Skills Audit Preferred learning style and SWOT analysis

Skills audit is something which talks about your current skills opposing the skills you need in the future which will play an important role in your career. Skill audit helps you in determining your current skills, and diagnose what skills you need to accomplish your task which helps you to plan more effectively, and improve skills and knowledge in order to be a successful person in the future.

Implementing these skills audit are as follows:

The first thing you can do is to write down your existing skills and try to analyze what skills you will be needing in your future career which will helps you to plan and a leading dealer of the consequences. Try to analyze what skills are important for your current task.

The second priority is to list the skills and knowledge which helps you in your future career, which will also make impeccable your future planning.

Once you have completed your list you need to compare which skills are important and rate them accordingly. Determine your strong and lacking areas of skills where you need to work out.

Ask your friend or your instructor to retrospect your list and evaluate at which level you are standing. Make Sure that the evaluator should be honest and who would easily tell your truth without being afraid.

The last thing is to do develop your own strategy which will easily execute your plan and makes your strategy successful and fill the gaps of lacking areas.

We have many strategies and different learning styles in which we feel comfortable we will apply that methodology.

Some people emphasize more on soft skills they have that is also called communication skills. Soft skills help you in dealing with people at your work and people around you. People with good communication skills help in resolving the problem occur in the organization and in the personal life. And it may be help you in managing your task.

SWOT ANALYSIS:

The most important phenomena of living my life in an effective and peaceful manner is always be honest whatever you do be persistent and be delegated towards my work. These techniques would help me in achieving my targets and helps me in recognizing my strengths and opportunities and eradicate my weaknesses and threats around me.

STRENGTHS:

My communication skills helped me a lot and I have found new ways to deal with people. My delegation towards my work is really high that people always trust me and that is how I have good reputation among good people. The reason I am passionate about achieving my goal is because I am the person who possessed aim and I want to transmute my dreams into actualities. I am inspired by many leaders who possessed the good reputation in the past, and highly delegated towards their goals.

OPPORTUNITIES:

I always grab opportunities that can enhance my capabilities of learning something new and which will give a chance to find out new ways to deal with difficulties. I give my best when my team stands as one and cooperate with each other without any interruption. I always make people feel comfortable whatever the circumstances are I always give my best to deal with them.

WEAKNESSESS:

An emotional stability is one of my weaknesses that always infringe me in achieving my goals. The lack in emotional stability sometimes results in term of anger, which is hard for me to control. I am really looking forward to overwhelm these lacking areas.

THREATS:

People who damper my enthusiasm is the big threat for me. People focus more on negative aspects in my environment and try to discourage which affects my personal growth, and career. I always try to turn these threats into opportunities with the help of my communication strategies and communicate with the team and then make decisions.

produce a detailed action plan which demonstrates how you intend to address areas for further management and leadership development

The further management development starts from the responsibilities of manager towards achieving his task. In this fast changing and competitive environment managers need modifications in order to make new ways and strategies to cope up with the diversity occur in the organization.

Responsibilities for achieving the task include the clear vision for the group that perfectly defines the direction and segregate work to keep in view the worker’s skills and flexibility. Determine which resources, processes, and systems are used. Develop the strategy to achieve the task, tactics, time, measurements and by understanding and delegation. Setting the benchmark is to restrict your subordinates to achieve the level that is up to the mark and gain maximum results. Entertain properly the control and maintaining activities and monitor overall performance against plan.

Responsibilities as a manager for a group includes the standards and ethics to be performed in the workplace, define a proper organizational culture so your subordinates will be feeling comfortable in the environment and able to work efficiently and easily cope up with the situations. Manager should develop a team slogan to encourage his team towards the task and make them believe that they will be given their best to the task and will achieve the target. Threats which violated the organization’s morale, try to turn these threats in to opportunities that’s what many good managers with excellent communication skills does.

The most important action plan which helps managers to manage the department includes the understanding of individual, their personalities, skills, strengths, weaknesses, needs, and capabilities and assists them in such a way that you can support individuals-plans, conflicts, and challenges they face by them. Classify every individual’s objectives, and give appraisals in order to encourage them towards their tasks. Arrange career development programs to train them further because employees may need some new talent and in order to give them information about new technologies.

The good leaders always have command over these main areas. First a leader believes to do the entire task no matter whatever the circumstances are, he keeps the right balance according to the situation, gets results, and strengthen the morale, quality, and develops strategies to attain maximum satisfaction.

The most important function in leadership development includes planning keeping in view the appropriate information and elaborates the tasks in order to meet the standards. Commence the action and allocate the tasks with setting it’s standards. A good leader is proactive that supports individual and encourage team spirit and informing the tasks, plans, and schedule properly and give his feedback. Develop feasibility of plan to enable the assessment of the planned task. These all actions help leader in leading, and also includes strong emphasis by applying these techniques through training.

Explain the impact of learning styles on personal development.

Everyone has different learning style that is unique to the person and the way which seems interesting to him. Analyze your personal learning style by which you can give your best to the task and improve your personal life, which improves the time management also manage studies and, find new strategies to learn more.

SELF-AWARENESS AND MOTIVATION

Start realizing your thoughts, and be aware of your thoughts and decisions you take in order to make your life peaceful. Think position and develop healing pattern which encourage your thoughts and decision power in the position way. The more you know about yourself the better decision you will be taken. Self awareness also helps in spiritual growth when you have clear upstanding of your religion and believe you will start living accordingly.

CREATE PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS

In order to progress in your field you must learn how to make solutions of the problems occur, and must be able to describe or investigate the problem. Diagnose the causes of the problem that affects in your personal life, develop strategies and make alternates to resolve the problem, and analyze your weak areas where you are not able to make proper decisions. And at last implement your own strategy and assess the effective and efficiency of the decision.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Convey your message in such a way that people understand them clearly and having perfect idea what are you conveying. If your conveying method is not effective you will receive ambiguous feedback that other person perceived wrong. Find new ways to learn more about communication style that you can deal effective with people around you and build a trust through your good communication and make a good relationship.

PAIRED AND GROUP STYLE OF LEARING

The paired and group learning style is the most effective way to learn because a person will find a new ways from other people and learn from their experience to improve their personal life. Group learning style provides you the regularity and you will get better results. The paired and group style of learning also helps you in building your confidence and overwhelm shy factor. The group discussion will not only increase your knowledge but also helps in you progressing in personal growth. The advantages of group learning are numerous which provides an opportunity to compare results and helps in making accurate interpretation regarding to the personal life and career.

Assignment 2 – Personal Development Planning

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to provide a framework within which the learner can:

Prepare and implement a personal development plan .

Scenario

Your tutor has asked you to provide evidence of your own personal and professional development throughout the course of your studies for this learning programme.

As professional development is an ongoing process, this assignment will not be completed until the end of the learning programme.

Task 1

Produce an ongoing personal development plan and reflective record of management experience which sets out:

This provides evidence for 3a

Task 2

Compile a portfolio of evidence which demonstrates how you have implemented the actions in Task 1 above over a period of at least six months, and includes records of:

training and/or development needs from a recent appraisal or job review

action planning, diaries, learning journal

feedback from a variety of sources (eg manager, colleagues, customers)

This provides evidence for 3a

Task 3

Write a report of between 1000-1500 words which evaluates how well the main themes of the learning programme have impacted (or could in the future) on your work role and chosen career path. You should include an analysis of your strengths and weaknesses both at the start and end of the programme, and explain the importance of self review and how this informs future professional development

This provides evidence for 3b

Your objectives for career and life planning.

The actions you plan to take to meet these goals.

Your short/medium/long term goals and objectives.

The resources and support needed and available to meet objectives target dates for monitoring and review.

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Manager Personal Skill and Professional Skill

Introduction:

Developing effective management skills to deal with specific challenges and problems of each organization is the urgent needs of many businesses and organizations in the global competitive environment, rapid changing of technology and environment. The new tendency of training and development of successful organizations over the world today is developing effective skills in dealing with specific challenge of their own organization to reach their own mission and objectives in the new organization that characterized by networked, flat, flexible, diverse, global organization.

Based on the research in the world and in Vietnam, and from the success of previous workshops, the Center for Excellence in Management Development (CEMD) continuously offers the workshop on “Effective Management Skills” to help people and organization improving their own effectiveness and efficiency. Through this workshop, participants are not only developed specific competencies in the schedule, but also improved learning skills, facilitating skills, and teamwork skills – very important skills in the 21th century organizations.

Participants:

Managers of businesses, organizations, and people who want to develop competencies in creative problem solving, communications, conflict management, negotiation, and improving self-management and individual effectiveness to improve organization’s effectiveness and efficiency.

Objectives and Contents:

1. Creative Problem Solving Skills: (1) Describing and analyzing a problem, (2) Identifying causes of a problem, (3) Developing creative options and choosing the best course of action, and (4) Implementing and evaluating effective and efficiency of the decision.

2. Communication Skills: (1) Listening skills, (2) Presentation skills, (3) Feedback Skills, (4) Report witting skills.

3. Conflict Management Skills: (1) Identifying sources of conflict – functional and dysfunctional conflicts, (2) Understanding personal style of conflict resolution, (3) Choosing the best strategy for dealing with a conflict, and (4) Developing skills in promoting constructive conflicts in organization and teams.

4. Negotiation Skills: (1) Distinguishing distributive and integrative negotiations, position and principled negotiation, (2) Identifying common mistakes in negotiation and ways to avoid them, (3) Developing rational thinking in negotiation, and (4) Developing effective skills in negotiation that benefits all parties involved.

5. Self-Awareness and Improvement: (1) Understanding the concept of self-management, (2) Evaluate the effectiveness of self management, (3) Developing creative and holistic thinking, (4) Understanding the importance of emotions in works as well in self-development, (5) Understand of self-motivation, and (6) Effectively managing self-learning and change.

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Personal Learning Style

PERSONAL LEARNING STYLE

Who would have ever thought taking a college course would require one to learn how to learn?   It is a good concept we normally undergo at a very young age.   At the pre-school age one will find children learning their strength and weakness through their playtime.   As adults we almost forget we have to learn how to learn to continue growth in our workplace, school, and in life.   In our second week of online classes I learned strengths and weakness in my learning style with the aid of learning assessments, personality spectrums, and time management logs.   In this paper, I intend to describe the various components of my learning style and outline a plan to improve my time management and study skills.

A big component of my learning style is hands-on experience; learning while doing.   This usually involved someone with more experience instructing me as I performed the task.   Through the hands-on approach, I picked-up the knowledge and gained proficiency

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Assignment

Task 1

1 Introduction

This task is about analyzing personal development plan and make strategy for development of PDP. Personal development plan (PDP) shows an evaluation of current skills and knowledge that includes individual strengths and weaknesses. As per scenario, Finance 4 U is finance and accounting based company. Managing director has lot of plans in ensuring that company’s staffs fully participates in improving personal and professional skills as the company has problem with staff morale and motivation.

Personal development plans needs to be discussed in this task. As Finance 4 U urgently needed a personal development plan in terms of professional and career development and assists the company in progression.

2 Objectives

The objectives of this task are to identify strategy for developing a personal development plan, its importance and how plan can improve daily professional life? Characteristics of plan must also be explained such as

➢ Objectives and goals (both short term and long term)

    ➢ Dates and time scale

    ➢ Resources

    ➢ Milestones and checkpoints (where performance should be reviewed)

3 Personal Development Plan & its Importance

Personal Development Planning is a structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and/or achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development. The primary objective for PDP is to improve the capacity of individuals to understand what and how they are learning, and to review, plan and take responsibility for their own learning.

http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/glossary/pdp.htm

Personal development is a field of practice and research. As a field of practice PDP includes personal development methods, assessment systems, learning programs, tools and techniques. As a field of research, personal development topics increasingly appear in higher education reviews, scientific journals,…

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Skill Audit

SKILLS AUDIT GRID

We would encourage you to review this regularly and particularly before tutorials

|Generic Engineering Skills:               |Good   |Average|Poor   |Academic Study                       |Work Experience                       |Extra-Curricular Activity             |Action Planning                       |

|Analysis                                 |       |       |       |                                     |                                     |                                     |                                     |

|Modelling                                 |       |       |       |                                     |                                     |                                     |                                     |

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|Problem solving    

|Project implementation                   |       |       |                                     |                                  

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|Design                                

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ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

ABSTRACT

      Well as I begin I would like to remember you one point that no one can withstand in the market of an organization when the people lack certain skills and knowledge. In order to ensure for proper skills and knowledge a proper idea about the development of their skills are briefed in this report. Keeping in mind, the four skills developed in this report were time management, stress management, running meeting, and group discussion. Not only the skills but also the learning styles were discussed. What are the techniques and objectives to meet the desired characteristics? How to improve the management skills for the effective leadership? The main concept of learning is mentioned clearly in this report which may be useful in the future requirements for an organization to be effective and imaginative.

CONTENTS

    • ABSTRACT

    • OUTCOME 1

TASK 1: METHODS TO IMPROVE PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

  1. (a) EVALUATION OF PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

TASK

2:

  1. (b) IMPROVIZATION OF SUCCESSFUL MANAGER SKILLS

    • OUTCOME 2

TASK 3: PERSONAL SKILLS AUDITS

1.2 (a) PREFERRED LEARNING STYLE FOCUSSING ON THE SKILLS REQUIRED FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

    • OUTCOME 3

TASK 4: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

1.3 (a) DETAILED PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

TASK 5:

1.3 (b) MONITORING FEEDBACKS AND ADJUSTMENTS

TASK 6:

1.3 (c) IMPACTS OF LEARNING AND UTILIZING IN THE FUTURE

    • CONCLUSION

    • BIBLIOGRAPHY

OUTCOME 1

TASK 1: METHODS TO IMPROVE PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

    • Communication, communication, communication…!!!

This is an important method to improve both personal and professional skills. This is the first factor required to develop in any organization.

    • Developing the necessary business ethics and corporate social responsibility. This development of the workshop helps in understanding the ethical behavior and participants…

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Personal Learning Styles

Personal Learning Style

Byron Taylor

University of Phoenix

Gen/101 Skills for Lifelong Learning

Group ID #ONO61CS04

Daigre Victorine, Phd

May 11, 2006

In the course of writing this paper I have learned a great deal about the styles of learning and how to incorporate personality traits into effectual learning principles. This paper will consist of an analogy of the components of my learning style to the facets of my personality. This will aid in strategically creating a plan to use in improving my time management and study skills.

Components of learning style

    I believe that my personal learning style, as do most people, encompasses many traits that extend far beyond categories and agree that these are tools to assist an individual in understanding capabilities, rather than give a definition of what type of person learns under different situations.   For instance, according to my scores in The Pathways to Learning Assessment, I am highly

developed in Musical and Interpersonal learning and underdeveloped in the concepts of the Visual-Spatial and Naturalistic learner.   The fact is while I am very musically inclined, I have never created rhythms out of words, beat out rhythms with my hand, written a rap, changed materials to songs I already know, or used music while studying.   On the other hand, I realize that using some components of the Musical-Rhythmic learner I might be able to develop an additional style of studying, by evaluating the effectiveness of those components.

    The components of an Interpersonal learner are traits that seem aligned with how I believe I would best learn.   When I was in sigh school, I thrived in the classes which were interactive in nature, as opposed to lecture driven.   I rarely understood the need for slide shows or other visual aids and often felt they had little bearing on the subject even though some of my classmates seemed to believe they helped them immensely. So if a category that fit most of what…

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Personal Learning Styles

Personal Learning Styles

University of Phoenix

Everyone learns differently.   This is something that we all discover at a young age.   Some of us absorb information from a Professor’s lecture very easily, while others will need to go back and read or recite this same information.   Everyone has a learning style that is unique to them, developed over time by their own learning experiences.   By examining our personal learning style, we are able to gain valuable insight on how we learn best, which allows us then to convert study material from it’s offered format into one that is more palatable for us as individuals.   After a thorough assessment, I have developed a detailed understanding of my own learning style and personality, as well as a strategic plan to improve my time management and study skills.

Especially as children, we all have our favorite subjects in school.   Typically, we simply choose subjects we have a natural aptitude for as our favorites – we enjoy

things better when they come easy to us.   My favorite subjects in school were always math and science related; subjects where everything made logical sense.   I learn best when I can bring logical order to the information presented to me.   Not surprisingly, I also learn best when working on my own, so that I am able to organize my thoughts in a logical manner.

After completing the “Pathways to Learning”1 assessment, I discovered, somewhat unsurprisingly, that I am most strongly developed in the Logical-Mathematical and Intrapersonal intelligences.   I then completed the “Personality Spectrum”1 and learned that my personality type is that of a Thinker.

The results I received from these two assessments complement each other well.   I discovered that while I learn best through problem solving, my best study practices are to study in a quiet place, organize material logically (when possible writing outlines or developing charts and graphs), read text and highlight important points, write or rewrite…

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My Personal Learning Styles

Like most people, I can definitely say there have been times in my life when learning was a chore. I can remember looking at the clock on the wall watching the second hand tick away while feverishly tried to grasp the material before me. On the other hand, I can clearly recall times when I was eager to learn. I looked forward to the experience, almost counting the hours until my next opportunity to dive into the scheduled material.

As the years have passed from my early days of learning until now, I have realized there is a key word that defines my learning style: scheduled. I am a schedule person. From as far back as I can remember, I have always envied the organized person. The one who had a schedule for everything. The one who knew everything and knew where to go to get what they did not readily possess.

I have studied temperament types and learning styles in great detail, primarily trying to find new ways of understanding others and myself. At one point, I took the Strong Interest Inventory Test to try to find out my personal learning style. In an interpretive report following the testing, Allen Hammer and Judith Grutter explained:

Your score on the Learning Environment scale suggests that you are interested in applied or practical problems. You may be most interested in short-term training that can teach you practical skills that will help you prepare for a particular job. You probably learn best in settings where you can learn by experience, not through books or lectures (11).

The Skills for Professional Development textbook provided four distinct tests to help me define my learning style even further. Test 1: Peak and Valley Learning Times (University of Phoenix 74), confirmed to me that I learn best in the early morning hours. Early morning is definitely a peak learning time for me. I can frequently be found early in the morning with a book and a cup of coffee. I wake up and my brain seems to be already engaged. Saturday mornings afford me the…

Criteria reference

To achieve the criteria the evidence must show that the learner is able to:

Task No

Page numbers

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evaluate the personal and professional skills required to meet both organisational and own goals and objectives

evaluate more effective ways to learn in the future

2

undertake a personal skills audit, identifying preferred learning style, which focuses on the skills required for effective management and leadership

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produce a detailed personal development plan

evaluate and review the effectiveness and impact of your learning