MN3040QA: Reflective Commentary on Personal Development Skills

This essay provides a reflective commentary on the knowledge and skills acquired through professional development classes, focusing on presentation skills, teamwork, and stress management. It analyzes the importance of presentation skills in effective communication, highlighting the Iceberg theory for conveying information. The essay also discusses teamwork, emphasizing the Belbin team theory and its role in fostering collaboration and improving performance. Furthermore, it explores stress management techniques using the transactional theory, which addresses the impact of environmental factors on individual well-being. The analysis includes a discussion of personal strengths and weaknesses identified through the learning process, concluding that continuous learning and skill development are essential for future success. Desklib offers a range of study tools and resources to support students in their academic journey.

Reflective Commentary

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Analysis of knowledge.....................................................................................................................1
Presentation Skills..................................................................................................................1
Working in Teams..................................................................................................................2
Managing Stress.....................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Learning is defined as a transformative procedure for taking up data which is internalised
& mixed up with experience develop on basis of what has to be done. In addition to this, learning
consist of the overall development of a person with an intent to remain in market (Hsin and Xie,
2017). It also includes the skills which will help in current & future professional career. The
present report is conducted fro acknowledging and considering what has been experienced and
learned at the time of going through classes of overall growth and development. It is stated that it
is not essential to learn factors from only subject and curriculum but it also requires the overall
development in all the areas in order to remain as well as survive in this competitive
environment. In order to do this, it is significant to have learning classes which involve team
working, time management, communication, self-organisation, presentation, networking,
integrity and so on. The present report will focus on three different aspects that is presentation
skills, working in team and managing stress. Moreover, this analysis will be made in context to
knowledge which has been gained at the time of learning in OSHE classes.
Analysis of knowledge
Presentation Skills
Presentation skill is important for an individual in order to make other people
understandable about information they want to deliver. In addition to this, such skill is needed by
a person for delivering effective information & engaging presentation to large number of
audience. Presentation skill consist of areas such as body language, designing of slides, structure
of presentation, voice tone, gesture and so on. This act as a mean for interacting and
communicating which can be opted by distinct speaking conditions such as addressing meeting,
briefing team or talking in groups. By presentation, the information is transmitted to the listeners
is often involves of persuasive entity. For example, the manner idea is kept forward in front
group.
One of the theory that is mainly used for representing ideas and presenting message to groups is
Iceberg theory. Herein, the main focus is on declining aspects that leader know but emphasis on
the information what audiences don't know (Umar, Zawawi and Abdul-Aziz, 2019). It means
that the small business must be considered facts related to it. In addition to this, the theory
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comprises of sticking to specific idea at a time by being particular and vocal on many things that
leads to decline in confusion and providing information as per the requirements.
It has been analysed that. It is important to linked with purpose and bridge and to do
such, it becomes necessary to support the points clearly as well as concisely. The manner in
which presentation is designed is to be attract audience & fulfil the reason for which they attend
the presentation.
It is analysed that it is important to connect with the purpose or bridge & for this it is crucial to
support points clearly and concisely as well. The manner in which presentation is developed
should grab attention of large number of people & also renders the reason of audience to involve
with in the presentation (Nicolescu and Nicolescu, 2019). For people, presentation skills leads to
improve confidence level, amplifying the way, boost morale in an effective manner. It is stated
that by speaking clearly, easily and precisely help in gaining success and presenting the idea in
an appropriate manner.
Working in Teams
Team is defined as a group of people who work together in order to attain common goal in
addition to this teamwork implies a better framework which is interdependent group of people
associated with the different tasks that are required in order to achieve the objectives with
instigated time period but when individuals working within the teams then they work on their
individual expertise which according to which the company the company is divided the work and
then activities implemented this will directly lead to have creative and innovative results which
insure project is a 10 on the given time period and all the activities is implemented as per the
plants as well as strategies. It is important for people to work in a team as it helps in gaining
knowledge about the team building skills time management and effective communication skills.
It is analyse that will be in team development theory is used and that consist of different
rules that have been analysed relation to team execution and formulation and accordingly
responsibilities are divided to the people working within a team (Engelhard, 2019). This help in
setting down the right person at the right place and at the right time. In addition to this it is
analyse that with the help of Belbin team theory rules and assumptions all the misunderstanding
and the confusion among the team members will decline and there’s a creation of sense of
ownership among the team and group or Numbers that can be leads to increase in the overall
performance and productivity of the team members.
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Being a graduate, it is important that all the projects are attend on time period with that can
be only gets success when the students are working in a team. It is determined that in many of
the colleges all the projects are divided in teams and the students are working as per the
standards and the policies of that particular team if it is not attend or achieve then it will directly
leads to development of pessimistic impact on there results. While working in our team it is
determined that thinking ability of an individual is increases like there are various ways to do a
thing but having a group of members and have different miles will leads to better result. In
addition to this it also helps in bringing out the creativity and innovative idea which further
implies the overall performance of the students. It can be red created by opting for the studying
group having their opinions and discussing everything with the team members.
Managing Stress
Managing stress is defined as a mental tension which is being arise due to some
burdensome demanding circumstances and taxing as well here in the focus is not only late on the
health of a people but it also impact on the physical health of an individual. For example if a
project is on the timeline and it’s still required lot of efforts so there will be the tension among
the team members to complete that project on the time period if it is not completed then it create
tensions and also affect on the results as well (Silverman, Kurtz and Draper, 2016). In addition to
this, it also leads to the hamper of the overall performance of groups as they are not able to focus
on another things that is also associated with some time timeline and deadline. There for stress
management refer to the balance way in order to deal with the various aspects of life and to be
productive and effective with their offerings.
It is analyse that there are various theories related with the managing stress that help in declining
the impact which is developed by surroundings and prevails at the workplace on in the colleges
as well. One of the theory is transactional theory, it’s describe that stress defines like a direct
product of transaction which take place between individual and environment associated with the
surroundings and the resources as well. It is stated than often work environment is view point as
earth tracer and this affect on the way individual perceive the things and evaluate it. Transitional
theory criticise the concept related with the promotion and appraisal which is easy and simply
mistake and also undertakes the history of person, identifies goal and future.
It is clear that, it is complex to provide service within this price environment and conditions that
prevail at the time of delivering that service. There for it is essential to undertake the very
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situation which lead to pessimistic environment. It is said that person cannot work in pessimistic
situation due to which the overall performance and the results is declined. For this the alternative
have to be created in order to deal with them. Moreover knowledge must be gain on a continuous
basis so that it is easy unreliable to provide the services
Analysis of performance
By analysing and determining the different weeks, knowledge has been gained in relation
to different factors. It leads to further growth of a person and also prepares them for their future.
It is determined that team working help in insure in that but activities assign is completed on the
time period and as per the standers as well (Nirmala and Kumar, 2018). In relation of formal
aspects, sometimes the feedback is taken from the leaders which will assist in ensuring that they
are working as per the guidelines and on the direction. Moreover with the help of feedback an
individual can grow and identify its strength and weaknesses that is required to be improved in
order to attain future growth and success. It is analyse that stress can be managed by developing
strict guidelines and also ensuring that activities of a peculiar day are finished. Moreover
additional time frame must be undertaken that is of 2 to 3 days extra if any of the issue arise then
it can be resolved without any mental pressure and hectic environment.
Strength:
 Teamwork help in ensuring that activities is implemented as per the standers and it is
attaining on the time.
 By working in a team and individual will be able to improve its innovative and creative
skills and can also enhance its communication skills which will help in future and
grabbing off opportunities
 In addition to this, presentation skill will help in providing the relevant information to the
audiences that fulfil their objective to attend a presentation. It is said that it is important
for an individual to deliver an attractive presentation associated with the facts and figures
as it helps in grabbing the attention of large number audiences and meet with the
objective of delivering presentation.
 Stress management lead staff members or people to deal with conditions which might not
seen as feasible an insensitive. Along with this, it will easy to ensure that activities or
operations are implemented in an effective manner.
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 When people take feedback from others or leaders, it enables them to analyse their
performance level, know about their strength, know about their weakness that is needed
to be improved in order to gain future growth and success (Hamilton and Liu, 2018). In
addition to this, it will also lead to improvement in the productivity and efficiency of
individuals.
 Both informal and formal feedback yields affirmative results based on the way it is taken
by the people and implemented by them.
Weaknesses:
 It is determined that in case of negative feedback is achieved, the overall confidence and
the moral of people declined.
 There can be issues and conflicts at the time of working in team because of various
opinions and disagreements among the team members. This effect on the overall
performance of teams and sometimes decline the professional as well as personal growth
of individuals.
 If appropriate theories and methods are not adopted then stress management will be
complex and will further lead to development of pessimistic environment.
Conclusion
From the above discussion it has been concluded that learning is a continuous process and it
involves the improvement in different aspects. In addition to this, it is important for an
organization to ensure that staff members that is hired have skills and capabilities to implement
the task in a proper and timely manner. It is determined that teamwork skills help in individual to
improve which problem solving skills, conflict management skills, time management skills,
communication skills and many more. Moreover, improvement within the presentation skills
help an individual to grab the attention of audiences and gain success in an effective manner. It is
important for an individual to manage the stress so that it can decline the pessimistic inferences,
which is developed by the environment and surroundings as well.
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