Comprehensive Personal Development and Skills Portfolio

This document presents a personal development portfolio encompassing self-reflection on learning and transferable skills, a detailed learning log, an action plan, and a curriculum vitae. The portfolio emphasizes the importance of academic and professional skills, including communication, teamwork...Read More

Personal Development
Portfolio

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1- Self-reflection on personal learning and development as well as the transferable skills.1
1.1 Identification as well as reflection on my approach to personal learning and development. 1
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed by attending this module.1
1.3 Skills which I would like to develop during my academic studies, personal life as well as
the workplace...............................................................................................................................2
TASK 2- Personal development learning log..................................................................................2
TASK 3- Action Plan.......................................................................................................................4
TASK 4 -Curriculum vitae..............................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills describe habits and talents that benefit the academic factors like research,
learning, presentation and report writing (Ayyala and Levine, 2019). Professional skills describe
the abilities and career competencies which have been used within the workplace that are
beneficial in every job. It is important for the students to develop their academic and professional
skills which includes data synthesis, critical thinking, oral and written communication, self-
awareness and reflection, use of computer applications, team working, networking as well as
occupational awareness. The following report covers self-reflection on personal development
and learning along with the transferable skills. It further covers personal development learning
log, action plan along with curriculum vitae.
TASK 1- Self-reflection on personal learning and development as well as the
transferable skills
1.1 Identification as well as reflection on my approach to personal learning and development
Personal learning and development consider as lifelong process which provides a method
which helps me to assess my skills and qualities. It also helps me in setting my future goal for
realising and maximising their potential. Personal learning and development is most important
for me as it provides various benefits in academic and professional life. One of the most effective
benefit of personal learning and development is it keeps me motivated in order to conduct my
task in better manner (Javed and Farid, 2021). It also helps me in my future professional career
which helps me to keep my employees loyal to my future organisation. The other benefit of
personal learning and development is it allows me to reflect my talent which makes me effective
in order to conduct my task in better manner. It also helps me in refining my existing skills
which makes my professional career more effective. It is also helps me to improve my self-
awareness in order to get more aware about me personal strengths and weakness which makes
me effective in my academic as well as professional career also.
1.2 Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed by attending this module
Transferable skills are also known as portable skills which describes the qualities of an
individual that allows them to transfer from one job to another. Highlighting my transferable
skills are especially essential for me when I am want to change my change my job. There are
different types of transferable skills which help me to make my academic and professional career
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effective. This will includes communication skills, teamwork skills, organisation skills,
adaptability skills, leadership skills, decision making skills and many more. By the development
of communication skills provides me an ability which helps me to impart information and
message to other through writing, speaking or using another medium in better manner (Turner,
Scott-Young and Holdsworth, 2018). Development of team work skills provides me an ability
which makes effective in other perform with my subordinates in order to achieve common goals.
By the development of organisation skills helps me to meet deadlines, communicate with others
in timely manner as well as follows instructions in well manner.
1.3 Skills which I would like to develop during my academic studies, personal life as well as the
workplace
As there are many skills which I want to develop my academic studies, personal life and the
workplace are communication skills, team work skills, time management skills and decision
making skills. These skills are important for my academic and professional career in order to
conduct my each task in effective manner (Arslan Dönmez, 2022). Communication skills are
important for me in order to interact with others in effective manner and influence them to give
their best efforts for achievement of goals and objectives. Team work skills is also important for
my academic and professional career which makes me effective in order to perform my task with
others in better manner in order to achieve our common goals. Time management skills refers to
the most essential skills that I want to develop in my personal life as it makes me effective in
order to accomplish my task within a time period. The other important skill which I want to
develop is decision making skills as it makes to take better and effective decision related to
future task in better manner.
TASK 2- Personal development learning log
Date of event What was the
development activity?
What was I
expecting to learn?
What have I
learned?
How will l
apply this to
my
learning?
25-05-2022 Communication skills I want to improve
my verbal
communication
I have learned
about the
necessity and
I want to
apply my
communicati
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skills in better
manner (Volobueva
and Stepanova,
2018).
importance of
communication
skills in my
professional
and personal
life.
on skills in
my social
and
professional
life.
05-06-2022 Team work skills This will helps me
to know how
effectively can
manage as well as
work in a team.
It is important
for me in order
to work with
my future team
in effective
manner.
I will apply
this skill in
my academic
and
professional
life.
10-07-2022 Time management skills I will learn how
effectively I
accomplish my each
task on time.
I will learn
significance of
time
management
skills in my
personal and
professional
life.
I want to
apply my
skill in my
academic
and
professional
career.
14-08-2022 Decision making skills I will learn how I
can efficiently make
decisions in my
academic and
professional life.
I will learn
importance of
proper decision
making in my
personal and
professional life
(Wahyudin and
BK, 2022).
I want to
apply this
skill in my
future
professional
career.
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TASK 3- Action Plan
What do I want
to learn?
What support and
resources will I
need?
What do I have to
do?
How will I
measure
success?
Target date
for review?
Communication
skills
Books, magazines,
online seminars as
well as dictionary are
needed in order to
improve my
communication
skills.
By properly
listening other,
more practices as
well as learning
vocabulary can
help me to improve
my communication
skills in better
manner (Beers and
Kraft, 2018).
By taking proper
response and
feedbacks from
others will help
me to measure
my success for
the improvement
of
communication
skills.
30-07-2022
Teamwork skills Proper support of
team members,
guidance from the
leaders or experts are
required to improve
my teamwork skills.
By knowing
common goals,
clarifying roles of
each other as well
as positive mind-
set can help me to
improve my team
work skills.
By asking direct
and honest
feedbacks from
my team
members will
helps me to
measure my
success in
teamwork skill.
05-08-2022
Time
management
skills
For improving my
time management
skills I needed
calendar, dairy as
well as alarm clock.
By starting my task
early, setting limits,
giving small breaks
as well as
scheduling my
tasks and deadlines
will help me to
For measuring
my success in
time
management
skills I have to
accomplish my
each task on or
10-09-2022
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improve my time
management skills.
before time.
Decision making
skills.
Proper planning,
assertive nature and
practices are required
in order to improve
my decision making
skills.
In order to improve
my decision
making skills I
have to make a
plan, asking from
experts as well as
setting deadlines.
By the
evaluation of my
efforts and
results I can
effectively
measure my
decision making
skills.
15-10-2022
TASK 4 -Curriculum vitae
CURRICULUM VITAE
Xyz
Address- London street, England, UK
Contact no. 8228515565856,54445513633
OBJECTIVE
 To manage and operate resources and tasks of an organisation with my full efforts in
order to achieve organisational goals.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
 Master’s degree on Business administration and management
 Bachelor’s degree on Business administration and management
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
 Basic knowledge of computer
WORKING EXPERIENCE
 2 year experience as a assistant managers in small retailing company in London
PERSONAL SKILLS
 Effective interpersonal and communication skills
 Better time management skills
 Good team work and management skills
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CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report, it has been concluded that personal learning and
development plays an important role in the life of a students which helps them make their
academic and professional career. Transferable skills are important for every individual as it
allows them to transfer their job in better manner. Communication, teamwork, time management
and decision making skills are most important skills for the individuals in order to make their
professional career more effective.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Ayyala, M.S., and Levine, R.B., 2019. Mentorship is not enough: exploring sponsorship and its
role in career advancement in academic medicine. Academic Medicine, 94(1), pp.94-
100.
Javed, Z., and Farid, M.F., 2021. Role of Supervisors’ Research Expertise in Improving
Academic Satisfaction and Research Skills of Supervisees. Ilkogretim Online, 20(2).
Turner, M., Scott-Young, C. and Holdsworth, S., 2018. Developing the resilient project
professional: examining the student experience. International journal of managing
projects in business.
Arslan Dönmez, S., 2022. Peer-coaching Based Professional Development: A Sample of a
School of Foreign Languages. Georgia Educational Researcher, 19(1), p.22.
Volobueva, O.N. and Stepanova, L.I., 2018, October. Up-to-Date English Language Course as a
Means of Developing the Communicative and Professional Skills of IT Students. In The
International Science and Technology Conference" FarEastСon" (pp. 869-879).
Springer, Cham.
Wahyudin, U.R. and BK, M.T., 2022. Sustainable Professional Development: Skills and Needs
for Scientific Publication Training for Elementary School Teachers. JPI (Jurnal
Pendidikan Indonesia), 11(1).
Beers, M. and Kraft, N., 2018. Integrating academic skills and digital literacy training.
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