Personal Development

TOPIC 1: TIME MANAGEMENT

While working in hospital as HR assistant Medical Resourcing Officer, I had to submit quarterly and annual report along with the routine reporting.  The workload was relatively high in hospital during those days as compare to routine days due to COVID19 emergency. It created lot of mental stress. I had been assigned additional duties i.e. safeguarding of medical and paramedic staff and their payments. As reporting involved lots of paper work and communication with supervisors regarding pays.As it was really time consuming I had to collect evidences from different departments and compiling them was strenuous. It was challenging for me as I found managing time really hard due to workload of COVID19, following schedule was tough.Previously doctors used to sign payments but they were busy these days so they hardly get time to sign off payments. It was challenging for me as I found managing time hard at first. As situation already alarmed that these pending unsigned payments can create difficulty for me in future so I made a schedule.  Time pressure often messed up things so I decided to prioritise my work assignments according to theory Eisenhower Matrix based on urgency and importance as this model improves time management skills and enhance productivity (Eisenhower, 1954). This theory helped me in sorting out task accordingly. I learned the importance of task and find the tactics to organise things and manage time.I followed the four Ds that is Do first, do later, Delegate and Delete. I planned to do the payment work at first as the signing off of payments was urgent as well as important because these were the basic of report generation so Ive decided to complete it on priority basis as the priority level was high. I asked seniors to assign me one internee but there wasnt any spare internee so had to do everything at my own. This was a turning point for me I felt really disappointed at first, I was really reactive rather than being active, then I analysed everything thoroughly and eliminated my few extra activities from the list.I reduced extra activities for few weeks to focus on official assignments. Ive made to do list for few weeks. I thoroughly followed schedule and managed to complete report almost on time. As it developed my skills of pressuring time when there is no option.As quarterly and annual report writing was time consuming because I had to gather evidences of various departments so it was my second priority. I decided to complete at least 5 reports a day for single doctor so till the time of quarterly report submission I will have everything ready and it went as predicted all reports were completed. This was a relieving point for me as it mitigated my pressure up to some extent. I emailed consultants in advance that Ill make their reports side by side. Ive completed routine reports on time but there was a day delay in submission of quarterly report. I completed around 72 reports. Consultant appreciated my work and responded that Ive done great job and they further said that they can understand my situation as I was working on various assignments simultaneously.It was all possible due to prioritisation of work. I remained focused on tasks assigned to me with less stress and was also appreciated in board meeting. I learned that how time management and scheduling work helps in reducing stress and organising tasks. I also came to know that how prioritising ends up in identifying important and urgent duties.For time management, I have implemented the Parkinson’s law. Following this law helps me in a more in depth analysis of the time that will be helpful for me to perform specific tasks. It divided my efforts in the practical settings while enhancing the time to get every mission accomplished. I also makes me focused and dedicated throughout.
Personal and professional development plan (PDP):What am I supposed to learn? How will I achieve my goals? What resources are required to achieve the goal? How will I measure my success criteria? Time to achieve the target?What approaches and skills will be helping me in managing the time in a better way? What are the skills that I must work upon? By Attending several workshops and seminars regarding time management. Fees that I am supposed to pay.
Different relevant courses regarding time management.  I will be measuring my success criteria by the implementation of knowledge in different practical settings. I will be conducting several sections in regards to this.  1 year 

Eisenhower, D., 1954. The Eisenhower Matrix: Make Urgent Vs. Important Decisions With 4 Quadrants. [Online] Develop Good Habits. Available at: <https://www.developgoodhabits.com/eisenhower matrix/> [Accessed 17 June 2020].

TOPIC 2: EFFECTIVE NEGOTIATIONI

was working as a medical resourcing officer in a hospital. My job includes different task. One of my tasks includes locum booking. I used to book locum for A&E ministry. As we, all knew that accident and emergency department cures patients without any appointments because an emergency case comes there. There was a lack of A&E Doctors worldwide, so the doctors of A&E ministry charges were very high. Once I was booking A&E doctor. He was asking too much amount but I agreed with him due to the shortage of the workforce. Then I came to know that why he was asking for a lot of money. But it was too late. Our hospital paid him the huge amount. Everyone was blaming me. It was really disappointing and upsetting for me. Next time I was very careful. I was appointing another doctor for A&E ministry but this time I did a lot of research that how much fees should be given to those doctors. I searched market competitive rates for the same designation. I thought to hire someone through indirect sources via any good agency. But the agencies, which were providing A&E doctor, were demanding a lot of commission. But I refused to give such a huge amount, as I researched the rates of A&E doctors. I asked them to provide the doctors to the hospitals according to our rates because other hospitals were not providing that much money even though our hospital was still providing the better rates with some facilities. So i tell them to provide the doctors as per our rates. But in the first place they denied. But later on they called me that they accepted my proposal and their doctors are ready to join the hospital.As Chester L. Karrass said In business as in life, you dont get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. I was very happy because this time my negotiation with the agency works and they accept my offer. Its a good way to apply your strategies and work on those strategies. Now I had a lot of experience and I am also building up a contract with different agencies, which permitted me to have more options of doctors which are reasonable for the hospital. As Sheryl Sandburg said: Believe in yourself, and negotiate for yourself, own your own success. I learned the differences in direct and indirect negotiations, as well as the pros and cons of using direct and third party negotiations. So I utilised my capacity to draw the doctors from organisations into our own inside bank, by offering them serious rates, with no commissions and limits on it and decided go for direct negotiation instead of using agencies as agencies is a better option when there is a shortage of time.. All those people who scolded me were later on praising my work and the DMS of our hospital also appreciated my work. It was a really exciting and proud moment for me as I proved all the blames against me wrong and turned them into appreciation.I followed practical negotiation theory scenarios to have a detailed overview of the situation to be assessed. I make up my mind clear about the differences between conflict resolution and conflict management. I focused upon the four main strategies, which includes inaction, yielding, problem solving strategies, and contending. I concentrate upon the prior work to get through the negotiation process, to make myself stay away from significant obstacles. I assessed the participants in the scenario, which will help make the negotiation sustainable. After proper assessment, the impact of bargaining was assessed while focusing on the approaches of culture and the style of negotiation. I determined negotiation on an individual basis to have a deeper understanding of the culture, race, ethnicity, and beliefs of people in the scenario. It develops a full knowledge of the entire situation. After making up preparation as the whole, I implemented the plan in hospital settings, and follow up the negotiation theory. The theory helps me in the development of a better understanding to get through the scenario efficiently. 
Personal and professional development plan (PDP):
What am I supposed to learn? How will I achieve my goals? What resources are required to achieve the goal? How will I be measuring my success criteria? Time to achieve the target?What approaches and skills will be helping me implementation of the effective negotiation tactics? What should I do in order to enhance the effective negotiation skills? I will be taking assistance from different workshops in regards to this; relevant seminars will also be fruitful.  Fees for both the university, and relevant sessions that I will be attending. In addition, I will analyzing different books to in depth knowledge.
I will be implementing the knowledge in practical settings, and also practicing in the professional settings will be helpful.  1 year 

Breslin, J. and Rubin, J., 1991. Summary Of Negotiation Theory And Practice. [online] Beyond Intractability. Available at: <https://www.beyondintractability.org/bksum/breslin negotiation> [Accessed 19 June 2020].

TOPIC 3: CREATIVE AND TEAM BASE DECISION MAKING

I was working as a medical resourcing officer in a hospital. Our hospital was well known for providing the best services. In our hospital there were a lot of talented doctors. But our hospital was in search of good A&E doctors. There is lack of A&E Doctors worldwide, so the doctors of A&E ministry charges very high. So after some efforts our hospital hired some A&E doctors. Now the main task was assigning the shifts to A&E doctors. I assigned shifts to the doctors. Everything was going well and good. But after a week the most of the doctors were not available on their assigned time. So it became very difficult to cure emergency patients because doctors were not available in their offices. It was so necessary to treat emergency patients on time, because most of the cases were very critical and the ignorance of the doctors can cause serious problems for the patients and hospital. And it was also affecting our hospitals image. As we all knew this was not a small issue. So we decided to arrange a meeting. The next day the meeting was held. We discuss the issue with everyone. Everyone was giving their reasons for not been available that time. All of the doctors examined the issue from several angles, after analysing the whole issue we recognise the problems and discuss it with every single team member. Everyone in the team was highly experienced and creative; all of them were giving the best opinions for addressing the problems.  We listened to everyones opinion and come up with the alternatives.As Henry Ford said:Coming together is a beginning, staying together is a progress, and working together is a success.Now, it was time to identify the alternative that best deals the problem. The entire team discussed the benefits of each alternative and thought about all the possible consequences occur and which alternative best fits the problems so that we can move to the desired state. We came with a solution of creating WhatsApp group, different groups with different grades. Before the creation of groups we got the permission from multiple doctors for the same as their chats would be publically seen. Agreed doctors were tot up. WhatsApp framework empowered them to get warnings about spaces straight away and appointments were done out of hours and filled rate expanded, bringing about less hanging tight an ideal opportunity for A&E. And it also helped in such cases that if any assigned doctor is not available or busy somewhere else then the doctor who will see the message first and are available at that time will reach there to treat an emergency patient. After the implementation of this decision they hardly got a complaint from any patients family. Another good saying by Steve Jobs:Great things in business are never done by one person.  They are done by a team of people.If I alone thought about the solution, I may not be able to come up with such a good solution but it happened because we worked together on it. And as we all know a group has ability to gather increasingly more information, contrasted with an individual, while deciding. An individual uses his own instinct and perspectives. While a group has numerous individuals, so its numerous methodologies and numerous perspectives bring about better results. You can achieve more together than you can alone.For a better analysis and evaluation of creative decision making Theory of Bono will be highly assisting. It will help me to evaluate the creative decision making and in an efficient way. As according to the third stage of Theory of Bono, I followed up on all the AGO that were required to meet in the scenario. AGO discusses the aims, goals, and objectives. I set out all the relevant AGOs in the scene. I analysed the situation critically to see both sides of the case. One side and optimistic while the other hand is of risks, and darkness. I examined both sides of the situation analytically that describes me the advantages and the disadvantages of the case. The analysation assists me to figure out the relevant risks, difficulties that I faced being a medical officer at the hospital. Every scenario that I encountered during every condition was analysed following PMI. Also, I followed the Red hat in Bono theory that assists me in analysing the situation based on my thinking perspectives ad the gut feeling. It aids me in better analysis of the scenario. I considered others opinions and thoughts such as that of Steve Job, because chances of risk might increase if I didnt follow other counsellors. So, for this purpose, I developed different peoples view concerning the scenario. In the last, I considered the consequences and solutions of the primary situation to see its impact. In the previous, I think about another plan as an alternative, as I do have a lot of perspective that might be implemented to solve the main issue. I also discussed other alternative methods of the problem with other team members, along with the pros and cons of the situation. It keeps me on a safety risk, and assists in the prevention of risk causing condition. 

Personal and professional development plan (PDP):What am I supposed to learn? How will I achieve my goals? What resources are required to achieve the goal? How will I be measuring my success criteria? Time to achieve the target?What approaches and skills will be helping me in enhancing the skills of decision making? What are the skills that I must work to make decisions in critical situations? By Attending several workshops and seminars, and consulting books regarding decision making and creative management. Resources required includes fees to be paid for seminars, books for consultation as well as the university fees.    I will be applying the knowledge in professional settings to see on which criteria of success I am falling. 1 year 

TOPIC 4: COACHING AND MENTORING

When I was in university we had different courses in which I studied coaching and mentoring.  With the end of our course we had to do an assignment. In order to complete the assignment we had to conduct a Coaching and Mentoring session.  So as we had enough knowledge about this so university management chooses us to conduct coaching and mentoring session so that we can better guide other. For the coaching and mentoring session we used grow model. I was really excited to put our academic learning in to the practice.My department had chosen me to mentor a girl because that girl was facing many issues on daily basis. So she needed a proper guidance. For this purpose i was working as a coach for her. Firstly, i met this girl and discuss about the problems she was facing. She was reluctant at first because talking to a stranger about ones personal life is itself a big thing but I had tried to calm her and made her comfortable to be open with me so somehow I managed and she told me everything in detail that how she forgot things after trying many ways to remember things but it was all in vain. All these things were affecting her professional as well as social life. I felt really miserable for her and felt really bad that how she was suffering so much from a long period. So, i decided to help her at any cost. First of all i found the cause of her problems. The cause was that she was over burdening herself and she was the only person running home as well as managing her professional life. So i told her to take rest for a week. And in this week Ill guide her. Then the next day we met again. I asked her what she was going to do today. She told me everything in detail we wrote down things. We made a schedule for her and set some alarms. By doing this she was able to know about things. We used to do this on daily basis for few weeks. I have got good communication and coordination with her as it was also a satisfying moment for me as I was helping her in getting out of her messed up routine. It was quite difficult for me to mentor a girl like this because i had never deal with such issue before.  The girl was also going through a depressing phase of her life. In addition to work, i suggested her to spend some quality time with her family. She thoroughly worked as per my guidance. She was not going to office from the past few days. So there were fewer burdens on her. But day by day she was remembering things without alarms. All these guidance helped her a lot. My experience as a mentor was quite good.  I thought about all the possible solutions so that i could help her in a better way. Being a mentor I put a lot of efforts because her case was much different from the other cases. I also advised her to never over burden herself again. Do your work calmly and happily. Dont consider work as a burden.Coaching assists with building a positive and solid change in me and to support the exchange of information from me to the other person. If this should raise an occurrence of associations and organisations, instructing and coaching become significantly useful for the profession development.GROW coaching model will be assisting here in better analysis of my performance in this particular scenario. First, I worked upon my short term plan, and the project is to spend quality time with the girl to take her out of the depression phase, while my long term goal is to help her to get out of the issues she is facing. So I followed up on the first theme of the GROW model. The targets on which I focused in the entire scenario is SMART. All of them are specific, measurable, acceptable, realistic, and timely. I made myself aware of the whole scene by asking coachee with questions repeatedly. It helps in overcoming the obstacles that I faced in the entire scenario.I understand the whole problems and define all the related factors. I developed a positive change in the client, and this is no less than an achievement. I generate ideas by providing the client with several options. I analysed every opportunity by discussing its pros and cons, to help her develop understanding in a better way. Then, I worked upon the motivation of coachee by analysis of her will power. It includes the steps that she will be following to achieve the goal along with the obstacles. I also discussed several plans that she would be using to implement different changes in herself. The entire session follows the trajectory of the GROW model. I worked upon my rapport making skills as well as enhanced by learning skills to analyse the situation in a better way. I stay connected with the client in the entire session to help her perform well and to encounter the mistakes she is facing. Personal and professional development plan (PDP):What am I supposed to learn? How will I achieve my goals? What resources are required to achieve the goal? How will I be measuring my success criteria? Time to achieve the target?What approaches and skills will be helping me in developing the coaching the mentoring skills? How can this help me out in achieving my professional goals? Attending several workshops and seminars regarding coaching and mentoring, and learning from the experience of senior staff. Fees, books, coaching and mentoring seminar dues as well as access to senior in a professional setting.    I will be measuring my success criteria by the implementation of knowledge in different practical settings. I will be analysing the self skills.  1 year 

TOPIC 5: INTERPRET FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND MANAGE FINANCIAL RESOURCES.

I discussed few items of the financial statements in detail below:AssetsAssets are comprised of non current assets and currents. Current assets are those assets that are liquid and likely to be converted into cash within one year. Some examples of current assets include Cash and cash equivalents – Cash in hand or bank, Accounts receivable – Income still to be paid by our debtors, Prepaid expenses –Expenses paid in advance, Inventory a complete list of items such as property, goods in stock, Marketable securities Marketable securities are liquid financial instruments that can be quickly converted into cash at a reasonable price. Noncurrent assets are a companys long term investments or any asset not classified as current it includes fixed assets, like plant and equipment, and intangible assets, like trademarks fall under noncurrent assets. Some examples of noncurrent assets are Land, Property, plant, and equipment, Trademarks, Long term investments and even goodwill. Current liabilities are short term liabilities that are due within one year and include accounts payable are a short term debt owed to suppliers, accrued expenses are expenses that have yet to be paid, but have a high probability of being paid.Noncurrent liabilities are also listed on the balance sheet and are included in the calculation of a companys total liabilities. Noncurrent liabilities are long term debts or obligations and unlike current liabilities, a company does not expect to repay its non current liabilities within a year. Some examples of noncurrent liabilities include Long term lease obligation, Long term debt like bonds payable. Shareholders equity is the net of a companys total assets and its total liabilities. Shareholders equity represents the net worth of a company and helps to determine its financial health. Shareholders equity is the amount of money that would be left over if the company paid off all liabilities such as debt in the event of liquidation. Retained earnings is money held by a company to either reinvest in the business or pay down debt. Retained earnings are also earnings that have not been paid to shareholders via dividends. The Profit and loss statement records provide information about a companys ability or inability to generate profit by increasing revenue, reducing costs, or both. Some refer to the P&L statement as a statement of profit and loss, income statement, statement of operations, statement of financial results or income, earnings statement or expense statement.The income statement, like the cash flow statement, shows changes in accounts over a set period. The balance sheet, on the other hand, is a snapshot, showing what the company owns and owes at a single moment. It is important to compare the income statement with the cash flow statement since, under the accrual method of accounting; a company can log revenues and expenses before cash changes hands.The day to day running costs divide up into direct costs, which are costs that relate immediately to sales, and overheads, which are general running costs. For example, the cost of buying materials to make goods to sell, and the cost of delivering finished goods to customers, would be direct costs. Rent of an office would be an overhead. If your business sells services, it may not have any direct costs.
I analysed the financial statements of the two years i.e. 2010 and 2011. The financial statement I analysed were balance sheet and income statement having year end of 30 April 2011 and 2010. The statements along with the analysis are given below:
 Interpretation:The base year is 2010. Asset base has increased considerably over the last one year and highest increase in the asset base is observed in cash at bank and in hand, it is almost thrice in the 2011 where as total assets increased by 227% as compare to base year 2010. The creditors balance also showed positive increase as it is alarming that the liabilities have been increased by 143%. The major increase in assets in 2017 was due to the major increase in the current assets. The shareholders fund also showed outstanding performance and healthy increase by reaching from 18740 to 108708. That is almost 480% in 2011 as compare to base year 2010
 Interpretation:On to Profit and Loss side the net profit showed really unstable movement as compare to the financial position over the past year. It is 73.5% increase in 2011 and turnover earned has rented finally an average increase by reaching 60% in 2011. However, cost of sales has increased over the past period under coverage i.e. 100% rise in 2011 indicates that the revenue rise also raised the cost of sales but the revenue increase is less than the average increase in the cost of sales.  Although the administrative expenses have been reduced by 36%, it is a sign that organisation is better absorbing its fixed expenses.

Personal and professional development plan (PDP):What am I supposed to learn? How will I achieve my goals? What resources are required to achieve the goal? How will I be measuring my success criteria? Time to achieve the target?What skills will be helping me in financial management? How to enhance the profitability by doing financial management of limited resources? By Attending several workshops and seminars regarding financial management. Dues required paying for university and for attending several workshops.    Implementation of the knowledge in practical settings will assist me I better analysis of the success.    1 year 

 The Balance. 2020. The Balance. [Online] Available at: <https://www.thebalance.com/> [Accessed 20 June 2020].
 Investopedia. 2020. Investopedia. [online] Available at: <https://www.investopedia.com/> [Accessed 20 June 2020].

TOPIC 6: PRESENTATION OF STATISTICAL DATA

I have been assigned a task to statistically present the data related to the working days loss due to sickness over a period of 5 years. I have gathered data using different sources and compiled it in a table.  It was a raw data so I had to sort it accordingly, I made a detailed table. I put years on the 1st row and the months on the 1st column. Then I have calculated average figure for each year to give more clear view as it was really time consuming but I have tried my best to cope with all the presentation work. I used column chart to analyse this data and identify whether there are any patterns and trends.  I identified various trends or patterns that need to be investigated. I presented data in the column charts. The details are as follow:The table shows the number of working days lost due to short terms sickness over a 5 year period.
Sickness of data working days lost by monthMonth 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019Jan 74 60 61 58 55Feb 58 58 82 53 52Mar 61 49 52 54 49Apr 65 65 74 54 53May 70 70 69 66 64Jun 68 72 70 74 75Jul 54 58 56 49 48Aug 45 48 38 42 43Sep 61 57 61 58 56Oct 68 64 59 60 62Nov 64 60 64 49 64Dec 72 70 69 65 63 This graph shows the number of working days lost due to short terms sickness over a 5 year period.
 Furthermore I calculated means and standard deviation of the data yearly then calculated the mean and standard deviation as a whole. I used the formula of the standard deviation in excel as it was really time saving and interesting, I just put single formula in excel it gave me the standard deviation of 5 years individually and as a whole. The sorting of the table data in to the line graph took lots of time as it was really difficult to arrange and fit data in a single row but I have used excel to draw this line graph. The Standard Deviation tells us that how deviated is the one figure from the mean in short it indicates the distance among the figures and mean. While mean is the average of all the figures in short. The overall standard deviation is 9.202 and the mean is 60.2. The yearly standard deviation and mean figures are given below:
Years 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019Standard Deviation 8.217 7.728 11.373 8.695 8.893Mean 63 61 63 57 57
 
So it can be seen in the line graph that the figures are more deviated in 2017 as compare to the rest i.e. standard deviation in 2017 is 11.373as the mean is 63. The lower the standard deviation the less will be the deviation from the mean. The lowest standard deviation was observed in 2016 i.e. 7.728 with a mean of 61. Excel helped me a lot in data crunching and presentation of two methodologies i.e. mean and standard deviation for various years data under single line graph.

Personal and professional development plan (PDP):
What am I supposed to learn? How will I achieve my goals? What resources are required to achieve the goal? How will I be measuring my success criteria? Time to achieve the target?For the sake of personal and professional development, I will be working in my analyzation and presentation of the data. Also, I am supposed to learn the skills that are required for this. Working in a challenging environment will help me to achieve my goals. It requires working in potentially challenging environment. I will be analysing different seminars as well. For achieving my goals, I have to pay my fees as well as dues for the training sessions. By working successfully on my plan, I just have to deal with every situation where I can apply my knowledge critically. It requires financial presentation of data and analysis.  6 months 

TOPIC 7: DELIVERING TRAINING

I was working as a medical resourcing officer in a hospital. My department assigned me a task to deliver training to some juniors. Our hospital decided to deliver this training because a training session permits workers to strengthen those aptitudes that every worker needs to improve. A training session helps all workers to a more significant level so they all have comparable abilities and information. This lessens any frail connections inside the hospital that depend vigorously on others to finish essential work. Being the most senior person there I had tremendous information about the product utilisation of various software and detail of how does it work. A portion of the preparation includes finance programming for current specialists, NHSP Booking programming for locum specialists instalments, recording ailment on the software, how to utilise allotment programming to plot the rota for singular specialists check if the rota are agreeable or not and roll out fundamental improvements. Then, I felt a need to convey training yet the issue was I had never conveyed training before, despite the fact that I had incredible information of all these software. I was very upset because I had no knowledge about giving effective trainings. I researched a lot and gathered some information about training and got some more knowledge about software too so that not even a single important point can be missed. The next day the training session was held. I made the agenda of the training session and took the prints out, in short finalised each and every thing. The training time was of 3 hours. And there was a break in between. I prepared a lot. I decided to organise Q&A session at the end of the training, so at the end I got a chance to catch up with the audience again and explain whatever I had skipped or addressed quickly during training. I started my training session to the new starters. I tried to explain each and everything in detail in the defined time. First of all I explained why we use this software in detail. And then there were a small tea break. After the tea break we started again. And later on I explained how they work and how they are useful. And in the last thirty minutes Q&A session was held. I try to explain them more clearly. As LARRY PAGE, co founder of Google said:Always deliver more than expected.I was very satisfied with my training because I covered each and everything in a good way with in defined time. Moreover, I had never experienced this before so everyone also seemed very satisfied with my work. I gain some new knowledge and it will also help me in future to deliver some more trainings. I feel really good after this because it helps me to explore some new things. And I shared my knowledge with everyone. It was my one of the best experience. And my hospital management decided Ill give more such trainings in future. I deliver training better than they expected. I also got few feedbacks from the audience everyone appreciated the session and got so many positive responses. Kolb’s learning experiential cycle will be implemented here to provide it a theoretical domain. I have come across with all the essential parts of the cycle that I implemented during training session. First one is the concrete experience which interprets that I came across ever situation with having a better experience. I have reflected upon my observations that review the experience that I have. Then after this I make inferences about different situations that polishes my abstract conceptualisation. In the last, active experimentation helps me in planning and accomplishing about the information that I have learned so far. It makes my training applicable to the Kolb’s theory. Personal and professional development plan (PDP):What am I supposed to learn? How will I achieve my goals? What resources are required to achieve the goal? How will I be measuring my success criteria? Time to achieve the target?What approaches and skills will be helping me in delivering the required training? What sort of training session will be effective? By Attending several workshops and seminars regarding delivery of training. Different books and research papers are also required.  Fees that I am supposed to pay, along with the seminar and relevant material expenses.  I will be measuring my success criteria by the implementation of knowledge in different practical settings along with a certain call of action. 1 year 

McLeod, S., 2017. [online] Simplypsychology.org. Available at: <https://www.simplypsychology.org/learning kolb.html> [Accessed 19 June 2020].

TOPIC 8: ESSAY AND REPORT WRITING

When I was in university, they assigned us a task to write a report on a subject. We had to submit this report within 15 days. I was really negative about it at first because I was bad in evaluating my own tasks and subjects. I knew it that it will going to help me out in future academics.  I and my friend were very worried about it because we were short of time and we both had no special knowledge about this subject. It seemed a very difficult task for both of us.  We decided to divide the task into two parts. And we also decided that one person will gather information from the internet through different good websites and other will visit university library to gather some information about it. We both started searching about it. I visited the university website and search about this subject there. After searching I got to know about this subject and found some relevant data there. I found a lot of good books and started reading it one by one. My friend went to our university library and issued a book related to that subject. He read that book and highlights some important points so that we could write those points in our report. We got a lot of information from it. We also took help from our seniors. After a lot of efforts we gathered some appropriate data.  Hence I imagined that it was little more apprehensive at a prospect of writing a report. Here we again divided our task and provide topics to each other. And then we read everything in detail. Now its time to start writing the report. We both were completely fed up, and depressed because the submitting date was coming nearer. But then we mustered up the courage and arranged phone call meetings as it was really time consuming to travel. We both work day and night, and also faced sleepless nights because it was not an easy task to write a report and then critically evaluate your own data and information. I didnt want to suffer my report at all. After collection of the data the next task was converting that data in to useful information so we made few questionnaires and distributed it among the batch. We analysed those questionnaires by using various statistical techniques and ends up in making a drafted report.   I gained so many things and it helped in gaining diversified knowledge about the module and applying statistical techniques. I was able to learn variety of methods and gathered knowledge about my module. With huge hurdles and data mining struggle I have managed to enhance my report writing skills and this is the main thing which was challenging for me. I was bad in organising data as per needs and formatting etc.   This was a new and really good experience in my academic career because it will also assist me in future. And I also came to know that library is the main source of information regarding any subject.Kirkpatrick Model provides a better evaluation of the reflection to self. It provides my report writing with a better sense of evaluation about my knowledge and findings. First one is the reaction, which is about the thought patterns of those who are participating in my research. The reaction of the participants was somehow positive. Level 2 is about the learning experience and it provides me a lot of knowledge to learn along with certain skills. I also analysed the behaviour of the participants while the training session, and this helps me in better evaluation of the report. In the last level of model, I find and analysed the results to enhance the factor of accountability. So the report writing fits in the Kirkpatrick model. Personal and professional development plan (PDP):What am I supposed to learn? How will I achieve my goals? What resources are required to achieve the goal? How will I be measuring my success criteria? Time to achieve the target?What approaches and skills will be helping me in writing a report critically? What aspects will be making my report efficient? By Attending several workshops, reading previous report and publications. Fees that I am supposed to pay and the access to several publications. Expenses are also required for seminars. I will be measuring my success criteria by the implementation of knowledge in different practical settings, and the academic career. 1 year 

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