Professional Portfolio: Reflection on Skills and Action Planning

This portfolio assignment presents a student's reflection on their personal and professional skills, particularly focusing on time management and communication. The reflection details the student's self-assessment of their strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement, highlighting experiences from group presentations and academic endeavors. The student identifies the need to enhance communication and problem-solving skills, recognizing their impact on both personal and professional growth. An action plan is developed, outlining specific objectives, development activities, and timelines to improve these skills. The assignment also demonstrates an awareness of the global context of higher education and employment, emphasizing the importance of continuous skill development for career success.

Portfolio

Contents
Introduction.............................................................................................................................................3
Reflection................................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................7
REFRENCSES...........................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
In today’s competitive world, it is required for an individual to have effective knowledge,
skills and capabilities so that they will be able to grab opportunities available at the competitive
environment. It has also been identified that a person can easily enhance their skills and
knowledge by observing people, with the help of personality development sessions and by taking
proper training and development session (Zgarrick and et. Al., 2016). In the present report, a
reflection is going to be discussed in which time management skills and communication skill is
includes. Along with this, an action plan is also going to be developed in this report which is
based on the learning mentioned in reflective session which assist in both personal and
professional level.
Reflection
Reflect on your performance in the group presentation
Reflecting my performance in group presentation from this group presentation I came to
know about various thing and gain knowledge, learn about various topics which I can apply in
future and I also came to know about some disadvantages or some aspects which I have to
improve and have to work on them to get success in future. While working in the team on a
presentation I came to know that my communication skills are no that much effective so to get
more success in future I have to improve my communication skills by communicating with more
and more people and try to note things where there is lack. On various points I realize that there
are many things which attract and influence me to perform my best. I have gained interpersonal
skills through which I can communicate with anyone without any hesitation. I learned that I am a
powerful person who wants to attain the best possible results both academically and personally. I
improved my time management skills by focusing on my tasks and activities which I performed
from last, to manage my time in proper manner I always maintain a to do list of tasks and work
according to a list on time. I also set priorities in sequence to manage my time in efficient
manner. These time management skills are really helpful for me future. With I also improved my
cooperative skills I worked with cooperation in team I try to support my team members at hard
time and manage every thing with cooperation (Udall, 2017). I gained leadership skills during
my university studies which will be really helpful for me in future in my corporate life. I always
ready to take responsibilities and accept challenges in my life because in my past life I gained

knowledge which will be really helpful for me in my future life. If I find some topic difficult
then I practiced it again and again and try to do it in better or easy way. I got various
opportunities to express myself and to prove myself. I learned various things from my mistakes
and this the biggest achievement of my like because person always learn best things from their
mistakes. I always be happy with my achievements and celebrate my success this motivate me to
work hard for my future. I also identify areas for change and improvement there are many
aspects on which I have to work like on adaptive skills I am on that much adaptive person and in
future I will face many challenges and to accept or face these challenges I need to be adaptive or
require to improve my skills. I always try my best and effectively respond to new challenges. I
discover various new opportunities and always help others (Ingram, LaForge, Schwepker and
Williams, 2015). I develop skills which give me great experience and strength for future. I
improve my teamwork skills while 4 working relationship with everyone and also boost my
confidence. I always set out what I want to achieve in my life and how can I achieve those
things. I need to improve my problem-solving skills I get to know that I need to display my
ability to logical and analytical approach to solve problems and issues which I face in my day to
day life and if I am able to improve my this skill then in future it will be really helpful for me in
my corporate life or any other profession which I will select in future to pursue my career. I also
gain leadership skills which give me potential to motivate or encourage others and this also
motivate me to work hard with cooperation. By facing many challenges, I also become able to
work under pressure and maintain complex things easily. I also build creative thinking skills by
facing various different situation and challenges in life this improve my creative skills which will
be really helpful for me in future. Decision making skills are essential in human life, I came to
know that it is important for person to take their life related decision in effective manner because
correct and accurate decisions are only key to success in life. Slowly-slowly I understand some
important aspect of life which will be really helpful for me in future I become humbler and listen
every on carefully and then take my important decisions. Time play most important role in
human life and time is precious so everyone needs to manage or maintain it effectively and to
manage my time by preparing checklist and set some goals for with time duration to accomplish
them all these things help in managing my time effectively. I am also flexible enough and always
try to demonstrate reliability, responsibility and trustworthiness (Yang, Zhou. and Xu, 2015). My
flexibility makes me able to adapt changes and think out of the box and I always willing to

support friends and family. I am a good listener it is the key to being a strong communicator, I
always share my ideas and thoughts and also listen other empathetically. Listening is a very
important skill in persons life effective and good listening skills guide a way towards success. I
also get self-motivated after facing challenges in life, I put the most efforts into my work and
learn from my mistakes and failures. All the knowledges, skills, understandings and learnings
related to communication, time management and interpersonal skills and many more are really
helpful for me in future.
The areas (academic and professional) that needed to develop further-
On the basis of my own analysis related to the reflection presented by me in the above
section I got know that there are mainly two lack skills of mine which are directly placing
influence on my current learning zone. The weak skills in me which are required to be developed
are communication skill and problem solving skill. It has been later analysed that by that both of
these skills plays essential role in the growth of the individuals personal as well as professional
skills (El-Baz and Tzscheutschler, 2015). I have further analysed that it is highly important for
me to develop my own understanding as well as command over these weak skills as both of them
holds good command in the near future. In addition to this, it can be further said that
development of these skills would definitely support me out in accomplishing my personal goals
and also contribute in executing the professional work in appropriate manner within the
predetermined time frame. Development of communication skill will definitely provide me
support in developing my own relationship with my team members. Also, it can be said that
strong communication skill helps me conveying my actual message or information to the team
members. This simply helps me as well as my team members in accomplishing all preplanned
activities in the quicker manner. Apart from this, if it is talked about problem solving skill, it can
be said that it is very important skill in personal as well as professional life as it helps me out in
resolving the problem in such a manner that simply reduces their influence. In addition to this, it
has been further analysed that with the usage of problem solving skill I can easily take right
decision at workplace without being bias to anyone. This simply improvises my relationship with
the team members as they believe that I am taking all decision for their bright future only. Away
with this, it has been later analysed that problem solving skill is also useful for the individual as
it simply help individual out in handling their life situation and achieve their organizational

success by simply resolving their life and workplace related to conflicts (Maharajh, and et. Al.,
2015). Along with this, it also helps individual in creating better and effective working
environment where employees can easily perform their work and attain their proposed
organizational aim and objectives.
Develop an action plan
By evaluating all the weak areas of the oneself individual is the only on whole who could
easily monitor their weak areas and can take required measure to overcome it in appropriate
manner. Action plan is acknowledged as one of the important way which provide appropriate
guidelines to the individual so that they can easily attain success in their professional career.
With reference to my personal experience related to employability skill. Professional
development plan is determined as the effective method trough which an individual can easily
develop their own weak skills as it includes several sections or headings (). On the basis of my
own experience related to the self evaluation, I have personally made use of effective
professional development plan. In this type of development plan weak skills, current proficiency,
targeted proficiency, objectives and development activities and time scale are included. As per
my personal experience, with the usage of appropriate PDP plan I can easily modify my weak or
lack skills. This plan is specified as below:
Skills Current
proficie
ncy
Target
proficienc
y
Objective Development activities Time
scale
Communicat
ion Skill
2 5 For every individual
person it is very
important to have
effective communication
skills so that they can
communicate with others
in an effective manner.
Along with this, it has
also been said that
With the aid of
attaining different
types of seminars,
online classes
presentation and
lecture it has been
concluded that I can
effectively improve my
communication skill
30 Days

communication skills
helps in sharing
information from one
person to another
which assist me in
attaining ample
number of
opportunities at the
competitive
environment.
Problem
solving skill
2 5 While doing different
activities it has been
analysed that various
types of problems arise
which requires high level
of problem solving skills.
In order to enhance my
problem solving skills
it has identified by me
that I need to improve
my listening skill. This
will assist me in order
to know the problems
arise and can
effectively provide
solutions to such
issues.
45 Days
Demonstrate an awareness of the global context of higher education and employment
Higher education plays very essential role in the life of an individual person as they get to
learn ample number of skills and develop their knowledge. This directly or indirectly influences
the learning and performance of a person while doing their business functions in near future. It
has also been identified that with the help of higher education a person will be able to get
employment opportunities at the new marketplace (Zillmann, 2015). This as a result will directly
assist in enhancing their skills and abilities which are needed by an individual person in their
personal as well as professional life. Therefore, it is necessary for each and every individual
person to gain higher education which leads towards the the success and growth of a person at
competitive marketplace.

CONCLUSION
With the above mention research it has been concluded that time management is essential for
human if human is able to manage their time effectively and they easily get success and they
always on the way to get success in life because time is precious and every have to give
importance to time because effectively & efficiently manage time is way to success. Individuals
can manage their time by maintaining to do list of work with time duration, time to time check
that list and set some objectives for long run and take some small steps to achieve those set
objectives in life.

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