Assignment: Personal Work Priorities and Development

This assignment response addresses key aspects of personal and professional development. The student outlines measures of personal performance, including time management, quality of work, and feedback. It summarizes policies and procedures for meeting performance expectations, emphasizing time management, research, and communication skills. The DISC personality traits model is reviewed, identifying the student's personality type (Influence) and its impact on time management. The student defines short-term (improving problem-solving skills, increasing performance) and long-term (promotion) professional goals, detailing strategies for achieving them. The process for prioritizing tasks in a daily to-do list is described, emphasizing alignment with market trends and objectives. The rationale behind prioritizing tasks is to effectively meet goals and objectives within a timely manner.

MANAGE PERSONAL WORK
PRIORITIES AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

WRITTEN QUESTIONS
Question 1:
List and describe 3 measures of personal performance that you use or have used in the
workplace
1. Time management: In this I evaluate every day that within how many times I am able to meet
with particular objectives or complete the assigned tasks.
2. Quality of work: With the help of assessing standards and qualities of my own work at the
workplace I am able to determine my performance in the firm.
3. By taking feedbacks: In this I have asked questions to my peers, subordinates and seniors which
supports to me for taking feedbacks. It is one of the best tool which supports to me in order to
measure my personal performance at the workplace.
Question 2:
Provide a summary of the policies and procedures that do help or could help you to meet your
expected levels of performance at work
In the business every employee thinks and expects that his performance will be improve
and deadlines will be meet within in adequate manner. For such kinds of achievements there are
time management skills, proper researches, increase communication skills after attending the
seminars etc. support up to the higher level. Moreover, by using several process like take proper
guidance, update with the market trends and conditions, work with the honestly, meet with the
deadlines etc. are used by me which help to increase performance level within working
environment.
Question 3:
Review the DISC personality traits model https://www.discprofile.com/what-is-disc/overview/
and identify your personality type. Explain how your personality type may influence the way
you manage your time
Under the DISC model of personality traits there are four kinds of personalities included
which are like Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness. From these all my
personality type relies under the Influence because I have the behaviour of enthusiasm up to the

higher extent along with the optimistic nature. Moreover, those things which I not like and not
supportive for me then I ignore to them rather than working upon it.
Influence kind of personality trait impacts on my work and time management skills up to
the better level. According to this particular trait my behaviour is of the enthusiasm and
optimistic type. Further, when I dislike the tasks and things then ignore them which lead to
reduce time consuming. If I take the task forcefully which is not liked by me then I will spend
time to make interest and understand it. Hence, it will be highly time consuming and impact on
the managed work time negatively.
Question 4:
Identify and describe 2 short term (1 year) and 1 long term (3-5 years) professional or
personal goals that you have set yourself. Provide details on how you intend to meet these
goals
2 short term goals:
 Improve problem solving skills
 Increase performance level and become employee of the year
In order to fulfil or meet with goal of skill improvement I will take more responsibilities
of the company for resolving basic problems. As I will take higher and more number of
responsibilities then my capability to resolve issues and make solutions will be improve. Further,
I will be able to raise my problem solving qualities and skills up to the higher level and meet
with the goals.
For meeting with the second goal of short term I will become more loyal towards the
company as well as raise my time management skills. With this, I can complete assigned tasks on
the time or before deadlines which is helpful for raising my own performance at the workplace.
Along with this, I will take higher responsibilities of the company which is also one kind of
strategy to improve my performance. Further, as performance level raises then supports to
become employee of the year within company.
1 long term goal:
 Get the promotion within workplace

For fulfil my long term I will raise my skills, performance and qualities within entity.
Along with this, efficiency as well as productivity will be also enhanced by me which is sign of
promoting in the firm.
Question 5:
Describe the process you use or would use to determine what tasks take priority in your daily
to do list. Include a rationale of why some tasks are more important than others.
In the daily to do list when I want to derive that which one task is more important and
needs to complete then I will match the current market trend and goals with the tasks. The trend
of market conditions will be analysed through reading different kinds articles, magazines and
researching etc. On the basis of this specific procedure I will assess priority of the project in
proper manner
Rationale behind giving priority of the particular task is that meet with the goals and
objectives. Prioritise tasks are selected on the basis of matching with the goals and due to which
is supports to achieve objectives and aims effectively and within proper time frame.