Personal Development: Understanding Self and Others Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of personal development, emphasizing the importance of understanding oneself and others in a business context. It identifies key skills for improvement, including team working, written communication, and conflict resolution, alongside negotiation skills. The report utilizes a reflective personal development plan to analyze the importance of each skill, assessing current competence, identifying contradictions, and exploring future applications. The analysis provides insights into how these skills contribute to both professional and personal growth, offering a comprehensive understanding of the strategies needed to enhance these abilities. The report also offers solutions to improve skills such as team working, written communication and conflict resolution. Furthermore, the report discusses the importance of negotiation skills, which is essential for building relationships and achieving goals.

Understanding Self and
Others

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Reflective Personal Development Plan............................................................................................3
Summary And Action Plan..............................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Understanding self and others is an important aspect in personal development of a
business person (Understanding self and others. 2018). This strategy helps the person in adopting
the problem's solution so that it can develop skills in which it has to do improvement. In this
report, three types of skills are explained in which I have to do improvement which are team
working, conflict resolution, written communication. The skill in which I am good from others is
negotiation skills. Therefore solution to the problems of skills is defined in this report.
Reflective Personal Development Plan

What is the core skill to develop?
Team working is the art of group working in which a group of individuals are gathered to
perform a specific task. The core skill which I have to develop is team working because this is
the skill which is mostly used to operate a team.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on?
There are many reasons to develop a team few of them are as follows:
Team work motivates unity in work place:
The main reason why team work is important that it helps in working with unity (Social
cognition Bass and Yammarino, 2016). Team always works on a specific task which is
required to be done by a team. Therefore it is required that the team should work in unity so
that the completion of work will be on time and accurate.
Team work allows different perspective:
When different minds are working together to do a specific task than there could be different
perspectives of each individual. These perspectives help to solve the problem with different
ways. Therefore team work helps in solving the problem with ease.
Team work provides improved productivity:
When different perspectives work together to do a specific task than the productivity of an
individual also increases. This will help in increasing the productivity of organization also.
Team work provides great learning opportunities:
Since team work provides different perspectives to think therefore the chances of learning also
increases. Learning capacity helps an employee in improving it's thinking power so that it can
help the organization to move forward.
From my personnel point of view, this skill is important for me to develop my leading skill so
that I can move forward in personal and professional career. This skill also help in improving
better communication because a leader has to communicate with it's followers to make the
task done with others.
Reflect on your current competence regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence?
I am having team working skill but I want to develop this skill which is beneficial for me and
my business. Therefore this skill is important for me. The problem in team working is that I
am not able to work with the different perspectives of others. This deficiency of my skill is

explained by my seniors and friends. They have analysed in office that I was unable to
perform the task with others. That is what my seniors and friends suggested me to develop
this skills.
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above?
The problem when first arises my friends and seniors suggested me to take proper training for
this skills but I wasn't agree with their perspective. When again this problem occurs with me,
than I asked my seniors to help me according to the situation. The situation was that my
follower denied to work for the additional task which was available due to the leave of an
employee. Than I realised that my seniors and friends have suggested me in my favour. At
that moment I analysed that perception of mine and my friends and seniors was same.
How might this skill help me in the future?
This skill is very good to develop one's maturity and experience. The problem I am facing is
that I am not able to work with others. When this problems gets resolved I will be able to face
any situation to work. This will also helps me in making things done from others. If it happens
it could be one of the greatest achievement of mine.
What is the core skill to develop?
Written Communication is the art of conveying, reporting the messages through writing. The
next core skill which I have to develop is working communication because communication
skill is very important to sustain oneself in business environment.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on?
Written communication is very important as it helps me in:
Upturn it's productivity:
By the use of effective written communication I can uplift my productivity. When I
communicate with my seniors effectively then will intend to know me better. This will help
them in finding the issues related to my productivity. Therefore my productivity will be
increased due to effective written communication.
Professional image enhances
When I communicate effectively with my colleagues and seniors it will enhance my
professional image in front of them. Than it is also possible that I will gain promotion or
having a good profile in which communication skill is required very much.

Successful response ensured
When good communication is established among the employees and me than the chances of
getting fair reply from them increases (Yammarino and Atwater, 2017). Each person is treated
as it treats others, therefore I need to improve my written communication skills to progress my
professional career.
Above are the reason by which I have to develop this skill. This skill not only help me the
professional career development but also in the development of my personnel life. Written
communication is also essential in the professional development by impressing the seniors.
Reflect on your current competence regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence?
Written communication skill is important for everyone not only to develop it's professional
but also personnel life. My written communication skill is not so good therefore I have to
develop this skill so that I can develop my career in personnel and professional life. The
problem I am having is given to me by my friends and manager which is responsible for the
human resource. They said that your written communication skill needs to be improved that is
why I am trying to improve this skill.
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above?
When I write something administrative for my seniors and followers they doesn't take that
seriously and told me to develop my writing skill. The next days my manager called me to
improve this skill therefore I need a tutor or online courses to improve this skill. As my
manager said about this improvement I would have realised that this skill is necessary for me
and my career.
How might this skill help me in the future?
When I get used to with this skill than my followers and seniors get impressed with my
written communication skills. This will happen because I will talk to them in an ethical way
and thus impress them to make decision in my favour. Therefore in future I would also
increase my professional career.
What is the core skill to develop?
The process of finding the solution to difficult and complex issues is called conflict resolution.

The next core skill to develop is conflict resolution because being as a team leader different
conflicts needs to be solved.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on?
There are three main reason why conflict resolution skill is important for me:
Make the impossible possible:
Conflict resolution is an important skill in which problems related to conflict ions can be
solved(Lambe and McLeod, 2015). The problems sometime are tough enough that they seems
to be solved impossible. Getting solve these conflict ions will make me to convert impossible
to possible. This will allow me to develop my conflict resolution skills.
Makes me a stand out:
Conflict resolution technique is not an easy task for for everyone. If am a conflict resolver than
I would have been recognised in office so that it will make me stand out amongst others.
Increased confidence:
When I have recognised by the office managers that I am a conflict resolver. Than the
reputation in working environment increases. This will help in increase my confidence level.
I have selected this skill to develop because as a team leader I would like to be a conflict
resolver. This makes me to develop this skill so that I would have become fluent in this skill.
Reflect on your current competence regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence?
I get to know about to develop this skill through my followers. One day when I was offering
the work to them than a conflict comes between two employees of my team than I gets to
resolve the conflict ion in just a few time than my colleague assisted me to develop this skill
more to be a problem solver. This what makes me enable to develop this skill as my powerful
tools.
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above?
The match between me and my friends is there to address me to develop this skill. When I have
resolved the issue within just a few time than my colleague offered me to develop the problem
solving skills. The match is there as I have also tried to develop this skill before they asked me
to do so. Therefore it can be said that there is sure match between my friends and my

perception.
How might this skill help me in the future?
When I used to develop this skill, in future it will help me developing all the aspects of my life
whether it will be personnel and professional. When I get noticed in my workplace to solve the
bigger problems easily it would give me a huge hike in my career. Therefore this skill can be a
boost to my career.
What is the core skill to develop?
The core skill to develop is Negotiation. Negotiation is an art of solving the issues related to
profession in a business environment.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on?
Following are the reason why Negotiation is important for a business person.
Builds relationship:
When negotiation is done with the followers as manager than it will help the company in
reducing the cost of expenses over employees(Ostroff, 2017). The negotiation can be of any
type such as salary, incentive, and related to work. After negotiating the relationship between
employees gets resolved.
Leads to goal achievement:
When negotiation among the employees is done than it helps in achieving the goals and
objectives of individual. Negotiation helps me in resolving the issues related with the
employees. Thus with the help of negotiation an employee will be able to work with free mind
and hence increase its productivity and efficiency. With the help of this I can be able to achieve
the goal of organization.
Reflect on your current competence regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence?
My friends and colleagues have suggested me to develop this skill but I get to know that I am
able to negotiate with the employees. Therefore I am capable enough to negotiate with the
issues of employees.
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a

match between how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?
When my friends and seniors have advice me to develop this skill than I realized to develop it.
On a working day when I negotiating with the employees with the issue of their salary than I
realized that I have a good handy knowledge of this skill. Than I realized that I am capable of
doing negotiation.
How might this skill help me in the future?
Negotiation help me in future in following areas:
Increased understanding:
When negotiation among the employees resolved it will help employees in increment of
understanding among themselves. Through this in future employees will not be in issue and
thus helps me in making work from others.
Reduce tension:
Negotiation also help in reducing the tension among the employees. When employee are
working free of tension this will help them in increasing their productivity and thus it will assist
me in making work from them.
Summary And Action Plan
Strength and weakness that have identified from reflective journal entries:
Strength:
The strength of mine in this journal is Negotiation. It is the art of resolving the issues in
business context among the employees so that they can focus on their work without focusing on
any issue.
Weakness:
Following are the weakness of mine in this journal entries:
Team Working: It is the weakness of me in which I am not so much able to work with my team.
It is an art of working a team so that they work together to achieve their target.
Conflict Resolution: It is the second problem in which I am facing an issue. It is an art of
solving an issue related to the business perspective.
Written communication: It is the third problem in which there is an issue to me. Written
communication is the art of taking or passing the message so that person should feel comfortable.
A personnel development plan is demonstrated to overcome the weaknesses:

Sr.
N
o
Learning
Objectiv
e
Current
Proficiency
Target Proficiency Development
Opportunities
Judging
criteria
Time
Scale
1 Written
Commun
ication
skill
I am weak in
this skill
therefore I am
not able to
communicate
with my
employees in an
efficient
manner.
I want to improve
this skill, so policies
should be
implemented in
effective manner and
interact with them in
case of any issue.
This skill can
be developed
with the help
of online
sources,
seminars
related to
written
communicatio
n, etc.
Peer members
and
subordinates
2 months
2 Conflict
resolutio
n skill
I am facing this
skill problem
because in a
large
organization
people are
having
perception
which creates
issues.
I want to improves
this so harmony can
be maintained within
organisation.
By dealing
with practical
situation and
guidance of
top level
managers.
Top level
personnel.
3 months
3 Team
working
I am facing
problem in team
working because
of different
I want to improve
this skill for the
purpose of working
with others.
This skill can
be developed
with effective
training in
Top level
managers
6 months

perspectives of
others.
organization

CONCLUSION
In this report it can be concluded that I am facing some issues in a few skills such as team
working, written communication and conflict resolution while I have proper skill in Negotiation.
There are solutions in this journals by which I can improve these skills. I have done a personnel
development plan to execute the weakness into strength which will take some time.