Personal and Professional Development
Personal and Professional Development
(Self Managed Learning, 1994-2012) According to Kolb (1984) "learning is the process whereby knowledge
is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from the combination of grasping experience and transforming it."
Learning refers to acquiring new knowledge and skills. An effective self learner can be access by his performance through perspective and goals. Effective learning involved with ongoing tasks, review the learning goals, strategies and outcomes and context. To perform and succeed in personal life and professional careers one should have to create knowledge through experience and learning, and blending those and generate knowledge. (Alan Chapman, 2012)
Time Management
Time never change and once it lost means lost forever, so managing time is vital and it means managing oneself with what time actually have, besides that it means change the behavior of oneself. The time management process possible by better organized, due to that helps to more productive and stay in cool.
Stress Management
Stress management refers control over ones emotions, thoughts of emotions, family, work, heavy work schedules or from relationships. Stress management is vital to perform in leadership roles otherwise, it have an effect on the performance, due to that the proper measuring of reasons behind the stress and manage it accordingly with suitable solutions.
Presentation Skills
A good leader should put up with leadership qualities and have a good presentation skill to lead the group to success. The leader should be a good listener and even be a good teacher, and then only the leader can motivate the group and communicate in effective way to subordinate groups for solving the issues through proper manner. The presentations skills to be developed maintained and communicated for the overall performance of both personal and organizational achievements.
The quote by Dr. Stephen Covey,attaining management skills requires prioritizing work which is important but not urgent. (covey, 2010)
Analysis
The learning styles consists of different merits and demerits, the above style helps this author to manage dynamically the above discussed skills, besides that it helps to achieve the manager level actions of setting the deadlines, plan to get future goals, visualization of pros and cons of activities, significance of feedback from levels of management.
Skill Development
The personal skill audit discloses the personal learning style and leadership skills besides that managerial behavior and activities that helps to realize own strengths and weaknesses. The realized weaknesses can be overcome through training and development programs for to effectively achieve goals. As a result of this the significance revealed for acting with care in over all works such as running meeting, care of fire exists, feedbacks, importance of visual aids, audience learning style, interpretation, understanding and even more in acting with care and practical steps has to continue to complete the management skills.(3.2)
The success depend on identifying the problems and find suitable solutions from the choices at right time, besides that the success depends the implementation of the plan, the success goes with those who implement the plan correctly. So both the developing of personal and professional plans required activities.
Stress Management
The stress management skill is an art and it is a grace to an ideal manager, besides that it helps to perform any critical situations in a pleasant manner, more over the manager can guided and to be a model for group members. To control the stress at critical stages it is better to practice some methods such as , to be optimistic and relaxed, broad minded, kind hearted, cautious to take preventive actions, practice meditation to maintain cool mind, learn methods to deal apprehension and attend counseling as well as awareness programs.
Effective Presentation
The art of effective presentation skill attracts listeners a great extend and it can motivate listeners and it helps to attain the meeting goal or organizational goal with limited resources and express the idea as it means. S o it is essential to develop the presentation skill. The methods such as improving the presentation skill, strategic approach to flow of presentation, delivering prcised points, appearance, convincing and impressing listeners in a great manner helps to present a dynamic presentation.
Conducting Meetings
Meetings are part of strategy to develop team work. The strategy managed organizations conduct meetings for the effective management by absorbing innovative and creative ideas, views and objectives and every meeting it has an aim and the successful meeting met the aim and to conduct a successful meeting
the manager should have efficiency in that skill. To conduct an effective meeting, the manager should have to meet the tips such as, develop a team, formation of agenda, and follow the agenda and more over straight talk with expression of views.
The time log is important to any manager to accomplish the works in scheduled time, besides that it helps to smooth function and goals attainment, further more helps to use the time effectively. The time logs and questionnaires are usually verifying for inspecting the time utilizing effectively or not. The findings are:-
It is recognized that this author not utilized the time effectively, so that necessary corrective steps has taken to maximum utilization of time effectively. The analysis of daily time log sheet and weekly time
log sheet forced this author to change the time management strategy. A self explanatory schedule attached here with for the utilization of time from start of time management, how much time saved and how the saved time utilized(Appendix-A, Appendix-B) , besides that a schedule for learning style diagnosis chart shown in the appendix.(Appendix-c)
On completion of the time log it is recognized that, the time is precious and once it lost it cannot recouped, so the author now using the precious time carefully and effectively, besides that started a daily plan for coordinating the routine activities.
The leading people should be free from bad temper, fear, scattered and foggy mind and other stresses, so that the it is essential to recognize the reasons behind the stress by auditing it remedies should take in action for a better personal life and professional career, besides that to enjoy a pleasant social, professional and family life. Control stress is an art and the reason behind stress due to various social, personal, work place and relationship reasons. To identify such situations and avoid with suitable solutions is
necessary.
The stress audit form filled duly and it revealed the stress related matters up to an extent. The result indexed me to the problems of stress and the remedies put in action and now feel more relaxed with a flexible cool minded and confident to take any role in an organization.
In order to hold the key position in an organization, the manager indebted to correct himself up to a degree and be able to avoid delays in action, besides that can perform duties more quicker than before. To reach that level the author started to perform some strategically changes in stress management such as meditation to better the mental ability to overcome stress.
Specific:obtaining
in presentation skills by avoiding shyness, audience fear by which making small presentations among friends, family
members or other interested groups and get feedback from them, besides that record it for verification and analysis to obtain the remedies for to improve the skill. Meanwhile it is necessary to improve the time management by maintaining daily and weekly time table. These processes providing the author with a great confidence and the specific plan lead achievable goals.
Achievable: - The goals set in this program are achievable and for the improvements in skill management, the author started to attend seminars, attending discussion groups, joined with online
professional management groups to achieve the goals. These activities make a person in key level position and it is essential to perform in managerial role. To attain that it is practicing daily and weekly time logs to manage the activities.
Swot, analysis is a tool used for analyzing the situation for decision making, it is a frame work of reviewing strategy, position and direction of an individual or an organization and it is used for business planning, strategic planning, competitor analysis, business and product development, research report, team building more over personal skill development. Strengths Listing advantages those others dont have, such as skills, certifications, education, and connections.etc, and what can do better than others? What personal resources can access, what others seeing strength in oneself, the most proud achievements, values, connections with influential people.etc. Weaknesses What task avoiding due to unconfident, what others seeing weaknesses in one, confident about skill development, education if not where is the weakest area, negative work habits and how handling skills. Opportunities It is discussing the opportunities from all sources about new technology, internet, industry growth, and advantage from current market, advice from specialists, strategic contacts, and benefits from net work, education, conferences, and additional languages. Threats It discuss and realizing the obstacles facing at the moment, competitors, challenge from changes, threat changing technological change, turning the weaknesses to threat.etc. The swot analysis can prepare based on the reflected best self, besides that performing the analysis gives key information, more over it can identify the needs to be carryout and set problems to standpoint. Reflected best self based swot analysis attached (Appendixs-D)
that SMART goal, such as to get a good pass in the examination with distinction. But Tactics refers that the methods used to achieve the objectives.
So it is important that the whole area of the problem solving process required various tools and techniques. In order to meet this required problem solving skill and it has to develop, maintain and use.
4.2 Communication
Communication is more than the words we speak. Communication is about whom we are and how we express ourselves and relate to the world. Communication is the message we deliver through nonverbal as well as verbal means. Communication is the ultimate expression of who we are. (Gordan, 2012) The statement explains the importance of effective communication, so it is vital to every manager and individual to develop dynamic communication skills to address various situations in personal and professional situations. To make the communication powerful, the followings points to be considered for the effective delivery of idea and disclose the personality. To be clear about the idea to be conveys. Maintain diplomacy and good manners. Express in precisely and specifically. Understand the standpoint and framework. Integration of diversity in common ground. Action and words alignment. Communicate through silence Conflict with diversity of opinions Aware of context, text and subtext. Responsibility and flexibility.
Plan daily Prioritize tasks No to non essential tasks Delegation of works Take time for quality job Break time consuming tasks into small tasks Practice ten minute rule for big tasks Evaluation of time Block out calendar and limit distractions for urgent and big tasks Maintain good health Attend time management courses Relax when it required
Conclusion
To recapitulate, the personal development is the basic of optimizing a person with human values and skills, besides that adding the professional qualities and development enable one to reach the zenith of profession and these both leads to optimization.
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Appendices
I. II. Appendix-A Appendix-B Appendix-C Appendix-D
III. IV.