HRM6001: Managing Self and Others Report - Skills & Strategies

This report, prepared by a student and available on Desklib, addresses the HRM6001 module's requirements by exploring career development and lifelong learning. It begins with a personal development plan (PDP), including goal setting, a skills audit assessing transferable skills, and a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report then presents an illustrated analysis of strategies for skills development and lifelong learning, emphasizing their impact on career development for both the student and their team colleagues. The analysis covers topics like self-assessment, career awareness, goal setting, and skills training, including the benefits of training on employee motivation and retention. The report also incorporates practical skills and team work to ensure better career prospects. The report also incorporates personal reflection and real world examples to illustrate the concepts. The report concludes by outlining how these strategies can contribute to high-performance individuals within the workplace.

Running head: MANAGING SELF AND OTHERS
Managing Self and Others
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

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Question 1: Career Development and Lifelong Learning
a. Individual Personal Development Plan (PDP)
Introduction
Preparing a personal development plan (PDP) is essential when starting any new stage
of learning (Grit 2019). It helps individuals to have a clear set of goals and aims in order to
manage their agenda, assess present skills, strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and
threats and create an action plan for developing the necessary areas (Rubens et al. 2018). This
report contains, the goals that I have set for the next 12 months, the skills that I have achieved
in the last 12 months, my personal SWOT analysis and my PDP for next 12 months
timeframe.
1. Goal Setting
I) Improve communication skills and interpersonal skills to become more able to interact with
people, express myself in personal and professional scenario and perform well in the course
to achieve the highest stage within the next 4 months.
II) Improve research skills, problem solving and critical thinking skills so that it improves my
grades and my opportunity at future work, to achieve the highest stage within 10 months.
III) Improve my time management and team work in order to ensure timely delivery of work
and efficiency in collaborative effort, to achieve the highest stage by the end of the course.
IV) Improve my leadership and networking as they are going to help me in securing a better
job and work efficiently in future workplace, to achieve highest stage within 8 months.

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2. Personal Skills Audit
Transferabl
e Skill
Your
Curren
t Level
Evidence Level
required
for study
Level
required
for
future
work
Higher
level of
skill
required
Action
needed
Self-
direction
2 I am organized in
my studies and
work. I can
identify priorities
and work on that
basis.
4 5 Goal
setting,
challenges
and
motivation
self-
motivation
Self-
discipline
3 I am persistent in
my learning.
Though I might
face difficulty but
I continue until I
achieve what I
want.
4 5 Listening
and
organizing
self-
motivation
Managemen
t of time and
resources
2 I often make
delays which
makes it difficult
at the end to
complete tasks.
5 5 Time
manageme
nt
milestone
setting
Gathering, 2 I understand the 5 5 Research developing

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organizing
and
deploying
evidence,
data and
information
basis of research
but sometimes I
find it difficult to
locate sources
that would be
most relevant to
the topic, or
understand the
credibility of the
sources.
skills research
skills
Identifying
and solving
problems
3 I can identify
problems but
cannot solve them
as easily and
efficiently as I
would like to.
4 5 Problem
solving
skills
Solve
riddles and
puzzles
Analysing
and
evaluating
information
2 I have difficulty
in evaluating the
credibility of
source,
understand
correlation
between
information and
reach to a
4 5 Critical
thinking
Join course
and improve
research
skills

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conclusion.
Thinking
creatively
4 I found creative
solution to
problems in
previous
assignments.
4 5 Creative
thinking
think out of
the box and
keeping
idea journal
Thinking
independentl
y
4 I think on my
own and can
identify areas that
need focus.
4 5 Creative
thinking
think out of
the box and
keeping
idea journal
Critical
reflection
4 I have written
reflections before
and have been
able to express
my learning and
future hopes.
5 5 Critical
reflection
keep
learning log
and reflect
regularly
Presenting
material
orally in a
clear and
effective
way
3 have certificate
course on still
have difficulty in
oral
representation
and making
presentations.
4 5 Communi
cation
skills
practice at
home
Presenting
written
3 My writing is
average and needs
5 5 Communi
cation
practice
with

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material
clearly and
effectively
polish and refined
style. Have
certificate course.
skills internet help
Interacting
on a one-to-
one basis
4 I am comfortable
with one to one
conversation
though I need to
express myself
more.
4 5 Interperso
nal skills
continue
interaction
and
relationship
building
Working
creatively
and flexibly
with others
2 I have difficulty
in leaving my
comfort zone.
Cannot come up
with creative
solutions.
4 5 teamwork improve
teamwork
through
group
projects
Formulating
and meeting
team
objectives
2 Formulated team
objectives in
earlier group
works. Felt
difficulty in
delivering team
objectives.
4 5 teamwork improve
teamwork
through
group work
Using
websites and
libraries
3 Have done
research earlier
for writing
5 4 Research
skills
learn to
research
better

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assignments.
Observation
al skills
4 I am able to learn
by observation.
Much of my
research skills
and team work
skills were learnt
from observation
of others.
4 5 Critical
observatio
n
Observing
more before
formulating
argument.
Online
exercises
Practical
skills
3 Lack of
leadership and
networking
4 5 Leadershi
p and
network
skills
join course
Table 1: Skills Audit
Source: Created by the author
3. Personal SWOT
A personal SWOT helps in creating effective PDP (Radu 2017).
Strengths Weaknesses
 Thinking Creatively
 Thinking independently
 Critical Reflection
 Observational Skills
 ICT skills
 Previous experience of group work
 Teamwork
 Communication skills
 Critical thinking
 Research skills
 Time management
 Self-direction

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 Previous experience of research
 Penchant for learning and developing
 Leadership
 Networking
Opportunities Threats
 Self-discipline
 Problem solving
 Interpersonal skills
 Learning through reflection
 Lack of resources and support
 Change in technology
 Slow progress
 Lack of concentration and self-
motivation
Table 2: Personal SWOT
Source: Created by the author
4. PDP
Goal Learning methods Resources Timescale Outcomes Support
Communi
cation
skills
Engage in more
communication.
Practice oral
communication
through YouTube
tutorials
Computer
and
internet
4 months confidence
building and
oral and
written
communication
more
presentation
or public
speaking
exercises
Interpers
onal
Skills
Improving emotional
intelligence and
cultural intelligence
through joining a
course
Money for
fees
4 months Relationship
building
self-
learning
Research Research on day to Notebooks 10 months Clarity and support

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skill day learning, keeping
learning journal and
logs, note down
sources following
topics. Use internet.
and
internet
engagement in
learning
from library
department
Problem
solving
Take part in puzzles
and riddle solving
exercises
Computer,
books and
internet
6 months Clarity and
engagement in
learning
self-
learning
Critical
thinking
Join an online course
for improving critical
thinking
Computer
and
internet
8 months Clarity and
engagement in
learning
more
critical
reflections
for exercise
Time
managem
ent
Setting milestones
and creating
schedules
Digital
Year
planner
12 months timely delivery
of work
self-
learning
Teamwor
k
Participate more in
group work, groups
study
N/A 10 months better
collaboration
and group
work ability
more group
exercises
Leadershi
p
Join a short course Money for
fees
8 months being able to
lead teams and
organizations
information
about best
courses
Networki
ng
Join clubs and
professional groups
Internet
and
computer
6 months better
connections
and job
information
regarding
best job

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opportunity circles and
campus job
opportunity
Table 3: Personal Development plan
Source: Created by the author

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References
Grit, R., 2019. Managing your competencies: personal development plan. Routledge.
Radu, C., 2017. Self-awareness and personal development plans of students. New Trends and
Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(8), pp.176-183.
Rubens, A., Schoenfeld, G.A., Schaffer, B.S. and Leah, J.S., 2018. Self-awareness and
leadership: Developing an individual strategic professional development plan in an MBA
leadership course. The International Journal of Management Education, 16(1), pp.1-13.

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b. Produce an illustrated report that assesses how strategies for skills
development and lifelong learning may enable career development for you
and your team colleagues.
Introduction
Motivating the employees and retaining top talents are the two major focus for every
organization (Dong et al. 2017). Employees are highly motivated by training and
developmental strategies that organizations design for their employees. Studies show that
organizational training has large scale impact on their motivation and retention.
Organizations employ different skills development and lifelong learning strategies to engage
employees in their jobs. It helps them to not only motivate employees but also to create a
high performance organization (Lussier and Hendon 2017). This report illustrates the
different strategies for career development and their impact on employee motivation and
retention.
Analysis
Strategies for self-development and lifelong learning
Developing personal development plan
The most effective strategy for self-development and lifelong learning is to prepare a
personal developmental plan. The personal developmental plan includes short and long term
goals prepared from skills audit and personal SWOT analysis, skill gaps, action plan and
requires resource and timeline for achieving them (Whetten and Cameron 2016). It contains
the following components: