Self Development and Responsibility: Skills Essay and PDP Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of self-development and responsibility, focusing on the enhancement of essential skills for academic and professional success. The assignment is divided into two key components: an essay analyzing the importance of various skills, particularly communication, interpersonal abilities, active listening, and time management; and a personal development plan (PDP). The PDP is constructed using a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report outlines specific activities and timelines for skill improvement, with the ultimate goal of achieving higher education and securing future employment. The report emphasizes the significance of self-awareness, goal setting, and continuous improvement to foster effective work habits and achieve long-term career aspirations.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Essay about skills........................................................................................................................3
Personal development plan.........................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is all about the self-improvement which includes all the
achievement heightened self awareness, striking an idea work and life balance. This creates more
effectiveness for individual for manage work proper. Personal and professional development is
higher effective for completing higher education and employment. This help to gain better future
job and work for managed work properly in effective manner. The present study is based on self
development and responsibility for completing higher education and employment. The report
will divide into two parts. The 1st part will be written as an essay with guidance of skills and
knowledge. 2nd part will be design and produce action plan by developing personal development
plan. The PDP is helpful for manage and improve all those skills which are highly important for
becoming successful employee in reputed organization.
MAIN BODY
Essay about skills.
Self development is an important quest. This help to finding out their own freedom for
connect the sense of worth, happiness and integrity. By attending class and lectures, students get
higher opportunity to working and building their work as well as ready to become a successful
in the future. This is the effective and valuable process to improve ourself by making effective
and valuable habits and activities. With the help of this management and people have greater
opportunity to good working in the future. This an important for creating wonderful and effective
success. For improving skills each and every people required to do hard work by using various
activities and some practical work (Saunders and et.al., 2018). Communication skill is very
important and effective for gaining higher educations and achievement in the future. This skills
are effective for share and convey messages to other which are important for complete work with
the best result and outcomes. Good communication skill is includes verbal and non-verbal
communication and written as well. Those are effective to provide facilities of sharing
information between two people within the student's life for gaining success and company for
gaining various commercial benefits. This is very important and effective creating and achieving
higher success in the future.
Communication skill is plays an important role in people life which is complete with
effective interpersonal skill (Communication Skills, 2018). Interpersonal skill help to make
strong verbal as well as non-verbal communication and are often considered to be the good with

people to learn more effectiveness. This creates higher and greater efforts for manage work
properly. The best communication skill requires a great voice tone which can set whole mood of
the conversation. Tone is helping to understand emotions of other people like they are
communicated with sweet heart corner. Tone of voice is also reflects about the level of emotion
that individual use. Good communication is more than, the saying right thing within the
structure format of work. It is about the communicating information with clarity and in proper
structured manner. This is the important way to asked work properly (Antoniou, Myburgh-Louw
and Gronn, 2016). Before, starting communication with other make sure about goal of work and
structure. Like which topic come first and use step by step communication. Lack of clarity and
structure can result in poor decision and create wider confusion between the people.
I have lack of clarity and structured communication. In which, have requirement to do
hard work improving those skills in effective manner for completing higher education. This
creates more effectiveness. On the other side, communication skill is deals with active listening.
The good communication is all about listening in proper manner or replays by taking more time
to listen like what the another person is trying to say and practice active listening. This is helpful
for conveying message according to view of others. In this, I have to pay more and focused
attention for listen what another says and what is their view of working. Active listening is must
be important for taking the best decision within the discussion (Hutchins, 2016). It is important
think to take and create the best decision for completing higher education or employment in the
future. The strong communication is also required an open-minded as well as commitment to
understand view and ideas of other by managing proper and effective works. This is very
important for higher education to be an open-minded because in this required a more works and
its balance within the studies and course planning. In the employment is also been an open-
minded communication because in that employees and employers have to take decision without
doing any favouritism with employees. This types of decisions are appropriate and favourable
with innocent people (Weinert, 2019). This is a very important for manage effective
communication for higher education and effective employment planning.
For better communication must require confidence level is high. This shows decision and
conversation is on right topic. Demonstrating confidence will give customers and employee and
student faith in abilities for deliver their needs and wants that will be followed through the
promised. Be careful when you are talking effectively. In order to build confidence, here is

important to do some practical work and increase talking with other about work. All the
mentioned skills and aspects which are related with communication skills. This creates hard
work for complete work. The communication skill is very important and effective for me to
complete higher education and employment in the future (Brinkmann, 2017). This creates more
opportunities in the future. In order to improve those skills here is need to work personal
development plan which is reflected every activity which are helpful for improve and increase
abilities to perform work with better communication skills.
Personal development plan.
PDP is the process of establishing aims and objectives what individual want to achieve or
where wanted to go. In that individual want to complete their higher education and gain got
better employment in the future. This help to improve skills at their students and me required
improvement for become a successful employee. I have to improve and increase my all the skills
for completing work in better and effective manner (Arkorful and Abaidoo, 2015). I have various
skill in that need to improve which is identified by work analysis and personal SWOT analysis.
With the help of this model. Find out each strength, weakness, opportunities and threats from
skills. The strengths are helpful for manage work and taking any decisions in any situation.
Weaknesses are creates issues for individual at the time of work because through the weakness
most of the result of work is comes out negative.
This also reflects opportunities which are come up in the future for gaining higher
education and employment. This is an important and effective for growth in the life or in the
better future. Threats are also created more negative impact because at the workplace most of the
time situations are more negative in that employee get fear about the work. There are various
skills I need to improve by using proper activities at the workplace in more effective manner
(Douglas and et.al., 2015). For that here is design personal SWOT analysis which is more helpful
for identifying weak points where is need improvements are as follows:
Strength Weaknesses
 Good leadership skill,
 Organizational skill,
 Management skill,
 Problem solving skill
 Interpersonal skill
 Active listening,
 Tone of voice,
 Open-minded

 Lack of confidence
 Time management skill,
 Clearly and structure of work
Opportunities Threats
 Complete higher education with the
best knowledge uses of skills.
 Becoming successful and gain the best
employment in the future.
 Improve all the skills those are highly
important for best management.
 Managing work.
 Lack of understanding and taking the
best decision.
 Threat from deadline.
The above mention personal SWOT analysis is shows the strength and weakness. The
strength is helpful for manage work and weaknesses where need to improvement for gaining
proper higher education and better employment. As well as this also reflects opportunities which
are gain after improving those skills in proper manner. Threats are not good because that is the
main aspects which stop to people for completing work in right manner (Jackson, 2015).
Strengths are good leadership skill, organizational skill, time management skill, management
skill, problem solving skill. Those skills are my strength where not need to develop those for
work effectively. On the other side, weaknesses are communication skills like interpersonal,
active listening, tone and structure of work, open-minded and clearly. Those are very important
skills where I need to improvement for better future and higher education. These weaknesses are
highly affected to individuals in their future and at the time of higher education. This help to
make a good opportunity for gain higher growth within the class room. Those are my strength
and weakness where is need to improvement.
For improving weak skill here is mention and produce personal development plan. With
this plan every people are got proper as well as effective work balance by improve skill for
higher education and employment for best (Becker and et.al., 2017). The main purpose to
develop personal development plan which is help to enhance performance, addressing
anticipated changes and addressing career aspiration towards the Bright future. This creates more
effectiveness for work in better future. This is important and effective for managed growth for

higher education. The main goal and target is to complete higher education and gain the best
employment in the future by improving skills in effective manner. For that here is produce
personal development plan for improving those skills are as follows:
Skills Activity Time to be taken Measures
improvement
Active listening skill Making eye contact
with person at the time
of conversation.
Paying close and
proper attention to
people for work in
better manner.
3 months Taking feedbacks with
senior and observe my
decision which is
taking after
completing
communication with
others.
Interpersonal skill By controlling
emotions, practices
active listening and
show a real interest in
their colleagues.
2 months Checking my relations
with others within the
college and people.
Tone of voice Using softer voice for
avoiding sounding
aggressive,
avoid mumbling for
keeping listener from
confused and improve
vocal pitch.
5 months Checking my voice
and asked with seniors
and others about my
vocal pitch.
Clearly and structure
of work
Ensure before starting
conversation with
others and set the
purpose of
communication and
check first the selected
4 months Taking outputs and
results of work by
managing complete
work. As well as
observing decision of
other after

information is correct. conversation.
Time management
skill,
Making schedule for
work, avoid
multitasking, delegate
for tasks and prioritize
work as per
requirement.
5 months Taking feedbacks from
others by managing
work in an effective
manner.
The above personal development plan is help to improve all those mentioned skills which
are the weaknesses of me by addressing proper activities. Those activities are completely helpful
for manage work in proper manner as well as achieve target and goals which are completing
higher education and gaining employment (Dharmappa, 2019). With the help of addressing those
activities in proper manner individuals are completely able to improve skills which are more
important for work.
CONCLUSION
The above study it had been articulated that self development and improvement has more
important and effective for work. This helped to improve all those skills which are important to
improve and increase abilities. The report had been covered in two parts. Part one had reflects
about the importance of communication skills and their related skills like active listening, tone of
voice and another. Those had been played a very important role for managed work properly. This
has also produce by personal development plan for improve those skills in effective manner. This
had been identified by using personal SWOT analysis.

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