Reflective Essay: Personal and Professional Development in UGB 260

This essay reflects on personal and professional development, focusing on the key strength of management skills. It discusses the application of reflection theories and the happenstance theory in various workshop activities, including a value-added element centered on enterprise. The essay analyzes the development of management skills through experiences, highlighting attributes like networking and professionalism. It also addresses challenges faced during the module, such as supervising team members with differing opinions, and how reflexivity was used to resolve conflicts. The reflection incorporates the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and personal skill audits to assess personal qualities and emotional reactions, ultimately aiming to improve knowledge of personal growth and professional development. Desklib provides a platform to explore similar solved assignments and past papers for students.

Personal and Professional
development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
In academic career, personal and professional development are the two key terms that
concerns with the improvement and enhancement of academic skills and competencies by
capitalisation of different academic activities and events. For a student in an academic life it is
very important to pay attention and focus upon personal development in order to gain
professional development (Cathro, O’Kane and Gilbertson, 2017). It is immensely compulsory
for a person to carry out self reflection on the skills and development to recognise the events that
carry favourable outcomes along with the ones that act as weaknesses and requires improvement.
It is very important to gain professional development in order to proceed further in the career
related opportunities. The present report is a personal reflection that covers recognition of
specific quality during the experience of module and workshop exercises by employing
significant theories. In the present report there is a reflection of one key strength of a person that
will help a person to have personal and professional development.
MAIN BODY
While performing over the module and workshop exercises it has been very immense learning
and development experience for me. This whole experience has assisted me to boost my current
existing skills as well as my competencies. This was also useful to me complete my required
assigned tasks and assessments on the set timelines. As part of the concept of personal reflection,
I have encountered that I possess many qualities that has been developed over the course of time.
Those skills are communication skills, time management skills, critical thinking, analytical skills,
motivational skills, management skills and much more. However, I timely conceded that among
all the skills there is one skill that is my specific quality that is unique, powerful and stood out in
glooming my overall learning and experience throughout the module and workshops. In this
relation, I noticed that my management skill is my quality that I also contemplate as my key
strength. For me having management skills is like a tool that will help to achieve my all tasks
and goals effectively on time. Having management skills means the capabilities or art of
planning, organizing, monitoring, directing and controlling of the activities in most appropriate
and simple manner. In addition to all, this quality has given me scope to effectively utilise the
available resources to me in the most efficient manner so that they can assist me timely in
completing my end goals as per my pre-set targets of personal and professional life.
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In order to deeply analyse and evaluate my learning progress, development and skills and
capabilities I have used the theories of reflection throughout the module sessions. There was a
time, during which for instance in the workshop activity I was acquainted with reflection and
reflectivity theories. This provided me a path to reflect on my experience gained in the past years
with the help of appropriate application of management skills. Reflection theories help me during
the workshop activities as the allowed me to gain deep insight of my working patterns. Further,
due to which I was able to identify my past mistakes and that enable me to undertake the actions
through which I can overcome my mistakes in relation to my quality of management skills. Also
I have applied the concept of reflexivity in my course work. For instance, during the value added
element I was consistently noticing the management activities done there along with that I also
coordinated and cooperated with the other members of the team during which they was
utilisation of concept of reflexivity by observing the management been carried out.
During the module I got familiarize with the different models and approaches of
reflection. I have effectively utilised all the approaches during the analysis of quality of
management skills. In relation to the approach of reflection that I have determined that one of the
most impactful and useful approach connected to the reflection is learning. This has been
understood as the most conventional approach by which I was able to increase my knowledge of
various concepts to carry the personal reflection in better manner for the future purpose. Another
theory or an approach relatable with the reflection is self awareness. This is a process of
critically evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of oneself. The approach of the theory of
reflection is creative expression by which I was able to show my qualities and my reflection of
skills through visualisation. Out of all these approaches the effectively utilized approach by me is
self awareness along with the learning approach in order to carry out my reflection process upon
the management skill throughout my module sessions. My current reflection on my personal
quality is also been carried out by making use of this approach. Both the approaches are useful to
me and also they contributed in effective execution of my qualities which later represented as my
key strength throughout my module. This is confirmed, that the reflection theories and enabled
me to come up with more positive changes in terms of enhancing the quality of Management
skill at the time of module sessions and workshop activities.
Over the course of the module I was involved in many workshop exercises. Among
which one of them was value added element in context of which there was different subjects in
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the forms of options to make selection from. The different subject includes language, literature,
technologies and science, enterprise and creativity and critical thinking. Out of all of these I have
chose enterprise as my interested subject.
In context of the subject of enterprise it is more concerned with the proposition of
valuable business ideas Business development plans for which it is very important to have
effective management skills. The same subject of enterprise was displayed with the help of the
PowerPoint presentation. This is the activity that requires demonstrating the development of
thing which is I am accountable and responsible for effectively exploiting the viable business
opportunity that can be turned out as a profitable business venture. This idea was supposed to be
a great pitch for the investors.
During my experience of model sessions and workshop exercises I encounter a different
opportunities that allowed me to elevate my quality of management skills. There is a theory of
happenstance which was used by me to practice which situations a crucial for person to
effectively analyse and find out the direction which is acquainted with the path to tread upon.
This practice can also be carried out with the help of strong and powerful planning and
controlling. The situation I filled in the model that allowed me to execute the happenstance
theory intentionally by making proper planning. While putting efforts on development of team
for subject of enterprise I realise that managing people and resources is one of my key qualities
that always acted as my strength in any task activity that predefines my personal development.
Theory of happenstance define that unplanned situations of the life should be converted into the
opportunities does the process of combining the formation of team for the proposition of new
business idea was worked in a manner which allowed the acknowledgment of future uncertain in
a day's so that they can be successfully transformed into the positive outcomes. Share I have
taken multiple roles into account to formulate the team like a customer champion leader
visionary innovation or detector and much more and all should be aligned with the proposed
business idea and were developed during the consideration of uncertain situations there was
another situation with the management skills were applied by me was during the gathering and
dispersal of information within the organisation.
I have analysed that my quality of management skills that helped me in the different
stages of the module course such as by planning of the team allocating the duties among the
members the hiring of personnel for the success to the investors. The togetherness of the work
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done by the different members of the team also need application of quality of management skills
does this quality is one of my greatest strength in the whole module.
The quality of management skills I also possess certain other attributes and capabilities
that support my quality. I have analysed that one of my key attribute networking skills as I have
used social anticipation why planning the team with the right people and talents for the particular
job description. This is because the attributes of permitted by me to foresee and recognise his
skills and competencies among the individuals and then choose accurate talent or a person for the
required job role another attribute that I analysed was professionalism as when it comes to
sharing and communicating with the clients and customers I am highly professional and conduct
ethical recreational attitude with the person with the business environment. I have planned and
bifurcated communication channels properly in the act of professionalism through the different
technological software that has helped me to encode the message given from the person and
protected it with the significant password to acquire social media for the purpose of the
workplace discussions meetings and other zoom calls. They were the situations including the loss
of data theft within an organisation and in order to protect such kind of theft precautions are
taken to enhance the opportunities of communicating in an effective way that you would also
help me in exploiting the white number of opportunity to develop me as a professional person.
In workshop activities they were different things that I found difficult which helped me in
analysing the fact that supervising and directing others is more difficult task in the value added
element. In that activity filled several times in monitoring and supervising the subordinates and
found that are critical in complex was not able to analyse its systematic and structured approach
because team members belongs to different culture and have different opinions about each other
which increased the complexity of managing them and there for taking into account
happenstance theory which consider uncertain situations cost and lower productivity. Situation
the theory worked in aiding me to properly brainstorm and forecast the opinions of each
individual within a team and control their actions. This is all so help me lot in articulating the
strategy to manage the other members of team they were locating them their suitable work as per
their job interest and experience when performing all the site example that some of the team
members were not happy and satisfied with my work delegation which increase my difficulties
more in supervising them at the same time the complexity and supervision the acting as
drawbacks for me to anticipate chances and analyse what others think about me and my actions.
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They were contradictions taking place for example conflict and issues between the group
members because of their different opinions and perceptions on particular subject was not been
properly managed by me and stores the deathly contradicting my theory of happens tense
because I am must be prepared to deal with the team members and the situation in very quick
money therefore in this executed reflexivity to solve the conflicts between the team members by
engaging them in today effective communication that can be towards reaching to the common
ground.
This module I have been part of the workshop exercise that was related with identifying
the personal characteristics and qualities I have this activity was highly interesting and useful to
me in improving my knowledge about what personal growth and professional development. In
relation to this there was another activity in the sky have to recognise person qualities using the
theory of Myers Briggs type indicator. This is concerned with the recognition of emotional
reactions personal behaviour as a list that can reflect kind of personality at present additional I
also use it to lot of personal skill audit that allowed me to reflect the level of my career
behaviour, attitudes together with my skills. With this test available to analyse my different
qualities at different level of expertise this also increase my knowledge of honesty in my work
moving ahead I initiated my working to motivate the team members but properly dealing with
the ethical code of conduct. This was useful to strengthen my quality of management skills.
In the further analysis, I have realise that management skills are one of my quality and
skill that will be highly beneficial for me in growing and developing in my career path to cause
this quality is necessary in all the working environment whether it is related to the personal of
professional aspects. Management skills are required in order to balance the working of
professional and personal life and all the different activities effectively. Moreover, this quality
also retains the best motivation and lowered for the others as a person works with the required
quality then it has a power of other members for the longer duration. My management skills I
was able to see with selective quality of work with improved my personal vacation promote
positive attitude towards my work there by causing less mistakes. Similarly the management
skills are highly important for organising leading supervising and organising the task and
activities in the manner that are expected in the strategies and plans for the future.
I am also planning to execute multiple practices and exercises during the workshops in
order to exploit my strength in higher level of the activity in which part of the training program
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which involved simulation. This exercise was providing me good opportunity to polish for
strength as well as to improve my skills by becoming effective manager for the future it requires
juice cause but results are highly means as this will also benefit mean of coming my limitations
in the quality and upgrading the power of my key strength. During attending of seminars and
conferences for increasing the knowledge and learning related to the persons professional
development there was another activity it provided me the insight you can never be taught within
an organisation with this I was able to effectively analyse the complex situation and develop a
strategy by applying the management theories and concept in order to get the desired result for
the future. The conferences are one of the activities that sparkle the new ideas and have greater
level of team involvement and provide a blended learning environment.
CONCLUSION
From the above information it is concluded that the practice of reflection is highly important for
a person in order to analyse itself capabilities and competencies that will assist in the future
professional and personal development. Also in relation to reflection different theories and
practices that help a person to determine the reflection in the most appropriate one known to gain
the deep insight of oneself. To Identity the key qualities in terms of strength and weaknesses and
furthermore it has been concluded that utilization of models to enhance and develop the skill set
is essential.
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