University Report: Managing Self and Others - Career and Performance

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of managing self and others, focusing on career development and high-performance strategies. The introduction highlights the importance of self-management and effective performance management. Task 1 delves into career development and lifelong learning, discussing individual management techniques, personal SWOT analysis, skill audits, and personal development plans. It also explores various career development strategies such as seeking feedback, self-assessment, goal setting, vision boards, SWOT analysis, and career coaching. Task 2 examines high-performance individuals and teams, and strategies to develop high performance. The report utilizes the Gibbs Reflective Cycle to analyze experiences and learning. The conclusion summarizes key findings and the references provide supporting sources.

MANAGING SELF AND
OTHERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
a. Career Development and Lifelong Learning...........................................................................3
b) Career development strategies.................................................................................................7
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................10
a. High Performance Individuals and Teams.............................................................................10
b. Strategies to develop high performance................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Managing self is the most important part in the life of any individual as it analyses who the
person is, what activities can be done and which activities have influence on them (Zhang, Liu
and Guo, 2019). The report shed light in the high performance people and their development by
effective performance management. This was done by doing the self-assessment and also by
doing the personal SWOT. This will be followed by evaluating the high performance strategies
which can help in working in a team. Furthermore, the ways will be described in which high
performance people can be developed by the effective performance management. Lastly, it will
also analyse the ways in which high performance strategies can be used to meet the personal
development needs and helps in working as a part of team.
TASK 1
a. Career Development and Lifelong Learning
Individual management
In order to achieve career development and career goals it is very important that
individuals are able to effectively manage themselves. Managing themselves include managing
stress in order to ensure it does not affect quality of performance and practices undertaken for
the purpose of developing career. In addition to this positive thinking and assertiveness are also
important aspects of managing self. Some of the ways in which I manage self including
managing stress, assertiveness and positive thinking are as follows-
 Getting engaged into personal and social activities in order to manage stress
 Working on health and fitness activities to relive stress
 In order to maintain and manage assertiveness working on active listening is very
effective and in addition to this staying calm are very helpful
 For positive thinking focusing on good thinking, practicing gratitude and spending time
with positive people as well as identifying areas and elements causing negative thoughts
and reducing them have been very helpful
PDP, SWOT, Skill
I have decided that will focus on developing Human resource skills which are required
for changing business (Zacher and et.al., 2019). Developed a PDP plan by personal swot as well
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as skill audit and hence will know the way in which qualities for HRM can be developed or
improved.
Personal SWOT
It will help me to understand my strength which can be use for various types of task,
weakness that can be improved by proper plan, opportunities that can be taken by skills and
challenges that can become barrier in my professional growth.
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Skill Audit
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PDP
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b) Career development strategies
It is important for me to develop proper career development strategies which will benefit
me in future endeavours (Burnette and et.al., 2020). I have taken help from professional as well
as other specialized person so that planning of mine will contribute in my professional
development and hence skill related to it so that I will able to work for corporate and get higher
opportunity in business. There are number of career development strategies I chosen after
creating PDP and discussing below in details.
Ask for feedback
Taking feedback is one of the important strategies that I am following during semester of
University. Number of people I chosen which are close to and help me to evaluate where I am
advancing or where I am lagging. In this firstly friends will be consulted who can share both
positive as well as negative aspects of performance. They suggested me to improve time
management skills as I was not punctual and after I try to doing things time, give opinion the
way in which it can be improved. Professors also assessed that various places where I am not
able to perform and gave guidance the way in which I can improve for example Problem solving
quality can be developed by focusing on problem more deeply and think in multiple way (Guan,
Deng and Zhou, 2020).
Conduct regular self-assessments
Self assessment plays significant role in analysing skills which are not yet developed or
under development and hence I will be able to make changes in it so that timely improvement
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can be done in various types of quality (Autin and et.al., 2018). However, daily assessment also
completed by me and checks if skills are developing according to plan or not. It will help in
spotting problematic area which needs to be focus by me and hence contribute in professional
growth of mine.
Make your goals manageable
From the beginning I set small goals so that it can be easily analysed and accomplished
and there are number of ways to check all. I prepare proper plan for every goal and work
accordingly which help me in accomplishing on correct time with right direction. However, this
strategy was taught by our professors and also explains importance of it. Planning for smalls
aims increase motivation and contributes in enhancing performance of me. It make positive
outlook for every task and hence remain energetic for any type of work. Smalls aims are
inversely proportional to detail planning and hence give more brief and time to me for proper
work out.
Create a vision board
Vision board help me a lot in development of various skills and motivate during my
journey. I created vision board which was stick in front of desk and hence whenever I go for
studied see and hence remind me for accomplishing goals. I will continue use it as it highly
beneficial and one can easily understand different types of problem on time. There are multiple
apps which I used for building it and hence perfection can be achieved.
Conduct a SWOT analysis
Personal Swot analysis helps me identify negative and positive in me which can impact
on my professional life. I realise that leadership skills of mine is good and hence it can help me
when I am working in corporate and use it in different places to make impressive image in front
of friend as well as professor (LENT, 2020). Team management skills were imbibed me from
long time and able to work in group and focus on collectivism which I am able to identify with
the help of SWOT analysis. There are number of weakness that has been observed from it for
example unable solve problems on time and hence effect on my decision making. I have taken
help of my friends which have good decision taking power and hence able to overcome from this
challenge. Additionally take coaching for increasing knowledge of digital technology.
Career coach
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Help of career coach for improving skills and developing professional quality have also
been taken. Teachers have helped in learning ways in which various types of qualities can be
developed including time management skills. Existing professional traits are also improved by
coach such as leadership skill was good but he the way in which it can be use to influence other
and take their confidence for any type of work. Teachers suggested number of ways in which
problems can be solve and able to implement in my routine life.
Personal development planning plays important role in firm for example if the personal
working according to it then efficiency, quality and productivity can be improved. There are
number of firm in our country which implement this in training and development programs and
hence workers able to focus on developing professional quality that are required for their growth
and ways in which it can be improved. Career coach also provided by firm for it and it helps
employees in multiple ways. Employees feel that organisation focus on their personal and
professional growth which reduces chances of turnover of workers from firm. Organisation able
to achieve higher goals as workers remain motivated and committed to work. This is why
choosing a company which focuses on professional development will help in both ways in
professional development of individual and also contributes in maintaining effective
performance standards in organisation.
Gibbs Reflective Cycle
It helps individual in analysing experience of individual related to learning in cyclic form.
It was postulated by Graham Gibbs in the year 1988 in order to give structure to understand from
experience. Cycle is divided into 6 elements description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, and
conclusion and action plan.
Description
In the beginning new activities and work takes lot of time of me. I was unable to manage
personal as well as professional life and hence decrease efficiency, quality and productivity of
work and started feeling exhausted. There are many times when I thought to just stop and back
out from project from classroom but class stop me and explain me that things are experienced by
everyone in university and can be handle with time. During classes and activities my patience
level reduced to zero and because of these activities I also isolated from personal and social
activities. Additionally, this also affected my health. Because of some people at workplace I also
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became involved in some conflicts at workplace even after being very participative and this led
me to think to leave place permanently.
Feelings
During the experience I had different types of feeling both positive as well as negative
and while accomplishing tasks recognition by professors motivated me which increase
efficiency, quality and productivity. It became difficult to bear ignorance of people in team and it
increased isolation feeling inside. Friends supported me a lot during every activity and hence
able to accomplish various goals. It also increases positivity in me and participates and tries to
tackle people with effective leadership which I imbibed during module and hence set my unique
image in front of everyone. In last days of semester stress level also increase but this time I am
able to tackle every situation in effective way. There are number of times when friend, family
and people working with me offended because of my aggression and not behaving properly but
they remain calm and try to change my nature. I feel sometimes that I had taken wrong decision
related to future and have to think again if I am able to walk out from this situation but my
professor created positive and healthy environment.
Evaluation
There are number of things which I faced during this module and hence increase
experience whether it is of type or bad type. I am able to build contact with senior who guided
me a lot and they also got job in MNC and they told me to give reference whenever need job in
their company. However, there are many people who misguided me and tried to deviate from my
goals but with time I am able to indentify such type of people. Also it improves various types of
professional quality such as leadership skill develops in this module.
Analysis
I find many reasons for work and module complete on time. Firstly able to develop time
management skills which help in scheduling task and work on time. However, because of some
poor communication skills faced challenges which in later stage overcome somehow. Every
situation was difficult but with time and good people I am able to manage and control
everything. Guidance of professors, senior students helped me a lot. Books and journals in
library very helpful and it support me in accomplishing task time and hence increase quality,
efficiency and productivity of work. I faced challenges in various training and development
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programs because of orientation and the way of expressing by HR but in the end disusing with
them reduced my confusion and enable to learn properly.
Conclusion
There are many who supported me throughout work such as senior; provides notes and
links where I can complete my assignment and read about chapters. Professor also guided me a
lot during work and helps me in accomplishing my goal as well contribute in creating
professional development plan which is necessary for changing business. I will try to enhance
and improve emotional intelligence and also not to get exhausted by simple tasks and also take
helps of others.
Action plan
If I will get assignments feedback etc. then I can easily work on it because now able to
understand the resources and ways in which various question can be addressed. There are
number of software coaching centres in country where I can go to develop IT skills. Problem
solving can be improved by taking helps of seniors and analysing situation before passing the
judgement.
I have use multiple intelligence learning style for increasing my knowledge during
module and it prepare for corporate. I have take various independent way of this style for my
learning’s such as verbal–linguistic (word smart), logical–mathematical (logic smart), visual–
spatial (picture smart), auditory–musical (music smart), bodily–kinesthetic (body smart),
interpersonal (people smart), intrapersonal (self smart) and naturalistic (nature smart). It build me
professionally developed.
TASK 2
a. High Performance Individuals and Teams
Effective performance management helps many people in increasing speed of work and
enables them to realise their goals and objectives on time while maintaining efficiency as per
changing business requirements (Ismail and Rishani, 2018). I have use developing various types
of skills and hence increase quality, efficiency and productivity of work which is necessary for
professional growth. From the beginning I know the advantage and contribution in corporate as
well as academic life. Tesco’s owner, Zara’s founder etc. use this in their career which help in
gaining achievement and increase speed of them related to work. My career coach describe
various people which following and able to increase efficiency, quality and productivity of work.
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Learning and development process plays important role in it and hence from the starting I was
curious about types of planning, organising and managing things for task can be adopted so that
work can be done properly and on time (Savickas, 2019). My friend explains the way in which
process need to change for increasing performance as well as productivity of work. I have set
smalls and detailed goals and work on it with full dedication which helps me in achieving goals
on time. I always use SWOT analyses knowing strength that are developed and weakness that
become barrier in growth of mine and hence able to work in right direct on time and effectively.
I plan every day meeting with people who have various types of professionals and observe them
so that able to learn effectively (Belser and et.al., 2017). My focuses changes to develop
problems solving and software learning which creating number of challenges. Professor of mine
also provided various types of feedback related to my performance and also share their views
relating to it. I am able to understand them timely and hence make quick changes in my
professional plans. Online platform are very grateful tool which help me in improving this skills.
There are number of celebrities and businessmen which share their opinion regarding
performance assessment and way in which it can be enhance so that future challenges can be
overcome by me. There are number of tools that are use by firm in evaluating speed and quality
of workers and reward according to it. Key performance indicator, 360 feedbacks are some of
tool that use by organisation at workplace for performance monitoring and controlling. I have
learn that proper strategy must be framed by me in order to improve various types of professional
quality which can contribute in increasing efficiency, quality and productivity of work. Always
motivated by professors and senior for my achievement and hence remain energetic for any type
of work. There are number of opportunity for me because of developing various types of traits
and showing good performance in exams. Try to focus on achieving goals before the deadlines
so that can work effectively and efficiently and on time. There are number of friend in various
companies which share their experience high performance and its impact. I always enjoy
working with different types of people which develop team management as well as participation
quality. Many time professors make me project head and hence improve this quality n more
effective way.
High performance teams will not only help in increasing the performance of the teams but also
helps in developing the individuals. There are various tools which will help me in my personal
development also. The various tools can be used for my personal development also which can be
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coaching, performance related payment, measurement, 360 degree feedback, setting performance
objectives and the standards, performance reviews and many more. This will provide clear goals
which can be achieved by me in definite time frame. The performance related pay can help me
knowing the worth of my hard work. Also, I will come to realize that the hard work done by me
is valued and paid off. This will motivate me to do the tasks individually and in the teams more
efficiently and effectively. Learning and development programs must also be organised which
will help in enhancing me weaker areas which requires learning. Learning can also support the
performance of the teams as well as the workplace. These tools can help in developing me as an
individual so that I can contribute more towards increasing the performance of the teams.
b. Strategies to develop high performance
High performance is the word which is used a lot nowadays but only few of the businesses know
what it is and how to define it. This is becoming must for the companies in order to develop the
employees as well to compete with the competitors in the dynamic markets. But they find it
difficult to articulate and implement. There are various strategies for high-performance which
can also help in creating high performance teams. This is not complicated as it looks as I may
use the following steps to use the high-performance strategies for meeting my personal
development needs:
Defining the high performance for business
This is different for every firm as they have different values and the expectations from
the employees to fulfil the values. In some organisations, employee value proposition is
developed under which the expectations from the employees are that they must come into the
work with complete motivation and efforts which helps in overshadowing the feelings of
obligation (Muduli, Verma and Datta, 2016). I think that the companies must ensure that the
employees do not think about obligation, as if they think they miss an opportunity. They must
always think of the opportunity and the areas from where it can come which does not only help
in achieving the goals of the organisation but also helps in developing the personal needs. I
realized that the HR should not dwell on what they are obliged to do and that will lead to
innovative workforce with brimming ideas from where the opportunities cannot pass by.
Recruiting the right people
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This is the most important strategy for the high performance as the right people are the
reason for the high performance. In my opinion, the HR must exercise the robust recruitment
process including the clearly defined roles and expectations. It contains the multiple interviews
with various people in firm and also screening for high performance indicators must be done. I
think that the HR must take sufficient time to take the interview of as many potential candidates
they can as they get opportunity to analyse the individual differences, perceptions and
communication skills of various candidates. This develop them individually and helps in meeting
the personal development needs. High performers are 400% more productive than the people
will average performance. This will also help in developing effective and productive teams (van
Esch, Wei and Chiang, 2018).
Being transparent with the strategy
When the HR of the firm is transparent about the strategies of firm, it develops a sense of
mutual understanding and trust. Through this, the employees get to know about what the
company is seeking for, this makes them more enthusiastic and increase their involvement. Also,
when the employees realise that their work is contributing in achieving the goals of organisation,
then they get a purpose to do work. I think that the HRM of the companies must give updates to
the employees regarding the new strategies so that they come to know that they are playing an
important part in reaching the goals. This helps the HR to develop personal needs as they can
reduce their work load by giving work to the employees. This will be more beneficial when
developing teams as they can collectively perform the tasks effectively by being aware of the
goals.
Do not underestimating the importance of succession planning
This is considered as the key by being honest regarding the growth opportunities and
ensuring that the HR speaks to the employees regarding their careers and the position where they
see themselves in future. When the employees are clear about the future of firm and their
position in it, the motivation and dedication is increased. The HR must ensure that no single
points of failure are there for keeping the business when run at top performance (Jyoti and Dev,
2016). This also improves the development of the employees but also helps in personal
development of HR along with enhancing the performance of the teams developed for achieving
the goals by performing the tasks collaboratively.
Tracking employee engagement
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In my opinion, the HR must ensure that there is an emotional connection between the
employee and the firm and the goals. More engagement leads to more productivity and the better
services are provided by the employees to the customers and longer the employees stay at the
jobs. This makes the environment more collaborative, innovative, empowered, productive and
overall positive.
In my opinion, the HR can track the engagement of the employees by openly communicating
with employees by taking the regular feedbacks which gives them various opportunities. They
must have a formal system for the engagement of employees. Employees can appreciate the
chance to give the feedback. This also helps in building effective teams which also helps in
meeting the needs of personal development.
Seeking out diversity
In modern firms, diversity can be considered as the necessity in modern firms. HR must
focus on employing people from range of backgrounds and cultures which can help in getting
mix of talents, experiences and perspectives to the workforce. This helps in bringing innovations
and also in making the teams where the employees can share different sort of ideas to take the
decision and come to an innovative solution (Rasheed and et.al., 2017). This forces the
employees to think out of box. This will also help in development of the HR as they will also
interact with the diversified workforce. This benefits the organisations to gain competitive
advantage.
Recognizing the achievements
The influence which rewards and recognition have on the employees and the employers
cannot be underestimated. HR must ensure that all the achievements whether big or small must
be celebrated from the milestones of individuals to the efforts of teams and firm. This can be
done by sending a thoughtful email or employees can be even appreciated and acknowledged by
breaking out the cake which can be a big celebration for them. This will also help in resolving
the conflicts which will prove beneficial in developing the teams and also will help in personal
development. This can help in various contexts such as at the time of recruitment, engaging the
employees, tracking the performance of the employees, strategy planning, succession planning,
measuring the achievements and many more other contexts. This will also help me in my own
learning as I will be provided with various opportunities to judge myself where I stand actually. I
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