Analysis of Interpersonal Skills and Attributes for Career Development

This report delves into the crucial role of interpersonal skills in professional development, emphasizing their significance in achieving goals and creating a positive image. It examines various essential skills, including time management, teamwork, written communication, and negotiation, providing insights into their practical application and importance in the workplace. The report also highlights the value of self-assessment tools in identifying strengths and weaknesses, and offers strategies for continuous improvement. It further addresses the contradictions that may arise in applying these skills, and concludes by emphasizing the need for a holistic approach to developing a well-rounded skill set essential for career success. The report uses various references to support the claims made in the report.

Understanding Self and
Others

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION:.........................................................................................................................1
A) Range of inter personal skills and knowledge required to work with others.........................1
B) Why I possess these attributes................................................................................................3
C) Importance of attributes and tools requires in developing them............................................3
D) Contradiction with regards to this attributes..........................................................................5
CONCLUSION:...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES:...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION:
In the present era it is very important to develop inter personal skills for career
development. These skills help in achieving goals and objectives in effective way. Moreover, it
is useful in creating unique and distinct image in front of others. Personal skills and attributes
develops and grows with more experience and gaining more knowledge. This report will show
different skills that is required in individual to work with others. Along with this why it is
important to possess these skills and its importance in working is discussed. Besides this, it will
also show how they can be improved by using various self assessment tools. In the end it shows
contradiction in regards with these attributes (Catmur, Cross, and Over,, 2016)
A) Range of inter personal skills and knowledge required to work with others
Skills and knowledge plays a crucial role in effectively working with others. These personal
skills depend upon the persons abilities. It grows and develops with experience in working. A
personal professional plan is required in order to develop and manage the skills. This plan is
useful in learning and evaluating skills that helps a person in developing his career. There are
various range of skills and knowledge that is required to work with others. These are described
below:-
Time management- It is the most important skill that helps in organising and planning of tasks
according to their priority. It divides task in different time intervals so it becomes easy to give
specific time in completing each task. It enables a person to work smarter not harder as work is
done in less time with more efficiency. Even when pressure is high it allows a person to think
with cool mind set and find out ways to complete work. Proper time management increases
greater productivity and efficiency by focusing on important life and career goals. It helps ion
reducing stress that leads in balancing professional and personal life (.Kang., Gray,. and
Dovidio,, 2015). An individual will be more dependent in decision-making and will be more
focused towards greater life goals.
Team working- In order to complete task in effective way it is essential that task is done in
teams. It allows an individual to focus only on one task rather than focusing of other task. This
is useful for individual to achieve its goals more effectively. Along with it participation in

decision making process enables a person to share views and ideas. Moreover, interacting with
people of different field it helps in gaining and increasing knowledge.
Written communication- It is a form of communication in which employees communicate
through writing (Munevar, and et.al, 2014). It can be written in various forms like e-mail, report,
messages, letters, etc. through this information is reached to right person without any
misunderstanding. Furthermore, it contains only specific data that has to be delivered. It helps in
improving language also.
 E-mails- It is the quickest and easiest way of communicating with each other. Also, it is
the most common form used in business. In this only the person E- mail Id must be
known and an internet connection is needed.
 Reports- It is generally used to inform employees about their performance. It is also used
to describe financial information or research data. It contains various graphs and charts
that is used to clarify complex concepts.
 Brochures- It is useful for company to advertise or promote their product in the market.
It helps in giving brief and useful information of product features. Size and content on
brochure depends upon type of product.
Negotiation- It is a method to resolve conflict and reaching an agreement. It is done to protect
the interest of both the parties by effectively listening to each one. It helps in improving the
performance and creating a positive environment in the organisation. It happens when conflict
arises and no party is able to reach to an agreement. There are various stages of negotiation that
is followed (Mischel,., 2014). It includes preparation, discussion, clarifying goals, negotiation,
agreement and implementation.
Types of negotiation-
 Distributive - In this negotiation done is based upon winning of only one party. It is
because there are fixed resources to be divided and only one can get that.

 Lose- lose- It is followed when one party feels that negotiation is not done according to
his interest. In this situation that party ensures the outcome of negotiation is also not in
favour of other one (Cozolino,, 2014).
 Compromise- It provides some suggestion that can be followed in above type of
negotiation. This is the best way to make both parties reach to an agreement.
 Integrative- It is also known as collaborative negotiation in which both parties are
satisfied with the outcome.
B) Why I possess these attributes
It is because I am having the ability and capability to interact with people and find out what the
problem it is. It helps me in resolving conflicts between various people. I am able to complete
given task on time that helps me in proper planning by effectively utilising resources and time.
Also, reading novels and stories of successful business persons provides a direction to adopt their
style and learn from them. Easily making friends by frequently communicating with them
enhance my ability to know their problems. Moreover, having knowledge of various negotiation
approaches it enables me to take part in it.
C) Importance of attributes and tools requires in developing them
Time management skills:
 Avoid distractions- It is important to avoid distractions that reduces the focus while
working. Effective time management helps in eliminating distractions as the focus
remains on work to be done in specific time (.Frye, 2014).
 Prioritizing tasks- It helps in proper planning of task that helps in finding out
importance of each task. It shows that complex task must be done first and easier at the
end. This will save time and getting things done in right way.

 Creating schedule- With proper planning as schedule can be made that contains each
task and its duration. It can be made by using Gantt chart. It is useful in planning for next
day and evaluating performance (Taumoepeau, and Reese,, 2014.).
Team working:
 Responsibility is delegated- It helps in understanding weakness and strengths of each
individual. Therefore, task are performed according to it. It shows that which person will
do what kind of task.
 Team efficiency-It increases team efficiency by working together. A proper system is
developed and task is assigned to everyone that enables a person to complete his task
quickly and accurately.
 Helping each other- Working in team enables persons to take help of other if not able to
understand or complete a task. This increases communication and cooperation among
each other and objectives or goals are easily achieved within time period.
Written communication: Its importance is you don't have to wait for someone to communicate.
It also saves money and it becomes a proof in case of dispute. Its outcome is clear providing the
recipients to know what is expected from him (Neff,, 2016).
Negotiation- It helps in reducing conflicts among people and improves relations between them.
Furthermore, it creates happy and positive environment that leads to greater terms and bonding
with each other. Also, it helps in getting success in life by developing negotiation skills.
Skills Assessment tools used to learn
Time management I learned it from reading stories of successful
business persons and watching videos of
various leaders.
Team working I learned them by working in groups and
solving case studies. Also, by playing

management games like role play, etc. by
watching films based on team and reading
books.
Written communication By using social media sites and
communicating with various people.
Negotiation By solving case study and solving conflicts of
friends and relatives (Ehrlinger,, Mitchum,.
and Dweck, 2016).
Skill Competence level Current example How to improve
Time management 4 I am able to manage
activities by making
schedule of each day.
I want to complete
more complex task in
given time period to
enhance my skill.
Team working 2 I am not that much
efficient in working
with team. It is due to
lack of confidence.
I want to work more in
teams or group
projects to improve
this skill.
Written
communication
5 I am easily able to
communicate to every
person.
I want to write article
in newspaper
regarding this .
Public speaking 1 I am not able to speak
in front of a group or
people (Elsbach,.,
2015).
By attending seminars
of public speaking and
getting training.

Feedback taken from others helped me to identify my weakness and strengths. It described that
my public speaking was very poor that reduces my confidence. By solving friends conflicts I
realised that I was very good in negotiating. It helped me in further improving these skills by
resolving greater conflicts. Frequently writing letter and e mails to others motivated me to
improve my English and gain knowledge. Moreover, I got to know various forms of written
communication. With the help of effective time management skills I was able to maintain
balance between professional and personal life.
D) Contradiction with regards to this attributes
The time management skills that I learned helped me to follow various strategies-
Starting with clear focus- On each day I made schedule to assign activities in proper manner
according to its importance (Farnsworth, and et.al., 2017). It helped me to allot time to each one
and setting a clear focus throughout the day.
Updating task list- The activities that were done was remove from the list. In this way updating
the list helped me in quickly reviewing the most and least important.
Focusing on higher targets I started completing smaller task that lead to boost confidence in
me. With this I was able to focus on higher targets.
Eliminating distractions- It was useful to eliminate distraction that was coming in my way. It
leads to improve my productivity and consistency.
Avoid Multitasking- This saved my time for other activities. It reduced my stress level by
spending free time to enjoy.
Reviewing whole day- This was done by so that I can evaluate my performance with the task
that I have set and also planning for next day.
By learning and working in projects it helped me to work in groups. I was able to understand
what task must be focused upon and what role does it play in individual career. I gained a lot of
knowledge from other people. I learned importance of team working in achieving common goals.
Although, my written communication is strong I need to focus on public speaking. It will help
me in giving presentation or organising event (Mischel,, 2014). With this I will be able to

express my views and ideas to people as it can not be done by writing. Negotiation skill will
help me in resolving conflicts and I can become a negotiator. But on the other hand negotiation
requires public speaking so for this I have to now focus on improving this. It will be beneficial
for me to enhance my negotiation attributes. Apart from all these many more inter personal skills
are required to create a unique image. It varies from person to person and requires lot of
knowledge. Also, it depends upon circumstances that how to use these skills and in which way.
CONCLUSION:
This report gives introduction of four types of skills I.e. team working, negotiation,
written communication and time management. Furthermore, it shows the importance of
possessing these attributes in an individual. How it can be improved by using various tools like
seminars, workshops, etc.. What is the role of feedback for evaluating them. At last how
possessing these skills was beneficial as it helped me in following various time management
strategies. Also, it identified weaknesses and strengths of remaining ones.

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