Early Professional Development For Teachers - Importance And Benefits

Discuss About The Early Professional Development For Teachers.

The personal skills audit can be considered as a perfect method for identifying an individual’s competencies as well as in-competencies. Several scholars and researchers have proven and emphasized upon the fact that the personal audit is highly beneficial for those individuals, who want to maintain their career goals and are ambitious (Andrews and Russell 2012).Personal skills audit presents a detailed analysis of the required skills and confidence for applying and securing for several posts. It assists by enhancing the prospects of obtaining employment at the graduate level. Moreover, a personal audit completely depends upon the business area, in which an individual is working. In addition to this, it also varies within different areas as well as environments. The module of graduate skills helps the students in keeping the track of their career development goals and plans (Brownell 2015). This part of the essay discusses about the compared results of the individuals who evaluated me. For this purpose, I have used the four quadrants of Johari Window model, that is, open, blind, hidden and unconscious.

My emotional intelligent results from two friends were completely similar to mine. I am pretty cold and rarely concerned about what other people think about me. Moreover, my cold nature helps me in making decisions which are more assertive. However, at times, this cold nature of mine tends to upset my close ones, even when I do not want to hurt them. In addition to this, the results suggested that I am an emotionally intelligent person and have great relationships. My friends approach me for advices regarding relationships, studies, career and many more. I manage to have great relationships with people and thus, my friends as well as relatives approach me for advice. The personal development plan helped me in establishing the overall direction or purpose for developing personal needs as well as requirements. In addition to this, it enabled me in identifying the learning opportunities by formulating an action plan. Moreover, it helped me in undertaking the developmental plan for recording all the outcomes, evaluation as well as reviews.

(Figure: Johari Window Model

Source: Clinton 2012)

The Johari Window model is a specific technique that helped me in getting an idea of the relationships which I have with my friends. I have used this model in identifying my nature, competencies and in-competencies and compared those with my friends. Moreover, my close friends have a clear understanding of my nature. I am quite open regarding my nature, which my friends also understand. I have a very cold nature and rarely concerned of what people think about it. However, there is not much of difference regarding my friends’ comments about me and what I feel about myself. Such nature of mine, at times, proves to be a bit difficult for me to cooperate with my friends.

Johari Window Model and Self Awareness

The cold nature of mine helps me in taking tough decisions that are more assertive. However, sometimes, my nature upsets my friends and I end up hurting them unknowingly. There are no hidden feelings, which is unknown to others as my friends understand me well. Moreover, the unconscious factor that comes into play is when I unknowingly hurt my friends, with my words. The Johari Window model has helped me in gaining self awareness. It also assisted me by improving communications and interpersonal relationships. However, through personal development, I am able to develop teams and group dynamics, which in turn, developed my inter group relationships.

In this segment of the assignment, I will be discussing about my strengths, weaknesses and possible improvements. I feel that due to my cold nature, I can take more assertive decisions, which I would consider as my strength. I feel that assertiveness is the key element to take quicker and better decisions. My assertive decisions have enabled me in making faster decisions, which led to more productive actions. I personally feel that when people are able to express themselves freely, without any fear, more and more ideas can be generated that leads to productivity as well as creativity. Moreover, I compose sentences more logically than emotionally, therefore, it can be said that I have a straightforward nature. In addition to this, I have great relationships and an emotionally intelligent person. This helped me in giving advices to many of my friends regarding their studies, career or relationships. Researchers have revealed the fact that emotionally intelligent people often have great leadership skills and potential. Therefore, it is important for me to realize this potential through seeking opportunities in order to improve, even further.

With strengths, come various weaknesses which can affect one’s daily activities. However, my assertive and cold nature can also pose a great threat to my career. At times, if the message is not being conveyed properly, other may consider it as rudeness, rather than assertiveness. Moreover, it can also reflect as over confidence and prove to be counter-productive. In addition to this, at times, people who do not know me personally, thinks that I am arrogant and rude. Therefore, this nature of mine also causes some difficulties to my life, which I need to overcome (Gardner et al. 2012).

However, the possible improvements for this are that I need to take more responsibilities and think about what other people think about my behavior. Moreover, I need to improve my communication style and use more descriptive languages. In addition to this, using a simple language will help me in making people understand about my nature. At times, people think that I am rude and arrogant. Therefore, I need to observe their opinions regarding me and check my attitude while conversing with them. In this manner, I will be able to improve my weaknesses and respect others’ opinions.

Strengths, Weaknesses and Improvements

In order to function well as a global citizen, I need to develop some competencies as well as responsibilities, which I have discussed in this part of the report. Almost each and every global issue has some social, political, ethnic and economical perspectives attached within it. I should be responsible towards understanding one’s perspectives towards the global issues (Cottrell 2015). Moreover, it is highly important to respect the principles of the cultural diversity. In addition to this, it is important to build connections as well as relationships with the individuals belonging to different cultures and countries. Furthermore, I need to be more responsive towards understanding of the global issues (Dabbagh and Kitsantas 2012).

It is highly important to understand different ways by which people as well as countries of the world are inter-dependent and inter-connected. Therefore, I need to play the role of activists in urging greater cooperation on the international platform that is, cooperating between the nations and others. In addition to this, I have the major responsibility of working with one another my maintaining peace and harmony, in order to advocate for justice solutions as well as global equality to such issues. There are various rights and responsibilities which come along, in order to function well as a global citizen (Dowling 2014).

For example; while working at a culturally diverse global organization, named ABC Organization, I have gained several experiences regarding personal development. The organization has pumped in a lot of resources for ensuring that the employees create an inclusive workplace. The organization’s inclusion of global diversity aims to maximize the power of diversity and its inclusion, globally. This helps in driving sustainable business competitive advantage as well as superior results of the business. They also conduct mentoring programs and employee resource group, for making the employees understand about the benefits of working together (Flores et al. 2012)

The CEO of the organization aims to implement several diversity policies into the company. Moreover, various rewards as well as recognition programs are also introduced within the workplace in order to encourage and motivate the employees to work better in a diversified workplace. The organization believes that diversity is the major factor which drives in better insights, better products and better decisions as well (Gould, Carson and Blanton 2013). Our organization believes that nobody should be discriminated due to their differences, like disability, age, gender, expression, ethnicity, gender identity and others. The diversity awareness programs organized in ABC Organization aim to help the employees understand the advantages of working in a diversified group (Jaros 2014).

Conclusion

To conclude, the personal development assessment has helped me a lot in understanding my competencies and in-competencies, strengths and weaknesses. This will assist me in near future, while working in a culturally diversified organization. However, I need to work on my weaknesses and improve my nature, so that people do not interpret my opinions in a negative manner.

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