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Introduction

This essay will examine and evaluate my personal and professional development in relation to self-
awareness and communication skills. The personal attributes which personal vision, core values,
personal goals, strong points and areas of expertise will be addressed for both my personal and
professional development. Through the unit ‘Learning and Communicating for Innovative Business
Practice’ at Swinburne Online, I have come to learn, self-awareness is quite important to reach a higher
level of job satisfaction, understand of my values, passions, aspirations, ideal environment, reactions,
and impact on others. I have utilized SWOT analysis to analyze my situation, identifying strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats in personal and professional life. Before taking this unit, I hadn’t
had clear idea of where I would want to be and where I am at. Now I have determined my strengths,
skills i need to develop in personal and professional life.

The Personal Attributes

Roy Disney who stated, “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are” (Disney,
cited in clairebuck.com) Through SWOT analysis, one of my core values is that I enjoy learning about
subjects that are unfamiliar. I find it fascinating to learn new information. Second of my core values is
that I am able to pay attention to detail to examine large volumes of data, identify trends, develop
metrics and provide analysis. In addition, I consider myself to be a reliable and hard-working person. My
current workplace requires me to satisfy strict deadlines and requirements. I ensure that deadlines are
met without fail and work well under pressure doing what is required to achieve the expected outcome.
These values are constructive and has enabled me to grow career-wise. "Having no goals is like going on
a trip without a map: When there is no destination, vision, or plan, most people tend to drift. However,
when people have a vision of where they want to go, they tend to feel a greater sense of commitment
than they would without having the vision." (the peak performance center, n.d.). Have this thought in
my mind, I have set my professional goal as a long-term goal to get a promotion in my workplace by
proving I am an asset to the team. My educational goal as a long-term goal is to earn a Bachelor of
Accounting. This will help my ability to strive for my career. In this course, I have learned about the
S.M.A.R.T. principle that used to effectively set goals. I applied the S.M.A.R.T. principle to both my
personal and professional life to create an actionable plan that gets results. To achieve my professional
long-term goal, the importance of good communication skills as a team member in workplace cannot be
undervalued. My communication skills can be improved by communicating with people where we are at,
how I am feeling and seeking / offering feedback as part of a discussion. I have spent a good amount of
time to research and practice speech for improving communication skills. However, I felt this could be
an ongoing process of improvement. The time management is another mission for me to improve as full-
time worker and student. Abraham Lincoln who stated, “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I would
spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” (Lincoln, cited in rescuetime.com). From my previous
SWOT Analysis, I recognized that my strengths were the ability to work under strict deadlines, my
current workplace requires me to satisfy strict deadlines and requirements. I ensure that deadlines are
met without fail and work well under pressure doing what is required to achieve the expected outcome.
However, in my personal life, I found myself that I spent some time playing online game on my personal
computer rather than being involved in studying. To overcome the issue of time management, I have
dedicated myself to using my phone notification for work tasks and the calendar in Outlook In order to
remind myself the tasks and start working on them. I believe this helped me to manage time effectively
about my own learning, performance and achievements as well as to plan my personal, educational,
social and career development. In evaluating my own development up to this point in this course, I have
pointed out two main key learning areas that I need to improve. Before I start this unit, I did not see that
plans are a great importance. But now, as I see a great progress in my personal development. I will
constantly review, reflect and update my self-development to keep my focus on both my personal and
professional life.

Conclusion

As a student and worker, I should try to meet communication needs to provide the best to teacher,
colleague and customers that I can. I found that The SWOT analysis helps get things moving and it is a
good framework to follow. I have focused on producing a development plan that aims on my
weaknesses and how, when and why I plan to improve on them. I will constantly to work on these, to
maintain that I am determined to be a competent, professional in the future. The Personal Development
Plans I plan to make more effort in organizing my work and the time that I spend on studying, but also
give more time and plan in advance with any assignments so that I don't rush any of my work

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