Personal Management: Personal Development As A Manager And Leader

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Title Personal development as a manager and leader Unit Number 5001V1 Candidate James Marshall Within every job role and career there are opportunities to progress and become better at the current role or move into a new role. This can only be achieved if the individual undertakes continual self development. The organisations the individual works for will also have a role to play in how this is undertaken and to what organisational aims the development supports but ultimately every individual is responsible for their own development. As Pedler et al. (1994) put it “Self development is personal development, with the individual taking primary responsibility of his or her own learning and for chasing the means to achieve this”. Organisations…show more content…
This is especially important during times of recession as upward career progression may not be the outcome that the development obtains for the individual but they will still become a more motivated and productive employee. Torrington et al also point out that manager’s careers no longer follow the traditional progress up the ladder path but that gaining experience and skills will help the individual gain a sideways move either in the organisation or in another organisation. Clearly the existing organisation will hope that by demonstrating a commitment to the individual’s development the individual will choose to stay in house for any such move on the basis of that commitment…show more content…
a personal or publically shared experience or known fact being a reference point which is then observed and reflected upon to generate a new concept or generalised model. This in turn is then tested so that all the implications of the concept come to light and can be amended if appropriate. The closing of the loop is the formation of a new Concrete Experience which then becomes the norm for the individual to base their decision making processes on in the
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