Essay on Sustaining the business

The proper development to become a strong-minded person and a leader is not easy. A leader should be able to inspire and empower the worker around him by standing strong on their values and morals. As a graduate student, I was fortunate that worked in an MBA program at a well-recognized university. I was always keen to learn more and to improve my learning outcomes by having a positive impact on others. The present work is mainly a reflection assignment of my learning and development after the MBA degree program. The present assignment also contains different pieces of evidence of my previous work experience during the MBA program. The major contribution is to contain feedback from my previous work. In the primary and secondary reflection demonstrate the gradual development in skills over the period. In the primary reflection section, I learned about behavior and performance development during the MBA program. The initial assessment is based on the personal and business transformation module. The assessment demonstrates a critical understanding of managing failure and personal context.

Primary reflection on My MBA degree

My MBA program helped me with personality development in the fine sense of social, personal, and professional etiquettes. I learned new methods and techniques for social and personal interactions. Exposure to excellent etiquette improved my learning skills. The high-level credibility in the eyes of recruiters enabled me to represent my skills. I am highly confident that I can influence my other colleagues in a positive way. During my MBA, I gained more insightful knowledge about the business on the perspective of the multi-disciplinary level. During the course, I observed the holistic approach of the business and improved it by having a consultation in the non-profit organization. I found comfortable approach regarding different issues on the basis of various viewpoints, for instance, controls, processes, finance, database management, customer relation management, new revenues, strategic outline, and new revenues generating avenues. The evidence about the team role report is provided in the appendix in which I worked with a colleague during the MBA program. The knowledge gained by all the relevant subjects in the MBA program has helped in to develop my personality traits in a more effective way. Being a student, I have broadened my perspective from marketing context to the initial sale functions of the business. The MBA program offered me to deliver practical solutions for real-life issues. The business planning, consultancy, and decision-making skills are improved after going through different projects of MBA. The major contribution of the MBA program was to encourage me to participate in practical solutions to real-life issues.

Secondary reflection on My MBA degree

The secondary reflection section includes insight into the events and experiences that contributed to my learning. Before getting enrollment in the MBA course I worked as an Intern in a local firm. Here I got several experiences related to task management and people management that later contributed to my MBA learning. For instance, I notice that people working in the firm were not fully satisfied with their jobs and a number of workers left their jobs during my stay in the firm. While taking Human resources management course and other management courses in the MBA program I learned the reasons for job dissatisfaction. Moreover, I also studied how an increase in job dissatisfaction can result in an increase in job turnover in a firm. Basically, after reading theories about Management by objective, overtime, incentive policies, employee’s satisfaction, and organizational flexibility I learned that in the discussed earlier firm employees were dissatisfied with their jobs because of over workload and poor compensation packages. Employees were not given fair wages while managers were taking extra work from them on a daily basis. Thus keeping this example into the mind I was capable to understand the theories of management, motivation and job satisfaction. Furthermore, previous experience also supported me to learn the importance of auditing in organizations. During working as an intern I noticed that employees working in the finance department were used to cross-check and double check the financial details presented in the statements. While learning finance and auditing courses I learned that how a single error or mistake can bring changes in overall results and can cause legal consequences for the organization. Moreover, I also learned experiences from conferences and seminars conducted on the topics of business management. Knowledge learned from these conferences supported me to understand MBA courses easily and accurately.    

Future intentions of Sustaining the business

In the future, I believe that my holistic approach will enable me to understand various business functions to improve my personality aspects in a more specific way. I will be able to justify my actions taken in any situation, conflict resolving process, assistance in different departments, identify the unjustified actions in the department. I will be able to connect the processes of the organization through an efficient functional strategy. My position in general management would lead to improving the profit centers of the company. In future, MBA program will assist me to reach a significant position in an organization. The learning outcomes will improve my communication skills. I believe, I will be able to learn more from other colleagues at my workplace. Besides all the additional aspects, I have learned new methods to overcome my personality issues such as anger and aggressive behavior.

Conclusion on Sustaining the business

The whole discussion concludes that MBA program resulted in an increase in my knowledge and learnings related to business management including human resources management (HRM), leadership, and financial management. From the MBA program, I learned information about negotiation and communication and its importance in the business world. MBA program resulted in the improvement of my communication skills, collaboration skills, and financial management skills. Summarizing the secondary reflection section we can say that previous work experiences and social events like conferences and seminars supported me to learn new theories and concepts of management and financial management appropriately. Keeping in mind experiences learned by previous knowledge I learned how incentives policy and job satisfaction are really important to control increasing turnover rate in the organizations.