Professional Practice 12 Weeks Portfolio Tasks Assignment Solution

This portfolio assignment showcases a student's self-evaluation, reflective commentary, and personal development plan over a 12-week period. Task 1 focuses on accomplishments, challenges, areas for improvement, and future goals, including strategies for sales growth and SOP optimization. T...Read More

Professional Practice 12
Weeks Portfolio Tasks

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1. Start with your biggest accomplishments since the last review period. List only those that
are the most relevant and important to your position, and in order of significance....................3
2. What were your biggest challenges and how did you overcome them?...............................3
3. In which areas do you think you could improve? What is your plan for improving?..........3
4. What are your goals for the next period? What might you do to achieve them?.................4
TASK 2: REFLECTIVE COMMENTARY....................................................................................4
The aspect that I found most interesting in today’s sessions-.....................................................4
The one thing I learnt...................................................................................................................4
I’m not sure about........................................................................................................................5
I might have learnt more if..........................................................................................................5
Things I want to do now..............................................................................................................5
TASK 3: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN...........................................................................5
STEP 1: Identify Your Development Needs................................................................................5
STEP 2: Identify Your Development Options.............................................................................6
STEP 3: Plan for Development Activities...................................................................................6
STEP 4: Undertake Development Activities................................................................................7
STEP 5: Apply new knowledge/ skills/ behaviours in the workplace.........................................7
STEP 6: Review and Repeat........................................................................................................7

REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
TASK 1
Self-Evaluation Template
1. Start with your biggest accomplishments since the last review period. List only those that
are the most relevant and important to your position, and in order of significance.
In the last year and after the last review period, the company has seen an increase and growth
in the sales by around 28% under my leadership and supervision. The hardwork of the team
also had a tremendous contribution in the sales growth. I have tried to create some more
efficient Standard Operating Procedures(Qin and et,al., 2022) to ensure that the outreach
process can be streamlined, team members perform in consistent and effective ways and also
the new employees can have a clear outline of the processes to be followed to improve their
productivity.
2. What were your biggest challenges and how did you overcome them?
One of my biggest challenges was to adapt to the rapidly changing technology. To aid the
new innovations and processes, effective technical knowledge is very crucial. I have the basic
technical skills but now the time demands upgraded skills to be more efficient and
productive. And when I realised it, I spent extra hours trying to learn what I did not know and
overcome this challenge. This could have reduced my efficiency, hence I tried to learn these
technical aspects using various sources like from colleagues who are good at it or from
internet and tried to use what I have learnt under the supervision of others, so that I can
efficiently put to use what I have learnt.
3. In which areas do you think you could improve? What is your plan for improving?
I plan to improve myself in the aspect of leadership. Although the team has shown good
performance but there were times when I felt like I could have done better as a leader than I

was doing then. I realised that sometimes what I tried to communicate was not exactly how it
was conveyed to the employees that lead to confusions. I started thinking about it critically and
plan to improve this skill by taking feedbacks and suggestion from my team members in terms
of the improvements I can make as their leader and work on their suggestions
4. What are your goals for the next period? What might you do to achieve them?
My goal for the next period is to increase the sales even more by around 35-40% from the
current period. I plan to do this by revising and making required changes in the SOPs so that
they can be even more efficient. And I also plan to motivate the team by offering attractive
incentives so that they can reach their full potential. I will also invest in sales enablement so
that my team can engage the customers more successfully and also the engagement of
prospects can be better.
TASK 2: REFLECTIVE COMMENTARY
The aspect that I found most interesting in today’s sessions-
The aspect of importance of reviews was the most interesting aspect. Organisation now
conducts performance reviews frequently so that timely evaluation of the performance of the
individual can be done and the measures that need to be taken to overcome the weaknesses can
be identified (Hernández-Ortega, 2020). The main purpose of performance reviews are
generally classified in two segments- The main or primary use of these reviews are to evaluate
the performance of the employees and increase their productivity by analysing their strengths
and weaknesses and acting accordingly. The secondary use of these reviews is to identify the
administrative needs like decisions regarding the compensations, promotions, etc. and the
developmental needs of the employees.
The one thing I learnt
The one thing that I learnt is the performance reviews are beneficial for both, the organisation
and the employees. It is useful to the organisation as it can help to identify the strengths and

weaknesses of the employees so that the required training and development plans can be made
accordingly and also promotions and compensation can be fairly done. It is beneficial for the
employees as they are motivated to perform better and this motivation also enhances their self-
esteem when they are praised for success.
I’m not sure about
I’m not certain about the frequency these reviews should be done in. As various organisations
and employees have different perspectives and opinions about the time intervals that should be
given between two intervals(Mourão and et.al., 2020). Also the need for these reviews is
different is different organisations and for different employees. Hence, I am not sure about
what would be the effective time period in which the reviews should be conducted and if a
same time period should be decided for everyone or different plans should be made for various
departments in the organisation.
I might have learnt more if
I might have learnt more if the session included more examples and especially real-life
examples to make the points clearer as learning these aspects with the examples taken from
various organisations or situations would have been more effective and easier to understand
and implement in real life situations(Lacka, Chan and Wang, 2020).
Things I want to do now
Now I want to understand and learn these aspects in better ways by using various other sources
of knowledge like textbooks, through internet or from seniors who have better practical
understanding of these aspects so that I can use these more effectively and without any
confusion whenever needed.

TASK 3: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
STEP 1: Identify Your Development Needs
A. Why are you seeking development at this time?
I want to develop more to improve my efficiency and be more productive to enhance my
growth opportunities and career advancement.
B. What are you seeking to develop at this time?
I want to develop my communication skills, leadership skills and even the technical knowledge
to stay updated with the current trends and requirements.
C. Emphasis: What do you need? What is your specific goal?
I need to be more efficient as a leader and also manage my team more effectively to reach my
goal of growing the sales by 35-40%
STEP 2: Identify Your Development Options
D. What steps could you take to develop the new knowledge, skills and behaviours?
I would read more textbooks to learn theoretically and learn the practical knowledge from the
videos available on the internet.
E. Considerations arising from ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’
I would like to learn all these skills by the end of this quarter so that the quarterly reports and
reviews also show better results.
F: Identify Your Development Options
There are many options to develop my skills like watching videos, reading textbooks and
journals available online, observing colleagues while they do the specific tasks that I want to
develop.

STEP 3: Plan for Development Activities
G. Write down the steps you will take to accomplish your task.
Firstly, I will identify all the sources of developing these skills and work accordingly.
What could go wrong with your plan?
Reading through textbooks or watching videos can not only be sufficient to use the knowledge
in practical world.
What will you do if your original plan does not work well?
I would undertake professional courses that teach these skills.
Think of an alternative way to achieve your goal.
The alternate way could be to appoint a team member or someone else that can do the task and
work that I face issues with.
STEP 4: Undertake Development Activities
H. List your development activities completed throughout the semester
I read around 2-3 books and 2 articles related to the skill and knowledge that I wanted to gain.
STEP 5: Apply new knowledge/ skills/ behaviours in the workplace
How do you intend to use this new knowledge/ skills/ behaviour in the workplace?
This knowledge will be useful for me in the long run as it will help me in using the new
technology more effectively which might enhance my performance and productivity.
STEP 6: Review and Repeat
Reflect on how this new knowledge/ skill / behaviour helped in your professional development
This new skill helped me in getting an upperhand while completing my tasks as technical
knowledge helps to finish the tasks earlier than usual and more efficiently.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Hernández-Ortega, B., 2020. When the performance comes into play: The influence of positive
online consumer reviews on individuals' post-consumption responses. Journal of
Business Research. 113. pp.422-435.
Lacka, E., Chan, H. K. and Wang, X., 2020. Technological advancements and B2B
international trade: A bibliometric analysis and review of industrial marketing
research. Industrial Marketing Management. 88. pp.1-11.
Mourão, E. and et.al., 2020. On the performance of hybrid search strategies for systematic
literature reviews in software engineering. Information and Software Technology. 123.
p.106294.
Qin, Q. and et,al., 2022. Capacity allocations of SOPs considering distribution network
resilience through elastic models. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy
Systems. 134. p.107371.