University of X: Reflective Report on Self and Others Development Plan

This report presents a personal development plan focusing on understanding oneself and others, exploring core skills essential for professional growth. The report includes a reflective personal development plan journal, analyzing skills such as focus and attention, assertiveness, public speaking, and team working. It evaluates current competence, identifies contradictions in skill sets, and outlines the future benefits of these skills. The analysis incorporates various theories like constructivism, behaviorism, and cognitivism to provide a comprehensive understanding of skill development and its importance in the workplace. The report concludes with a summary and an action plan designed to enhance the identified skills. This document is a valuable resource for students seeking to understand and improve their professional development.

Understanding Self and
Others

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
1.Reflective Personal Development Plan Journal..................................................................1
Core skills:..............................................................................................................................1
Importance of core skills:.......................................................................................................2
Reflection of current competence:..........................................................................................4
Contradiction regarding skills:...............................................................................................4
Future benefits of skills:.........................................................................................................5
2.Summary and Action Plan ..................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
A persons self concept is their understanding of who they are and what makes them
unique. This understanding includes physical self, social, competent and psychological self.
Understanding self-skills helps to understand strengths and weakness in performing duties.
Everyone in an organisation possess different skills and to perform each activity at its best. it is
very necessary to be aware about skills that is possessed by each working person. Skills helps
individual to select area in which one should go ahead and make career (Salvatore and et. al.,
2012). Understanding needs of others is equally important as this helps management team to
allocate different tasks to workers according to their skills to perform task. In this project a detail
discussion on skills such as Focus and Attention, Assertiveness, Public Speaking and Team
working will be done. A personal development plan that helps to analyse self-skills will be
prepared in this report.
MAIN BODY
1.Reflective Personal Development Plan Journal
Ability that helps to perform a task that helps to attain desired results within specified time
with maximum productivity is termed as skills. This helps in performing each and every task in
the most productive manner with minimum time. People need a broad range of skills to
contribute towards personal development and also for modern economy. It is seen that in Morden
and competitive world it is not sufficient to only be good with one skill. Qualities that are
required to be more competitive and stand out are Public speaking,Assertiveness, Team
working , Focus and attention.
Core skills:
Focus and Attention: Whenever I see myself working in a huge organisation one of the
basic skill that needs to be developed is focus and attention. Focus is present for each task to
final goal that needs to be achieved in long run. When brain is able to concentrate and have
attention on target to attain set object then it is termed as focused mind. Being focused in
performing work will help me to make it possible for quick and effective results.
Assertiveness: Assertiveness is a skill that makes a person being able to stand up for own
rights and for what is not right as per law. This stops persons from accepting wrong and being
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aggressive to solve any issue. This is a quality of being self assured and confident in performing
all the activates.
Public Speaking-: Public speaking is a skill that helps to communicate information to
others. It is done before large audience like in work place an idea or information that needs to be
shared with whole organisation. Public speaking is an art to represent my idea to public at large
and influencing them with my idea. Transfer of meaningful information that helps to inform,
influence others is done through effective public speaking.
Team Working: Group of persons in an organisation puts collective efforts to achieve a
common objective with most effective and efficient manner then it is termed as team working. A
team is formed with individuals who are competent and expert in various activities. These all
individuals come together to perform a task that helps to achieve common objective of the
organisation. Having quality of performing in a team will help me to increase my communication
skills, understanding others and being able to influence others by work.
Importance of core skills:
Focus and Attention: Having focus while performing work is important as this helps to
increase understanding, learning, decision making (Losey, 2011). All these qualities must be
present with me while I am working with an organisation. And if I am not focused at my work
then definitely I cannot produce quality work that is necessary to be successful. At learning stage
paying attention to each work to achieve goals. It is important to pay attention at right time on
right things which helps them to develop more skills. Focus and Attention skill is selected
because it provides aim towards which I needs to work hard to attain that aim. Constructivism
theory helps to understand importance of being focused towards goals. Constructivism means
willing to follow a certain path that is based on own personal experience and internal knowledge.
Focus is required to take each decision whether to select a company, to be specialised in specific
field, to learn new technology or to set new goals to be achieved.
Assertiveness: To be assertive is important because this helps to make decisions that are
right for organisation as a whole. Being a person who only accepts right decisions will lead to
make honest communication to each person in the organisation. Quality like being a good
listener, keep calm in difficult situations and develop an attitude of solving problems (Todorov,
Fiske, and Prentice, 2011). Being assertive helps to boost confidence and increase surety without
getting aggressive. Assertiveness is required while communicating ideas to management as this
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will make others to think twice before making any decision. Assertiveness relied on effective
communication and simultaneously respect thoughts possessed by other people. Every
organisation possesses problem of conflicting ideas. Conflict in an organisation needs to be
resolved on time before it become incurable. Assertiveness nature helps me to be always stand
with what is right and this will help to solve conflict among different ideas.
Behaviourism is a systematic approach to understanding the behaviour of humans. In an
organisation employee that have different mind-set, different family background work to achieve
a common objective for organisation. A situation of conflict gets generated among employees in
the organisation while introducing any new policy or set of rules. This behaviourism theory helps
to understand reaction of various employees to a particular policy. As an individual
understanding behaviour or superiors and subordinate is also important for me to make them
work according to set standard by the organisation (Barnard and Curry, 2011).
Public Speaking-Good public speaking quality helps to boost confidence and also
influence others to follow same path. While working in an organisation communication needs to
be done with various persons and public speaking helps in increasing communication skills.
Public speaking helps to be confident while sharing my ideas with management. Good
communication helps in providing effective presentation of an idea that increases chances of
selection or creaking a deal (Neff, 2011).
Cognitivism is a theory that helps in effective public speaking. Main focus as per this
theory is provided on how an information is processed by peoples. Quality of individual to think,
remember, learn, and solve various issues in the organisation is developed as per this theory.
According to this theory an individual process an information on the basis of knowledge and
skills that is possesses by individuals. Through public speaking information is transferred to
public at large and public is influenced with the information to react in a certain manner. As a
learner I need to improve my public speaking skills that I possess a little but that is not enough
while working with a multinational company.
Team Working: Working in a team helps to solve various issues very easily as many
ideas are there to solve the issue. Teamwork provides a good opportunity to exchange ideas and
come up with creative thinking that increases efficiency in performing work. There are various
benefits that are enjoyed while working in a team as this creates synergy benefits which means
working together will produce more than working as individuals. Organisation structure that
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possess more hierarchy will lead to complexity and is time consuming to make decision and
teamwork flatters organisational structure. This skill is very important when I will perform in an
organisation.
Behaviourism helps to understand behaviour of individuals which is very important in
teamwork. While performing any task in a team it is very important to be aware about each
individual’s strengths and weakness. Each individual is efficient in some area and while
performing a task in team leads to allocation of work in such a manner that each individual gets a
task in which he or she is efficient. In a team efficiency of an individual can be increases by
understanding behaviour of individual and motivating them to perform better. As a team worker
I find myself very much competent to perform in a team. While I was doing my professional
course and various activities that I needs to perform in a team at that time I was very efficient
team member who completes all tasks in time provided (Tennant, 2012).
Reflection of current competence:
Focus and Attention: Currently I am focused is to have my focus in what I needs to
achieve in future and also my every step brings me near to my object. This focused skill is
assessed as my aim to be in finance industry is certain and I am continuously working towards it.
Assertiveness: Assertiveness is present at a certain level in me as I do not get agree to
some decision because it is taken by experienced person. Despite of every time I go for facts that
makes statement true. This quality of mines makes me assess that I am assertive.
Public Speaking: In current situation while I communicate any idea to others then they
are very much convened with my thoughts. This quality makes me assess that but putting some
more efforts to develop communication skills that improve my public speaking as well.
Team Working: Projects assigned are very well performed in a team and every time
when I perform in a team opinion of all team members are taken to develop team work. This
competence is assessed as quality of performing well in team is present.
Contradiction regarding skills:
Focus and Attention: As currently my aim is to enhance my skills and get a job in
financial department of a multinational company. For this I am regularly updated with
requirements that on employee require to work in finance department. Also I am working
towards my overall personality development and enhancing different skills that helps me to be
successful. To be focused for what I wanted to be and continuously working towards it helps me
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to assess that I am focussed. As I am focused to make my career in finance that makes me
focused but from others prospective I m a person who is resists to enhance my skills in other
sectors (Hernandez, 2012).
Assertiveness: Quality that is very helpful for organisation to solve small and big
conflicts lies in me as I always support what is right for everyone without putting personal
benefits ahead. Every time when a situation occurs that provided different solutions by different
minds but a solution which is most suitable is considered. When I choose a solution which is
beneficial to all or makes least harm to others then contradiction with persons who have different
perspective about situation is seen.
Public Speaking: To have effective public speaking I need to be confident and
convinced with the information that I am providing to others. Some times while providing
information to public at large creates a contradiction in ideas with others. As organisation have
persons that have different ideas and manner of thinking that will not allow them to adopts others
idea. To make others agree with my idea creates a situation which reflects that I am very resist to
adopt new thoughts and stick to my opinions only.
Team Working: While performing in a team I was very confident while I performed all
the tasks provided ton me and that increases my self-confidence. But being very confident in
performing my task creates a contradiction in team that I am overconfident and do not perform
according to instructions provided. While comparing others view as they see me, there is no
match between others and my view point. I consider myself as an efficient team member who
perform task that will benefit team as a whole.
Future benefits of skills:
Focus and Attention: To be focused in work and paying attention to each activity will
help me to be a good learner. Learning new skills throughout will help to enhance skills and be
successful. Being focused provides us a certain aim and that needs to be attained and helps us by
providing direction towards our goals.
Assertiveness: Quality of being assertive or solving conflict will help me in future while
working with an organisation. When a situation of conflict will generate then assertive nature
will help me to identify reactions of various individuals who are connected to a particular action.
Assertive nature helps to be fair with each decision taken in the organisation and also increase
trust of others for being stand with right decisions.
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Public Speaking: Quality of good public speaking will help me in future to influence
others while working in the organisation. A good public speaker turns out to be good leader as he
has high motivating and convincing power to others. A good leader will make each and every
worker more productive and efficient to perform task (McGarrigle and Walsh, 2011).
Team Working: Having a skill like team working will help me in future to perform best
in an organisation. Team work will provide me other qualities like to be a patient listener as in a
team each one has different opinion and that needs to be heard before making any decision.
While working in a team makes me flexible to adopt changes and to be adoptive with opinion of
others. Quality of a leader will enhance and also benefits of organisation will be set at priority
then individual benefits.
2.Summary and Action Plan
Personal Development Plan
AREAS Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time Bound
Assertiveness Being
assertive helps
to determine
the source of
problem and
find an
effective
solution to
problems.
Assertive
skills can be
measured
while working
in an
organisation
when your
superior shows
confidence in
you regarding
ability to solve
problems.
Assertiveness
is achieved by
dealing and
analysing
various
conflicting
situation on
regular basis.
This skill can
be enhanced
while dealing
with it
continuously.
In real
situation while
working in an
organisation
when problem
like conflict
among
managers and
employees
occurs then it
can be
resolved by
giving fair
chance to
employees to
describe their
problems.
Time required
to develop a
skill that is
already present
with me will
take a duration
of 3 months to
be efficient in
being
assertive.
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Public
speaking
Public
speaking is
the act of
conveying
message and
information
through the
use of signs or
language that
is understood
by both the
persons and
makes public
speaking
effective.
Public
speaking skills
can be
measured as
one who is
competent to
make others
understand
about thoughts
and ideas then
it can be said
that person
possess good
communicatio
n skills.
When public
speaking
skills is not
available then
that can be
achieved by
continuously
communicatin
g in the
organisation
with superior
and
subordinates.
While working
in real
situation in
the
organisation
communicatio
n will help to
delegate all
responsibilitie
s and also
helps to
communicate
various
opinions.
Public
speaking helps
to improve
communicatio
n skills is very
easy to learn
and continuous
practice makes
it easy to grab
and one
requires
minimum four
to five months
to be an
effective
communicator.
Team
working
Team working
is the process
of performing
an activity by
group of
persons
working in the
organisation
who possess
different skills
and perform
each activity
efficiently.
Effective team
working is
measurable
when all the
team members
can make best
to their skills
and
knowledge
and
productivity of
organisation is
high.
Team working
must be
effective to
provide good
results and this
is achieved by
having a good
communicatio
n system and
all team
members must
be provided
with some
responsibilitie
s and authority
In real
situation while
working in
team
conflicting
situations
arises and a
team leader
have to deal
with it and
resolve them
as efficient
team is
required to
achieve
Working in a
team in most
effective way
is not a one
time process it
takes various
months to
learn how to
perform in a
team that leads
to most
productive
outputs.
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to work
efficiently.
organisational
objectives.
Focus and
attention
It is crucial for
an individual
to increase the
strength as
well as focus
of gradually. It
would assist in
planning tasks
in correct
direction.
The primary
ability of
focusing is
related with
concentration
tests. It would
measure the
degree of
distraction of
people and
train them in
proper
direction.
It is a brain
ability that can
concentrated
their attention
on a specific
target stimulus
for any given
period of time.
it would assist
in detecting
quick about
the relevant
stimuli.
Mental focus
can often aim
to make
difference
when trying to
attain their
goal in proper
manner. It
would take
some take real
effort on their
own part with
proper
attention.
It will take
around 3-6
months to
accomplish the
target with
using effective
focus and
attention.
Major strength that I possessed is my quality of being focused and attentive towards my
objectives. Team working also considered as a strong point as to performing various activities in
team makes me very competent to perform with others. Quality like a good public speaker
provides me benefit like communication skills, motivator and an influencer. To resolve conflicts
in organisation is turned as strength as conflicts are resolved on time (Karabenick and Dembo,
2011). Weakness that I possess that needs to be improved is decision making capability and
written communication skills.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that skills like focused in work, public speaking
and team work plays very important role while working in a company. Importance of these skills
and various theories that helps to understand these theories is discussed in this report.
Contradiction in own and others opinion regarding competence that you possessed. How these
skills will help in future to attain objectives and increase productivity. A PDP plan is discussed
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that reflects about skills possessed and together with this strengths and weakness is also
discussed.
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