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1 Evaluate personal skills required to achieve strategic goals using

appropriate methods:
Organization is a place where workers work to achieve a definite goal. Manager is an important
person who is liable to achieve the goal by using resource and lead the employee. Strategic goal
of a company needs for the betterment of the company. A strategic manager always concern to
maintain the whole system to achieve the strategic goal. Manager or leader of a company is a
formal administrator who needs personal skills to achieve strategic goals. Personal skills and
abilities are the power to do things or work in a better way. Skills are the ability to do something
that he possesses and use it day by day in the organization for achieving the strategic goals.
There are many personal skills of a strategic manager in an organization such as communication
skills, time management, stress management, conflict management, and motivation quality etc.
Communication skills: Communication skills need to understand the employee and maintain a
favorable relation with them within the work place. Manager should have strong communication
power with the employee and outside parties who relate with the organization. There two kinds
of communication one is verbal and another is non-verbal communication. Verbal
communication is a communication system that leads people to say something but non-verbal
communication is way of communication without speaks any words.
Stress management: Stress management is very essential and a critical skills for the managerial
success of a strategic manager. Organizational, environmental and individual factors are related
with stress management. Stress management is a big challenge for the strategic manager. The
symptoms of stress are bad moods, headache, pain and various kinds of physical and mental
problem. Individual should find out the cause for stress and take appropriate solutions to
maintain these stresses in the work place.
Time management: A time management strategy is misnomer. Individual cannot mange time,
he should maintain his work schedule in terms of time. Some key factors of time management
strategies are given below:

1. Set how individual spends his time when he will do his work. It helps to maintain his
time and he can complete his planned work just in time.
2. Identify the important job from the set of job helps to achieve the objectives.
3. Anyone can use pocket diary, notebook, calendar, electronic device, computer software
etc for time management.
4. Time schedule is just not a system to divide time; it is a process to do things.
5. Individual thinks that multitasking save time, but it is not true. Multitasking is decrease
productivity
6. Maintain external time waster for example avoid mobile phone while you are working.
7. Individual should avoid boring work that he dislikes.

1.2 Apply techniques to assess the professional skills required to

support the strategic direction:

There are various techniques to assess the professional skills to support the strategic direction of
the organization. Managers use these kinds of techniques to achieve the strategic goals. These
techniques are leadership skills, training and development skills, multi-tasking skills, technical
competence, conceptual ability, social and human skills etc.
Training and development skills: Training and development are very essential skills for a
strategic manager. Nowadays the world becomes more challenging and competitive. New idea
comes day by day. Therefore, manager should develop his own skills and ability to take proper
coaching and development plan to compete with the changing business world.
Leadership skills: Leadership skill is the backbone of a manager. Leadership skills are the key
factor to success in the business world. If a manager has effective leadership, skills he will move
forward in the organizational life.
Multi-tasking skills: When men join in a professional life within an organization, he may
maintain various types of tasks. Therefore, multi-tasking is very essential for a manager to
handle various types of tasks. Multi-tasking skills make works more efficiency.

Technical competence: Technical competence refers the methods and applications of specific
knowledge. Technical competence needs to develop and training to the employee in the
organization.
Conceptual ability: A manager should have the conceptual ability about any kind of problems
and their solutions. Conceptual ability helps to determine the environmental influences and
decision-making. It leads a better situation for a strategic manager and helps to support strategic
direction in any organization.
Social and human skills: Social and human skills make a relationship among the manager and
the employee relates with the organization. This helps to teamwork and support the strategic
direction in a company.

2.1 Carry out a skills audit to evaluate the strategic skills needed to
meet current and future leadership requirements:

A personal skills audit is very essential and very effective to evaluate strategic skills to meet
current and future leadership requirements in an organization. Audit of individuals skills can
assist to identify the present existing skills and helps to take proper action for the future career.
Manager should carry out a skills audit for preparing for the better future and build up better data
requires for betterment of future. Carry out a personal skills audit helps to improve the strategic
skills and meet the future requirements within the organization.
To carry out a personal skills audit, there are some steps such as indentify existing skills and
knowledge, identify the future skills and ability, rating individuals skills, review ability rating,
future development etc.
The first step of personal skills audit is to identify the existing skills and knowledge that is very
essential for individuals. In this step, one should note out his own skills and knowledge as a
document that he believes which is significant for present work.

Individual should analyze leadership, presentation and personal analyses. Personal analysis
includes
1. Strength
2. Time Management
3. Communication Skills
4. Presentation Skills
5. Couching Skills
6. Prioritizing Work

The next step of auditing personal skills is identifying the future skills and abilities of individual,
which leads a man for better future and helps to develop a strong strategic planning for the
organization. One should write down his future skills and knowledge that needs for the
upcoming future and significant for his career.
In this stage, one should rate leadership and management skills. Rating of leadership and
management skills one should do a survey on his skills that may be very good, average, or poor.
Leadership skills and management ability include communication skills, motivation skills, time
management skills, presentation skills, decision-making power, self-confidence, leadership etc.
After rating leadership skills and management ability individual should ask an investigator or an
instructor to re-exam or review the list. In this stage manager should choice a experienced
instructor who gives a clear idea and gives a fearful decision about the list.
The last and final stage of carrying out a skills audit to evaluate the strategic skills needed to
meet current and future leadership requirements is future development. In this stage, one should
take proper action for the future development and develop the skills and abilities by taking
proper coaching and training.

2.2 Apply appropriate techniques to identify preferred learning:

There are different ways and techniques to learn new things not only work place but in the
outside of the organization. Different people have different techniques to learn new idea and new
knowledge. Every man should choice better style of learning which is fruitful and effective for
himself.
As an activist, one should learn different idea and new knowledge from the work place. As a
learner, everyone should learn with passion, enthusiasm, and enjoying working and learning.
Individual may have flexible personality, which helps to adapt in various situation and assists to
become an expert in such situation.
When a man choices the way of learning as a reflector he may do better in the work place. One
should observe the things and analyze them for the better learning. This style is better for whom
who is interested to observe something.
Man who is very punctual and active in work place and discipline to do work prefer to choice
technique as The Theorist. It is a systematic way to learn anything. In this way every one try to
solve problem in a logical way and give better chance to learn new things.
Pragmatist learning style is very effective and suitable for the learner who likes to do practical
work rather than reading books.

3.1 Construct a personal development plan that meets leadership

development requirements identified in the skills audit:
A personal development plan is a process by which anyone can increase his personal skills and
ability in the work place. It supports work experience. A personal development plan needs to
increase knowledge, skills, and assists to meet present need in the organization. It also helps to
identify new goal and the way to accomplish the goal.

Construction of development planning: By personal development planning everyone, can

facilities his motivation skills and it helps to take better decision in the work place. To develop a
personal development planning one should identify the problems and his lacks in the work place
then he should construct a development planning. After identifying the problems, it should
evaluate the possible solution and decide to choose the better solution. After constructing
development planning then it needs to assess the personal development plan. There are some
ways to assess development planning.
The following factors may include in a personal development planning:
Step1: The following worksheet must maintain in developing personal developing planning.
1-Current Career Issues
2 - Knowledge of Work Environment
3 - Knowledge of Self-Assessment
4 - Integration of Knowledge of Self and Work Environment
5 - Goal Development
6 - Method for Taking Action
Step2: After preparing this worksheet, everyone should gather all proper information and prepare
a draft copy of personal development planning. In this stage, setting goal is so important. This
draft copy shows the relationship between the goal of organization and personal goal.
Step 3: In this stage individual should go to the supervisor or an experienced man who can
investigate the planning thoroughly and can find out the lacks and to correct them and give better
solutions.

3. 2 Use suitable methods to assess the outcomes of a personal

development plan against personal work objectives:

Personal development plan helps set goal and identify personal strengths, weakness,
opportunities and threats. Assessing the outcomes of a personal development plan against

personal work objectives is essential for the betterment of personal development as well as
organizational development.
Developing communication skills: Communication is a good achievement through personal
planning and controlling. Communication is very essential and crying need for personal
development and ensures the better future of personnel. It is better to make sure that the message
send by someone is understandable for the receiver.
Developing time and self-management: A time management strategy is misnomer. Individual
cannot mange time, he should maintain his work schedule in terms of time. Some key factors of
time management strategies are given below:
1. Setting time spending process
2. Use of time planning tools
3. Maintain time schedule strictly
4. Avoid multitasking
5. Maintain external time waster
6. Avoid boring work
Everyone should maintain time schedule when he does work in the work place. Identify the
important job from the set of job helps to achieve the objectives. Time schedule is just not a
system to divide time; it is a process to do things. Maintain external time waster for example
avoid mobile phone while you are working. Individual should avoid boring work that he dislikes.
Developing technical skills: Technical competence refers the methods and applications of
specific knowledge. Technical competence needs to develop and training to the employee in the
organization. Technical skills are essential for the future challenges. It helps to overcome the
upcoming new technology and software that is important for the future development.
Increase multi-tasking skills: When men join in a professional life within an organization, he
may maintain various types of tasks. Therefore, multi-tasking is very essential for a manager to
handle various types of tasks. Multi-tasking skills make works more efficiency.
Developing conceptual ability: A manager should have the conceptual ability about any kind of
problems and their solutions. Conceptual ability helps to determine the environmental influences

and decision-making. It leads a better situation for a strategic manager and helps to support
strategic direction in any organization.
Generating social network:
By using social network, one can develop his skills. There are so many social networks for
example Twitter, Face book, my dear book etc. By using social networks individual can share
knowledge, idea, and information and increase their self-acquisition.

3. 3 Evaluate the impact of own learning against the achievement of

strategic goals:

Personal development plan is a tool that helps to develop personal skills. Impact of my own
learning against original aim and objectives set in the development plan is essential for
evaluating development plan. There are two steps to reflect the learning against objectives. First,
one is record and second one is evaluation. Record the time and obstacle to the development
plan. Really, I enjoy the development plan and I used my all skills to complete the goals and
objectives. I have spent my duty time within the development plan. This project gives me a new
sense of business and new management skills. I have monitored and reviewed all functions and
gathered information. All functions are completed and I want to prepare myself for the next
development plan. I have faced some problems when I was working and it will have to carry out
forward for next development plan. My line manager has showed positive feedback for my
responsibilities.