Personal Development Portfolio: Skill Development and Reflection

This personal development portfolio reflects on transferable skills, learning experiences, and future development plans. It highlights approaches to personal learning and identifies both existing and newly acquired skills. The portfolio outlines skills to be developed during academic studies, personal life, and career, supported by a personal development process and improvement log. An action plan details steps for achieving development goals, complemented by a CV. The portfolio emphasizes the importance of self-reflection, leadership, and professional skills for achieving personal and professional success. Desklib provides similar resources for students.

Portfolio of
Personal
Development

Contents
Personal reflection of transferable skills, experiences in learning and development................3
1. Highlighting and reflecting upon my approaches to personal learning, development of
skills and experiences....................................................................................................................3
1.2 Identifying transferable skills that I already have and skills that I has attained during
the process......................................................................................................................................3
1.3 Skills that should be developed during my academics, personal life and career............4
2.0 Personal development process and improvement log............................................................5
3.0 Action plan.....................................................................................................................................6
4.0 CV..................................................................................................................................................7
References..........................................................................................................................................8

Personal reflection of transferable skills, experiences in learning
and development
1. Highlighting and reflecting upon my approaches to personal learning,
development of skills and experiences
Personal development can be explained as the development of the skills and abilities
of an individual in terms of achieving their goals and objectives in their academics, career or
life. Personal development is necessary for the growth of an individual and enhancing their
abilities for achieving their goals effectively and efficiently. Personal, academic and career
development involves the improvement and enhancement of composite skills that are helpful
in achieving the goals of an individual effectively and efficiently. The personal development
basically includes the skills and knowledge for operating in a given field of work like,
communication, time management, problem solving, analytical thinking etc. for achieving
personal aims and objectives. The report includes the competencies and skills that are
needed by an individual for achieving success in their professional career or academics. In
this contact, it will reflect on the approaches that are important to enhance the learning and
development activities of an individual. Moreover, it identifies skills and abilities that I already
have and the skills that I obtained from the process. Furthermore, it has explained about the
skills that I should develop during my academic and personal career. For this purpose, a
personal development process and improvement log will be provided in the report with an
accurate action plan to do so. Personal development is primarily explained as the
development of skills and knowledge of an individual through the learning and development
process to achieve desired goals and objectives effectively. The L&D is very effective in
enhancing the skills and knowledge of an individual to achieve personal, academic or
professional success (Burns, Maier, S. and Sinfield, 2020).
1.2 Identifying transferable skills that I already have and skills that I has
attained during the process
Self-learning and self-evaluation is an approach that can be helpful to an individual
for improving their personal learning of skills and gaining knowledge for their development.
There are many approaches for attaining self-management by identifying the skills that I
already have and that need to be developed during my module and course work.
 Communication skills: Communication refers to the ability of an individual to
exchange information with each other with a clear definition of meaning. I determined
that it includes the process of converting the ideas into the message, transferring it to

the person with a clear medium and its decoding by the person to achieve correct
meaning.
 Technical skills: I developed skills for using internet technology, digital platform and
online media for enhancing my knowledge in various fields during my academics. I
gained information about the use of computers, cloud technology and digital
platforms during the program.
 Conceptual skills: It refers to the ability of an individual to apply the theoretical
knowledge into the practical situations for improving the work and performance (Pugh
and Broome, 2020). I utilized various models and practices for improving my
performance during the program and getting better results.
1.3 Skills that should be developed during my academics, personal life
and career
Identifying the needs for development and improvement are very necessary and
requires a complicated assessment of individuals' needs. I have developed many skills
during my academics and personal life that could be helpful in career growth, which are as
follows:
 Leadership: It refers to the ability of an individual to influence the behavior of people
and enhance their performance and voluntary engagement at their work for attaining
the goals and objectives effectively and efficiently. The leadership skills have
provided me with the opportunities for handling the groups by proper monitoring,
motivation, coaching, teamwork, and many other skills. The leadership skills help an
individual to improve the performance while working in a team and maximize their
efforts through team building and team leading through personal development.
 Self-reflection: It refers to thinking about the opportunities and professional and
personal properties for examining and learning the needs for achievement by
developing the skills of an individual through understanding their deficiencies. Self-
reflection is helpful in evaluating the performance and identifying the gaps in the
performance so that the gaps can be covered for maximizing the efficiency of an
individual.
 Professional skills: It refers to the knowledge about the field of career and the
learnings through experiencing in that field (Jansen, and et. al., 2021). The
development of professional skills is very important for me to contribute better
towards the achievement of organizational goals and improve my overall
performance at work. This could be helpful in securing my employment opportunity in
the future.

2.0 Personal development process and improvement log
Event Development
activity
performed
Expectations for
learning
Learnings Application of
the learnings
Leadership Working in teams
and handling the
team operations
as a team leader
to improve the
leadership abilities
(Mantzourani, and
et. al., 2022).
Understanding
the qualities,
skills, knowledge
and
competencies of
a good leader for
achieving the
organisational
goals effectively
and efficiently.
The skills and
abilities of
leadership, its
types and
various models
to improve the
leadership at
organisational
level.
By observing
the other
leaders and
their tactics in
team
management for
improving their
leadership
qualities.
Decision
making
Interacting with the
group members,
solving their
conflicts, critical
thinking and
analysing various
methods to
enhance the
decision making.
Effective tools
and technologies
for improving the
decision making
ability of an
individual for
enhancing the
performance of
an organisation.
Various
terminologies for
personal
development
and skills for
effective
decision making
like problem
solving, critical
thinking and
analytical skills.
It helps to focus
on the past
performance
and improving
the performance
by involving the
present
performance.
Linguistic
skills/
Language
To learn about
different
languages for
communicating or
interacting
effectively with
others from
various
backgrounds.
Different
languages like
Spanish, French
etc. to interact
with the people
from various
communities.
Preliminary
knowledge of the
languages like
French, Spanish
etc. (Cirocki and
Farrell, 2019).
I would be able
to communicate
with the people
from various
backgrounds
and understand
their needs
effectively and
efficiently for
improving their

performance.
3.0 Action plan
Expectations to
learn
Support and
resources
required
My involvement
and role in this
Means of
evaluating the
success
Target date for
reviewing
Working with
team
Support from the
team members
and insight about
their abilities,
skills, knowledge
and performance.
Actively
participate in the
group activities,
meetings and
decision making
to interact with
the people and
enhance team
working.
Computing the past
performance of the
team and their
current
performance.
1 month duration.
Managing time
Planned activities
and performance
evaluation for
determining the
effective use of
time.
Prepare plans
and schedules for
the work and
work tirelessly to
achieve the
objectives on
time.
Complying with that
time frame and
schedules that are
pre decided and
measuring the
deviations that
occur.
2 months duration.
Decision making
Support of
management and
teams for
enhancing the
decision making
activity.
Actively
participating in
the management
activities and
reviewing the past
performance for
enhancing
decisions.
Keeping a track
record of the
performance of the
decision taken
(Çelen and
Seferoglu, 2020).
2 months duration.

4.0 CV
NAME
Address
City
State
PIN
E-Mail:
Phone:
 OBJECTIVE
To join a position of responsibility with a professionally managed progressive organisation that
provides conductive learning and development.
 ACAEMIC DETAILS
o PGDM in ……
o Bachelor Degree …..
o Schooling …..
 WORK EXPERIENCE
o Organisation:
o Designation:
o Duration:
o Profile:
 STRENGTHS
o Leadership
o Communication
o Decision Making
 MORE INFORMATION
A highly skilled individual with solid academic background seeking for the job with high chances
for growth and development in future, and willing to contribute in organisational growth full-
fledged manner.
RESUME

References
Books and journal
Burns, T., Maier, S. and Sinfield, S., 2020. Global university, local issues: Taking a creative
and humane approach to learning and teaching. In Improving classroom
engagement and international development programs: International perspectives
on humanizing higher education. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Çelen, F. K. and Seferoglu, S. S., 2020. Features of effective professional development
practices for teachers as ICT users. In Enriching teaching and learning
environments with contemporary technologies (pp. 18-38). IGI Global.
Cirocki, A. and Farrell, T. S., 2019. Professional development of secondary school EFL
teachers: Voices from Indonesia. System, 85. p.102111.
Jansen, M. B., and et. al., 2021. International clinical placement–Experiences of nursing
students’ cultural, personal and professional development; a qualitative
study. Nurse Education in Practice, 51. p.102987.
Mantzourani, E., and et. al., 2022. Reflections of mentors and mentees on a national
mentoring programme for pharmacists: An examination into relationships,
personal and professional development. Research in Social and Administrative
Pharmacy, 18(3). pp.2495-2504.
Pugh, M. and Broome, N., 2020. Dialogical coaching: An experiential approach to personal
and professional development. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and
Research, 72(3). p.223.