Personal development Analysis- my experiences

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Personal development Analysis

Introduction

Development is a lifelong process of nurturing, shaping and improving an individual's skills, knowledge and interests to ensure my maximum effectiveness and adaptability, and to minimize the obsolescence of my skills and my chances of redundancy. (Accessmylibrary.com)

In today's ever more competitive job markets it has become increasingly important to prepare and organise our learning and future plans in a clear and concise way. The following report looks at my personal development throughout my enrolment on the Practice Of management Skills module. It will show how the sessions have helped me analyse my own learning and also how it has been beneficial..

The personal development analysis for me is a chance to know my self better, I can recognize what I want to achieve, and also identifying the skills I need to look at. In this report, I am going to focusing on what my strengths are and where my weaknesses are, and how the practice of management skills module has helped my development.

My Experiences

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

(C.S. Lewis, thinkexist.com)

Personally I don't think I've achieved or experienced much to which will really make me look back, and think "this was the moment where I changed in such and such a way." I think how I had to grow up; how I was brought up by a single mother really changed me as a person (in a good way) than if I had the guidance of a paternal figure, not saying having a father figure would have been a bad thing but I am who I am today because of the way I was brought up. This has seen me grow up and take responsibility at a much earlier stage than many of my peers meaning that I matured extremely quickly, became very independent and also boosted my communication skills and confidence in a way that no other experience could. To this day I see this as a key part of my development.

On educational side, I found my A levels extremely challenging, this is the point where you realize that you have to put effort in to get something back. My G.C.S.E's seemed a walk in the park after my A levels, to this day they still remain to be the most difficult exams Ive undertaken. The only thing difficult about university is settling in to University life after coming from a 6th form, which was more like school than a college. In a sense it was good, coming from a high school with a low pass rate, it meant I was still being pushed to do my work. Where as at university your responsible for everything, nobodies going to watch over you, nobodies going to tell you how much of a good boy you are for doing your work. It's down to how much you want it, your own determination on how you want to play out your future. The balls always in the students' court, they can do whatever they want to with it. University prepares you for the rest of your life, builds your determination, personality and the gives you the chance of working with people from so many cultures.
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In my working life, I'm currently an archery instructor for kids. Not only are you there to teach them, but many of them will look up to you, rather than being just a teacher and it's up to me to be a decent role model. Speaking in front of a group of people is just practice of what I will have to endure in the future, not something I like to do but I guess I have no qualms over speaking to groups of people. My previous jobs have included working in one of Batleys most popular takeaways, ...

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