Understanding Self and Others: Reflective Journal and Skill Analysis

This homework assignment delves into the critical aspects of understanding oneself and others, focusing on the development of core skills essential for personal and professional growth. The student has provided a reflective journal entry, analyzing skills such as focus and attention, time management, and assertiveness/conflict resolution. The report breaks down the importance of each skill, the student's current competency level, contradictions identified, and how these skills will be beneficial in the future. The student provides detailed insights into their self-assessment, identifying areas for improvement and strategies for skill enhancement. The document also includes a comprehensive overview of the importance of time management and assertiveness in achieving individual and organizational goals. This resource is designed to help students learn about self-assessment and skill development.

UNDERSTANDING SELF
AND OTHERS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Understanding self and others is a process which is required to enhance individual's skill
and to provides motivation to them for attaining their desired objectives easily. For a single
person it is important that they develop self an others through appropriate approach. These kind
of ideas helps an individual to build a strategy that provide effective objectives and deepest core
values easily. For this it is very important that a person understand their own strength and
weaknesses that provides desired success easily (Baron and Lombardo, 2013). For individual's
weakness, it is important to get some training and development process to enhance their skills
easily. This research report is representing my core skills that helps to change attribute,
interpersonal skills, activity, working capability and quality for different approaches. In this, I
am representing my key skills as Focus and attention, Time-management, assertiveness/conflict
or written communication as well as describe a out line for enhance my ability through various
methods and facilitating ideas. These skills are based on my own objective and career goals.
TASK 1
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Appendix A: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ENTRY PRO-FORMA
Core skill- Focus and attention
According to Baumeister (2013) Focus and attention is a type of skill that use to make
possibility to quickly identify relevant stimulations easily. This process also build power in
human's mind that create ability to understand each and every aspect easily and effectively.
Through this skill a individual can mentally focused on both internal and external situation that
requires to clearly ans carefully identify to getting appropriate results. These kind of approach
build appropriate concentration power in individual's mind that helps to analyse each and
every situation easily. Its not about professional life of an individual but also provides
practical approve in their personal lifestyle to solve each and every issues easily.
Importance of skills
Focus and attention is core skill of an individual that helps to build concentration on specific
working approach and their clear objectives. Through this process I can easily gain various
competitive advantage through observing each and every element that related to its benefit and
disadvantages. There are some other importance of this skill are given below -
Help to create clear objectives: Focus and attention is a only skill that aid to create specific
visions and objectives that helps to provide desired outcomes easily. Through this process I
can easily observe different kind of element that helping me to get appropriate success easily.
For a individual person it is important that they create their own objective that provide clear
direction and path to attain future success.
Enhance learning and observation power: This is advantages of this skill that it is provides
observation power and enhance learning approach easily. Through this I can easily observe
each and every situation to make exact decision according to them. This skill will also helping
me to enhance my decision making approach and problem solving skill easily. All these
working skill helping to attain desired goals and objectives easily in future.
Improve working memory: Focus and attention is a skill that used to improve individual's
memory and their understanding power. Working memory is very important to understand
each and every element easily and to provide effective decision on them. These kind of things
build positive working environment and motivation to others (Cozolino, 2014).
Current competent regarding the skills
Focus and attention is required skill as I observe, so for this I am working to enhance my skill
through different practices. For this, first I observe each and every element that helping me to
understand its advantages and disadvantages for future. After this research I analyse that I
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need to work on this to enhance my skill according to future requirement. For this I am going
to use conferences and online season that improve my concentration power toward my
working approaches.
Identification of contradictions from analysis
I am not very good to concentrate on each and every element this is an only reason that
contradict between my focus and attention skill. My seniors and management staff also
suggesting me to improve my skill to attain higher business advantages easily. Through this
process I can easily build appropriate objective that helping me to attain desired outcomes
easily.
How might this skill helpful in future
Focus and attention is core skill that helping me to create effective objectives according to
future needs and requirement. Through this skill I can easily improve my concentration power
toward different kind of task and working approaches. By enhancing this skill I can easily
attain my desired objective in appropriate manner and build strong control on each and every
situation easily.
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Appendix B: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ENTRY PRO-FORMA
Core skill- Time-management
According to Deci and Ryan, (2010) time management is a process that includes organising,
planning and implementing business activity in effective manner and on appropriate time.
Through this process an individual can easily attain various opportunity that they can get
through effective management. These skills of a person make them strong to face different
kind of challenges easily. Good time management provide various path to work smarter not
harder, so that it ca be done on appropriate time and provides higher satisfaction easily.
Importance of skills
Time management is a core skill that used to provide effective direction and priorities to attain
exact solution. This skill is not only useful for personal life of mine but also positively
impacting on my personal lifestyle. Through this I can easily attain different kind of
opportunities that provides desired growth to me. There are various importance of time
management skill are given below-
Helps to avoid distraction: Time management skill of mine always helps me to avoid
negative distraction that can affect my working approaches directly. Through this skill I can
easily make my full concentration toward my task and creative solution that reduce extra work
load and provide different opportunities for me. For a individual person it is very important to
make their full focus on their own work that needs to be completed before the time or on exact
time.
Provide priorities: for managing each and every activity of mine, I always using time
management approach to fix them according to its priority bases. Through this I can easily
reduce extra work load and complete my work on exact timing. Some task taking lots of time
and reduce my productivity, so for this I need to manage my things clear on earlier bases to
getting exact outcomes easily (Gonzales and Hancock, 2011).
Increase opportunities: Time management is effective skill of an individual that helping me
to attain exact outcomes easily. Through this skill I get various working opportunities that
enhance my working approaches easily. Extra working time and time consuming activities
always minimise my working skill. So for this I can easily manage my opportunity by getting
time management approach.
Current competent regarding the skills
Time management skill is very important for me to attain different kind of opportunities
easily. I also working on this skill to grab various opportunities easily. I uses different methods
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as online examination, work on typical projects, deadline working aproaches to attain different
working approaches easily. Through this I can easily manage my various activities on exact
timing that provides me different opportunities. But I am not as much effective in this
approach to attaining different kind of challenges easily. After attaining some inline
examination and different task I get good results that improve my past skill at on a effective
level.
Identification of contradictions from analysis
Time management skills take lots of time to improve it in exact manner. For me it is hard to
enhance my skill at on exact timing so for this I attain several online examination that helps to
done my task on proper timing. Less time engagement skill reduce career path for grab
opportunities easily. In this process some challenges make difficulties to complete them on
exact time. This is not an easy task that provide quick result to everyone. As per some research
I observe that time management requires more practice to build exact concentration on
different task to solve them easily.
How might this skill helpful in future
Time management is a core skill that helping to attain future objectives easily. This task is
very important for me attain future objectives and different opportunities easily. If I manage
my working approach on exact time then I can easily face several challenges from market.
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Appendix C: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ENTRY PRO-FORMA
Core skill- Assertiveness / conflict resolution
According to Rochat, (2014)Assertiveness is determine a term in which a individual is talked
about a specific topic that resolve conflicts for lack of assertion skill. This is basically denoted
for confident and assertiveness nature of an individual who have capability to resolve various
conflicts and barriers without getting offend. In this a person believe to answer politely and
resolve their issues in requesting nature. They are vary calm and strong by emotion and nature.
Assertiveness is a skill of individual in which they pays off effectively in long run and live
conflict free and successful life easily.
Importance of skills
This is important skill of individual in which they needs to be calm and effective in their
approaches to provide confident solution of various problems easily. In assertiveness skill of
individual, they working to resolve various issues and conflicts of a person that helps to build
positive working environment in business organisation. There are some other importance of
this skill are given below as-
Finding resolution: This skill is very important as this aid me in explicit my views intelligibly
or calmly as well as also by respecting others' orientation. This also help me in partitioning the
reasons of conflict so that business activities can be finished effectively without protective
covering any of threat (Cozolino, 2014). through this I can easily build positive relation with
my employees to attaining higher business objectives and build positive working environment
easily.
Resolve conflicts and barriers: Assertiveness of a n individual always helping to resolver
various issues and conflicts that are negatively affecting on business policy and approaches. I
have selected this skill to indicate a human nature because I observe so many conflictual
condition at my work station.
Current competent regarding the skills
My listening skills are very effective that helps to me collect information from both sides and
after that I provide them effective solution. I have also give-and-take skills through which I
negotiate with my employees and others as well as come with a solution which develops win-
win situation for me and them(Deci and Ryan, 2010). Thus, I have ability to reduce conflict
and barriers very effectively. I approach this ability from discussing conflicts and conflicts of
my friends when they come to me for solving their personal and professional issues.
Identification of contradictions from analysis
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There is a opposition and other hand of people's thinking or their opinion that I am a person of
overlooking nature on different situations. Due to this reason I generally loose my confidence
level by other's persuasion and never thinks that my decision is always correct. This attitude of
mine needs to changed for getting right track of concentrating on employees perception.
How might this skill helpful in future
For a who wants to become a successful leader and person through different characteristics
and skills are needs to grab assertiveness nature. This will helping me to making calmness in
my thought distinctly in front of others. After this, it also help me to focusing on different
views of other people so that I can provide resolution of their problems in effective manner.
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Appendix D: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ENTRY PRO-FORMA
Core skill- Written Communication
According to Salvatore, (2012) written skill is an important part of an individual's
communication that needs to be effective and impactful for others. Good communication
allows to covey messages, thoughts and ideas to each and every one easily. Batter writing skill
always build trust in others mind toward work that communicate each and every thoughts
effectively in front of others. This communication approach is always representing in exact
format that attract receiver to communicate in exact manner. In new era this communication
approach is basically uses in professional life that provides confidential information to each
other easily.
Importance of skills
Communication skill of a individual needs to be effective and impressive that easily elaborate
thoughts and ideas to each other. In this process communication skill requires a exact format to
frame through and ideas in front of others easily. For this approach individual person analyse
its importance to using it in their professional working approach. There are some other
importance of written communication are given below-
Helps in representing own self on front of others: Written communication always helping to
represent own self in front of others without any doubt and barrier. Written communication is
doing through a exact format that provides written words to others as evidence. This skill of an
individual requires different kind of format that needs to follow before communicate to each
other. This is working in a formal way and provides proper information to receiver. Through
this skill I can easily represent myself in front of other through written thoughts, ideas and
communication method.
Building effective relationship: This communication approach is basically use to resolve
issues and conflicts from individuals relation. Fro me it is very important to build positive
relation with my peers and co-worker to work in a positive working environment. This process
and skill will helping me to attain higher success easily and provide format to elaborate my
though directly in front of others.
Current competent regarding the skills
Written communication is very important for me to elaborate my thoughts and ideas in front of
other directly. This process is building positiveness for those individual who can speaks and
explain their thoughts verbally in front of other (Serrat, 2017). I can easily communicate
through written format to my colleagues so this skill helping me to build trust in their mind.
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Through this approach I will attain my career goal and objectives and other competitive
advantages easily. Written communication skill will easily enchaining written ability of
individual to higher advantages and convey thoughts and ideas easily.
Identification of contradictions from analysis
Written communication is not a easy topic that can easily use to convey thoughts and ideas to
each other, so for this I needs to improve my written skill in formal manner that provide
effective advantages easily. I am not as much effective in written skill to grab all advantages
easily. For this I needs to make things change in formal manner and use effective formatting in
my written approach. All these things will enable me to create things effective and convey my
ideas to my peers. For this I will taking help of my seniors employees and make my written
communication more effective and impactful for others.
How might this skill helpful in future
Written communication will helping me to attain future advantages easily. For this process I
needs to improve my verbal communication and focus or attraction skill to provide exact
thoughts and ideas to others that impact on their understanding power directly. This skill will
directly impacting on my professional career that needs a impactful communication with
peers, employees and other business owners to getting desired objectives easily. Written
communication is using to convey thoughts and ideas clearly to others in effective manner that
provides clear vision and mission as well (Sosik and Cameron, 2010).
TASK 2
Summary
For a individual person it is very important to improve their personal skill and quality
approaches that can helping them to create competitive advantages easily. All individual's have
different strengths and weakness ans there are my personal approach are given below
Strength Weaknesses
 Focus and attention
 Assertiveness / conflict resolution
 Written communication
 Time management
This research is determine that I needs to work on my skill to improve my weaknesses
through various methods because these will helping me to attain future goals and objectives
easily (van, 2011).
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Action plan
I needs to build some action plan to improve my weaknesses as-
Enhancing resolving power - I analyse that there is a space between lower and higher
level of employees due to this reason, so many difficulty and conflicts are rising that are
negatively affecting on my performance in my work place. Therefore, all these type of issues are
needs to be resolved as well as remove in impressive and effective manner as soon as possible so
that activity can be accomplished effectively (Wiklund and Wagner, 2013).
Aids in resolving issues: This process is basically using in resolving conflicts and
barriers from firm that can affect their working environment directly. For written communication
will directly affecting my working approach and other skill that needs to be improve quickly.
Written communication is basically uses in formal manner that provides proof to receiver and
sender through letter and paper working.
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