HRM6001: Managing Self and Others Report on Career Development

This report, submitted for the HRM6001 Managing Self and Others module, explores career development strategies, lifelong learning, and high-performance individuals and teams. The report begins with an introduction to career development and its importance, followed by a detailed personal development plan (PDP) incorporating a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It also includes a report assessing strategies for skill development and lifelong learning, emphasizing the significance of skills and knowledge updates for career progression. Furthermore, it evaluates how high-performance strategies enable effective teamwork. The report covers various strategies such as SWOT analysis, skill audits, and personal development plans for career growth. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and recommendations for personal and professional development, referencing relevant academic sources to support its claims. The appendix includes a blog summarizing the key points of the report.

MANAGING SELF AND
OTHERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
QUESTION 1- CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND LIFELONG LEARNING..............................1
a) PDP that shows evidence of development achieved in the past 12 months............................1
b ) Report that assesses ways in which strategies for skills development and lifelong learning
may enable career development...................................................................................................4
QUESTION 2 - HIGH PERFORMANCE INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS...................................6
b) Illustrated report that evaluates how high-performance strategies enable you to reflect on
how you may work effectively as part of a team.........................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................11
a) Blog to produce a concise summary......................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Career development can be defined as a planned waythrough which an individual
undergoes their occupational status. There are various kinds of strategies that can be used by
individuals in developing a successful career (Choate and et.al., 2019). When development of a
successful career comes into picture and individual is expected to self- evaluate their own skills
that are required to be developed by them. In order to identify skills required to be developed it is
important for individual to conduct a SWOT analysis and then with the help of PDP they can
develop a plan though which they can enhance their current skills. It is also important for
organizations to develop career develop strategies for their employees so that company can
develop high performance teams who can work together for achievement of targeted goals and
objectives. This assessment will focus uponCareer Development and Lifelong Learning, and
High Performance Individuals and Teams.
QUESTION 1- CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND LIFELONG LEARNING
a) PDP that shows evidence of development achieved in the past 12 months
In order to achieve success, it is important for an individual to bring improvement within
themselves and focus upon managing their communication skills, manage stress or anxiety and
focus upon maintaining positive thinking(Daugbjerg, 2016).I always focus upon remain assertive
which helps me to remain positive, show respect to others and communicate in an expressive
manner. For this I try to maintain positive communication with others which further helps in
enhancing my knowledge about other rights, responsibilities of others. In order remain positive
and assertiveness I focus upon developing transparent communication with others which not only
boost by self -esteem but also help me in easily gaining others respect and trust.
I try to focus upon maintaining positive thinking while doing any task or fulfilling my
roles and responsibilities. Thinking positively directly helps in in managing my stress and
anxiety level because positive thinking always helps in finding a way though which any kind of
task or activity can be completed, misconception can be resolved in an appropriate and effective
manner. In order to maintain my positive thinking, I have only adopted one thing which self-talk
as it helps me in focusing upon my unspoken thoughts and view points in head. It helps in
focusingand thinking about all things that are in my head which helps in in resolving any kind of
misconception.
Career development plan
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Short term goals: Secure a position in a reputed company where I can gain an opportunity to
showcase or demonstrate my abilities.
Mid- term goals: to work upon my skills in order to secure a senior level position
Long term goals: head a business unit venture
Action plan: Develop a personal development plan where I can focus upon enhancing my current
skills and knowledge and work upon converting my weaknesses into strengths.
Personal Skill Audit
SWOT Analysis
Strengths
One of my main strength is multi-tasking i.e.
can con work upon more than one task
simultaneously without degrading my work. I
can work effectively and efficiently within a
team with other teams’ members in order to
achieve common pre-defined goals and
objectives. Another one of my main strength is
my positive thinking and assertiveness. I never
lose hope and always focus upon thinking
positively and remain assertive. This helps me
in resolving any kind of issue or challenge that
occurs within my way. Positive thinking and
remaining assertive helps me reducing my
stress and anxiety level and remain motivated.
Weaknesses
One of my main weakness is oral
communication skills. Despite of having
positive thinking and remaining assertive and
motivated I face difficulty in communicating
effectively and share my thoughts with others.
Due to lack of effective communication skills
many times I face difficulty in sharing my
thoughts and feeling with others due to which
sometimes miscommunication occurs. Another
one of my weakness is problem solving skills.
Whenever it comes to critically think and
resolve a problem, I face difficulty. Other than
this presentation skills are another one of my
main weakness because of which I face
difficulty in presenting my work, research,
point of view in a proper manner with others.
Opportunities
I am good in multi- tasking, working within
teams. I always remain positive and assertive.
So, working on my communication and
presentation skills will help me in sharing my
thinking and point of view with other. It will
Threats
Failure in working upon my weaknesses can
work as a barrier for me due to which I will not
be able to achieve my career goals and will
face difficulty in showcasing my skills and
knowledge with others as a result it will
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further help me in developing positive and
effective relationship with others. Working
upon enhancing my problem- solving skills
will directly help me in resolving any kind of
issue or challenge that occurs while doing a
task.
become difficult for me to grow within my
career.
Personal Development plan
Learning
Objective
Learning method Learning
resources
Learnin
g time
scale
Expected
Outcomes
To bring
improvement
within
communication
skills
I will sign up for a
training course of
personal and
professional
effectiveness
I will participate in
oral activities like
debates in order to
enhance my
communication skills
Internet, online
training course
classes
4 months Certification of
personal and
professional
effectiveness course
will help me in
bringing
improvement within
my oral
communication
skills
To enhance
problem
solving skills
I will research on
internet, participate on
online courses and will
further ask for support
and guidance form
seniors
Internet, seniors’
feedback,
4 months I will be able to
focus upon resolving
any kind of
problems easily
using my problem
solving and critical
thinking skills
To develop
presentation
skills
By making
presentations in groups
and asking for
Internet, laptop
for making
presentation,
4 months I will be able to do
presentations easily
so that I can express
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feedback from seniors
or mentors
seniors’ feedback my thoughts, my
work, research done
by me and many
more easily.
b ) Report that assesses ways in which strategies for skills development and lifelong learning
may enable career development
Concept of career development strategies and its importance for skill development and
lifelong learning
Skills and knowledge of an individual is one of the most important part of an individual
career development. In order to progress within career and achieve pre- defined career objectives
it is extremely important for individuals to focus updating their skills and knowledge as per the
changing needs and requirements of organization. These skills are not only important for growth
of career within an organization but it also helps in opening up various opportunities for
individuals that can help them to achieve their long- term career goals in an effective and
appropriate manner(Pham and Saito, 2020). Due to this career development strategies plays a
vital role in developing skills and knowledge of individuals for career development, make
appropriate and informed decision that are fruitful for their successful career in terms of
education,training, jobs or any other career choices. These strategies are important for an
individual and they should be aware of these strategies as it will not only help them in achieving
their main career goals but it will further provide a clarity to individuals about their career and
goals that they want to achieve(Smith and et.al., 2018).It further helps in motivating individuals
so that they can focus upon their knowledge and skill development in order to grab future career
and learning growth opportunities. Career development also helps in increasing flexibility within
individualsi.e., they can focus upon flexibly manage their personal and professional life.
Career development strategies not only helps an individual to grab career opportunities
but it further helps them to bring changes within their behaviour, increases positive thinking
within them and also helps in developing assertive thinking. There are various kinds of strategies
that can help an individual or a person in skill development, lifelong learning for achievement of
personal and professional goals(Bowling, Ball and Bird, 2020). Organizations can focus upon
adopting these strategies for enhancing their overall employee retainment rate, motivate
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employees, and develop efficient employees who can together attain main goals and objectives
of organizations as well their personal career goals. Some of the most effective and efficient
career development strategies that can be adopted by organization as well as by individuals for
life long learning and career development are:
Personal development plan for individuals: Personal development planning plays a vital role in
identifying one’s own weakness and developing a plan though which new skills can be
developed(Bhardwaj and et.al., 2019). It helps an individual in identifying importance of skills
that are required to be developed, ways in which those skills can be developed, resources
required for developing those skills. Not only this, it further helps an individual to identify time
period which is required to develop that particular skill. It is an important strategy that can be
used by individual’s doe developing skills and qualities that are important and useful in career
development.In order to develop an effective personal development plan, it is important for
individuals to conduct a SWOT Analysis.
SWOT analysis: SWOT analysis is another strategy that can be used by individuals for evaluation
of their own internal and external skills that an individual posse or do not have(Alatailat, Elrehail
and Emeagwali, 2019). It helps an individual in identify skills that are person’s strength, skills
that are their weaknesses that are required to be developed, opportunities that can help an
individual to grow further in career and threats that can directly impact their career. Conducting
SWOT analysis helps an individual to identify that area of weakness that can work as a barrier
for them and can make it difficult for them to progress in career. Results of SWOT analysis helps
an individual to identify skills that are required to be developed by them(Özçelik, Aybas and
Uyargil, 2016). This evaluation results are then used by individuals for developing their own
personal development plan so that they can develop a successful career and achieve their pre-
defined career goals both long- and short- term goals.
Skill audit:It is another strategy that can be used by employees for measuring and recording skills
that have been developed by an individual within their career so far and analyse skill that are still
required to be developed by them for moving forwards within their career. This is a strategy
helps an individual to identify skills that are improvement for them to progress ahead in their
career so that they can work on those skills and become successful.
Career development strategies are not only useful for individuals to become successful in
their careers but these are also useful for organizations and are mostly used for motivating their
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employees, enhancing their overall performance and enhance their employee retaining rate(Shin
and Konrad, 2017). It further helps a company to develop career progression path for their staff
members or employees so that they can grow with the organization feel motivated and give their
best for attaining main organizational goals. Career development strategies are used by
companies as a way to boost morale of employees so that they can work upon themselves and
developed required skills and enhance their knowledge and use for organization to achieve main
organizational goals and objectives.
These strategies work as a life long learning for employees or individuals because due to
changing market trends, needs of organizations and introduction of new techniques and
technologies. Learning and requirement of new skills to be developed never ends for an
individual and if they want to becomes successful, they have to adopt career development
strategies as a part of life long learning.
QUESTION 2 - HIGH PERFORMANCE INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS
b) Illustrated report that evaluates how high-performance strategies enable you to reflect on how
you may work effectively as part of a team
High performance strategiescan be defined as kind of strategies that helpsan organization
to achieve competitive advantage and enhance overall performance of individuals as well asof
organizations.It helps an organization to achieve strategies objectives in an appropriate
manner(de Waal, Peters and Broekhuizen, 2017). High performance strategies play a vital role in
enhancing overall performance of an individual and also help them in bringing improvement
within themselves and work effectively with others as a team. There are various ways though
which high performance strategies can help an individual to bring improvement within
themselves. It helps an individual to effectively meet their personal development goals because
these strategies involve employees, motivate them to participate and enhance their overall skills.
It helps in developing an open and creative culture which is inclusive and people-
centric(Rasheed and et.al., 2017). This kind of environment and culture motivate people to
participate within training and development programs in order bring improvement within their
current skills and knowledge. High performance strategies focus upon enhancing overall loyalty
among employees, develop a flexible working environment so that all the people working within
organization feel included and a part of organization(Abu-Naser, Al Shobaki and Amuna, 2016).
There are various ways though which it can be explained that high performance strategies help
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an individual to meet their personal development goals and motivates them to work as a team
with others for development of high performing teams.
It helps in developing and implementing an effective high performance management
process. It directly helps in identifying individuals with high performance and individuals with
lower performance who requires special training and development programs in order to bring
improvement within their current skills and knowledge(Abu-Naser, Al Shobaki and Amuna,
2016). High performancestrategies directly help in setting and defining high standards on the
basis of which expectation of individuals, team and organization is defined. It directly helps in
providing timely and effective support to individuals so that they can develop skills demanded by
firm and as well skills that are important to be developed for their growth and development in
order to move ahead in career.
Most of the organizations focuses upon development of effective strategies so that they can
make their employees effective and efficient enough that they can identify and resolve any kind
of operational problems or issues and can participate in development of competitive strategy.
Organizations that have adopted high performance strategies not only helps in bringing
improvement within current skills and knowledge of their employees but also motivate them to
help other low performing members to bring improvement within their current skills that can be
used by them in problem solving, achieving desired goals and objectives, decision making and
contributing in achievement of main organizational goals and objectives in an appropriate and
effective manner.
It directly helps in developing effective and efficient standards and norms so that
organization can govern their employee’s positive behaviour, establish an effective line of
communication so that any kind of conflict that occurs within the company can be resolved,
effective relationship between employees and management can be developed(Abu-Naser, Al
Shobaki and Amuna, 2016). It enhances satisfaction level among employees and enhances
feeling of loyalty towards company within their employees.
Effective strategies motivate employees to work together as a team as it directly helps
business in creating rulesfor engagement of team members. Employees learn ways in which they
should engage within teams, understanding their roles and responsibilities which further helps
them in identifying skills and knowledge that are required to be enhanced and developed by
them. It creates trust among team members and strength their need of learning new skills and
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knowledge so that they can contribute equally within team task and help team members to
achieve pre- defined goals and objectives in an appropriate manner. Effective strategies also
motivate team members to challenge each other so that innovation and creatively within teams
can be enhanced.
High performance strategies are mostly effective and helps in reducing or eliminating
individual differences, it focuses upon developing positive attitude and perception among all the
employees(Abu-Naser, Al Shobaki and Amuna, 2016). It is one of the most important things that
motivate employees to communicate with others, enhance their communications skills in order to
identify areas in which improvement is required be brought. Healthy competitive atmosphere
with effective communication skills helpsindividuals to collaborate with their seniors or mentors.
This will not only help them in bringing improvement within selves from feedback provided by
mentors but will further help them in gaining experience of ways in which any kind of challenge
of issue is resolved.
It further motivates management of an organization to focus upon developing more
effective training and development programs and activities for employees so that staff members
can remain updated and mould them as per the changing environment or any other kind of
changes brought within organizations(Abu-Naser, Al Shobaki and Amuna, 2016). This not only
helps employees to adjust themselves as per changing environment but it also helps them in
bringing changes within skills and knowledge which further helps them in enhancing their
overall performance and achieve personal objectives. This clearly explains that most of the
strategies within an organization are intended to to enhance overall performance of employees so
that they can focus upon meeting their personal development needs and can contribute in
forming high performing teams that have least individual differences. Organizational strategies
that only focus upon enhancing overall performance of employees also focuses upon motivating
employees so that they can work upon their weaknesses in order to enhance their overall
performance in an appropriate manner.
CONCLUSION
From the above assessment it has been identified that career development strategies play
a vital role in development of new skills within an individual which helps them in developing
knowledge and skills that are useful for them and will help them in achieving their pre- defined
goals and objectives. It has also been analysed that it is important for organizations as well fort
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development of career development strategies as it not only helps them in developing high
performance individuals and teams but also helps them in motivating employees to work upon
bringing improvement within their current skills, knowledge and qualities.It has also been
analysed that high performance people within an organization can be developed by effective
performance management strategies so that employees can work effectively as part of a team.
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