Analyzing Work Priorities and Professional Development Plan

This report delves into the crucial aspects of personal work priorities and professional development, emphasizing the importance of aligning individual goals with organizational strategic plans. It addresses the significance of role models in inspiring and motivating employees, highlighting ways to serve as an effective role model in the workplace through honesty, efficient scheduling, technology adoption, and ethical conduct. The report underscores the need for personal work goals to align with organizational objectives, providing an example of planning work activities around a company's strategic plan. It also discusses the importance of self-assessment for maintaining and enhancing performance, outlining methods for periodic review of work performance, working relationships, and job skills. Furthermore, the report stresses the importance of prioritizing competing demands to achieve personal, team, and organizational goals, utilizing the priority matrix model to organize tasks based on urgency and importance, and detailing a typical day's goals with corresponding strategies for completion. This document is available for students seeking examples and insights on Desklib.

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#Question 1
We all need role models to motivate and inspire us”
Comment on this statement and discuss not only your perspective but also research the attitudes
towards role models in today’s society. Include five (5) ways you can serve as a role model in your
workplace. Your answer must be 250-350 words.
Answer
It is no secret that employees especially those in managerial positions depend on inspiration and
motivation from their role models in order to improve on their work performance. Role models are
basically people whose behaviors, attitudes and values are emulated by others due to their successes.
Through the inspiration and motivation from this outstanding leaders, individuals are able to improve on
their accomplishments in their respective work places. Role models increase the efficiency in the
process of establishing daily personal goals, work priorities and advancing individual professional skills.
Despite the positive influence of role models in people’s lives, many people do not have role models
thus lacking inspiration to greatness. The selection of role models has been a challenge because people
tend to choose celebrities instead of real role models. Following the disappointments by their “role
models” individuals tend to rely on their own conscience rather than relying on role models.
Role models create positive influence on the people following them since they enable them to be
more efficient in their work place. I believe that as a professional, there are many ways that I can serve
as a role model at my work place. I can achieve this by being honest with fellow work mates and being
upfront in work issues. Through formulating and implementing a schedule that makes the entire team
know the timeframe of every task, I would enable my work mates be more efficient and productive at
work. The adoption of technology in various project management tasks makes work faster and more

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appealing. As a role model in my organization, I would champion the adoption of technology in order to
better manage projects and assist the firms to achieve its objectives. Technology helps the manager to
come up with strategies and plan on a proper use of time to ensure optimal results. In order to be a
valuable role model, I would also act professionally and engage ethically with all stakeholders. All these
behaviors are not only going to promote the performance of the team but also boost the organizations
image by establishing a good culture in the organization.
#Question 2
Strategic plans set out an organisation’s goals or what it hopes to achieve, usually over the longer
term.
a. Briefly explain why it is important that personal work goals and plans align with these
organisational goals as outlined in the strategic plan.
Answer
The alignment of individual personal work goals to the organizational strategy, plans and
objectives is important to maximize the performance of every employee towards organizational
goals. This is achieved by a full understanding of the company’s vision, mission, core value and
the plans and strategies of the firm. As a project manager, I ensure my personal responsibilities
and accountabilities match with the organizational plans and activities.
b. Provide a detailed example of how you plan your work activities around your company’s
strategic plan and include two (2) accountabilities and two (2) responsibilities within your
job role.
Answer
My company’s strategic plan stresses on building capacity of employees through professional

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development and good channels of communication that would ensure that employees are
motivated. Motivated employees are generally good performers at work and are more likely to
enable organizations achieve their objectives. Since the organization is committed to satisfying
the interest of clients in its strategic plan, as a project manager I ensure that risk management is
done effectively to prevent losses. I also, ensure that the project team is highly skilled and
experienced to tackle the project at hand. To boost my skills, I invest in my career growth to
ensure that I build my capabilities and ensure that I cope with the ever changing work
requirements mainly due to technology. I also, build an enabling environment for effective
communication with my colleagues in order to ensure that problems are solved holistically and
timely to meet client and company strategic plan.
#Question 3
Being successful and maintaining that success are two different things. It’s important to measure
your performance in order to maintain or improve within your role.”
Outline in detail, providing two (2) examples, of how you currently review yourself within the
workplace in order to sustain or enhance your performance. 100 words
Answer
I analyze my work performance and working relationships in the company periodically. This
would enable me to maintain a professional working relationship with my fellow workmates. It also
enables me to gauge whether my personal goals are in line with organizational goals. I also review my
basic job skills in order to maintain my professional competitive edge and competence in the position I
serve. Reviewing my job skills with respect to job expectations enables me to determine the skills I
should acquire either through taking extra courses or through apprenticeship. This would enable me to
continually be successful in my work.

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#Question 4
It is essential to prioritise competing demands to achieve personal, team and organizational
goals and objectives. Provide an overview of a typical day listing a minimum of seven (7) goals you
need to accomplish, both at work and personally. Using the priority matrix model, show how you
organise each goal according to urgency and importance, as well as your strategy for completing
each.
Answer
Prioritizing my competitive demands to meet individual, team, and company objectives is
important for every professional interested in success. My goals are always many but I have to prioritize
them according to necessity and order so as to accomplish my short, medium, and long term plans.
Priority matrix is a tool used to formulate the order of activities according to their urgency and
importance. With the use of priority matrix, I am able to categorize tasks into one of the following
categories - Urgent & Not Important, Urgent & Important, Not Urgent & Not Important and Not Urgent
& Important. On a normal day for instance, there are a set of personal and work goals that I have to
fulfil. Driving my son to school, checking and replying to mails, checking the progress of ongoing
projects, and meeting new clients are duties I list as urgent and important in my priority matrix because
they are pertinent to personal and organizational development. Meeting company executives and project
leaders are activities I list as Not Urgent & Important because, I am a field based project manager who
visits the field to see work is done. Body fitness is my dream, and I always visit the gym in the morning
to keep myself fit and thus body fitness is an urgent and important activity in my priority matrix. I keep
an activity schedule to ensure that I achieve all the goals set daily.