MBA Course: Reflective Essay on Personal Development and Growth

This reflective essay explores a student's personal development journey within an MBA program. The essay begins with an introduction outlining the student's goals for the MBA, including business understanding and operational knowledge. It details pre-MBA weaknesses, such as communication and time management, and how these have improved through the course. The essay also highlights the benefits of the MBA, including enhanced job opportunities, new career paths, and professional skill development in areas like communication, leadership, and teamwork. The student reflects on strengths like decision-making and resource management while identifying areas needing improvement, such as written communication and the use of software. Recommendations include prioritizing writing skills, attending practical classes, improving teamwork, and seeking guidance from leaders. The essay concludes that the MBA has positively influenced the student's personal development, providing a foundation for a successful career in the global business market, and that the student is happy with the course and its impact.

Running head: REFLECTIVE ESSAY ON PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
The personal development process is the concerning aspect of my career through the
personal development plan; I can understand my future planning and work on my weaknesses. In
my learning course of MBA, I have joined this course to develop my business understanding and
to learn the operation process of an organization. I have to identify all those weaknesses through
my personal SWOT and work on that so that better possibilities will be adopted in that case.
Team building and communication skill is the key issue of a leader and hat is the reason most of
the leaders have to be extrovert in some cases (Bolden 2016). The major aspect of MBA course
is to get better job opportunity in the global business scenario and to have best companies in this
job market. The education leads the opportunities and that is the reason significant contribution
of business is persisted in that case and I have learned all these forms of the business
development process so that I get a recognized position in a global organization.
Discussion
Previous weaknesses before joining MBA
I am not quite good at communication before I joined the MBA course. I have improved
my communication at the highest level and that is the reason I have joined the course. Not only
this aspect but also there are several positive are concise in this process and that is the reason
MBA course is helpful for me. Now, I have this communication power to interact with any
person and understand the desired answer. Time management is an issue for all of us to go and
take interviews of people and concluded a finding for that (Furman 2012). I have these strengths
of time management and I found the improvement after the involving my career with MBA. I am
quite organized nowadays and those criteria are not persisted earlier also. Self- confidence is

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another factor that I have in after the MBA course has done. My patience was not enough and
after the course, it's improving. These all are my weaknesses and after joining the course and
worked over all these factors, all of these improvements and evolved as my strengths. Some of
the weaknesses like active listening or the adaptability are the concern weakness for me and
these are under process as these are not mitigated still now.
Benefits of MBA and personal development plan
MBA is one of the major learning options for me and I have chosen this for my business
development process. There are lots of benefits that I have come through and these benefits help
me for my future development. The first benefit is the job opportunities that I will get in high-
level position. Three-quarter of employees are willing to do MBA courses for their future and
that reason is job opportunity (Camlin 2015). The next advantage is the new career path that
opens for doing MBA coursed and career can get a new start altogether for this. The professional
skill development is another benefit that I have enjoyed in this student. My soft skills like
communication, leadership and teamwork are improving and that will influence my job openings
also. The chances of earning will also raise and that is the major factor that I have done MBA
courses to get better earnings. The average pay increase is 80% and it will be a huge beneficiary
aspect for me as well (Knott and Scragg 2016). I think that I have the potential to make the good
decision and can take any situation to deliver better process to mitigate this. That underlined
system of decision making highlights my positives and help in the professional outcome. I
appreciate the view or understanding of other (Jones et al. 2012). This is the process encourages
the person to shed more light on the topic. I can handle the resources but cannot make optimum
use of it for the development of assignment. I can manage good communication with other and in
between groups. I am a good learner and in my class activities, the learning outcomes are the

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only aspects that evolve my opportunities also (Nesbit 2012). In my MBA courses, I have faced
an assignment which is not understood by any of my classmates. I spent some extra time with the
assignment and through the level of understating to encourage my colleagues that what needs to
be done. Through the use of effective nature in business and my understanding, I managed the
situation.
MBA influence to overcome the barrier
I have the major problem in using accurate language in the written case and that is the
reason most of the written sections had some colloquial use of language and that affects the
writing as well. I cannot write as the reader wants. There is a change of perception present in that
section and my writing has not had the power to indulge in. In between the conversation, it is
very important to hold the conversation and make more in-depth knowledge of them. Skilled
conversation and discussion is the key issue in business to retain employees with the
organization (Knott and Scragg 2016). Another big issue that I have confronted in this case is the
use of software and ICT facilities. In case of interpreting the graph and tables, the same situation
has been confronted by me. There are some calculated aspects that I have come across and in that
case, I am not quite efficient. In case of numerical investigations, it seems to be nimble for me.
These are the issue that I faced in recent times and MBA process helps to mitigate the situation.
In case of use in acute language, more writing and have some extra work in the home in
professional writing needed for me. The process has done in my MBA courses and that help me
throughout. In case of gets involved the reader, I need to implement some more characteristic
highlight factor that I have done in a hypothetical scenario. In case of doing graphs, charts and
all those things are not evaluated by me. The help from MBA course is important as I have done
lots of graphs in accounting and finance and that will help in that case. Considering both the

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aspect of positives and negatives in order to get more influence I think a path-goal theory is a key
matter that intervenes in that case (Northouse 2018). The path has some obstacles as per the
theory but the leader has to reach the other way of an objective for the development of the
organization (Furman 2012).
Recommendations
I have to pay more time for writing and lining the prospect with the outline. I am not
quite good at graphs, tables and charts. That is the reason, I need to attend more practical classes
regarding charts and graphs and to understand the business activities align with the process. I
have done this thing from my MBA classes and that is the major benefit of doing MBA. I am not
comfortable enough to work with people (Camlin 2015). But in case of the competitive global
workplace, this is not possible to get promoted to the higher rank at the initial stage. I need
enhance my patience and calm my mind to stay in the right job. Through the MBA courses, I had
encountered the same situation when some tough assignments, projects have come and that is the
reason I learned to keep my mind cool in the troublesome situation. I need to work more with my
team so that team bonding will evolve through the process. There are some team activities where
I have to perform and involve with my team in an effective way. In my MBA classes, I have
engaged in some team activities and that will enhance my team activity as well. I need to attend
some communication classes in that case and also need help and guidance from genuine leaders,
managers and entrepreneurs. I need to improve innovative and critical thinking as well and for
that reason more in-depth study and general awareness sense are important. In my MBA classes,
I have attended some of the effective communication classes and that will help me in future to
make the proper response to the desired answers. In future, these communication process and
critical thinking, innovative ideas and team bonding activities help me to gain a good position is

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the organization and that also helped me to maintain my career on track and have optimum use
of MBA course.
Conclusion
Therefore, it can be concluded that some of the basic intervention and possibilities are
there in the personal development process and my MBA course influences the entire process. I
need to maintain some of the strengths that I have gained from my MBA course. The reflective
essay aligns some of my weakness as well to provide a recommendation to allow more
opportunity to get a good job in a reputed organization and my personal development plan allows
this future outcome also. I am quite happy with my course and in case of long-run in future, this
MBA course will help me effectively and influence my personal development to have a good job
opportunity in the global business market.

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