...Analysing Self and Organisation HR837 Self Analysis Assignment John Hall Student Number: 05020550 January 2007 Word Count: 3220 Tutor: Gillian Forster Contents Introduction: p 3 Application of Honey and Mumford Theory: p 3 Analysis of Kolb’s Learning Styles: p 6 Application of Belbin analysis: p 10 Personal SWOT Analysis: p 12 Rationale behind Personal Development Objectives: p 14 Conclusion: p 15 Bibliography: p 16 Appendix: p 17 Introduction In this assignment it is my intention to analyse a range of learning style models and relate them to a personal analysis in order to determine strengths and weaknesses and demonstrate a process of critical evaluation. These strengths and weaknesses will tie in to a personal SWOT analysis which will combine to highlight the rationale behind the Personal Development Objectives outlined towards the end of the assignment. Telford states that ‘It’s hard to imagine that our self improvement efforts will be successful without considering what is this “self” we want to improve’ Telford (2005) p9. And it is this concept which is sometimes difficult for us to embrace. The notion of looking closely at oneself and carrying out a critical analysis can at times be quite uncomfortable but as demonstrated above it is necessary in order to embark upon the process of self improvement. Honey and Mumford The dictionary definition of learning is ‘to obtain knowledge or awareness of something...
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...Recollection of experiences: While briefing on the reflective assignment we planned of making a group and discuss about our own experiences. Human resource development is the basic conceptual model of learning through different stages. Situation while preparing for presentation explains all about the team work where we all gather information of the task. While we have decided that we will do a group presentation. Some of the classmates were absent and couldn’t attend class. We were able to inform to most of them regarding presentation and created a group on social media so that it would be easy to communicate and discuss with each other. We shared our ideas and prepared slides for introduction. Personal experiences: There were too many issues at my work place. Many of my colleques along with me had a issue of salary where the proper action was not taken and there was a situation where many people left that job as a part of hrd I have initiated to manager and had a group discussion with all employers the issue was been able to be solved. Learning from future projects: It would have been better if we had one meeting and practice of the next day presentation. Coming together as a group and understanding about the task as few of them still had a doubt of reflective report of presentation. Section / Title | Details / Guidance | Introduction | Briefly set out the context to the report, its aims, and what it will contain. Introduce the concept of reflective learning. | Recollection...
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...key accounts within my team. As the manager of a team, my challenge was to provide effective leadership that will help in motivating the team members to align their behaviour with the company’s core values. Despite the fact that I was not given formal training on managing, leading and motivating a team, my team performance was always above average. I look forward to handling more challenging management role that is why I am in IBAM to pursue a Master in Business Administration (MBA) As a result of the lapses noticed in my skills of managing people and myself, I hope to focus my Personal Development Plan (PDP) on the skills identified in this piece of work, known as the ‘big 5s’. This piece of work will deal with two main areas of, skills audit to identify the skills to develop, and a SMART action plan to help me achieve perfection. However, I will also leverage on SWOT analysis and the Kolb learning cycle in identifying the ‘big 5s’. 2.0 Skills Audit 2.1 Definition The skills audit is ‘a convenient way of identifying the capabilities available to an individual for a specific task...’ (rdi, 2010; p1) Below is the skills audit template; SKILLS AUDIT TEMPLATE SKILL | SKILL LEVELLow High | SPECIFIC COMMENTS |...
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...techniques, and conventions of basic accounting In the accountants, no matter whether in public places exercise or perhaps business, expend time and effort and effort performing analysis with regards to clients. They must come to a decision tips on how to implement completely new information technology or perhaps auditing criteria, tips on how to provide abnormal monetary deals in the economic claims, and exactly how completely new levy legal guidelines influence their clients or perhaps companies. exactly how nicely recent auditing strategies perform and tips on how to improve these individuals; exactly how levy legal guidelines affect companies’ planning and information technology display; exactly how managerial information technology methods guide firms improve their by using the accessible information; exactly how information technology information impacts campaign and career within firms. therefore with the help of essential information technology knowledge there are the publicity to your school and also we could additionally find sensible understanding of exactly how financial is performed and also the strategy of information technology is performed. 1b. Describe THOUGHTFULLY how you learned to apply these concepts and analytical techniques. Give ONE example from your personal experience of the learning process. (At least one paragraph.) learned to apply these concepts and analytical techniques I've got mastered to put on these kind of concepts in addition to analytical methods...
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...Introduction The best way to develop our personal and professional development is by changing ourselves according to situation and by organizing or improving life of our environment by learning and self improvement. Here by using my personal traits in this report I am going to describe the benefits and all aspect of personal and professional development impact on our life. Nowadays the need of personal and professional development is universal whether they have different profession. Professionals mainly increase their knowledge and their experience in professionalism over the aspects of their work based on current research based practice. According to my point of view higher education study is not about increasing the book knowledge and gaining critical and analytical knowledge of respective subject but it is more important the applicability of the knowledge which is mainly gain by practical knowledge. In present scenario job are not longer for life . at this time knowledge and skill are increasing at very fast rate where we have to adaptable and flexible according to the needs. And we have to prepare for taking responsibility for lifelong skill. It is very important for both personal and professional development. Lifelong Development As I experienced lifelong learning mainly develop the skill to know how to learn or implement the knowledge from your work experience. Whether its constant changes in academic and...
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...VARK Analysis Paper Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V February 12, 2015 VARK Analysis Paper Learning styles do not dictate a person’s intelligence or their abilities to learn; instead it explains why some learner’s process information acquired differently than others. How a student retains knowledge depends on how that learner comprehends and process the information. VARK learning analysis quiz and learning style is a study to determine one’s learning style. VARK is an acronym for visual learning style, auditory learning style, reading/writing learning style and kinesthetic learning style. This paper discuses all the different learning styles but focuses on the Kinesthetic learning style and strategies that may offer an easier way to retain and enjoy any learning experience After taking the VARK learning analysis quiz it was determined that this authors learning style is more kinesthetic with a score of 14. “Kinesthetic learning is a learning style in which learning takes place by the students carrying out physical activities, rather than listening to a lecture or watching demonstrations,”("Kinesthetic learning," 2010, para. 1). Kinesthetic intelligence makes up about five percent of the population and was originally coupled with having tactile abilities or using the body to do something. According to the theory of learning styles, termed as “discovery learners”, kinesthetic learners struggle with reading or listening and have realization...
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...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...
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...Executive summery This academic report is give an enhance knowledge of developing a comprehensive personal and professional development strategies where summarized as below. Chapter 01 Steps of Developing Professional Development Plan and CV Chapter 02 Evaluation on Professional Development Plan Chapter 03 Highlighted on Interpersonal and transferable skills Chapter 04 Focus on Learning in a professional context Table of contents Executive summary 01 Table of contents 02 Chapter 01 03-09 1.1 Introduction on Personal and Professional Development 1.2 Self Assessment 1.3 Personal SWOT Analysis 1.4 Skill Audit 1.5 Personal Development Plan 1.6 Curriculum vitae Chapter 02 10 2.1 Evaluation on Personal Development Plan Chapter 03 11-13 3.1 Interpersonal and transferable skills 3.2 Time Management 3.3 Problem solving 3.4 Communication Chapter 04 14 4.1 Learning Bibliography 15 Chapter 01 1.1 Introduction on Personal and Professional Development Understanding skills, attitudes and knowledge is helpful to develop personal and professional career. According to the Guskey and Huberman (1995)Professional development is those processes and activities designed to enhance the professional knowledge, skills and attitudes of individuals in a working environment so that they might, in turn enhance the performance of the overall organization. This is an ongoing, systematic...
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...LO 1 1.1 Self-managed learning is a way that individuals organise themselves and find different ways in learning things whether in the community or at work. It is also about setting out the goals for the learning by evaluating the purpose for learning and ways to achieve those goals. People always learn new things, for example, the culture of different people, behaviour, personality, perceptions and so on. People can learn things from college, through friends, personal and other people’s experience, books to mention but few. It is therefore important to manage one’s learning as it has huge impacts in one’s life. Some of the positive impacts include: Self-managed learning gives people the opportunity to come up with their own strategy in learning. For instance, I have a goal to get a distinction on my assignment, so my strategy will be to research, reference and write well my work and submit it on time to achieve my goal. Self managed learning motivate people make their own training plan as well as motivate others to participate. Self - managed learning ensures people are effective and efficient in their work. Being in a 21 century where technology is advancing, people need to manage themselves to learn new things to keep up with advanced technology which will be beneficial in organisation where people work (Nordstrom, 1996-2014). There are different approaches to self-managed learning: • Research Individual can learn through research given by the university...
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...How do I . . . Write a Reflection? Why reflective writing? Reflection offers you the opportunity to consider how your personal experiences and observations shape your thinking and your acceptance of new ideas. Professors often ask students to write reading reflections. They do this to encourage you to explore your own ideas about a text, to express your opinion rather than summarise the opinions of others. Reflective writing can help you to improve your analytical skills because it requires you to express what you think, and more significantly, how and why you think that way. In addition, reflective analysis asks you to acknowledge that your thoughts are shaped by your assumptions and preconceived ideas; in doing so, you can appreciate the ideas of others, notice how their assumptions and preconceived ideas may have shaped their thoughts, and perhaps recognize how your ideas support or oppose what you read. Types of Reflection Experiential Reflection: Popular in professional programs, like business, nursing, forensics and education, reflection is an important part of making connections between theory and practice. When you are asked to reflect upon experience in a placement, you do not only describe your experience, but you evaluate it based on ideas from class. You can assess a theory or approach based on your observations and practice and evaluate your own knowledge and skills within your professional field. This opportunity to take the time to think ...
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...MGMT311: Management of Change Reflective Learning Journal ENTRY 1 |Name of Organisation (case study)|Apple Inc. | |Describe the industry and |Apple Inc is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics, | |organization in which this change|computer software, and personal computers. The company’s best-known hardware products include Macintosh | |has occurred / is occurring |computer, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. (Waters 2014) | |Specific details of change |Apple Computers was originally a highly successful manufacturer of innovative desktop computers during the| | |1980s. However, during 1990s, Apple lost their market share because of the dominance of Microsoft’s | | |Windows operating system. Therefore, in 2000s, Apple made a move into new markets. First, Apple moved into| | |MP3 players with its iPods, then moved into music retailing with the opening of iTunes store, continue to | | |the launching of iPhone in 2007 and iPad tablet in 2010. (Myers, Hulks and Wiggins 2012, p.181). Besides, | | |Apple has also gone through both management changes and structural changes due to...
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...quality items to our customers. - To give the best service to customers. Objective - In 5 years, we must get our aim of to become one of the top companies. Organization structure In this organization structure, my position is under CEO. I am responsible for my under departments, marketing, finance, HR, IT and warehousing. In this assignment I am going to discuss my personal development plan and how I will develop my personal skills which will help me in my current situation. Personal development plan (PDP) is a structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development. In accordance with the requirement of Task 1, it is needed to identify and analyze the SMART objectives of personal and as well as organizational and also along with for the purpose of achieve these objectives, the required skills are also analyzed and explained on this task. In focusing towards the acronym of SMART, my personal and organizational objectives should be specific, measurable,...
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...high quality items to our customers. - To give the best service to customers. Objective - In 5 years, we must get our aim of to become one of the top companies. Organization structure In this organization structure, my position is under CEO. I am responsible for my under departments, marketing, finance, HR, IT and warehousing. In this assignment I am going to discuss my personal development plan and how I will develop my personal skills which will help me in my current situation. Personal development plan (PDP) is a structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development. In accordance with the requirement of Task 1, it is needed to identify and analyze the SMART objectives of personal and as well as organizational and also along with for the purpose of achieve these objectives, the required skills are also analyzed and explained on this task. In focusing towards the acronym of SMART, my personal and organizational objectives should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic...
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...Philosophers’ Matrix and Analysis Philosophers | Classroom Engagement | Teaching and Learning | Parent or Community Involvement | Student social or emotional support | Confucius(551-479 BCE) | Cultivation of character, through observation, study and reflective thought. | Rote learning and memorization. | Parents working with child in the home setting continuing the skills of rote learning at home. | Students work asa group, think as a group therefore gaining social and emotional support from one another. | John Locke(1632-1704) | Skills and knowledge are gained by examples and practicing. | Learning by example through motivation simulated by the teacher. Not learning just reading, writing and math, but also virtue and wisdom. | Parents and community leading by example through showing respect and values to all students. | Social and emotional support incorporated through parent and teacher involvement with students. | John Dewey(1859-1952) | Content must be presented in a way that allows the student to relate the information to prior experiences, thus deepening the connection with this new knowledge. | Focus on learning by implementing “hands-on” activities. Strongly emphasizes the teacher’s role as being a “facilitator or guide”. | Encouraged parents to be an active part in their children’s education. | Felt strongly that school itself was a social organization. | Maria Montessori(1870-1952) | Adapt the environment, to link the child through well-thought-out lessons...
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...Running head: ANALYSIS OF VARK LEARNING STRATEGIES Analysis of VARK Learning Strategies “The acronym VARK stands for Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic sensory modalities that are used for learning information (Fleming & Mills, 1992)”. Each person learns in a unique yet definable way, and through the utilization of the VARK system, categories have been established to assist in understanding and promoting effective learning by the individual. The VARK system is based on a questionnaire where each person describes their response to a given situation, and the compilation of the answers then allows these results to place the individual within one of the four identified groups, with the addition of a fifth being an all-encompassing “multimodal learning preference (Fleming & Mills, 1992)”. The design of the program assists the learner to not only receive their identified learning style, but allows for the instruction of changes or habits that the individual may find helpful in developing their learning effectiveness. Visual learning includes the use of printed graphs, charts, and visual comparisons by using labels, arrows, and symbols that the individual can associate with items of interest. The visual learner equates symbols and figures, and this allows them to process and retain the information more effectively. This style of learning was identified with the lowest number upon completion of the personal questionnaire. Aural/Auditory learning involves...
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