Personal Development: Communication Skills and Reflection Essay

This essay explores the role of personal development in enhancing communication skills within academic and professional contexts. It reflects on individual performance, behavior, and experiences in education, highlighting the importance of self-awareness and continuous improvement. The essay discusses the application of various skills, including SWOT analysis, referencing techniques, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. It emphasizes the development of research skills and critical thinking, incorporating qualitative and quantitative sources. Furthermore, the reflection on learning experiences, such as Kolb’s Cycle of reflection, underscores the significance of practical application and continuous learning for personal and professional growth. The module's impact on boosting confidence, improving clarity on various topics, and utilizing personal skills effectively is also discussed.

Assessment

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MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Demonstrate effective communication skills, applicable to academic and professional contexts
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Reflect on their individual performance, behaviour and experience in education and/or
employment............................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

MAIN BODY
Demonstrate effective communication skills, applicable to academic and professional contexts
Personal Development plays a very important role and involves a lot of activities which helps in
developing a potential and person’s capabilities that helps in improving talents, employability,
even wealth and learning potential. Self development helps in making myself better and helps in
overcoming my bad habits and learning new skills. With the help of self development it helps me
in learning interesting and new skills. In the first week, i got to learn about various skills and also
helped me in developing my capabilities (Calvert, 2019). I got to learn about various skills which
involved SWOT analysis which helped me identifying my strengths and weakness that further
guided me in developing my skills. Swot analysis is basically a tool that involves strategic
management techniques and strategic planning which helped me in identifying my strengths,
weakness, opportunities and threats. In Addition to that it helped me in learning the skills related
to Referencing which helped me in completing my assignments. It helped me in understanding
the right way of doing referencing and helped me in considering the information related to author
name, title of the journal. Accessed day month year and title of the page (Partridge, 2021).
It further helped me in applying it in a effective manner in my assignments. Moreover
during my module, i got to learn deeply about the Ms Excel and its various tools and formulas
which helped me to have a effective knowledge regarding the software and which further helped
in completing my assignments in a effective and efficient manner. In addition to that during
learning i gained a lot of understanding and knowledge regarding the power point presentations
and how to make a better and good power point presentation which really helped me in
completing my assignments and creating a better image in the university. When it comes to skills
i acquired various research skills. These research skills helped in uplifting my ability to search,
evaluate, extract and organise and make use of the available data regarding a particular topic.
The research skills helped me in doing a critical analysis, investigation and intensive search
while solving questions in my learning. In addition to that personal development and self
development really helped me in becoming a better student and helped in analysing my strengths
and the specific areas where i was lacking. In the second week, with the help of digital literacy
and reading skills it helped me in how to use Microsoft edge, Excel and software such as one
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note. Moreover, office suite has become one of the important aspect and plays a very important
role in academic lives and professional and really helped in making my coursework much simple
and easy to understand. It also helped as a student as i am still in the learning phase and need a
lot of improvements. However, i am quite confident now but need a little more practice. For
example, i was not able to understand the formulas of the excel sheet but it boosted up my
confidence and helped me in working upon my reading skills and help me in having better
understanding about the modules( Asgarnezhad and Hamidzadeh, 2021).
In addition to that i focused upon lecture materials, posters, tutorials and books which are
available online. Furthermore, i am doing my assignments and learning new words which helped
me in conducting research and correctly framing the sentences. In the third week, it basically
involves the importance of communication and academic writing skills. I got to learn various
skills regarding the application of evidenced writing to be objective, accuracy and vocabulary. In
addition to that the essays, reports and portfolio played a very important role for me and helped
in learning more about the paraphrasing. It also helped me in bringing more improvements and
making my writing better in the word skills. I also realised that this module need more effort and
time from my side for the purpose to understand the passive voice and using third person while
doing the academic writing. In the fourth week, i realised that it is important for me to keep
practising and putting up my knowledge into actions. During all these 4 weeks, i learnt a lot
about the researching skills and also used critical thinking with the help of qualitative and
quantitative sources. In addition to that my teacher taught me regarding the critical thinking and i
also learnt about the Kolb’s Cycle of reflection and i also got information about the learning on
action and learning in action.
Reflect on their individual performance, behaviour and experience in education and/or
employment
In addition to that, i got to learn about the significant skills which helped me in scoring
better and i can easily use them in my future professional life. It helped me in having a better
understanding of the effective communication skills in relation to the academic levels and
professional. Moreover, all these week plans and modules have helped in boosting up my
confidence, differentiating about the right material, practicing to learn words, reading the sources
in a well manner and having better clarity about various topics. It also helped in using my own
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skills and capabilities in a better manner. I also learned that it is important for a person to be
intellectual, experience to have its own actions and also developing beliefs for the rest of his life.
The entire module was really helpful and really helped and provided benefits for my own
personal development and helped me in gaining knowledge and understanding about the outlook,
excel and also helped in doing calculations and mathematics problems in a easy way (Esfandiar,
Pearce and Dowling, 2019).
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Asgarnezhad, B. and Hamidzadeh, A.A., 2021. The Impact Of Personal And Organizational
Factors On Attitudes Towards Co-Innovation In Order To New Service Development In
Banking Industry.
Calvert, H., 2019. The clinical development of carboplatin–A personal perspective. Inorganica
Chimica Acta, 498, p.118987.
Esfandiar, K., Pearce, J. and Dowling, R., 2019. Personal norms and pro-environmental binning
behaviour of visitors in national parks: The development of a conceptual
framework. Tourism Recreation Research, 44(2), pp.163-177.
Partridge, E., 2021. Getting On in the Creative Arts Therapies: A Hands-on Guide to Personal
and Professional Development. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
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