Initial Self- Assessment and Reflection
According to the Befriender (2002), people learn through reflecting on their actions, then apply what they have learnt in their future actions and decisions. It is important for me to reflect on my goals from last year and take responsibility for my progress. For my first professional development plan, I chose 3 skills to expand on throughout the year which were:
Improve decision making
Always attend group meetings
Harvard referencing
Focusing on improving my decision making proved to be a tough task as I have always had a problem maintaining the choices I have made. Successfully, I chose which subjects I wanted to proceed with in second year of university and remained with them decisions which has proved to be the best choices to suit me. The second goal which was necessary to improve on was to attend every group meeting. It was important that I made time available for the team meetings so it was sure that I would be involved with the discussions.
We received fantastic marks so overall I am pleased that I followed through with my objectives but although I attended, I did not give a satisfactory amount of input into the work. Reflecting over this is disappointing which is why I must make this a new objective. Lastly, I chose to develop the skill of Harvard referencing. The development of the goal was successful and I am now able to reference all of my assignments correctly without any supervision, and feel more confident when individually writing important essays. Overall, I feel that the goals were achieved and my skills were addressed and enhanced, and will stay with me when I become a manager of a successful company.
With an aim to eventually be a successful business woman, it is...