Personal Development Plan Report: Understanding Self and Others Skills

This report presents a personal development plan centered on understanding self and others, crucial for social cognition and effective interaction. It delves into four key skills: public speaking, team building, conflict solving, and time management. The report includes reflective journal entries, detailing the importance of each skill, current competence levels, and areas for improvement. The analysis identifies strengths and weaknesses in each area, with a focus on enhancing confidence, communication, and leadership abilities. The plan outlines how these skills will contribute to future professional success, emphasizing their role in presentations, team collaboration, conflict resolution, and overall workplace effectiveness. The report highlights the significance of continuous self-assessment and development to achieve personal and organizational goals.

UNDERSTANDING
SELF AND OTHERS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK...............................................................................................................................................1
Personal development plan ........................................................................................................1
Action plan..................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Understanding self and others forms the social cognition backbone. Along with this, it is
a central term explored through research into primary process like as empathy and perception. In
order to engage as well as interpret within social world, particular person should understand how
they can link with others. In this, social behaviour perspective reshaped by communicating with
others (Autesserre, 2014). If people have to understand self and others they should have some
proper skills within themselves. Their are various skills like negotiation, feedbacks, public
speaking, communication skills etc. and people should improve them for developing their career
growth. Leaders should always have good ability of speaking and positive attitude in order to
achieve the targets and objectives effectively and efficiency. They can also make a personal
development plan for enhancing their abilities and capacities as well. In this report, it involves
the four skills which are team building, public speaking, conflict solving and time management.
By using this they will prepare a personal development plan. Along with this also shows the
strength and weakness as per this skills.
TASK
Reflective Personal development plan Journal
Pro- forma of Public speaking
What is the core skill to develop?
According to (Mischel, DeSmet and Kross, 2014) public speaking is a way of communicating
information to the peoples. It is mainly accomplished among large numbers of audience such
as; in working environment, school, personal lives and many more. Advantages of knowing
how to interact with public involves verbal or non-verbal communication and critical thinking
skills. This skill will help in improving communication as well as leadership skills. Primarily,
this kind of skill are present within the leaders. As it will assist in becoming a successful leader
within the company. Additionally, a perfect leader can able to lead their group members
effectively along with this it also able to interact in front of large numbers of audience in order
to give and transfer information in a proper way. Hence, each person can able to understand
their aim and motive of providing information to them.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on?
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These kind of skill is essential for leader, I should also have this kind of skills to grab attention
of public while communicating with them in front of audience. I had selected this skills in order
to enhance my level of confidence is very low as I am not able to communicate in front of large
numbers of public. Hence, their should be higher level of determination and confidence at the
time of sharing my opinion as well as views with the public.
Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you access your
competence?
I have good public speaking skills because of which I can properly convey my opinions and
ideas to audience. Public speaking skill will assist me in increasing my level of confidence and
also enhancing my knowledge. Hence, it is essential for me to use that information while
communicating with audience. In order to achieve effective skills of public speaking I can
attend seminars and English speaking classes. With this, it will help me in improving my
command and control on my public speaking. Along with this, it will be easy for me to speak in
front of public. Therefore, I can able to evaluate all these competencies through determining
public opinion and views.
Can you identify contradiction from your analysis above?
After taking feedback of my team, I analysed that there is very low level of confidence in me
and I also get hesitated while speaking in front of audience. Due to this reason I cant able to
grab public attention by my speaking ability. Hence, I have to get over from this issue so that I
can able to speak in front of large numbers of peoples as well as also able to grab attention of
audience towards my presentation and speech.
How this skill will help me in the future?
It is very essential skills as it will assist me in giving presentation in front of employees, team
members and managers. Along with this, it also aid me in stimulating public as well as give
them proper information in order to raise awareness among public.
Pro- forma of Team-building
What is the core skill to develop?
According to (Sims, Hewitt and Harris, 2015) team building skills is an collective concept in
which several kinds of activities are adopted to improve social relations along with this also
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defines roles in teams by including collaborative work. It is very essential skill which should be
developed in particular person as it will aid in accomplishment of well-defined projects
provided by them in an effective manner within the specified time. It will also aid in creating
and building better relations within teams. Working in team help in accomplishing task
effectively and efficiently within the given period of time. If all employees will perform their
work while coordinating with each other will help in meeting set objectives and targets
properly. Along with this, team leader also play essential role in encouraging and motivating
team members in a proper way.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on?
Team building skills is essential as in the current competitive enterprises scenario teams
projects are provided against goals which should be meet to maintain the growth and survival
within corporate (Ellis and Bach, 2015). Team work will aid in meeting set objectives and goals
in an proper manner. Working in team is essential as in this two or more than two peoples
comes together in order to meet common targets in an effective way. Additionally, sometime I
feel very much stressful as well as helpless while working on my targets and thus I require
support of my friends and employees in order to perform my job activities in a proper manner.
Hence, I choose this skill with the aim of enhancing knowledge while working in team.
Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you access your
competence?
According to my analysis, I can say that I am having good team building skills and I can say
this because my motivation as well as communication skills are good through which I
effectively motivate my team members but i also think that my level of confident is very low
while giving guidance to my team members. Hence, it is essential for me to enhance my
confidence level in order to build effective coordination within team members and along with
this it will also enhance my knowledge to give them proper guidance of their work.
Additionally, I take feedbacks from my seniors to enhance my skills as well as also take
feedbacks of my team members towards my working activities. Toolkit such as Jung personality
Test will aid me in evaluating my core knowledge and skill. By this test can able to know my
presence skills within myself.
Can you identify contradiction from your analysis above?
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In this, I have very low level of confident while interacting with my group members. So, I get
failed in order to stimulate them towards the company objectives and goals. With this, I am not
able to boost motivating level of them to perform their work it will gave negatively impact on
my team building skills. Additionally, it is important for me to attend organizational meeting so
that I can able to improve my skills as well as achieve positive results easily. In this, I had taken
suggestion from my employees and I monitored that I cant able to listen all the group members
which create negativity among them.
How this skill will help me in the future?
This skill of team building is very essential in order to achieve objectives and goals of the firms
in a very systematic manner. Team building skills will aid me in enhancing various others
abilities like as problem solving, communication skills and many more. It will contribute in
improving my knowledge as well as skills at the same time and also enhance my skills of
leadership that help in creating a positive workplace.
Pro- forma of Conflict Solving
What is the core skill to develop?
Conflict solving is conceptualized as a process and method involved which assist in peaceful
resolving of issues and disputes (Coopman and Lull, 2014). It will aid in resolving issues which
take place within working environment and it is the responsibility of supervisor to manage the
conflicts in a proper way. conflicts always have a negative impact on enterprise activities and it
also hamper on overall performance of organisation. Hence, it is essential for manager to have
proper conflict solving skills for enhancing the chances of achieving positive results.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on?
Conflict solving skills is very essential for me to solve problems in an proper way. Along with
this, I can use effective techniques to make proper solution of problem which take place within
working environment. Through this, I will be able to enhance enterprise activities as well as
make positive workplace easily. I choose this skills in order to increase my leadership skills
which will enhance my own personality as well.
Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you access your
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competence?
I have better skills of conflict solving which help me in maintaining strong relations with staff
members in the firms. Through interacting with managers and employees, I assessed that I can
deal with disputes as well as also identify best solution in an systematic manner. Through this, I
can also handle the situation of disputes in a very effective way. I can gain this skills by
knowing the main reasons of conflicts and by using techniques through which I can able to
eliminate the conflicts within workplace.
Can you identify contradiction from your analysis above?
According to my analysis, I observed that sometimes I get failed in handling problems properly
and I cant able to deal with every type of disputes situation. Hence, I have to concentrate on my
skill to enhance my knowledge in order to deal with disputes along with this also tries to
identify best solution of resolving conflicts properly. In this, I analysed my teams views in
which I observed that it needs improvement the way of conflict solving.
How this skill will help me in the future?
Conflict solving is an very essential skill which aid me in future to properly manage all type of
conditions as well as conflicts take place within working environment. Along with this skill I
can also able to deal and manage with any type of problems in an effective way.
Pro- forma of Time Management
What is the core skill to develop?
Time management is the procedure of exercising as well as planning conscious control of time
on particular activities, mainly to raise productivity, efficiency and effectively (Carnegie, 2017).
This is juggling act of several study demand, employment, personal interest, social life and
commitments with time limit. This skill is important to be developed in order to accomplish the
task within the given period of time.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on?
Time management is important for completing work within limited period of time in order to
achieve targets effectively. I had selected this skills to enhance my productivity within the
workplace in order to accomplish my work on time.
Reflect on your current competent regarding this skill. How did you access your
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competence?I analysed that I my time management skills is strong because I am able to
manage my work on time as well as it will help me in increasing my level of productivity within
workplace. I can able to gain expertise in this time management skills my making proper plan
of by day to day activities in order to manage my time of every activity.
Can you identify contradiction from your analysis above?
As per my analysis, I feel that sometime having a work load at peak time make me so confused
and stressful. Through this I cant able to handle my work properly within the given period of
time. As when I get confused and stressful I cant able to focus on my work. I had taken the
feedback of my employees and I have seen that it needs very much improvements to manage
the work within the given time period.
How this skill will help me in the future?
Time management will help me enhancing my skills and knowledge through managing a time
of every activity. This will help me in concentrating on work properly which will improve my
productivity in future.
Action plan
As per above information, it is analysed that I have to enhance my three skills and areas
are: conflict solving, team work and time management. These all skills are very important as it is
helpful as well as effective in order to make enterprises process efficient and successful.
Additionally, these all skills are required at each stage of an company. In term of this, I collected
some of beneficial and effective data from various sources as I was thinking that I am having
skills to deal with any type of issues of an teams and individual people. Team building is a
effective core ability as well as it aid in coordinating within in various skills and activities for
achieving set objectives and aims in an appropriate way. I encourage my team to work in
coordinating with each other for meeting common objectives and goals of an company. I have
skills to handle disputes and make appropriate solution of issues within employees. By taking
feedbacks, I can able to know peoples perception about buyers products and services.
Conflict management skills
In this skills, my strength are that can able to handle the conflicts easily which take place
within workplace but my weakness is that my way of solving conflicts is not so effective. In
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order to develop my personal needs I have to enhance this skills for improving my leadership
skills.
Time management skills
In this time management skills, it is my weakness that I cant able to manage time
effectively. I require to work on enhancing my abilities of managing a proper time of my every
activity. In order to improve my this skills I have to make schedule so that I can complete my
work on given period of time. Strength are I can able to accomplish my all the work on given
period of time. This help me in achieving goals and objectives within the given period of time.
For enhancing personal development need I have to make a proper plan for achieving day to day
activities on time.
Team building skills
In this skills, my weakness are that I cant able to manage work within teams due to that
workers can not achieve goals and objectives of the company. Hence, it order to manage team
building they have to coordinate with each other so that they achieve targets properly. For
improving my this skill I have to make my positive attitude within workplace. Strength are that I
can work within groups by coordinating with each others through that which I can easily achieve
my set plans as per objectives and goals. In order to enhance my personal requirements I have to
take learning programs for improving my skills properly.
These all skills are very important to have within particular person so it is necessary to
improve this skills in an proper manner in order to develop myself and career as well.
CONCLUSION
As per above report, it has been concluded that prepare a personal development plan
which is important to enhance own skills as well as knowledge to achieve set objectives and
targets as well. By reflective journals, create a action plan, development a individual plan which
can able to develop abilities and skills. With this, it is necessary for particular person to analyse
their weakness and strength for achieving positive results along with this also develop career and
growth.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
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Sims, S., Hewitt, G. and Harris, R., 2015. Evidence of collaboration, pooling of resources,
learning and role blurring in interprofessional healthcare teams: a realist
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Coopman, S. J. and Lull, J., 2014. Public speaking: The evolving art. Cengage Learning.
Carnegie, D., 2017. How to develop self-confidence and influence people by public speaking.
Simon and Schuster.
Autesserre, S., 2014. Peaceland: Conflict resolution and the everyday politics of international
intervention. Cambridge University Press.
Mischel, W., DeSmet, A. L. and Kross, E., 2014. Self-regulation in the service of conflict
resolution (pp. 310-330). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Cottrell, S., 2015. Skills for success: Personal development and employability. Macmillan
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Travers, C. J., Morisano, D. and Locke, E. A., 2015. Self‐reflection, growth goals, and academic
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