Personal Development Plan
Progress statement
Boud states that to review an experience one must ‘recapture the experience, think about it, mull over and evaluate it’ (Boud et al. 1985) I will follow this piece of advice when constructing my progress statement and development plan, I will also heavily consulted Kolb’s 'Experiential Learning experience as a source of learning and development ' cycle. He states that you go through an experience, then review it, conclude from it and finally plan the next stage. I followed this while making notes of what to include in my progress statement. This way I felt that I was covering all necessary stages in reviewing the work that I had done.
When reviewing my first semester of studying Business and Management at Leeds Metropolitan University I feel a mixed set of emotions. Firstly, proud, proud to have been able to have moved from my hometown, Birmingham, moving where I wouldn’t have my mother cleaning up after me and doing other tasks that I heavily relied upon her for. However, I also feel a deep feeling of regret. When looking back I can see my flaws and where I could do with a vast improvement for future semesters during my time here. My time management skills have never been as good as they should be, and therefore I feel I could make a great deal of improvement in this area. My attendance to seminars and lectures has not been great and this has put me at a great disadvantage, especially when it’s come to completing assignments and no doubt I will feel this during my first undergraduate examinations I will have during January 2012.
When doing my Business Information and Management of Organisations assignment, I really procrastinated leaving it until the last 2 weeks of the semester; this left me feeling very tired, anxious and deteriorated. This in someway has affected the standard of work that I know I can produce. This has been an extremely valuable lesson and when being set future assignments I will use this as a lesson
Boud states that to review an experience one must ‘recapture the experience, think about it, mull over and evaluate it’ (Boud et al. 1985) I will follow this piece of advice when constructing my progress statement and development plan, I will also heavily consulted Kolb’s 'Experiential Learning experience as a source of learning and development ' cycle. He states that you go through an experience, then review it, conclude from it and finally plan the next stage. I followed this while making notes of what to include in my progress statement. This way I felt that I was covering all necessary stages in reviewing the work that I had done.
When reviewing my first semester of studying Business and Management at Leeds Metropolitan University I feel a mixed set of emotions. Firstly, proud, proud to have been able to have moved from my hometown, Birmingham, moving where I wouldn’t have my mother cleaning up after me and doing other tasks that I heavily relied upon her for. However, I also feel a deep feeling of regret. When looking back I can see my flaws and where I could do with a vast improvement for future semesters during my time here. My time management skills have never been as good as they should be, and therefore I feel I could make a great deal of improvement in this area. My attendance to seminars and lectures has not been great and this has put me at a great disadvantage, especially when it’s come to completing assignments and no doubt I will feel this during my first undergraduate examinations I will have during January 2012.
When doing my Business Information and Management of Organisations assignment, I really procrastinated leaving it until the last 2 weeks of the semester; this left me feeling very tired, anxious and deteriorated. This in someway has affected the standard of work that I know I can produce. This has been an extremely valuable lesson and when being set future assignments I will use this as a lesson
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