People Management and Personal/Professional Development

This essay delves into the critical aspects of people management and its impact on personal and professional development. The author explores the challenges of managing diverse personalities and emphasizes the importance of self-assessment, peer assessment, and feedback from tutors. Key areas of focus include improving communication skills, particularly in conveying needs and desires, and addressing introverted tendencies. The essay highlights the significance of adaptability, creativity, and critical thinking. It examines the reflective practice of understanding organizational practices, communicating effectively, and handling difficult situations with patience and calmness. The author acknowledges the need to improve communication, build teamwork, and be open to employee feedback, emphasizing the importance of trust, empathy, and good judgment. Ultimately, the essay underscores the complex nature of people management and its role in fostering motivated employees and successful leadership, offering a valuable perspective on leadership and management practices.

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People Management
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
In the following paper, I would discuss about the issues in the people management that
would help me for my personal and professional development. Throughout my life, I have
learned the fact that I have to learn new things to cope up with the changing environment in both
personal and professional development areas. Therefore, people management is one of them and
I have to learn the art of people management through self-assessment, assessment of my peers
and analyzing the feedbacks of tutors to make better progress. It is probably one of the most
difficult tasks for the managers to conduct.1 It is because the managers have to deal with people
belonging to different mentalities and approaches. Therefore, I also have to learn the skills and
make positive approach towards contributing to my professional and personal development. I
believe self-assessment is one of the most difficult factors to understand my capabilities and
weaknesses.
Idea of the people management practice
It is very difficult to select a proper career and grow in that particular career without any
difficulties. The learning methods in the complicated business environment are very much
difficult. I have realized the fact that I can only succeed in my personal life when I will be keen
about learning new things. So, it is quite sure that I will like to increase my personal skills to be
successful in the professional career as well. Through a proper investigation about my
capabilities, I have learned that I have not been able to make the proper communication about
my desires and needs with my near ones. This reflects that I am very much introvert and keep my
1 Noe, Raymond A., John R. Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart, and Patrick M. Wright. Human resource management:
Gaining a competitive advantage. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education, 2017.

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feelings inside my mind only.2 There are some other personal attributes that I have learned about.
These are adaptability to difficult situations, creativity, relying on my own capabilities with
utmost confidence and flexibility. Besides being crucial in the personal development, these
things are also very much essential in my professional development as well.
Another thing that I must learn in this scenario is that of being able to analyzing difficult
things very critically. Through this manner, I will be able to identify the important matters that
will be helpful for me. In order to develop my skills in the professional atmosphere, I will have
to keep all the necessary information about the overall practices of the organization and its
policies. The aims of the organization should be clearly identified as well. This will give me a
better viewpoint to judge the things critically. From my self-assessment, I have learned that I can
understand the difficult things in the organizational practices very easily but I am unable to
communicate them effectively with my seniors and peers. This creates a gap there. I understand
that this gap will create several problems in the future. This is why I think I have to attnd
professional classes to improve my communication skills. I am not able to write effective emails
to my seniors at the need of the hour.
Concept of the reflective practice
Next follows my difficulty in handling people. When I will take the charge as the
manager of a company, I will have to be able to communicate very smoothly with my men. This
is the issue I have been facing lately. I have observed that I begin to tremble when I have to
convince my juniors to complete a work on an urgent basis. I tend to think I am putting much
2 Goetsch, David L., and Stanley B. Davis. Quality management for organizational excellence. Upper Saddle River,
NJ: pearson, 2014.

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pressure on them. Through my self-assessment I have also come to realize that I will have to be
very much conscious about the things that are going on within the organization. I should be
patient because success cannot come at one go. I might have to encounter several difficult
situations in the early phases but I have o be positive.3 This will provide with the chance that I
will be able to gain success by managing all the people around me. People around me might lose
their cool and get agitated. In this situation, it will be my duty to stay calm and deal with
difficulties evidently. In stressful situations (both personal and professional contexts) I have to be
patient so I can avoid shouting at my colleagues. If I do so, they will bear a negative image about
me.
Self and peer assessment about reflective practice
In the second section, I must acknowledge the assessments by my peers that I am not able
to communicate with others. If I have to manage people in the workplace conditions, I will have
to communicate with them effectively. I should ask them about the problems they are facing. I
should record all the feedbacks and take the best steps accordingly. I have to change my habit of
being introvert and get along with everyone in my team. This will effectively build up the proper
teamwork. I have to be creative so my ideas will impress other members of the team I will lead.
Apart from that, I should be able to persuade others to complete a work within the time being
allotted. I must value of other people as well. I should listen to them and take the best innovative
ideas for the overall betterment. Also, I should be very clear about the things I should say to my
juniors.
3 Storey, John. New Perspectives on Human Resource Management (Routledge Revivals). Routledge, 2014.

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I should have to teach the employees in the professional environment that I can allow
them to be flexible but they should not take this independence very lightly. They should work
with their best efforts along with me. I will also help them out to complete a task by various
other means. I should be concerned about relating myself with the other people in the business. If
I want to be very confident about managing people in the professional environment, I will have
to be ready to trust all of them. Therefore, I should always work tirelessly and interact with them
to know about their good and bad points. This will give me the opportunity to supervise them
without having any doubts on them. Having full faith on them by their manager will inspire them
as well.4 Apart from the employees, I will also have to be quite confident about my capabilities.
My reflection about my capabilities
Another perspective that I will have to focus on better people management is the ability
to listen to the various facts of the employees. In my personal life, this is also very much credible
as well. I might be facing a distressing condition in my personal life for some reasons. In this
scenario, my close ones will come and suggest me the ways of how I could improve this
scenario. It is a must that I will have to listen to these facts. After listening to the suggestions, I
will be able to get rid of these distressing phase of my life. Similarly, some of my junior
colleague might have to suggest some means for the better operations through some innovative
ideas. If I listen to these ideas, the entire organization might be benefitted. These are the positive
4 Tyson, Shaun. Essentials of human resource management. Routledge, 2014.

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points of listening to thr point of views of the employees.5 Thus I will be successful in my
leadership through democratic leadership style.
The next method for my personal and professional skill development through the means
of people management is good judgment style. Through my peer assessment, it has been
highlighted to me that I do not have the capacity to look around the world around me and gather
the best information around me. If I do not listen to the words of others and value their
judgments, they will bear the image of me that I am only concerned about my decisions. I do not
care for them.
I cannot let this kind of thing happen because I am responsible for managing so many
people. I have gone through soe books on proper leadership and management and found that
taking good judgment will depend on the sensory signals. I should rely on my gut feelings. I can
develop my skills in the professional environment if I have the ability to understand the
workplace systems properly and make my people understand it completely.6 Also, I have to show
empathy towards my employees to be a good manager of my people.7 I should realize that all
people go through issues in their lives. I must stand beside them (both for my employees and
friends) so they can have full faith on me and contribute to the success of the organization.
5 Cardy, Robert, and Brian Leonard. Performance Management: Concepts, Skills and Exercises: Concepts, Skills
and Exercises. Routledge, 2014.
6 Bratton, John, and Jeff Gold. Human resource management: theory and practice. Palgrave, 2017.
7 Thompson, Neil. People skills. Macmillan International Higher Education, 2015.

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Conclusion
On a concluding note, i must say that people management is a very complex matter and I
have to be very much conscious about my activities when I am dealing with my people. This
applies to both my personal and professional development. I have to increase my skills to
motivate my people. I will have to stay motivated as well. I will create a relationship of trust and
faith around my people. All these things will be very helpful for me to improve difficult scenario.
My leadership strategies should guide my people to success in their lives.

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