Essay on Reflection and Personal Development Plan

Every good plan in life comes with an outcome, 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 aspects (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 eight years of work experience between admission and administration. 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 where from various international countries, different cultures, different backgrounds, many languages, and plenty of different aims, and skills.

As an individual self-focused person every period of my life, I learn more about myself 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 don’t feel comfortable while I am around strangers, second it is hard for me to be fully confident about myself when I am the centre of attention, for example in public speaking I am always 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, the selection was randomly, I prefer to work individually rather than working in teams because it is hard to manage your time with other group members 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 am a very flexible person when working in groups in terms of tasks and time given to meet, I also love to help others and blend in to adapt faster.

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 centred and focused about self-progress on each person's skills by helping each other’s to overcome obstacles 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, learn from others, sharing ideas and opinions to strengthen our 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 professionally.

Personal development plan

personal development plan is managing your career goals through listing your own aims and objectives while working on developing your skills and creating opportunities by knowledge and learning, for both short- and long-term achievements. I am planning to read more books related to my work, communicate with foreigners and seeking professionals for consulting regarding important topics which I need to be aware of.

On the personal perspective I am very aware of the importance of planning and self- developments to achieve my dreams I have to manage my performance along with improving my skills and also try to take the best chances out there to beneficial my goals, not to forget managing how to solve problems or how to avoid them (Beausaert, Segers, Fouarge, & Gijselaers, 2013).

Swot analysis:

Strengths:

·         Creativity

·         Committed and responsible

·         Ambitious

·         Social

·         Good writing skills

·         Quick adaptor

Weaknesses:

·         weak public speaking communications

·         I stress myself around due dates

·         Overthinker

Opportunities:

·         New job positions offered by Kuwait uni.

·         Training courses and internships

·         PHD Scholarships

Threats:

·         Time limitations

·         Competitions between colleagues

Furthermore, this experience and old experiences I have been through made me realize and understand myself more, exploring my true aims, interests and goals also being more conscious about my passion and what vision I am setting for my career, I addition on focusing on what I want to achieve and how to succeed through this journey.

Strong solid well managed  base is the reason of any successful plan, as well as planning for your own development and your life goals in all fields and aspects must be relying on a well-managed plan, adding on that be more open and challenging and take risks , capture opportunities that come across and be open to new knowledge and new things that can progress you, be a self-motivator be confident in yourself  because only you who can make the difference on you to raise and succeed . 

References of Reflection and Personal Development Plan

Beausaert, S., Segers, M., Fouarge, D., & Gijselaers, W. (2013). Effect of using a personal development plan on learning and development. Journal of Workplace Learning.

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

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

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Thomas, J. (2019). SWOT IT OUT! Forensic Science International: Synerg.

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