Reflective Essay: Personal and Professional Growth After SWOT Analysis

This reflective essay presents a detailed account of personal and professional development, focusing on improvements made since a previous SWOT analysis. The essay highlights the author's journey in enhancing skills such as multitasking and managerial knowledge, identifying these as areas of improvement from the initial SWOT assessment. The author describes specific achievements, such as successfully completing multiple assignments and gaining a higher position among colleagues, attributed to improved managerial skills. The essay also details the strategies employed to enhance these skills, including engaging in complex activities and attending workshops. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of reflective practice in analyzing past experiences and identifying areas for future growth, thus contributing to both personal and professional success.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Reflective Essay..........................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Reflective Essay is a detailed account display of an analysis of past experiences that are
associated with reflecting upon the events and learnings within the past, along with a detailed
insight of how best to improvise the same within the future. Hence, below is a reflective essay
based on my progress from the last time I performed a personal SWOT analysis (Sharif and
Zainuddin, 2017).
MAIN BODY
Reflective Essay
Since the last time I performed a personal SWOT analysis, there have been quite evident
improvements within my skills and competencies and I have experienced an evident amount of
growth within these aspects that is necessary for my personal and professional life ahead. In
addition to this, it is very important for me to reflect upon these skills to get a clear insight as to
how best have I worked towards improvising the same since the last time I performed SWOT
analysis.
As per that framework, I reflected upon certain skills, such as Multitasking, Legal,
Communication, Managerial Knowledge, as well as Innovation; out of which, Managerial
Knowledge and Multitasking came to be my weaknesses, whereas the rest of the others were my
strength. Since then, there has been an evident improvement and development within both of
these areas. For instance, I am quite effective now in relation to managing multiple assignments
at one time. Moreover, I have also become quite capable of development of my managerial
skills, as I am able to effectively plan, prioritise, organise, coordinate, direct as well as control
my functions, as well as that of my team members.
In context of both these skills, there have been several achievements which I have made
thus far (Hosein and Rao, 2017). For instance, I have been able to successfully complete three of
my assignments altogether within the stipulated period of time. Moreover, I have also achieved a
higher position amongst my colleagues due to my appropriate and effective managerial skills.
This is again an important achievement that would be very contributing towards my professional
career.
Furthermore, in context of converting my plans into action, while my plan for enhancing
my Managerial Skills remained intact, the other one related to Multitasking was changed. Hence,
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for the former, I learned about the management aspect by indulging into complex activities
which required me to function in an appropriate and effective manner. However, in context of
multitasking, I preferred to engage in workshops that would allow me to further develop these
skills effectively.
Hence, this exercise has helped me to enhance the scope of improvement in context of
my future career. This is because this activity has appropriately been directed towards
enhancement of my skills, which have further provided me more pathways to success in future,
that would be helpful for me in my personal, as well as professional career.
CONCLUSION
Thus, it is concluded from the essay above that reflective practice is very important for an
individual to analyse the past experiences as well as reflect upon the positive and negative
aspects associated with the same.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Hosein, A. and Rao, N., 2017. Students’ reflective essays as insights into student centred-
pedagogies within the undergraduate research methods curriculum. Teaching in Higher
Education. 22(1). pp.109-125.
Sharif, A.M. and Zainuddin, S.Z., 2017. Students' perceptions of their reflective essay writing
experience and teacher feedback comments. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics.
6(2). pp.204-212.
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