SWOT Analysis in Personal and Professional Development
My professional and personal skills motivate me in organising exhibitions and conferences, which is a key strength of my career development. In general, I evaluate myself as being honest, sincere hard-worker who values perfection and efficiency. Not only I consider that these are significant strengths in my own life, but I observe that I communicate these traits to others, at times setting a bar, which is too high for anyone else to achieve. Besides, I possess a large number of skills, ranging from various types of designing and the technicalities of computer programming to event planning. These skills have helped me in a leadership position and various projects thus far in life. Regarding the four dimensions of leadership, I notice that I apply my relationship- oriented attitudes in building trust with my team members, ensuring that my tasks are achieved effectively and in a timely manner. One negative feature to my relationship-oriented approach is that I often accept extra workload to complete the bigger task in order to avoid conflict.
While learning about leadership from a book does not increase knowledge to a certain degree, I notice that I have an opportunity to become a better leader while learning on the job, subjecting myself to new situations, which test my limits and capabilities. This opportunity offers me a self-analysis, permitting me to polish my personality traits. Much more likely, Emotional Intelligence (EI) is my single weakness among leadership skills, which I have to work on. While I am able to control my own emotions and can measure the emotions of others, often I feel a great difficulty in keeping those personal feelings aside to best suit the environment. When I am upset, it is obvious to feel how others will interact with me and what will happen.
The biggest threat to my career growth is the latest developments in information and digital technology with the new processes being introduced every day. In order to compete in this era, it is necessary to learn and instil the latest developments of advanced technology in time, and to implement this knowledge in my career activity. This is a powerful lesson I have learned in order to improve my personal development plan from the conferences and events.
Implementation of a Personal Development Plan
My ambition is to become a successful manager in my life, but I have realised that I do not possess some vital skills, which are necessary for my career development. The book “Leadership on the Line” has helped me to a large extent with improving my skills for my PDP.
The philosophy of Getting Things Done helps me draw clearer, better plans for attaining my goals. I would like to share some of the significant characteristics of this philosophy that can benefit all, if they include the philosophy into their plans. After much research and reading, I have come to understand that there are several integral solutions of developing and executing PDP. Among them, the best, in my view, is how to get things done written by David Allen. I consider GTD (in short) is the best, because it provides the complete perspective, from organizing and planning to execution. Working on a joint project has given me an opportunity to learn from others in teamwork and how efficient leadership is crucial for teams. At the beginning of the project, I conducted the audit of skills by examining the areas where I needed improvement. The skill audit reflected a vital gap in team building, teamwork, communication skills, and problem-solving. I have decided to improve by becoming a class representative, because I realised that this would be a suitable platform where I would have the opportunity to improve myself in communication, written and oral skills. This way, I can learn how to lead people in teamwor