Assignment 2: Report on Personal Work Priorities and Development

This report, submitted by a student, focuses on personal and professional development within a company setting. It explores the importance of training, feedback from senior managers, and the alignment of personal goals with organizational policies. The report includes a reflection on the student's work performance, highlighting the use of KPIs and various techniques for self-improvement, such as listening strategies and participation in training programs. The student also addresses the significance of communication skills and the role of employee roles in organizational structure. Furthermore, the report includes a professional development plan outlining training opportunities and networking activities to enhance skills in IT management, administrative support, business writing, and finance and accounting, as well as areas such as critical path development and online media marketing. The report references several academic sources to support the analysis and recommendations.

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Manage personal work priorities and professional development
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Assignment-2 (Report Writing)
1. Personal and professional development are the two aspects of the management in order to
maintain the development of the competency in the company the personal development criteria
include proper training from seniors, motivation and occupational standards. The use of the
personal competency helps in maintaining and developing the skills and quality of manager in
the company (Koerner 2014). The use of various conceptions related to the development of the
skills revolves around the stakeholder management. The personal training depends upon the
thoughts and views of the senior manager for getting proper guidance. The relationship between
the personal and professional growth can be differentiate by a single string of value (Wellin
2016). The professional growth depends upon the development of the professional career and the
company in the market the professional career depends on the growth of professionalism in the
individual for maintaining other employees and staffs in the company. The use of the
professional network helps in providing proper maintenance to the development of the company
(Le Boutillier et al. 2015).
Various training packages are provided that helps in enhancing the skills and knowledge
of an individual. Each training packages contains definition of various skills and knowledge for
operating effectively n the workplace and maintain a proper guidance to the employee of the
company. Various quality frameworks are available in the training packages that might create an
opportunity for the employees in the company (Rowlinson and Jia 2015). Several assessment
guidelines have been included in the training packages that helps manager properly guide their
employees in the team. Management of resources in an organization helps in maintaining a
proper use of the resources of the company. The adoption of employee competency in the

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company has provided an extra approach to the training packages in the company (Grant and
Kinman 2014).
2. I have consulted to my two senior managers of my company for analyzing the performance of
my work and duties in the company. The feedback of my two senior managers is important for
managing the work and management of the employees in the workforce (Bergheim et al. 2015).
The feedbacks of the senior managers help in identifying the goal and loopholes in my behavior
towards my work. I used to provide weekly report to my seniors for the analyzing my
performance overall the week. The use of these factors helps in increasing my work performance
in the company. The professional competency in have been maintained for clarifying the several
KPIs of the manager (Kossek et al. 2016). Various techniques can be implemented for improving
self-skills and knowledge. Various reflection strategies are made that helps in maintaining a form
for maintaining scores at different level of motivation. Listening technique helps in listening to
the ideas and thoughts of the senior managers and understanding the views and thoughts if them.
The listening techniques helps in gathering a huge amount of knowledge and skills for my
seniors. They can provide me quality guidelines to improve myself based on quality analysis.
3. The journal based on the performance improvement include several KPIs that create an
opportunity for personal development. I can participate in the training airframes organized for
the manager by our seniors to get motivated. The training packages contains a huge opportunity
for me to maintain and learn from the views of my seniors (Koerner 2014). Various learning
styles including Kolbe’s model of learning and Honey and Mumford’s style of learning might
help in providing various opportunities for getting enhanced level of training and knowledge
from them. The use of these learning style help in maintaining several dilemmas in the company
(Wellin 2016). The effect of various factors that have been involving in the development of the

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personal and professional growth have helped in maintaining the development of the company in
the market. Setting up goal priority for personal development helps in enhancing personal skills
and knowledge regarding maintaining the whole team. The goals of the team member needs to be
effective on a daily basis that might help in increasing the sales of the products and services of
the company in the market. These plans are aligned with the organizational goals and policies
(Groysberg and Abrahams 2014). The organizational policies include motivating the employed
for increasing the sales of the company in the market. Therefore, providing motivation helps in
maintaining and increasing the confidence in them.
Several new opportunities and skills needs to be acquired by me for future development in me.
Development in the communication skill is an important part in the training package.
Communication skills helps in communicating with other people in the company (Biggs, Brough
and Barbour 2014). A proper communication between the manager and the employee helps in
maintain and reducing the gap between them. These plans helps in maintaining the
organizational structure in the market. The role of each employee has been fixed by the manager
that helps in providing a concrete approach to the development of the company in the market
(Reynolds, Shoss and Jundt 2015). As a manager of the ABC Company, I have learned about the
maintenance of the employee in the team.

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References
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psychological capital, job satisfaction, and safety perceptions in the maritime industry. Safety
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Biggs, A., Brough, P. and Barbour, J.P., 2014. Strategic alignment with organizational priorities
and work engagement: A multi‐wave analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 35(3),
pp.301-317.
Campbell, J.D., Jardine, A.K. and McGlynn, J. eds., 2016. Asset management excellence:
optimizing equipment life-cycle decisions. CRC Press.
Cottrell, S., 2015. Skills for success: Personal development and employability. Palgrave
Macmillan.
Galea, C., Houkes, I. and De Rijk, A., 2014. An insider's point of view: how a system of flexible
working hours helps employees to strike a proper balance between work and personal life. The
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25(8), pp.1090-1111.
Grant, L. and Kinman, G. eds., 2014. Developing resilience for social work practice. Palgrave
Macmillan.
Groysberg, B. and Abrahams, R., 2014. Manage your work, manage your life. Harvard Business
Review, 92(3), pp.58-66.

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Koerner, M.M., 2014. Courage as identity work: Accounts of workplace courage. Academy of
Management Journal, 57(1), pp.63-93.
Kossek, E.E., Ollier‐Malaterre, A., Lee, M.D., Pichler, S. and Hall, D.T., 2016. Line Managers’
Rationales for Professionals’ Reduced‐Load Work in Embracing and Ambivalent
Organizations. Human Resource Management, 55(1), pp.143-171.
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Larsen, J., Oades, L.G., Roberts, G. and Shepherd, G., 2015. Competing priorities: staff
perspectives on supporting recovery. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental
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McGivern, G., Currie, G., Ferlie, E., Fitzgerald, L. and Waring, J., 2015. Hybrid manager–
professionals'identity work: the maintenance and hybridization of medical professionalism in
managerial contexts. Public Administration, 93(2), pp.412-432.
Phiri, L.P., Draper, C.E., Lambert, E.V. and Kolbe-Alexander, T.L., 2014. Nurses’ lifestyle
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Reynolds, C.A., Shoss, M.K. and Jundt, D.K., 2015. In the eye of the beholder: A multi-
stakeholder perspective of organizational citizenship and counterproductive work
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Rowlinson, S. and Jia, Y.A., 2015. Construction accident causality: An institutional analysis of
heat illness incidents on site. Safety science, 78, pp.179-189.

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Vashchekina, I.V., 2015. Social priorities in the work of Russian commercial banks with public
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Wellin, M., 2016. Managing the psychological contract: Using the personal deal to increase
business performance. CRC Press.

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Appendix 1– Professional development plan
Name
Date of development Date to be reviewed
 Discussed with mentor/colleague
Name:
 Discussed with manager
Name:
Professional development opportunities/ training
Timeframe Description of opportunity/training Skills/ competency to develop
1-7 days IT management Skills Training: This training include
various components of IT skills including software
training and other IT security technologies.
IT Skills including software management, Cyber-
security, Networking and Database
1-10 days Administrative Support Training: This training include
duties in administration.
Human Resource management and Leadership
1-5 days Business Writing: This training includes writing
document in a formal way for the clients.
English writing skills and grammar
1-10 days Finance and Accounting: This training includes
statistical analysis and financial plan development.
Statistics and Economics
Networking activities
Timeframe Description of networking activities Opportunity/professional advantage
1-4 days Critical path development Microsoft Project
1-7 days Hardware networking Hardware knowledge

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Timeframe Description of networking activities Opportunity/professional advantage
1-2 days Networking workshops Various components of networking including LAN and
Router
1-7 days Online media marketing SEO, Affiliate marketing