Self-Development and Responsibility Report: Action Plan & Skills

This report, authored by a student, reflects on their performance in a group presentation and the module, focusing on self-development and responsibility. It identifies areas for improvement, particularly in communication, time management, and analytical skills. The report details the student's experiences in developing leadership, team management, and communication skills through volunteer work and academic projects. The student acknowledges the need to enhance non-verbal communication, time management, and analytical abilities. An action plan is presented, outlining specific objectives, development activities, and timelines for improving these skills. This plan includes communication skill enhancement through practice, analytical skill development via coaching and data analysis, and time management improvement using guidance and tools. The report emphasizes the importance of these skills for future career success and professional growth.

Self-development and
responsibility
Name- Maracine Georgiana Loredana
Student ID- 22015184

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Reflect on my performance in the group presentation and in the module.............................3
2. The academic and professional skills that I need to develop further.................................4
3. An action plan....................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Group presentation is effective way to learn and develop different kind of skills where
are individual can easily identify the skills and abilities to perform within the future career
and improve them for attaining the goals and objectives in its future (Brockett and Hiemstra,
2018). By using a proper action plan individual can achieve a plant with its career where it
can develop different kind of skills and abilities which are important for managing the
success. It also helps in being professional as well as maintaining a success path.
MAIN BODY
Reflect on my performance in the group presentation and in the module
Current business environment is full of competition where it is mandatory for a
student to develop various skills and abilities so that it can perform the job in an effective
manner and its future career as well as attend the opportunity for future development. It can
also see that by regularly observing the skills and knowledge of different individuals while
pursuing graduation course as well as regularly attaining the personality development session
will help the individuals in increasing the skills and ability. Regular training and development
will help individual in development of loose skills. It will targeted communication skills, time
management skills as well as other skills within the individual which help in identification of
future opportunities (Setó-Pamie and Papaoikonomou, 2016).
When I was performing my graduation cause I also develop different kind of skills as
well as identified that it is important to develop these skills for my future job. This helped me
a lot and learning different kind of skills related to my future task. When I was performing
the graduation course I am being part of volunteering team where I develop leadership skills,
team management skills, commanding skills, communication skills and various other skills.
This is because at the time when I am performing as a volunteer with environment
volunteering team I become the leader of the team which help me in leading the different
individuals in an appropriate direction related to the goals and objectives of the team. I
Develop communication skills for performing within the team where I have to communicate
with different individuals to maintain discipline as well as recruiting different individuals
within the team. I also learnt how to command the different individuals within the team this is
because I am the higher authority within the team and also manage different individuals in an
appropriate manner which helped me in giving commands and getting work done.
There are various interesting jobs while performing the course this is because it helps
me in communicating with different individual as well as maintaining relationship so that I
can understand different individuals. This also help me in identification of my abilities which
is interesting part for me because before joining graduation course I am unable to identify my
skills and abilities as well as my key interest. It helped me in representing myself in front of
different individuals where I can choose on topic. Identify that my communication skills are
continuously improving while performing this group presentation as well as I also learn how
to talk with other individuals within the team and lead the people in a particular direction but
taking my academic sessions. Identify that while performing the particular project my

interpersonal skills are continuously improving where my personal circle is increasing
continuously by interacting with different individuals and identifying their personalities
(Johnson, 2018).
I will use this information in my future career where I can easily represent myself as
well as ideas in front of different individuals this is because this information helps me in
gaining the confidence to represent myself. This will also help me in gaining confidence
while giving the group presentation in my future career and jobs.
While performing this group presentation identified that my decision making abilities
are not so good witch and impact my future performance as well as career goals and
objectives. This is because I get confused between different tasks which make it difficult for
me to choose a particular option which is best suitable for the particular situation. I identified
this factor when I was performing task within the team (Kelley, Cruz and Fire, 2017). When
we are going to represent a particular situation in the group presentation I get confused
between some particular works which is related to presentation. Identified that it becomes
difficult for me to choose a particular option where I have to replace one in division for some
separate part. While performing the presentation I also identified that due to my lack of
confidence related to decision making my whole team has to suffer. So, I decided to take
academy sessions as well as gain experience from different individuals as well as my past
experience to improve my decision making abilities (Lipson, 2019).
All this help me in developing my presentation skills which help me in building
effective team in the end of the group presentation where we can present our thoughts and
ideas in an appropriate manner and achieve our goals and objectives related to group
presentation. This also help me in developing my abilities related to problem solving and
group communication where I used to solve problems in an appropriate manner even in a
completely different situations related to the current work. Group communication skills are
also developed because of this group presentation where are used to communicate with whole
team as well as developed different ideas and tools to make a presentation effective.
Therefore, help me in developing and gaining a position within the group presentation so that
we can represent our thoughts in front of others as well as improve our success chances by
managing our failure ratio.
2. The academic and professional skills that I need to develop further
Communication skills: Communication skills can be defined as those skills within an
individual life which are directly related to communicating with different individuals and
using the verbal and nonverbal means of communications. It is mandatory for an individual to
develop communication skills so that it can manage a two-way process in an appropriate
manner and achieve maximum satisfaction by communicating with different individuals. In
relation to me, main communication skills need to be improved so that I can easily
communicate with different individuals and understand the message in an appropriate
manner. Main verbal communication is much stronger part but my non-verbal or written
communication is not so appropriate which I have to develop (Nelson and Staggers, 2016).

Time management: Time management skills are those skills which are related to
managing the time according to the task assigned to the individual. Time management skills
are necessary for individual to be manage so that it can achieve a maximum satisfaction level
as well as perform in an appropriate manner by managing different activities and task
(Armstrong, Kotler, Harker and Brennan, 2018). My time management skills are not
appropriate this is because I used to get confused between small and medium term task where
I pay more attention on the small term task for bringing specialisation which reduce my
contribution and concentration toward the long-term task and directly impact long term task. I
have to manage an appropriate action plan which will help in increasing my time
management skills as well as reduce my negative impact on the long-term task where I can
easily manage this small and medium term task by managing and long term goals.
Analytical skills: While I was performing in a group presentation are identified that
analytical skills are also not so good which will impact on the future performance. Analytical
skills include the analysis of data and other sheets in charts which impact on my performance
related to analysis of data and using the data for attaining maximum satisfaction. Analytical
skills are not so effective which I have to improve by performing a proper action plan for
increasing my ability within analytical skills and achieving a desired level (Raskamp,
Trautvetter and Ward, 2016).
These are the different skills and abilities which I have to improve while performing the
group presentation so that I can achieve a competitive edge in my future career. This can be
improved by the help of a proper action plan which help me in identifying may lose points
within these skills and abilities and perform particular activities related to development of the
skills and abilities. Action plan in relation to these skills and abilities is mentioned below
(Noe and Kodwani, 2018).
3. An action plan
Action plan can be elaborated as a set of planned activities by individual, which will
help individual in increasing its performance and developing the skills and abilities to
perform particular task. In relation to my skills and abilities a detailed action plan which
consists of different kind of targets proficiency objectives as well as development activities is
discussed below:
Skills Current
proficiency
Target
proficiency
Objective Development
activities
Time
scale
Communication
Skill
I will give 5
out of 10
marks for my
Here, I want to
achieve 10 out
of 10 marks for
Communication
skills are
important part of
To develop my
communication
skills I will try
30
Days

communication
skills.
my
communication
skills.
individual life so
I will try to
improve my
communication
skills buy fuller
efficiency so
that I can
achieve the
goals and
objectives in my
future career.
Main major
objective to
develop my
communication
skill is related to
managing the
information
supplied by
different
individuals in an
appropriate way
by
understanding it.
to communicate
with different
individuals as
well as used to
get experience
and training
with other staff
members. I will
also try to take
guidance from
my seniors
about how to
communicate
with different
individuals and
observe the
behaviour of
others while
communicating
with them.
Different kind
of language
classes will also
help me to
understand the
use of
communication
as well as I try
to develop my
both verbal and
nonverbal
communication
by the help of

online classes.
Analytical
skills
I will give 4
out of 10 for
my analytical
skills.
I want to
achieve 9 out
of 10
proficiency
levels in my
analytical
skills.
The major
objective for
developing my
analytical skills
is that it will
help me in
identifying and
analysing
different data
which can be
used for making
micro
presentation
effective as well
as
communicating
the required
information in
an appropriate
manner to
different
interested
stakeholders
For developing
my analytical
skills I will use
coaching
classes as well
as different
academic
sessions related
to development
of academic and
analytical skills.
I will use
experience of
different
teachers to
analyse and
identify the data
as well as
practice hard to
develop my
analytical skills
form a group
presentations.
Six
months
Time
management
skills
I will rate me 6
out of 10 for
the time
management
skills.
I want to
achieve 10 out
of 10 in my
time
management
skills.
The main
objective to
improve the
time
management
skill is that it
will help me in
dividing my
Relation to
improve my
time
management
skill I will use
to take guidance
from senior
instructors as
45
Days

time according
to the task and
activity. This
will bring
efficiency
within my work
as well as
improve my
skills to perform
different task by
managing the
activities and
achieving the
goals and
objectives.
well as use
classes related
to time
management. I
will also use
tools and
techniques
which help me
in managing the
time in an
appropriate
manner where I
will identify
different tools
like time
management
chart in
maintenance of
time table and
various other
tools.
Relation to improve my time management skill I will use to take guidance from senior
instructors as well as use classes related to time management. I will also use tools and
techniques which help me in managing the time in an appropriate manner where I will
identify different tools like time management chart in maintenance of time table and various
other tools (McDonald and Wilson, 2016).
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above mentioned information that it is mandatory
individual to perform effective in its group presentations so that it can achieve a plant within
the future career. It can also see that by performing in an effective way and developing the
skills and abilities will help in achieving various kinds of goals and objectives related to
career development. It can also be seen that by using an action plan individual can develop
the required skills and abilities which will helpful to the individual and its future career and
managing a successful business operations in near future.

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