Executive Summary

This report will highlight my approach to learning and in addition to using this as an opportunity to identify my learning style to hopefully utilise it to enhance my ambition to run my own organisation. The report looks my journey from my childhood experiences at school and how that has shaped me into how I learn and as a result how I have developed a particular style of learning. This analysis will help shape the outcomes of my Personal Development Plan.

Introduction

The aim of this report is to analyse my approach to learning and my learning styles. This will help me understand how my strengths and weaknesses against my desire to progress in my professional and personal life. Since the recession took hold many individuals have taken the decision to up skill. For many their chosen route has been a Master’s programme to enable them to switch careers. A report from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa), (2011) highlighted that 132,745 students enrolled at the start of the 2010 academic year. This is a 16% increase since 2007. Whilst this is not a bad pursuit a recent article by personal today states that
In 2009/10, full-time Masters Graduates had an overall unemployment rate slightly higher than their full-time undergraduate counterparts.

Realising this limitation as a company we started operating in the emerging markets space two years ago where there is a less saturated market in terms of the consulting offer. There is also an added advantage that the majority of business has come from personal contacts. There is a realisation that there will come a time when major organisations occupy the emerging market space so there is a need to acquire core consultancy competency skills to compete in the not so distant future.

With this background the analysing my approach to learning and my learning style will help me write a