University CW2 Portfolio: Reflective Summary of Development Workshop

This portfolio and reflective summary details a student's experience in a professional development workshop. The workshop covered self-assessment, goal setting using the SMART framework, and career development planning. The student created documents such as a cover letter, career development plan, goal setting worksheet, skills worksheet, and a 5-minute career action plan. The report includes a leadership test analysis and emphasizes learnings in time management, team contribution, and skill development. The student reflects on the workshop's impact on their professional and personal growth, highlighting the value of mini-workshops in fostering comprehensive development and future employability. The student's portfolio showcases the practical application of these tools and documents, along with a detailed analysis of the learning process. The report also includes a conclusion and references to support the student's claims.

CW2 Portfolio and
Reflective Summary

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK...............................................................................................................................................4
Summary......................................................................................................................................4
List of evidences..........................................................................................................................6
Cover Letter.................................................................................................................................6
Career Development Plan............................................................................................................7
Goal setting worksheet................................................................................................................8
Self-Development and success....................................................................................................9
Skills worksheet.........................................................................................................................10
Team contribution......................................................................................................................10
5 minute career action plan........................................................................................................11
Leadership Test..........................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Today job market has become ultra competitive due to the increasing complexity of the
requirements needed to fulfil the corporate job roles which have also diversified over time.
In order to make sure that one's personal development and capacity for future employability
is at maximum possible level, a comprehensive all around development is necessary. This
report will focus on the through personal development that occurs when people are subjected
to a comprehensive mini-projects workshops which provides them with various documents
and tools which fasten their progress of continuous self and group learning and a direct
impact on their professional and academic life.
TASK
Summary
The mini projects workshop has been very beneficial when it comers to my personal
learning and development as it contained a variety of documents, analysis and tools which
helped me identify, process and implement a through professional learning framework in my
personal and professional life which is bound to assist me in the future. I was taught how to
conduct a thorough self analysis in order to identify my personal skills and competencies which
is the first step towards progressing towards any relevant career goal. This practice also helped
me identify some key competencies that I do not possess which is also a major initial step one
must take to outline their personal development plans. Apart from that, I was also made to read a
variety of boos of different domains and fields which helped broader my knowledge on a variety
of subjects and I was also asked to maintain a writing log of the same which also improved my
writing and reflective skills which also have value in today's corporate job market. The workshop
also taught me that simply identifying my personal weaknesses is not enough and I must learn to
set goals with effectiveness to mitigated these problems in a time bound manner with the help of
SMART framework which was very helpful to me. This framework allows goals to be Specific,

Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time bound which helped to set forth a detailed career
action plan which was a 5 minute worth quick summarization of my future plans which also
helped me gain clarity regarding my future growth aspirations. This was later supplemented by
me being taught to develop a comprehensive career development plan which included both my
current and long term aspirations as one must have a clear career oriented vision to succeed in
life. The workshop was also very helpful in teaching me some key universal skills which help
people to gain employment and perform with robust productivity across multiple job positions
and domains such as teamwork and time management. I was made to participate in various
teamwork activities and my contribution and details of my work were also highlighted for the
purpose of self reflection and some tasks that I performed were also recorded with the help of a
watch which directly helped me in time management. The mini workshop also helped in gaining
some practical skills which helps secure high profile jobs by impressing the recruiters such as
drafting of a proper cover letter which showcases my seriousness as a candidate and professional
while also giving a brief overview of m skills and competencies without making people go
through my entire CV. I was also equipped with the knowledge of how to write and respond to
career consent forms which is also something that helped enrich my knowledge regarding the
various documentations that one has to go through in the professional job market. The following
documents will be included in this report to showcase the various developmental assets and
documents that I was subjected to showcase my learnings from this workshop as valid evidences.
Cover letter
Model consent form
Goal setting worksheet
Career development plan
5 minute career action plan
Reading log
Skills worksheet
Team contribution
Time management
Teamwork activities

Leadership
Project brief
List of evidences
Cover Letter
This document is sent along with CV when an individual applies for job. This will help in
defining his capabilities and how his skills bring efficiency to company’s project. It provides a
chance to demonstrate why you are appropriate for this job. Candidate may highlight the key
skills and how it can be used in making company more effective and efficient. So it is important
to have cover letter with CV. This will help me in showing my skills and how they makes me a
good candidate. By this employer get to know more about me and becomes easier to understand
me.

Career Development Plan
This document contains short term and long term goals that employees wants to achieve in their
current and future goals. It have a formal and informal experiences that helps in assisting their
goals. By this an individual can come to know about his strengths and weaknesses sob that he
can take effective measures in order to overcome his weaknesses. As I have come to know that
there are many areas where I am lacking and in many field I am good. By creating an effective
career plan it allows me to evaluate my performance and what is needed to achieve short and
long term objectives. As I want to become a manager in my future and this will help me in
becoming successful manager as I can manage my time and activities with my career in order to
achieve those objectives.

Goal setting worksheet
This will help individual in understanding what an individual wants to achieve. It becomes easy
for him once he find out what he want tob achieve. The goals must be realistic and this will help
in formulating strategy which will drive to attainment of goals. The goal should be clear and
specific so that it becomes easy to attain objectives. It will also cover the success criteria in
defining effectiveness of plan. It must include some benchmark or indicator that defines that an
individual has reached to goal. The goal must be realistic and not based on assumptions. So it is
needed to set that goal which is achievable and reachable too. It will also cover the level of
motivation after attaining goal. It is time bound which helps individual in keep tracking progress
over a period of time. This will help me in knowing what are my career goals and what are th
resources needed to attain those objectives. As I want to be a manager in my future and this
makes me in knowing my aspirations. As If I write it down makes me more clear an confident
towards my goal. I will set a success criteria for measuring success upon which I can compare
with my future performance with goals. If the performance is not up to mark, I will work upon in

order to make it possible. I will set my goals that are realistic and will try to achieve them within
given time. This will enhance my time management skill and I can use in my profession. With
proper formulation of business strategy, it allows me to manage my tasks with my activities. It
will help me in streamlining the process of managing resources. It is one of the most important
skill that I will learn with this goal setting worksheet. I will also maintain this worksheet in my
future career as it will help me in managing my time with my goals.
Self-Development and success
This is a framework that will help in preparing individual for success. By this, he can come to
know about self development and responsibility. What are the repsoninbility it is required to take
in order to achieve goals. This will help me in my future in managing my work and responsibility
in order to be a successful person. With higher process, responsibilities also come and it is eeded
to develop individual which makes him successful.

Skills worksheet
Every individual have different skills and it is needed to have write on skills worksheet. It
contains various skills that an individual have. It will help indefining what is exactly individual
is. He can come to know about his strongest skills and what skills he is lacking in. He hav eto
improve his skills in which he lacks. I have observed that I am good at assigned and guided skills
that describes me.
Team contribution
This will help me in gaining skills of team management and can manage my team effectively. I
am good at listening skills and that makes me a good listener.I always takes decision on facts not
on assumptions. I am also having multi tasking skill that makes me in doing more than one work
at a time. It will help me in saving my time. I can manage my team and have all traits that makes
me a good manager.
Reading Log

This log will help me in managing my task and prioritize them based on necessity. I can write
my activities that I have to do in my future and rank them on the basis of priority. I will put my
career on top as it will lead me towards attainment of goals.
5 minute career action plan

This career action plan was very beneficial in helping me chart out the best possible way
to go about developing opportunities to work in my field of interest in the simplest way possible.
All the goals so formed in this document were within the constraints of the SMART framework
which made sure that the goals and practises which I enlisted were all ready to be achieved in a
time bound manner. This SMART action plan detailed the steps which I will need to secure a job
position in the field of finance in the future which I am interested in as it detailed the steps which
I need to take in order to get in touch with a career consultant or example. The plan also included
the identification of key skills needed in the field of finance and also details the processes need
to eventually reach full proficiency in such skills.
Leadership Test
This evaluation was also very helpful for e as it helped me identify the various styles of
leadership that my behaviours and thought processes give the impression of and the styles which
which while being developed well still have room left for further optimization. I got to
understand that my personal leaning is towards authoritative and affiliative styles of leadership
which is a bit of a worrying sign as being authoritative as a leader in the current business
landscape is enough to get work done but not at the cost of employee well-being and happiness.
This part of the workshop was also helpful in knowing that I do not possess much qualities of a
coercive leader which is plain wrong in my point of view but I would personally like to develop
a much fairer brand of personal leadership with focus on transformational leadership which

according to the evaluation done above need maximum effort from my side as there is a lot of
room for improving my leadership skills.
CONCLUSION
The above report went into detail regarding the various learnings that mini workshops subject
onto people which participate in it which also results in comprehensive development from
various aspects. The report included a brief summary wherein all the learnings which
happened during the entire course of the workshop such as time management proficiency,
learning self analysis and the process of SMART goal setting. The report also included the
critical analysis of learning and development through 12 critical evidences which included
the likes of cover letter, time management worksheet and personal skill assessment sheet. It
was ultimately concluded from this report that in order to develop a comprehensive personal
development framework, mini workshops are often times, very important as they encourage
all around development.