Effective Communication & Time Management for Prof Dev Success

This presentation delves into various communication styles crucial for enhancing personal and professional development, including controller, promoter, analyser, and supporter styles. It emphasizes the importance of understanding these styles to improve interpersonal skills. Furthermore, the presentation outlines effective time management strategies, such as setting priorities, getting organized, and avoiding multitasking, to optimize productivity and achieve desired outcomes. The content is supported by references to relevant academic works, highlighting the significance of mentorship and professional development practices. Desklib provides this presentation and many other resources to help students excel.

Personal and Professional
Development
(Demonstrate acquired interpersonal and transferable
skills)

Table of contents
 Introduction
 Variety of styles of communication
 Use effective time-management strategies
 References

Introduction
 This presentation is dealing various styles of
communication that aids in improving personal and
professional development. Additionally, the use of
effective time strategies are also explained here.

Variety of styles of communication
Communication can be defined as a process of
exchange of ideas, data, feelings, etc. from one
person to another by using any media (Avalos,
2011). Different person has their own personalities
and communication styles that are listed below:

Cont..
 Controller style: Someone who are controller
communicator wishes to get the facts (Black, and
Plowright, 2010). They have clear concept of
setted goals and objectives and can also provide
solution to any problems.

Cont..
 Promoter style: Those people who lives in a
society and are more social known as promoters
(Bauer, 2010). They love to discuss continually in
several topics for a long hours.

Cont..
 Analyser style: Person who works with
elaborated information of goals and objectives are
known as analyser (Brody and Hadar, 2011).
They are very straightforward to others as they
communicate by showing seriousness.

Cont..
 Supporter style: Those who have supporter
communication style are thought as low personality.
Such type of people are good listeners and have
patience.

Use effective time-management
strategies
Time management is very important to achieve the
desired results of any task. The strategies of time-
management are described below:
 Set priorities: Works can be performed by
setting priorities of them.

Cont..
 Get organized: Disorganisation causes poor
management of time (Cooke, 2012). So, it is
necessary to organise the tasks and make proper time-
management.
 Avoid multi-tasking: Some of the strategies of time-
management do not run in effectual manner because
large number of works are associated with it.

References
Stenfors-Hayes and et. al., 2010. Being a mentor for
undergraduate medical students enhances
personal and professional development. Medical
teacher, 32(2), pp.148-153.
Zepeda, S. J., 2012.Professional development: What
works. Eye on education.
Nicholls, G., 2014.Professional development in
higher education: New dimensions and directions.
Routledge.

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