MBA662 Career Development Plan: Personal Growth and Empowerment

This report is a career development plan created for the MBA662 course on Personal Growth and Empowerment. It begins with a self-reflection, identifying the student's strengths and skills, and discussing what makes them unique. The plan then outlines how the student intends to change or further develop their career based on the course material. It addresses strategies for sticking to the career development plan, managing emotions and well-being, and achieving work-life balance. The report also explores ways to become a better leader, emphasizing communication, empowerment, and effective listening skills. The student aims to leverage both hard and soft skills to achieve success in their chosen career path, incorporating concepts learned throughout the MBA662 course.

Running Head: PERSONAL GROWTH AND EMPOWERMENT
Personal Growth and Empowerment
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

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Introduction
Personal empowerment is considered to be taking control of life and do not let other
people control their life. An individual must look after so that he can develop his skills and
can achieve what he is willing to accomplish from the marketplace (Cardinale et al. 2014).
This needs to be understood by the individual to use the skills he already possesses to achieve
success in his career. In this report, the career development plan is done in the paper so that
the individual can understand what he needs to do, to become popular in the marketplace so
that he can gain the success in it (Holloway et al. 2014).
About Myself
With the help of the course, I can gather information regarding my strengths and skills
that are there in me. This will enable me to plan accordingly so that I can utilize them in an
efficient way possible and assist the organization in the development in the process and also
will allow me to achieve what I want to accomplish in my career. Some skills can enhance
my job and let me gain success if I can utilize the expertise in the right direction and in the
right way possible. These are necessary for every living being to understand and recognize
the strength that they possess in them along with the skills. This will automatically help them
to become successful in their career.
Various aspects make me unique compared to other people, and those are needed to
be looked after by me so that the skills can be enhanced and can be developed in a way that
will enable me to gain popularity in the organization where I am working as well as in the
career. Few traits make me much more approachable and friendly among the people, which is
necessary for an individual to flourish in their career and to gain success. These skills enable

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me to become popular among the people and unique in a way to accomplish the target in my
career.
I like to learn new things as well, which is helpful for me to gather the information
and data in the process and which is necessary for me to become successful in my career.
This can be marked as an essential aspect for me and the other people to become successful
in their careers and help them to gain success in the process. This will help me to obtain what
I want to achieve from the marketplace and let me accomplish success in the process.
Plan to Change your Career
I can change my career from one to another due to the different hard skills that I
possess in me. This multiplicity enables me with the opportunity to swipe the profession from
one to the other as well as help me to climb the ladder in the process. Since I am good enough
with different skills that helps me to become successful in my career as in my hard skills, I
possess the knowledge which consists of computer skills as well as accounting skills,
copywriting, graphic designing skill, data analysis, bookkeeping, core competencies, and
SEO/SEM, marketing, project management, analytical ability, event planning and
management.
These skills that I possess will enable me to change my career and assist me in
accomplishing the success in the market. I can change my profession as I possess strength in
the creative field as well as in the professional field, which is the main reason for me to
change my career and enable me to achieve the success in the process. These are important
for me to gain success in the marketplace and assist me in growing in my career. These are
the main reasons I can change my career from one job to the other, which will help me to
achieve the success and to become popular among the people as well as help me accomplish

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success in my career. Having multitasking ability and multi-talent not will enlarge my
prospects in different careers but also supply confidence to me.
Therefore, it can be said that I need to nurture the skills as well as strength, which will
furnish me with the additional advantage in my career to grow and to obtain success in the
process. Hence, it can be said that as I possess skills from different genres so I can choose
any profession as my career, which is under my expertise. A large number of options will
ultimately help me to accomplish success and enable me to gain money from the job that I am
doing or will be doing in my career.
Plan to Stick to the Career Development Plan
The career development plan is essential for me to gain success in my career and
assist me in achieving success in the process. The program is necessary for the individual to
plan for the future so that he becomes aware of the steps that need to be taken in his career to
become successful in the market and to build a successful career in his future. These are
crucial for an individual so that he can grow in the market and can remain unique in their job,
which will make him successful in his career and assist him in gaining success in it.
To build the career in an effective way possible, I have to enrich the skills that are
there within me, which will help me to achieve success and will assist me in being unique in
the process. The career development can be done only with the help of the skills along with
the other soft skills that are there within me. As I am an extrovert in nature so it is easier for
me to communicate with the people and swipe my career from one job to the others and that
is the main reason I can change my career and can achieve success in it.
Therefore, it can be noted that I can achieve success with the help of the skills, both
hard skills and soft skills and can look after the information or knowledge that I possess in
me. These are essential for an individual to understand so that he can expand in the market

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and can accomplish what they want to obtain in their career. These essential elements will
ultimately help me to achieve success and showcase my strength to the company where I am
working or will be working in the future.
Manage Emotion and Wellbeing
I must balance my emotions as well as my well-being, which will enable me to
flourish in my career and will allow me to accomplish success in it. These are essentials for
me to understand so that I can achieve what I intended to reach from the market along with
the career that I am following in the way, and they are:
 I need to be aware of the emotions along with the reaction that I possess so that it
can be managed by me in the process and can be controllable in the process.
 I need to express my emotions and feelings in an appropriate way possible so that
I can expand in my career and can grow in the process. This will help me to obtain
what I am willing to achieve from my job (Donoso et al. 2015).
 I need to manage the stress, which is essential for the human being for the well-
being and helps them to act emotionally correct in the process. These are essential
for every person to manage their stress so that they can take the decision in an
efficient way possible and assist them in achieving success in the process (Karimi
et al. 2014).
 I require to take care of the physical health along with mental health and to do so,
and regular exercise is essential for the individual. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle
needs to be understood by the individual so that he can grow in his career and can
achieve what he is willing to gain from the marketplace and his job (Rubino,
Wilkin, and Malka 2013).

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These are the few things that need to be taken care of by me so that I can grow in my
career and can accomplish what I want to obtain from the market. These are essential for
every person to become successful in their career and to expand in the market.
Work-Life Balance
These are necessary for a person to maintain the work-life balance, which will help
them with a successful career as well as happier personal life and that is the sole reason the
individual must maintain the balance in it. Certain things are needed to be looked after by me
so that I can manage the work-life balance in the process as this will make me more aware of
the goals in terms of career as well as how to balance the work-life in the process, and they
are:
 I need to find a job that I love to do so that I do not feel the burden to do a job.
Instead, I should enjoy doing it. These are essentials for every person as he gets a
job that he does not like and that creates a sense of disinterest in the mind of the
individual, and that can create a significant impact in the career (Molineux,
Mirshekary and Scarparo 2015).
 The individual should give priority to the health as well, along with the work as
that is essential for the growth of the individual in their career and what needs to
be understood by the individual as well. Prioritize will enable them to flourish in
the marketplace, and this will help me too to build my career and to become
successful in the market (Jones, Burke and Westman 2013).
 The individual needs to take a vacation in a year as it is essential for the individual
to refresh their mind to gain success in the process and help them to work
efficiently and effectively in the organization as well as in their career (Strong et

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al. 2013). These are the main reason I need to take a vacation as well so that I can
achieve success in the profession and balance my work-life.
These are the few things that need to be taken care of by me so that I can balance my
work-life in an efficient way possible, and this will help me to flourish in the marketplace and
to achieve success in my career.
Better Influencer as a Leader
Some ways can be followed by me as a leader and enable me to get the work done as
a leader. These are necessary for the individual to flourish in the marketplace and to gain
success in it. These are critical for the individual to thrive in the market and to expand in it
and that requires to be understood by the individual as well as by the other person, and they
are:
 The leader should be a great listener, and that is the main reason to become an
effective leader. Listening will enable the leader to understand the problem that
the team or the individual is facing in the market. Therefore, I need to be a great
listener in the process of attaining success in the market as well as in my career
(Johnson 2014).
 The leader should educate the team members along with that empower them with
the data and information so that they can perform well in the market as well as in
their career. These are essential for me to become a successful leader and to
showcase my leadership skills in the process (Men and Stacks 2013).
 The communication is considered to be the critical element to enhance the
performance of the team as well as the leaders. It needs to be understood by me so
that I can communicate in an effective way possible and can support the team with

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leadership skills so that they can grow in their career and even I can grow in my
career as a leader (Lorinkova, Pearsall and Sims Jr 2013).
These are the few things that need to look after by me as a leader in my career so that
I can gain success in it and can gain popularity in the market. These are essential for me as
well as for the other leaders to become popular in the marketplace and to achieve what they
want to obtain from the market.
Conclusion
It can be inferred in the end that there are things that I need to take care of and should
change or modify in me so that I can grow in my career and can lead the others as well in the
process. These are essential for the individual to look after the matter so that they can build a
successful career and can gain success in it. This will help the individual in their career and
also me to accomplish the success that I am willing to achieve for quite a long time.
Therefore, this will help me to attain success in my career and to become famous as a leader.

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