Reflective Essay: Skills and Personal Professional Development Plan

This reflective essay explores the author's experiences in various professional development activities, such as seminars, conferences, and team-related tasks, highlighting the acquisition of essential business skills. The essay delves into the development of communication, analytical thinking, and teamwork abilities. It analyzes the impact of these activities on personal and professional growth, emphasizing the importance of continuous improvement. The essay also includes a detailed personal professional plan outlining skill development objectives, measurement methods, timelines, and potential challenges, focusing on communication, problem-solving, and management skills. The conclusion summarizes the reflective process and the significance of a personal development plan in enhancing skills and achieving career goals. The essay references several scholarly sources to support the analysis and recommendations.

REFLECTIVE ESSAY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
Description..................................................................................................................................1
Thoughts......................................................................................................................................1
Analysis.......................................................................................................................................2
PART 2............................................................................................................................................2
Personal Professional Plan..........................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Reflective writing is based on formal and informal summarisation on the
respective literature using emotions, thoughts and memories. It is a mental process which uses
thoughts and opinions so that learning experiences can be written down (Knaflic, 2015). In this
report description of experiences will be included along with reflections and at last analysis will
be done.
PART 1
Description
There are different activities in which I taken part like seminars and conferences which
helps me to adapt professional behaviour for future growth. This helps me to acquire basic
knowledge about business professionals so that I can apply them at workplace. I was also involve
in team related activities which helped me to build and maintain relationships and learnt about
group dynamics. These activities helped me to enhance my communications skills and improve
team leader skills. There were activities related to role playing also which helped me to diverse
my skills for different job profiles and to learn about various duties and responsibilities. This also
helped me to think out – of - box and logically so that I have different perspective about
problems of organisation. All such activities will assist me in current and future job roles and
ensure continuous improvements in overall performance.
Thoughts
I gained knowledge about different skills for business professionals so that I have
complete skills to enhance my career. Communications skills are one of the basic skills that any
business professional posses and need to improve on continuous basis due to diverse working
culture (Cenere and et. al., 2015). Another skills that I learned with activity is analytical and
logical thinking that will help me to solve complex issues in personal and professional growth. I
also learned about team building and group dynamics while taking part and working with team.
These activities helped me to gain skills and become productive so that I have continuous growth
in job profiles and career.
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Analysis
I have analyse that with the help of all these activities I am able to enhance my business
professionals skills. These will helps me in my personal and professional growth for future job
roles so that I also become productive for organisation. Such activities are essential for
individual so that they get complete understanding about the job roles and working environment.
PART 2
Personal Professional Plan
Skill area to
develop
Objective
(what will
you aim to
achieve and
why?)
Measured by
(How will you
know you
have achieved
it?)
By when?
(deadline or
timescale)
Actions
(what steps
will you take
to achieve it?)
Support
and/or
Challenges
(what will
help or
hinder your
success?)
Communicatio
n skills
I want to
develop my
written skills
so that I will
be effective in
organisation to
communicate
with upper and
middle level
managers.
When I will be
able to
efficiently
make formal
reports, notice
and memos
3months I will join
online course
of advance
communicatio
ns skills to
develop my
ability.
Time will be
obstacle in
process of
learning.
Problem-
Solving Skills
This skills
helps business
professional to
analyse and
solve complex
challenges and
When I will be
able to
understand
and identify
solutions of
issues that
6 months Accepting
challenges and
working with
upper
management
to solve issues
Team
members will
be support
whenever I
will not be
able to analyse
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lead to
profitability
(Müller and et.
al., 2016).
occur in
business.
will help me to
enhance skills
(Lohmann and
Zur Muehlen,
2016).
or identify
solutions.
Management
Skills
This is one of
the basic skills
that business
professional
posses so that
they are
effective in
managing and
controlling
operations in
business (Kar
and Kar,
2017).
Whenever I
will be able to
manage
resources,
budgets, time,
etc. will
become
effective in
skills.
2 months Need to
acquire basic
knowledge
and advance
skills so that I
become
effective that
will be
enhanced by
experience.
Continuous
learning
process will be
support so that
I become more
professional
and improve
my
management
skills.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that reflection is mental process by which
individual with the help of emotions and thoughts remember about past experience. Personal
development plan is written document which helps individual to identify activities and time to
enhance particular skills.
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REFERENCES
Cenere, P. and et. al., 2015. Communication Skills for Business Professionals 7. Cambridge
University Press.
Kar, A. K. and Kar, A. K., 2017. How to Walk Your Talk: Effective Use of Body Language for
Business Professionals. IUP Journal of Soft Skills. 11(1). p.16.
Knaflic, C. N., 2015. Storytelling with data: A data visualization guide for business
professionals. John Wiley & Sons.
Lohmann, P. and Zur Muehlen, M., 2016, September. Business process management skills and
roles: an investigation of the demand and supply side of BPM professionals.
In International Conference on Business Process Management (pp. 317-332). Springer,
Cham.
Müller, O. and et. al., 2016. Towards a typology of business process management professionals:
identifying patterns of competences through latent semantic analysis. Enterprise
Information Systems. 10(1). pp.50-80.
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