PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Personal and Professional Skills



Personal and Professional Skills

Introduction

I have learnt myriad skills during my early year professional programme. This programme has equipped me with a diverse range of skills that will assist me to exhibit a robust behaviour in coming years. Some of the things that I learnt include target setting, self auditing, generating and implementing various programs, and supporting the children to delineate altruistic behaviour. A detailed portrayal of the personal and professional skills is provided below.

Reflection of the Skills Acquired

Target Setting

The program strengthened my abilities to set target for my personal and professional activities. In professional and personal context, goals can be pursued through actions. When targets are linked by ends-means relationships to each other, it creates a target system or a hierarchy of objectives. I learnt to develop SMART targets that are explicated as this strategy of goal setting allowed me to know what action plans should be formulated to synergize the implementation.

Self Auditing and Learning Styles

During the programme, I also learnt that use of the questionnaire to audit my strengths and weaknesses. This audit was done through the help of various questionnaires. Upon evaluating my skills through Honey and Mumford learning style, I concluded that I delineate myself as a reflector. British psychologist Peter Honey and Alan Mumford developed a test that is widely used in various organizations (Barone, 2005, pp. 220). The test mainly focuses on three elements that make up an individual learning style. There are four types of learning styles: activist, observer, pragmatist and theorist. Definitions of Honey and Mumford are often a useful tool to determine the way you prefer to convert the information into action (Maher & Ward 2002, pp. 66). They do not describe all the elements of learning style, but it gets realistic, and provides a categorical picture of the individual inclinations.

Team Member Behaviour

I successfully learnt the Belbin theory to understand the team member behaviour. The success or failure of complex projects is often a greater degree depending on the effectiveness of a team than on the expertise of individual members. Expert knowledge is often blocked by poor contrast. Team mechanisms, can contribute to effective team during any more than his expertise.

Every experienced project manager will confirm this statement spontaneously. Successful project managers are characterized as well for their sense of optimal team composition and the ability to recognize the talents of individual members quickly, to promote and to use goal-oriented. According to Belbin theory, the behaviour of the team members can be assigned eight distinct roles, the behaviour is reasonably consistent, the role of behaviour in the team is predictable based on test results, the combination of team roles makes teams more powerful, an individual team role does not necessarily correspond to its functional / organizational assignment, and successful managers recognize their own best role and contribution to the team and avoid their weaknesses that detract from the performance of the team (Basford, & Hodson, 2008, pp. 140).

Trainings and Activities

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