 2018. Time management. In Management Skills for the Information
Manager (pp. 167-188). Routledge.
Olsen, K. M., Sverdrup, T. E. and Kalleberg, A. L., 2019. Turnover and transferable
skills in a professional service firm. Journal of Professions and Organization.
6(1). pp.2-16.
Rose, C., 2018. The personal development group: the students’ guide. Routledge.
van der Vleuten, C., van den Eertwegh, V. and Giroldi, E., 2019. Assessment of
communication skills. Patient Education and Counseling. 102(11). pp.2110-
2113.
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