Personal And Professional Development: Strategies For IT Professionals

1. Take responsibility for own personal and professional development

1. Take responsibility for own personal and professional development?

2. Demonstrate interpersonal and transferable skills?

3. Dynamics of working with others?

4. Develop strategies for problem solving?

As an IT professional in the organization i.e. Tesco, the identification of personal and professional development will be discussed in this section. Personal development helps to lead to success in the strategic direction and it needs the stage of implementation with formulation. Strategic direction helps to define the strategy and it makes the decisions with respect to allocation of resources and capital and people. Strategic planning considers the determination of process in the organization and it determines the result as a strategic plan.

1.1. Reflect own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organizational objectives

Professional skills include talent to improve the areas of opportunities, deal with the ideas and performance, presentation and written skills as well as other detailed formats. Effective skills include multitasking, numerous tasks at proper skills, setting of goals and priorities with respect to proper time and actions etc. Networking inside the work place, training and mentoring, functioning with different people is important for full dedication and support. In this challenging life, the improvements on IT skills are important to value the performance. Technical skills and knowledge are necessary for this career and is possessed by the researcher. Thus, communication, working skills, communication and IT skills, time management skills exists among the researcher. (Cassidy, 2006)

1.2. Evaluate the development plan  

The skill that has been mentioned in the task 1 was communication and technical skills as well as time management skills that need to be continued. When the IT consultant joined Tesco, it was very difficult for him to manage the time and communication properly. He uses to focus on designing proper channels for best IT tools and communication tools. There is a requirement of valuable goal and effective time management and task management. Thus, it is need to improve the success and better career. There is a need to achieve the goals properly and motivation is required to deal with the tasks properly. Thus, the evaluation on skills and attributes are essential and required to improve in the organization. (Advanced leadership. 2010)

To meet the objectives, there is a need of proper planning and communication skills to improve the goals successfully. This way, the performance could be improved and learning and support is essential. It can address all the aspects to inspire people and move their goals toward success. This way, productivity and success will be generated with respect to the support and improvement. This way, it will help to meet with huge benefits and it will help to deal with the communication and techniques properly. (Marie, Browaeys & Roger, 2009)

1.3. Devise a personal and professional development plan

To devise the personal and professional development plan, Tesco looks for skills development to meet the strategic goals and activities to meet the compliance and deal with the industry regulations. The major cost of understanding is the time that an IT consultant is not getting in their jobs. The solution is to deal with the minimization of time spent in training and focus on people to meet the goals and objectives of the business successfully. To develop the competency, there is a need of assurance to deal with the training and associating the goals of the business. Thus, the skills and competency helps the organization to meet the effectiveness of training and learning with proper skills management.

2. Demonstrate interpersonal and transferable skills

Thus, there are major techniques to meet the goals and to deal with the issues properly. The IT consultant can use the tools and techniques to meet the goals and to create the effective techniques. (Doppler & Lauterburg, 2008)

1.4. Reflect aims and objectives in the personal and professional development plan

To deal with the objectives in the development plan of personal and professional objectives, the increase of goals setting can be done with:

Specific goals: The goal should be specific with respect to the expectations and formation of clarity and there should have evident success path. The goals create high awareness and knowledge of needs to meet them.

Measurable goals: The measurable goals should identify the brief that there is a requirement of 10 tasks to be completed by an IT consultant in a week and this should create flexibility to meet the goals.

Attainable goals: The goals can develop the necessary skills to meet and it contains ability, thoughts and emotions that can help to meet the potential.

Realistic goals: This is important as it is reachable and realistic where an IT consultant has chance to deal with the information and sources.

Tangible goals: With respect to tangible forms of goals, the goals will develop tangibility. (Lewis, 2015)

Thus, personal development plan has been the major importance for an organization. It has been intensive with respect to the development of effects. This generates quality and cooperation among employees and management; it also helps to allow the creative solutions in the work place.

2.1. Communicate in a variety of styles

The business of Tesco is really competitive with full of innovation. The organization should plan to convey the strategies to its employees. An effective communication system is the foundation of the organization and it is of a vital importance in the organization that manages the change and system in the organization.

Communication helps to transfer the information from one person to another and it deals with verbal or non-verbal communication. Managerial communication includes information from inside and outside the organization and it requires the business world. It is evident that managerial communication is important for the organizational function and it is a basic part of everyday life. (Robbins, 2008)

Organizational communication is effective with the influence of organizational structures in communication. Internal communication style could be effective via different sources such as memos, electronic sources and publications etc. External communication includes communication that transfers the information via different mediums like newspapers, television or magazines. Internal communication includes open and honest feedback with clear and easy understanding of approaches, timely submissions, reliable resources, two way process of communication etc. (Cassidy, 2006)

The teams in the work place are comprised of different departments and specialization with respect to different languages from different nations. Communication is a complex process to meet the targets on time. Thus, for an effective communication, there is a need to develop trust and focus on open communication. Employees should remain honest and focus on positivity. (Smith, 2008)

3. Dynamics of working with others

2.2. Effective time management strategies

Time management is all about time controlling. Everybody has to manage the time for some or other tasks in the organization for achieving the goals. Time management is strongly linked with self-management and it helps to achieve more things at one time. To reduce the non-productive works, there is a need of effective time management. Thus, there is a need to set the goals and priorities with time effectively. This way, it will deal with the priorities and focus on clear ideas and objectives. (Dawn, 2006)

Time management is a tool and skill to increase the time and to accomplish the goals. Time management is the focus to deal with the actions and durations. This can develop with time. It is important in the day to day activities and focused on long term goals with respect to skills. Time management will deal with learning and retention. It is important to deal with the effective skills and activities. Effective time management helps to set the goals and deals with respect to effectiveness and efficiency. This is important to deal with the list making and action planning. This will focus on action plans. (Kent.ac.uk, 2015)

3.1. Discuss and analyse different roles people play in a team and how they manage to work together to achieve shared goals.

In the above section the assignment report has discussed about scenario, issues and challenges that organization Tesco is facing due to inappropriate, inefficient and ineffective structure of business information system. The major issues and challenges that rising in Tesco related to overall communication processes. In Retail organization to design, develop and execute strong supply chain processes can possible through effective and efficient communication and information system. The major activities that represent overall success of business model associate with efficient purchase processes of goods in quantity and sell those goods to consumer in efficient manner. The main goals behind all activities, practices and processes associate with design, develop, implement and execute strong, effective and efficient information network within organization to achieve maximum profit that further drive organizational growth. Here, the assignment discussed some scenario within retail organization. (Merchant, 2015)

With respect to this scenario based situation and in normal cases the team plays multiple roles and responsibilities to manage works and achieve common goals within organization which are as following:

• Problem Solver: Some people plays role of problem solver who always actively participate and select by management at the time of hazard and critical situation based on their past contribution, experiences, skills and capabilities.
• Executor role: In this area team member execute all the required changes and processes within team as when required as these people have good bonding and understanding with other team members which enable to execution of any new change and sort of activities within team.
• Finisher role: This role reflects capability of team member who contribute in area of completion of work on time as per requirement and use their perfectionist approach to meet all work on time with quality.
• Coordinator: As coordinator people work together and ask for participation from each team to complete one particular activity in effective and efficient manner. Coordinator behaves like mediators among all team members and management to execute work in successful manner.
• Team contributor: This role required participation of each team member to be united and perform tasks that allocated to them to achieve one common goals and objectives.
• Researchers: This is important role who investigate and identify as much as new scope of opportunities and improvement areas to enhance overall effectiveness, efficiencies and productivity of team and organization.
• Analyst: As analyst the expectation of management more than other team members. Being analyst people reflect experiences, knowledge, skills and expertise in domain area and always ask for expertise support in terms of plan, organize and execute work within team. (Dlsweb.rmit.edu.au, 2015)

Similar to above there are multiple roles play by people within team to achieve goals.

3.2. Discuss alternative techniques to manage team work and achieve team goals.

With respect to above discussed scenario in retail organization Tesco that focused on challenge in overall communication processes and in normal scenario within organization there are multiple tools and techniques has been identified that can be implement to manage team work and achieve team goals. These tools and techniques are as followings:

• Design, Develop and communicate clear, accurate, relevant and realistic goals: Goals should be design in such way that involves all essential attributes means easy to understand, complete, clear, accurate and realistic approachable. The rationale behind this is to team need to have complete visibility on same so they will follow all activities and perform accordingly that associate with this in effective and efficient manner.
• Team Planning: This phase related with identified and communicated goals. It involves categorization of work in different parts to perform by groups in effective and efficient manner to achieve goals, define timeline for each task, define expected outcomes from each task, allocation of roles and responsibilities of each task and communicate processes within task.
• Set Standardization and negotiation techniques: Under this technique cover deviation parameters with respect to each task in terms of perform as per outcomes and actual. These techniques provide information what is best possible alternative option along with deviation range if team not meet the targets.
• Monitoring: These techniques present and reflect set of information in terms of continuous measuring processes and keep control among expected and actual performance by the team. Through monitoring management enhance the overall production of work by continuously observe activities and tasks perform by team. (

Similar to above multiple other tools and techniques has been defined to manage team work and achieve goals. Another technique is:

Inputs involve planning, defining and designing of goals, set standardization and other essential works.

4. Develop strategies for problem-solving

Process that involves communicates all the essential information to respective counterparts and asks to perform accordingly.

Output which reflect the expected and actual that achieve by team

Feedback: It involves comparative analysis that reflects deviation between expected and actual achievements. (Au.af.mil, 2015)

4.1. Review tools and methods for developing solutions to problems

There are tools and methods for developing the solutions to problems such as:

Hard work and dedication

With respect to the research, hard work and dedication are the major traits for problem solving. The people can deal with success with proper understanding of goals and IT consultant can work hard with the resolution on problems.

Stress management

This is very crucial method of problem solving because stress is not good for human beings and it is a nervous system for the human stimulus. Stress occurs with deadlines, fear factors and other approaches of anxiety. (Igor, 1987)

Time management

The time management is an important skill to manage and everyone fails to manage the time in their professional life. It cannot change the schedule of learning and it is useful for the organization. There is a need of tasks prioritization for success and performance.

Techniques to assess the professional skills are vital and it should deal with mentoring, coaching and leadership. Mentoring will involve in goals achievement and a good mentor will be a communicator, a supporter and trustworthy. With coaching tools, the aims or goals would be attained effectively and leadership skills will help to resolve the problems with the discovery of new leadership skills. The issues are difficult to solve and the basic part of problem solving deals with the solutions effectively with leadership techniques. (Fred, 2006)

4.2. Appropriate strategy for problem solving

There are few strategies to meet the problem solving skills and abilities such as:

Communication skills: Strong communication skills are important to resolve the problems and a leader knows the importance of written and verbal skills. It helps to understand the importance for greater sense of skills and it leads to higher authority to deal with the issues.

Decision making: The strong decision making focus on abilities and skills with respect to decision were making power that is not sufficient. There is a need to understand the ethical dilemma as it generates strong judgment and skills. This would develop the right decisions and development. (Khanna, et.al, 2005)

Leadership skills: It is very important to deal with the organization and it has the ability and skills and it is very important in large organization. It motivates to deal with the common goals and the leader should deal with the rights and abilities to meet the common goals. There is a need of autocratic and democratic styles of leadership with respect to proper meaning to the organization.

Professional skills are important when compared with the personal skills and it deals with coaching, leadership and other theories of management and leadership etc. This skill is vital to deal with the advanced professional advancements and technologies. (Doppler, 2008)

4.3. Evaluation of the potential impact on the business of implementing the strategy

There are different approaches that affect the implementation of the strategy and it can be dealt into soft, hard and combined approaches. Soft approaches include people and the level of communication with respect to implementation tactics. The commitment includes the organizational structure and the systems of administration. Strong execution cannot deal with the shortcomings and it influences the process of strategic formulation. This helps to promote the successful implementation and it implements the influence of strong integration. The discipline of organizational strategy includes strategy implementation with respect to communication and strategy. (Simons, 1995)

Decision making style of managers focuses on the approach with respect to resolution and it adopts the rational method and non-rational method. Strategic decision makings and managers are not separated. With respect to the implementation of the plan, the huge investments are required for the staff members for the operations. Strict control and marketing helps to deal with the quick decision and the implementation of program that could ignore losses. The proposed plan should be considered successfully and its implementation. (Deal, 1983)

The implementation of strategic plan has proposed in the assignment to offer its services with respect to the important facilities and innovations etc. It develops strategies to deal with the business to focus on implementation. The leadership and innovation is the major growth that focused on the agenda of the team and it implement the ways of protecting the right talent. Innovation may encourage the professionals to deal with the active management and it will be accountable for dealing with innovation to develop the big difference. With active involvement of encouragement, the employees should be supported with important steps for innovation. (www.hbr.org, 1998)

Conclusion

In conclusion, here is an importance of performance with respect to decision making and involvement with strategies. Successful strategies formulation does not guarantee the implementation and they are change actually. It is broadly categorized into the agreed goals and objectives. It could be important for successful strategic implementation. To shape the innovation and it is an art and science. The team or network focus on major ideas that generates the gap. Thus, the innovation leads to work force and it believes in right kind of culture. It increases the prospects for successful and innovation. Managers and employees deal with the attitudes and values and behavior that promote innovation. (Barsh, et.al, 2008)

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