Managing Self and Others Report: Skills Development and Career Growth

This report, prepared by an Asda employee, delves into the crucial aspects of managing self and others within an organizational setting. It begins with a personal SWOT analysis, personal development plan, and skill audit, highlighting strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, alongside strategies for skill enhancement and lifelong learning. The report then assesses strategies for career development, including guidelines from mentors, career workshops, and training sessions, to foster both individual and team growth. Furthermore, it explores the significance of effective performance management, examining its impact on employee development and the evolution of individual work. The analysis incorporates motivational theories, and offers insights into overcoming challenges such as stress and communication barriers, providing a comprehensive overview of essential leadership and management principles.

MANAGING SELF AND
OTHERS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Q1. a) Explain own SWOT, Personal development Plan and Personal Skill audit....................3
Q1. b) Assesses how strategies for skills development and lifelong learning may enable career
development for you and your team colleagues..........................................................................7
Q2. a) Explain importance of Effective performance management in developing the employee
in the organisation.....................................................................................................................10
Q2. b) How does effective performance has helped in evolving own work.............................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Managing self and other in the organisation is very necessary as the performance of the
organisation is wholly depends on the performance employees report shows about my skill as I
am the employee of the Asda. This report highlights the own report in the form of SWOT
Analysis, Personal Development Plan and personal skill audit which shows all the aspect related
to me in the organisation and also what will require overcoming my problem. Further these
report goes on to explain the strategy which will help me in improving the skill development of
mine and whole team. Further these report goes in to explain the different effective management
theory and models which helps in improving the performance of the employee in the
organisation and in the end it explains about the strategy of effective management which helps
the individual in effective work and team.
MAIN BODY
Q1. a) Explain own SWOT, Personal development Plan and Personal Skill audit
SWOT
Strength
Creativity and innovation are the two big strength of mine as I always look to do things
differently by thinking different way to complete the task or activity which help me in evolving
my creativity and innovation level and it also helps me in seeing all the aspect of the task and
also increases the efficiency level of mine.
Active mind and body is also one of my strong point as due to proper physical exercise and
proper learning about the task has helped me in keeping my body and mind both in active status
which helps me in understanding the situation very comfortably and also help me in responding
to the situation very quickly (Hillson and Murray-Webster 2017).
Weaknesses
Communication skill is one of the biggest weaknesses of mine as I always find it difficult to
transfer my views or innovative idea to my colleague which sometimes proves difficult for me
and my team to understand the situation in the right dilemma and also hampers my work which
result in creation of the stress.
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Coordination skill is the another weakness of mine due to improper communication between me
and colleague affects the coordination skill of mine with my colleague in the team and as a result
sometime I have to face the issue of hampering the work of my co ordinate which eventually
creates the stress on me to complete the task
Team work as I found it difficult to communicate and coordinate with other in team it eventually
affects the team work skill of mine as these two are the main skill require for a person to work in
a team dynamic.
Opportunity
I have an opportunity to increase mine strategic networking as I am looking to attend the seminar
and conference which includes training also as strategic networking will help me in overcoming
the future problem and increasing my efficiency.
I also have the opportunity to increase my skill as I will be getting the new responsibility and
roles as my senior are going on a holiday for the few weeks.
Threats
Some of my colleague in the team are doing well to have a promotion which are proving
competitor to me as they are the biggest threat to me in the working (Ent, Baumeister and Tice,
2015).
Due to heavy work load in the organization I am not getting the time to think about the
innovative and creativity idea which eventually hurting the creativity skill of mine and proving
threat for me.
Stress
As explained earlier that heavy work load in the organization has hampering my skills but at the
same time it also creates the stress at the time I am not able to complete task and it is the biggest
region of stress creation for me.
As there are three type of stress diseases Acute stress, Short term effect of acute stress and
Episodic acute stress, out of this three diseases I am suffering from Acute stress as the stress
which is occurred due to the current event which is occurred.
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I have used many strategies to overcome the stress some common one are I used to manage the
work by dividing the same on the time basis. I have also tried to improve my concentration
power so that I am able to manage my work on time.
PERSONAL SKILL AUDIT
It is the report which shows the summary of all the skill which an individual is having and also
shows the skill which is required by to adapt.
Requires learning Not totally sure Confident about it
TIME AND SELF MANAGEMENT
Able to complete the task in prescribed time period.
Has way to overcome the problem in difficult task time.
Proper maintaining of calendar for scheduling the meeting or attending the
conference.
Timely arrival for appointments and meetings.
Has knowledge of time-wasting and tries to avoid that.
CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
Uses different way and thoughts to solve the problem which are faced in the
task.
Good evaluation power, so that able to evaluate the decision and find out the
best from that.
Ability to solve the tough and complex problem.
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Ability to work effectively in team to solve the problem
ORAL COMMUNICATION
Able to value the suggestion of other in the team dynamic irrespective of mine
thoughts.
Ability to keep mine thoughts in front of the team in the team or group
discussion.
Able to question employee after their point of view is explained.
Confident in communicating thoughts to other in the organisation
WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
Has the ability to communicate the thoughts by the way of good writing skill.
Ability to convert the notes from the presentation present.
Ability to write in appropriate style for my subject.
Confident about the good command over the Grammer in the writing.
Ability to avoid the copy of the data by referring it.
Able to make an effective report or assignment by the help of the efficient
writing skill.
INFORMATION LITERACY: READING
Ability to source the data from different source to collect the effective
information for the organisation
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Understanding and evaluating the information which was collected from the
source before implementing further step.
Able to simplify the notes and information which was tough to understand.
NUMERACY
Ability to make the numeric data which is easy to interoperate.
Able to interoperate the graph, index and picture to collect the information.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
It is the plan which shows how an individual can improve the weaknesses which individual is
having.
Skills to be
improve
Strategy Resources Time Outcome
To develop
Communication
Need to read a lot
of books, journal
and BBC news. I
need to join
communication
classes and also
require
participating in
the formal and
informal meeting
in the
organisation with
the colleague and
try to get
Books,
Newspaper and
relevant data
(Robinson, 2017).
12 Month It has helped in
improving my
communication
skill which has
eventually helps
me in discussing
the problem with
my colleague
which helps me in
completing the
task on time.
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feedback from
tutor and
colleague about
how to finish the
work on time.
To improve
Coordination skill
I need to work
with my
colleague and try
to trust them and
also require
hearing the point
of view and
thoughts of them.
Believe and
emotion.
12 Month I will require
Further step to
improve that as I
am not able to
still trust my
colleague works
and thoughts
which sometimes
creates the burden
on me to
complete the task.
To improve Team
work
I need to
encourage the
Socialising and
encouraging the
good work and
build trust.
Task completing
resources.
Ongoing process It has improved
my team work.
Formal strategy: It is a learning style in which goal is described in the starting only. IN my case
also I have set the goal for learning the skills in 12 months.
Informal strategy: It is the one in which goal are not described This is ongoing process.
As per the Herzberg motivational theory getting success is the motivational factor for me to
achieve the goal.
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Q1. b) Assesses how strategies for skills development and lifelong learning may enable career
development for you and your team colleagues.
Career development is a series of activities to develop one's career. It usually involves
training of new skills, moving to higher job profiles, switching organizations or stating one's own
business. Strategic career planning is essential for career development as it helps to remain
focused. It helps to face any challenge along with personal growth. Career development means
self assessment, career awareness, goal setting, skill training and performing it.
In an organization career development is necessary for an individual to manage their career
within and between organizations. It is beneficial for employees as it increases awareness and
develop professional skills, improves retention, motivation and help them to grow.
For individual growth career development helps to set goals and expectations for
yourself. Any individual without a vision in life not only fails to deliver but get lost in the crowd.
It makes an individual confident and professionally mature (Ashkanasy, Zerbe and Hartel, 2016).
Following are the strategies used for career development:
guidelines from senior/ mentor
career workshops
classes and training sessions
Guidelines from senior/ mentor: It is a one-to-one relationship between a mentor (more
experienced) and an individual (less experienced). It is beneficial for career development as an
individual is constantly guided by mentor. It is about motivating and empowering the person to
identify their own issues and goals, and helping them to resolve those issues.
It is useful for personal development, if mentor is a close friend or colleague, it is an
advantage as mentor may guide in career development by sharing knowledge, experience and
new perspective from someone who may not interact on regular basis. Mentor can give honest
feedback to improve in areas where an individual is not skilled, helps in professional growth.
Mentor can also open good professional network for an individual to connect with the
organizations and get a chance to work for them. Mentor can find mistakes from past experience
and provide inspiration and motivation for the journey ahead. Learning from mentor's expertise
can develop some skills that are relevant in the field and help in career ahead. Mentoring helps
individual in increasing self confidence, learn to take better control of his career, teaches how to
accept negative feedback. Individual develop interpersonal relationship skills, learn better
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communication skills. Mentor can identify issues of individuals and rectify them and enhance
them to stay in organization for longer period of time.
It is beneficial for employees of an organization to build relationship between junior and
senior colleagues in various department. A mentor from different department that I would like to
explore is a great way to gain knowledge and introduce myself to other opportunities. A mentor
can provide coaching, friendship and role-model to the younger. Mentoring is used to find out
opportunities both inside and outside the organization. Mentor chosen from an organization
helps employees to better understand the workplace and environment (Schmeichel and Vohs,
2018). Mentor provides continue education to the employees so that they show interest in the
latest development in their field improve their skills according to change in technology. It
provides lifelong learning to employees and keep them motivated and retained for longer time.
By providing correct guidelines, it helps to boost earning potential and increase performance of
employees. Continuous education also provide an overview to employee about their current skill
set and they recognize that their organization is willing to invest in them.
Career workshops: It is led by an expert who focuses on career development. Aim of this
workshop is to provide individual space to reflect their career goals, future expectations.
Workshops and seminars are a great way to expose an individual or employee of an organization
to new subject matter. It provides networking opportunities.
It is beneficial for an individual to improve communication skills, gaining expert
knowledge, networking with others, problem solving skills, purpose driven, having a growth
mindset, life-long learner, inspiring leader, great listener, to be more optimistic, learn about new
technologies, and renewing motivation and confidence. These workshops are usually range in
duration from just few hours or one to two days. It helps individuals to take more personal
responsibility for their career path, to identify, implement and ultimately achieve career goals.
For an individual who want to start his/her career these workshops can help them to identify
resume style, best highlights skills, experiences and develop the ability to format a targeted
resume for specific position (Butler and Wilson, 2015). It also helps to improve or update
existing knowledge and skills or develop new skills. Workshops changes the way of thinking and
provide a unique convergence of networking, learning and helps to grow and challenge yourself.
Workshops inspire many individuals who see the world with positivity and helps them select
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career that is suitable to their lifestyle, preference, family environment and scope of self
development etc.
It is beneficial for employees working in the organization to focus on setting personal
professional goals. Workshops provide staff development which sharpens professional skills and
learning about the development in the fields. If organization is starting something new or new
concept, conducting workshops is the best way to introduce these in short time and get people
ready for change. Workshops increases job satisfaction, enhances employee commitment and
loyalty toward the organization. It improves employee's performance on the job by finding
potential abilities to increase turnover. It helps organization to identify the employees who can
be promoted internally. Workshops helps to protect interest of employees and keep them up to
date. Workshops assist in identifying and developing the resources that an employee will need to
reach the goals. It boost employee engagement and productivity in day-to-day work.
Classes and training sessions: Training and development are ongoing effort that are made
within the organization to improve performance of employees through educational methods. It is
an description of resources and activities which is used to guide employees of the organization
for a specific objective. There is a need to train every employee and individual to modify their
attitudes, skills and behavior to perform particular job (Clegg, Kornberger, and Pitsis, 2015).
Training sessions are beneficial for an individual to think big, get best of yourself,
improve communication skills, to be persuasive, specific and inspiring. Training helps to manage
time properly and make progress with less effort. Training provides individual ability to handle
difficult people and conflict situation with confidence. Training provide individual to increase
knowledge, strategies, technologies relevant to career.
Training provides employees learn and acquire new skills and self esteem to achieve ideal
job and maintaining better performance and contribution. Training received by employee's know
how to handle variety of work, it creates interest in job and reduces their chances of quitting. It
improves employees performance and satisfaction towards job. Training address employees
weakness which help employee to improve it.
Knowledge management technique is the another technique which can help the individual
in people to connect to people more effectively as it helps the individual in solving the problem
very effectively and also helps the individual in passing on the same to the other which helps
them in building the skill.
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Q2. a) Explain importance of Effective performance management in developing the employee in
the organisation.
Effective performance management always plays a crucial role in developing the people of the
organisation as the factor which are covered by the effective performance management theory
or models are very crucial in development of the employee or people. In general there are 3
theory or models which are used by the organisation namely they are 360 degree Feedback,
Management by objective and Collaborative working. Most used practices in the performance
management are as follows:
360 Degree feedback
It is the theory or practices which is generally used by all the company in which company used
to give feedback to the employee on the basis of the work done by them in the past few months.
Feedback includes negative and positive report about the work of employee. In the case of
Asda, manager at the store used to supervise the working of the employee in the organisation
and used to send them a Feedback letter as a soft or hard copy which is most suitable for the
manager. 360 Degree feedback theory is mainly used by the organisation to make employee
aware that their work is recognised by the organisation on timely basis, It also helps the
organisation to improve the performance of the employee as the feedback comes from many
sources it helps the employee to build a good relationship with different authority which helps
the employee in feeling comfortable and helps in improving the performance of the employee. It
helps the employee in finding out the opportunity to grow in the organisation as feedback helps
the employee in looking at the point at which they are lacking and can go on to improve the
same. In Asda also the feedback is given to the employee and also suggestion are given to them
about the weak links which are their in their performance, which helps the employee in looking
the threat and also sometimes training are given to the employee so that they can improve the
performance and for improving the higher performance these technique works (De Cremer and
Vandekerckhove, 2017).
Management by objective
It is the model or theory in which objective are well defined by the management by the way of
discussion between management and employee. In the case of the Asda also objective are well
decided by the organisation in the way of revenue and all the employee are provided the target
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