Personal Development Plan: Enhancing Business Skills and Capabilities

This document presents a personal development plan, meticulously outlining various aspects of professional growth. The plan begins with a self-assessment, identifying strengths and weaknesses across key business areas such as communication, technical skills, sales, human resources, marketing, finance, and strategic management. It then details specific goals, potential obstacles, and strategies for improvement, including training, research, and seeking support from managers and mentors. The plan incorporates a three-stage progress tracking system, reflecting on accomplishments at the beginning and end of each semester. Cognitive, intellectual, and transferable skills are addressed, focusing on problem-solving, decision-making, communication, teamwork, and computer literacy. The plan includes a detailed exploration of subject-specific skills, such as planning, leading, organizing, and controlling. The individual aims to enhance their capabilities through focused actions, such as employee engagement activities, team-building exercises, and data analysis. This comprehensive plan is designed to foster continuous learning, encourage initiative, and improve overall professional performance, promoting effective communication and innovative solutions.

Personal development
plan

Knowledge and understanding
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of
key business foundation disciplines, such as
business environment, accounting and finance,
operations, marketing, business information
systems and people and
STEP 1
My Strengths
Communication Skills
My Weaknesses
Technical Skills
What obstacles might get in my way?
Coordination between me and my team
members.
What do I need to do to achieve this goal?
I need to develop my technical skills by
participating in training and development
programmes.
How can I improve my chances of meeting this
goal?
To indulge in market research and understand
the requirement of business.
Where can I find support if I need to?
I can take help of my managers and seniors.
STEP 2
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the beginning of second semester)
By working upon my technical skills, I have able to develop techniques to resolve shipping
errors.
STEP 3
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the end of second semester)
I have able to create a new shipping number to resolve this issue.
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Evaluate and critique the range of activities within the key business functional areas and their
interrelationship and interconnectedness;
STEP 1
My Strengths
Sales
Marketing
Distribution
Customer service
My Weaknesses
Human resource
Finance and accounting
What obstacles might get in my way?
Forming an effective coordination between
me and my team members.
What do I need to do to achieve this goal?
I can indulge in team building activities and
also train myself to have basic understanding
about financial terms.
How can I improve my chances of meeting
this goal?
My working on human resource skills and
development.
Where can I find support if I need to?
I can ask human resource manager and
finance manager for helping me out.
STEP 2
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the beginning of second semester)
I am now able to coordinate with my team members and exchanged my opinions with them.
STEP 3
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the end of second semester)
I have developed my team building skills.
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Analyse theories and concepts of strategic management, leadership and innovation within a
changing Environments
STEP 1
My Strengths
Strategic management
Innovation
My Weaknesses
Leadership
What obstacles might get in my way?
I was not able to lead my workers as they
were not listening to me.
What do I need to do to achieve this goal?
I can use transformational leadership style.
How can I improve my chances of meeting
this goal?
I can lead my subordinates with examples.
Where can I find support if I need to?
I can get support from my leader of Amazon.
STEP 2
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the beginning of second semester)
I have started paying attention to subordinates demands.
STEP 3
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the end of second semester)
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Subordinates started listening to me.
Cognitive intellectual skills
Create, evaluate and assess options to enable effective problem solving and decision-making,
using appropriate qualitative, quantitative and ICT techniques and skills;
STEP 1
My Strengths
Effective problem solving
My Weaknesses
Decision-making
What obstacles might get in my way?
Regarding taking frequent decision.
What do I need to do to achieve this goal?
To concentrate on my work.
How can I improve my chances of meeting
this goal?
By relying on data.
Where can I find support if I need to?
Managers.
STEP 2
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the beginning of second semester)
I started analysing data while taking decision.
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STEP 3
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the end of second semester)
My decision making time has been reduced.
Deal critically with organisational issues and be
able to produce solutions and action plans
STEP1
My Strengths
Developing strong communication
My Weaknesses
Resolving conflicts
What obstacles might get in my way?
Maintaining coordination among workers
What do I need to do to achieve this goal?
Conduct employee engagement activities
How can I improve my chances of meeting this
goal?
By developing team building activities
Where can I find support if I need to?
HR department
STEP 2
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the beginning of second semester)
Formulation of certain team building activities.
STEP 3
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the end of second semester)
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Employees started understanding each other differences.
Critically evaluate information, arguments and concepts
STEP1
My Strengths
Information
Concepts
My Weaknesses
Arguments
What obstacles might get in my way?
Lack of coordination
What do I need to do to achieve this goal?
Develop coordination
How can I improve my chances of meeting this
goal?
Conduct team coordination activities
Where can I find support if I need to?
Managers
STEP 2
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the beginning of second semester)
I was able to form coordination between me and my team members.
STEP 3
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the end of second semester)
Improved relations among employees.
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Actively engage in business and marketing briefs and activities that encourage enterprise and
entrepreneurial capability
STEP1
My Strengths
Marketing Research
My Weaknesses
Promotional
What obstacles might get in my way?
Using effective communication tool
What do I need to do to achieve this goal?
Use of appropriate promotion technique
How can I improve my chances of meeting this
goal?
By using online measure.
Where can I find support if I need to?
Marketing department
STEP 2
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the beginning of second semester)
I have promoted our company on social media.
STEP 3
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the end of second semester)
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It has resulted in increase in customer's numbers.
Business situations and apply qualitative and quantitative techniques to it, in a project context,
using ICT as appropriate.
STEP1
My Strengths
Qualitative Technique.
My Weaknesses
Quantitative
What obstacles might get in my way?
Inappropriate results
What do I need to do to achieve this goal?
Work on enhancing quantitative skills
How can I improve my chances of meeting this
goal?
By collecting numerical data
Where can I find support if I need to?
Managers
STEP 2
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the beginning of second semester)
Achievement of relevant data.
STEP 3
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the end of second semester)
Increased accuracy of data.
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Transferable skills
Demonstrate computer literacy (e.g. the management of databases, word processing,
PowerPoint, etc.)
STEP1
My Strengths
management of databases
word processing
My Weaknesses
Power Point
What obstacles might get in my way?
To transfer information to employees through
slides.
What do I need to do to achieve this goal?
Learn basic computer programming.
How can I improve my chances of meeting this
goal?
I can develop power point skills.
Where can I find support if I need to?
IT department
STEP 2
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the beginning of second semester)
I have started learning basic knowledge of power point.
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STEP 3
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the end of second semester)
I have knowledge of additional features of power point.
Demonstrate good communication skills, both oral and written
STEP1
My Strengths
Written communication skills
My Weaknesses
Oral communication skills
What obstacles might get in my way?
To communicate with my team members
What do I need to do to achieve this goal?
Strong oral communication skills
How can I improve my chances of meeting this
goal?
Working on my speaking and listening
capabilities
Where can I find support if I need to?
Marketing department
STEP 2
How have I progressed so far? (To be completed at the beginning of second semester)
I was able to exchange my opinions with my workers.
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