Every good plan in life comes with an outcome or a result, and every well managed professional plan comes with a great successful result.

If an individual wants to survive in life and to be successful, every individual should set and follow a professional plan for future goals and targets, whether it is on a personal or professional level or any other life aspect (Rimmer, 2018).

In the last few weeks, we started our MSC master program course in management, and in my point of view, I believe it is a big step further to self-progress and to accomplish one of my goals and dreams. I am from Kuwait, I studied business administration, and I graduated from the University of Greenwich in 2010. Currently, I am an administrative coordinator employer in Kuwait university. I have almost eight years of work experience between admission, registration and administration, and of course, management. One of my future goals and ambitions is to be an academic.

The minute I arrived in the UK, specifically Brighton, my whole life changed, every routine I am used to, and every single detail is perfectly different compared to our lifestyle back in Kuwait, the atmosphere, the weather, the people and the various different nationals who live in Brighton.

First Day at the university was a bit shocking and exciting. My classmates wherefrom various international countries, different cultures, different backgrounds, many languages, and plenty of different approaches, aims, and skills.

As an individual mature self-focused person every period of my life, I learn more about myself and knowing it better and knowing others around me, I am fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and always wanting to challenge myself for better progression and improvements.

As we begin to attend our teaching classes I have known some of the students around me, sometimes it is hard for me to start first conversation and to communicate and interact with others because I am a very shy person and I don’t feel comfortable while I am around strangers or in public, second it is hard for me to be fully confident about myself when I am the center of attention, for example in public speaking I always tend to be nervous and I stumble in words when speaking it is definitely not my comfort zone.

Later on it was mandatory for us to work in groups and to socialize with other nationals, most of our course work is conducted and produced within teamwork and there was no chance for us to choose our team members and the selection was randomly, one of the major weaknesses that I prefer to work individually rather than working in teams because it is hard to manage your time with other group members time to keep up with work assigned and meet together in order to complete the tasks, not to mention the language was a bit confusing sometimes to understand, personally I tend to a very flexible person while working in groups in term of tasks and time given to meet, I also always loving and ready to help others around me and it is very easy for me to blend in and to adapt fast .

In this experience while working with teams I realized that I am not competing with others, but I am competing myself against all the responsibilities that I am in charge of and completing all tasks at due dates, and I also was trying to improve my communicating skills in order to be an active beneficial part of the group, this experience also taught me to be more organized and well managed in terms of time and work not to forget that it improved my English language skills it also enhances and focuses on each members strengths while contributing together which means that working in multi-cultural teams helped us to be more centered and focused about self-progress on each person's skills by helping each other’s to overcome weaknesses and complete tasks successfully and professionally.

Not to forget the power of optimism and motivation around us from the teammates that will raise the level of your performance and confidence and will lead to great outcomes and results (Rock & Grant, 2016).

This whole experience led us to a better self-awareness, to know ourselves better, learn from each other, sharing thoughts, ideas and opinions to strengthen the case or the work materials, we also gained some leadership skills through managing teams, last but not least this phase was very useful because I developed my writing skills, I always had a passion for writing, and in the last few weeks I learned lots on tips about the academic writing and how to write in a proper professional way.

References of Reflection of Personal development plan

Rimmer, A. (2018). How do I prepare a personal development plan? the BMJ.

Rock, D., & Grant, H. (2016). Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter