Employability And Professional Development Research - 2750 Words

Employability And Professional Development Research (Term Paper Sample) Content: Employability and professional development064135Task 1.1As an IT professional working in your chosen organisation, use appropriate management model(s) or tool(s) to reflect on your current personal and professional skills and competencies against professional standards and organisational objectives. 00Task 1.1As an IT professional working in your chosen organisation, use appropriate management model(s) or tool(s) to reflect on your current personal and professional skills and competencies against professional standards and organisational objectives.A Learning and Thinking Skills framework can be used for the assessment of personal skills and professional competencies of an IT professional. This framework identifies some core skills that a professional must have. These include learning, people, management, information, research, citizenship, values, creativity and technical capabilities. Each of these areas can be used as assessment tools to understand the strength o r weak areas of development of a person such that a person can make best use of his or her skills and can work to develop the skills that the person lacks CITATION Fut07 \l 16393 (Future Lab, 2007).Desired skill area Capabilities Learning Problem solving, process understanding, communication skills, independent learning capacity, general awareness, motivation People Management Collaborate, reach agreements, consideration for others, constructive support, adapt to behaviours with change of roles Self-Management Seek opportunities, take initiatives, commitment, perseverance, anticipate and manage risks, handle pressures, open to change Information Management Information and communication technology, source documentation, handling, transmission, data management , reporting Research Decision making, explore issues, analysis and evaluation, reasoned arguments Responsible Citizen Cooperative, enterprising, respect others, understand differentiated cultures, flexible, sustain environment, appreciate diversity, committed to human rights Personal Values Principles, self-awareness, personal identity, ambitions, healthy lifestyle, good relationships Creative thinking Generate ideas, ask questions, explore possibilities, challenge assumptions, adapt to changes, try alternatives Technical capabilities Designing, Programming skills, Networking skills, Software development, Written and verbal in English Out of these expected skills, I already possess some in each of the areas. Also, in some areas I am lacking as observed by self as well as found by discussing with my friends and my boss. These include:Learning: I am good at problem solving mainly because of good communication skills that lets me understand people and connect with them easily. I am a self-motivated person and keeps myself updated with latest happenings in the world.People management: As I have good communication skills and like to collaborate with people, I am able to be a good team player and can reach agre ements in discussions constructively. I am also a considerate person who doesn't forget to take views of others. However, I tend to become comfortable with existing settings and thus, is not able to change myself very easily.Self-Management: I am opportunist who like to explore new opportunities and thus, take initiatives and I commit to myself upon taking an opportunity to achieve what I intend to. I have perseverance and can handle pressures but I am not very skilled at anticipation potential problems and thus, managing risks is a big challenge for me.Information Management: I have good knowledge of ICT as I have not only studied subjects seriously in my curriculum but I also keep exploring and using upcoming technologies. I am good with maintaining documents and managing data. The only problem in this area is that I do not have a practical exposure of reporting and thus, I am weak in the area.Research: I am good at making decisions while having facts discussed but I am not very g ood at evaluating issues and come up with solid arguments to support my decision even when they are sound.Responsible citizen: I am cooperative and respect views of others. I also understand people coming from different cultures and appreciate this diversity with commitment to human rights.Personal Values: I have my own principles and awareness about my identity and ambitions. Regarding my lifestyle, it is not very healthy lifestyle as I am not very organized.Creative Thinking: I am an initiator so I do come up with own ideas to explore possibilities, I also do not hesitate to ask questions when I face challenges but adapt to changes is little challenging for me.Technical capabilities: I know Programming, Designing, Programming, Networking, and have good command over English but I have no solid experience of Software development, even though I have done a couple assignments but I am not very confident.190531750Task 1.2Considering the model(s) or tool(s) used in task 1.1 evaluate yo ur own developmental needs and the activities required to fulfil them.00Task 1.2Considering the model(s) or tool(s) used in task 1.1 evaluate your own developmental needs and the activities required to fulfil them.As per the assessment in the previous task, I need to develop certain skills that I am weak in and the activities that I would be using to achieve development in these areas include:Change Management: To learn about change management, I would take online MOOC courses teaching on the subject and would practice strategies taught in work to practice.Risk Management: I will study books on risk management as well as would explore case studies to understand how companies do risk assessment, planning and risk mitigation.Reporting: I will learn SAP data reporting tool as it is use in the company I have joined as the IT manager. I will take classes for learning the application.Arguments: I will learn about logic and argumentation from books and online videos to develop this skill o f making logical arguments.Lifestyle: I will try to organize myself by using project management tools that I will learn so that I can use the same at work.Software Development: I will join classes for learning software development and would also learn through books. I will practice developing simple software for practice.1905191135Task 1.3Considering your answer in task 1.2 devise a personal and professional developmental plan to meet the identified needs...00Task 1.3Considering your answer in task 1.2 devise a personal and professional developmental plan to meet the identified needs...A personal and professional development plan can be created using following steps: * Identify skills and competencies to reflect upon them against the organizational goals. * Gain awareness about own strengths and weaknesses * Talk to friends, supervisors and others to find out gaps in development such that nothing is missed. * Develop action steps to improve on weaknesses CITATION Ant98 \l 16393 (Re illy, 1998)These four steps have already been done and action steps were decided in the previous task. However, the activities were presented in a general manner but in the development plan, they would be made specific with details including timeframe, actual action steps, against the long term goals that I want to achieve through these actions. The timeframe gives the number of days that each activity would need to be completed CITATION Rob02 \l 16393 (Ryan, 2002)Long term goal Action steps Timeframe Learn software developmentTo be completed in 70 days Read software development booksJoin and attend software development classesComplete class assignments and complete a live projectDevelop an application and test itAsk friends about the developed software to assess it in terms of functionality 5 days20 days10 days30 days5 days Learn risk managementTo be completed in 1 month Read books on risk managementAttend lectures online on risk managementRead case studies to understand how risk management is practicedCreate own risk management plan as per learning 5 days10 days10 days5 days Report the tasks to bosses in an organized and efficient mannerTo be completed in 1 month Join and attend classes for learning SAPComplete class assignments and complete a live projectExplore all modules of SAP in the company to develop understandingUse SAP for reporting to boss 30 days15 days5 days5 days Enable self to make logical arguments in discussion meetingsTo be completed in 8 days Read books on logicRead books on argumentationDiscuss on issues with people with argumentsDiscuss over forums on topic of interest to practice argumentation 2 days2 days2 days2 days Learn to accept changes fasterTo be completed in 1 month Read books on change managementWatch videos on change managementDevelop a plan for changing self on certain thingsMonitor and assess the change that happens 3 days3 days4 days20 days Become organized both personally and at workTo be completed in 2 months Read self-h elp books on organizing selfRead books on project managementJoin online MOOC class on project managementComplete all assignments and take the final assessment examTake one project from boss and use principles learnt 4 days5 days20 days15 days5 days -5778586360Task 3.1Discuss and analyse different roles people play in a team and how they manage to worktogether to achieve shared goals.00Task 3.1Discuss and analyse di...