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2010

Ana Bursuc

Personal Development andWork Planning

Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn

from everyone and anyone. Being a student

means you have room for new input. When

you are green, you grow, when you are ripe,

you rot. By staying green you will avoid the

curse of being an expert. When you know in

your heart that every single person you

encounter in your lifetime has something to

teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings

in a profound way.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer


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Personal Development and Work Planning- Table of Contents

Personal Development and Work Planing Table Of Contents. ............................................................ 2

Concept of personal development planning, the planning and management of work.................. 3

Personal development- concepts ...................................................................................................... 3

Personal development- planning....................................................................................................... 3

Planning and management of work .................................................................................................. 4

Personal development plan ................................................................................................................... 5

Produce a personal development plan.............................................................................................. 5

Mast Session identified, option for support and coaching from course tutors, managers or other

colleges ............................................................................................................................................. 14

Other possible worked based learning opportunities .................................................................... 14

Planning and Managing Work.............................................................................................................. 15

The benefits of managing Time ....................................................................................................... 15

Planing .............................................................................................................................................. 16

Research and evaluate methods and processes to determine work priorities ................................. 18

Understand how to be excellent at your job. ................................................................................. 18

Conclusion of report............................................................................................................................. 22

Figure 1 Motivation: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Herzberg's Motivation- Hygiene Theory ............ 4

Figure 2- SMART Goal Setting ............................................................................................................... 13

Figure 3- Raspberry Experimental Field ................................................................................................ 19

Figure 4-Strawberry Experimental Field ............................................................................................... 19Figure 5-Cutting runners example ........................................................................................................ 20


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Concept of personal development planning, and the planning and

management of work

Personal development

He who would govern others, first should be master of himself Philip Massinger

Personal development means in my opinion first of all to discover the

kind ofperson you are, and your own competence. To discover the person you

are , you have to understand your feelings, to know which are your goals and

what you want to do in this life, which is the purpose of our existence. For all

this concerns there are some tools you can use:

SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats)

analysis;

Belbin analysis;

NLP techniques ( Neuro-linguistic programming)

Competence is the amount of values, skills, attitudes, knowledge and

experience.

Personal development- planning

Take time to work, it is the price of success;

Take time to think, it is the source of power;

Take time to read, it is the foundation of wisdom;

Take time to be friendly, it is the road of happiness;

Take time to dream, it is hitching your wagon to a star;

Take time to love and be loved, it is the privilege of the goals;

Take time to look around, it is too short a day to be selfish;

Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul...

Author Unknown- Irish poem

Planning- drawing a plan in which we use our knowledge about

ourselves and to make time for the future ahead. To build a plan sounds easy,

but to stick to the plan it is harder than writing it, and for this we need

motivation.


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Time is our most important resource, and the only one that cant be

change. Time it is the same for everyone but how we spend time makes the

difference.

Motivation is the force we need to make some things in our life. Wehave to discover what motivates us, and to use that list to achieve our goals.

Figure 1 Motivation: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Herzberg's Motivation- Hygiene Theory

Planning and management of work

Using the qualities that we have, we draw a list of what we need tofinish the job, priorities, decide how we do the job, estimating time, resource

and deadlines.


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Personal development plan

Produce a personal development plan

A personal development plan can be seen as a script of what we see our

future regarding our personal life and work. These things have to worktogether because when our personal life is good our

work is more productive.

Step1. Discover myself

SWOT analysis: it is a tool used in monitoring a person in career.

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES

STUDIES IN AGRICULTURE;

CONCORDIA MANAGEMENT &

SUPERVISORY TRAINING PROGRAM

IN PROGRESS;

GOOD RESULTS AT WORK

PLACEMENT;

HIGH RESITANCE TO STRESS; LEARNING SKILLS;

COMUNICATION SKILLS;

PASION FOR AGRICULTURE, NATURE,

AND PEOPLE;

CREATIVITE;

ADAPTABILITY;

FAST LEARNER.

LACK OF EXPERIENCE;

SHY

LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN OWN

ABILITIES;

LACK OF ENGLISH SKILLS

OPPORTUNIETIES THREATS

AGRICULTURE IS A DOMAIN IN

WHICH I CAN USE MY STUDIES;

PEOPLE I KNOW, AND WHO CAN

HELP ME;

COMPANY POLITICS.

COMPANY RESTRUCTURING;

FOURCES OF NATURE;

COMPETITION WITH MORE

EXPERIENCED PEOPLE

Table 1 Personal SWOT analysis


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With this table I discovered:

Strengths that I have, such as: agriculture studies, five years university,

achieving the Landscape Horticulture engineering diploma,

management training in progress; Weaknesses: I dont have enough experience in domain, I am a shy

person, and I have lack of confidence in own abilities, lack of English

skills. These are not defects, but they are things that I need to improve.

Opportunities: agriculture is a domain in which I can use my skills, and

abilities, during my first experience in UK I meet people who are

interested to help me to achieve my goals with their understanding,

patience, advice given, and who appreciate my values, and I find that

company policy encourage staff development;

Threats: due to financial factors the company might decide staff

restructuring, and because most of our work it is outside the forces of

nature (rain, wind, snow, drought ) can cause some modification.

Belbin test : Dr. Belbin and his team identified eight team types whose

presence made a crucial difference to team performance. As a result of the

research, Dr. Belbin devised a Self Perception Inventory which people can

use to assess their dominant team role.This are my results: CW-8, CH-12,

SH-11, PL-5, RI-9, ME-7, TW-6, CF-12.

My dominant team type:

1. chair

controls the way in which a team moves towards the team

objectives by making the best use of team resources, recognises

where the teams strengths and weaknesses lie; ensure that the best use is made of each team members

potential;

2. completer- finisher

ensures that the team is protected as far as possible from mistakes of

commission or omission;

actively searches for aspects of work which need a more than usual

degree of attention;

maintains a sense of urgency within the team.


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Work typeTypical

featuresPositive qualities

Allowable

weaknesses

Company worker

Conservative,

dutiful,

predictable

Organising ability, practical

common sense, hard-

working, self discipline.

Lack of flexibility,

unresponsiveness to

unproven ideas

ChairCalm, self-

confident,

controlled.

A capacity for treating and

welcoming all potential

contribution on their merits.

A strong sense of objectives

and without prejudice.

No more than ordinary in

terms of intellect or

creative ability.

ShaperHighly strung,

outgoing, dynamic

Drive a readiness to

challenge inertia,ineffectiveness,

complacency or self

deception

Proneness toprovocation, irritation

and impatience.

PlantIndividualistic,

serious- minded,

unorthodox

Genius, imagination

intellect, knowledge

Up in the clouds, inclined

to disregard practical

ideas or protocol.

Resourceinvestigator

Extroverted,

enthusiasticcurios,

communicative

anything new

A capacity for contacting

people and exploring An

ability to respond to

challenge

Liable to lose interestonce the initial

fascination has passed

Monitor-

evaluator

Sober,

unemotional,

prudent

Judgement, discretion, hard-

headedness

Lacks inspiration or the

ability to motivate others

Team workerSocially

orientated, rather

mild, sensitive

An ability to respond to the

people and situations, and

to promote team spirit

Indecisiveness in

moments of crisis

Completer-

finisher

Painstaking,

orderly,

conscientious,

anxious

A capacity for follow

through, perfectionism

A tendency to worry

about small things. A

reluctance to let go

Table 2 team types


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I discovered that I have some skills, such as: calm, self-confident,

controlled, a capacity for treating and welcoming all potential contribution on

merits, a strong sense of objectives and without prejudice, but also I still have

some topics that need to be improve.

NLP The New Technology of Achievement

This is my specific method to discover and improve myself.

NLP- or Neuro- Linguistic Programming is the science of how the brain codes

learning and experience. This coding affects all communication and behaviour.

It is affects how you learn and how you experience the world around you. It is

the key to reaching goals and achieving excellence.

NLP provides tools and skills for development of excellence, and establishes a

system of empowering beliefs and presupposition about thoughts, or

communication, and effective change.

NLP in business:

Implement effective organisational change;

Maximize sales and customer service performance.

NLP in personal life:

Become more motivated and happy;

Eliminate limited believes and live your full potential;

Communicate effectivelyat work, at home and with yourself.

http://www.nlpco.com/what-is-nlp/

Why I use NLP techniques? Because, if I am HAPPY, know what I have,

where is my way, at work I am productive, it is easy to work with people, and

do to any kind of job without stress.

You dont have to be great to get started, but....you have to get

started to be great.... Les Brown
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Ana has the ability to become an important part of Edward Vinson

team, she has the right attitude to succeed further, her interests in

agriculture and her commitment to the farm, shows that she will try achieve

any task which is asked of her to her full potential.

Richard Pendry- Manager

Step 2. Planning

For the moment I am employed within Edward Vinson Farm .

Edward Vinson Farm is a well established, respected and dynamic group

which is closely involved with all aspects of commercial soft fruit production.

These activities include the breeding trials and development of new

varieties, the propagation of plants for themselves and other growers and the

growing, harvesting and packing of fruit for supermarkets and other outlets.

There are two separate companies which from the group, Edward Vinson

LTD. (Fruit Farm and Breeding Programme), and Edward Vinson Plants Limited

(Fruit Plant Propagation)

They also have involvement with and strong links to Berry World (Fruit

Marketing). The Asplins Producer Organisation Limited and BerryWorld Plus

(raspberry breeding).

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Company objectives are:

To produce fruit to a high standard, maintaining quality and taste;

To produce fruit to a super market standards to prevent crop

rejection; To produce fruit at a reasonable cost to enable the company to

continue to expand to its maximum, whilst maintaining standards.

To understand the future of soft fruit farming, to continue to farm

successfully;

To increase the use of younger plants and day neutral varieties;

To develop plants with a degree of disease resistance;

To improve the flavour for a pleasant eating experience;

To develop attractive berries with good fruit shape and good shelf

life for supermarkets.

List of main duties and responsibilities:

Perform all field operations in the most timely manner possible;

Maintain all equipment in top working order;

Keep crop production within the established budgets;

Do my part to provide an atmosphere of team work, camaraderie, and

an enjoyable work environment for everyone at the work placement;

Follow all operating procedures and policies established by

management;

Remember that in crop production, there are many factors beyond our

control-weather, breakdowns as results we must do everything we canto perform our best in the areas within our of controls;

Keep waste to a minimum and constantly evaluate additional ways to

reduce cost;

Keep facilities neat and presentable;

Safety first: use gloves, use tools only in the way they are meant to be

used; drink water; look out to prevent dangerous movements that can

injure us or the others members of the team; wear proper clothes and

shoes.
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Show respect to any and all people;

ENJOY WHAT I DO.

Specific goals, SMART objectives and targets

Improve personal skills with people;

To gain more responsibility and be more organised;

Self improvement;

Improve managing people skills;

Learn to ride a bike;

Practice landscaping design;

Become NLP couch.

Improve the following personal skills with people:

Communication: take and pass Level 2 English test by Aug 2010;

Assertiveness: attend a session on assertiveness and gain positive

feedback from tutor and managers by May 2010;

Instructional Techniques: attend a course in instructional techniques by

May 2010 and improve performance of team;

To gain more responsibility and more organised:

More responsibility: have a job that requires more responsibility by May

2010;

More organised: gain positive feedback from tutor and managers during

this year 2010, because I will do my job and responsibility in one

organised way;

Self improvement and improve managing people skills:

Gain new abilities in personal life, trough reading and experience

different situation, by January 2011;

Gain new abilities at work, trough different challenges at my work

placement during this year;

Achieving my Concordia- Plumpton Diploma in Supervisory Studies, by

March 2011;

Achieving my CMI Level3 Qualification in First Line Management, by

March 2011, in both tasks I would like to achieve Distinction grade.
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Learning to ride a motor bike

Gain equilibrium abilities, by August 2010;

Gain motor bike control, using correct the speed, breaks, and the

correct moves by August 2010;

Gain trust in my power, and control, by 2010.

Practice landscaping design

Using my studies in the domain, I would like to start a second job in

Landscaping domain during this year;

Attend a job in this domain and gain more experience, and newinformation;

Become NLP couch

Attend to a course or several courses in NLP techniques by January 2012

and improve my performance by 2014, and in the end to teach and

guide others by 2020.

All this objectives are linked to the organisational objectives at my workplacement because they are regard to personal development, and like I have

said above, if I know where I am, and what I want, every part of my life is

accomplished.

The tragedy in life doesnt lie in not reaching your goals. The tragedy

lies in having no goals to reach. It isnt a calamity to die with dream unfilled,

but its a calamity not to dream. It is not a disgrace to reach the stars, but is a

disgrace to have no stars to reach...

Benjamin E. Mays
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Figure 2- SMART Goal Setting

Personal challenges faced and gaps in your current skills and knowledge

One of my challenges, is that I am studying in a foreign language, and a

foreign country, then that I am working in a domain where many of my skills

have to be in to continuous development.

Every working day at my work placement is a challenge, because most of my

time I do new jobs, that I have been learning but I didnt practice enough.

I know many things regarding to agriculture, but until last year I didnt have

the opportunity to work in the domain, so I think in this moment I am filling

one of the gaps I have (lack of experience).

I have learn during University many things about plants, but I didnt studied

in detail about raspberries , strawberries, crops, breeding, so I have a chance

to develop my knowledge about this tasks. And I had the chance to participate

indirectly in breeding techniques.
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Even regarding to my landscaping studies I have the chance to see it with my

own eyes how can be a farm projected. Typical zones of work, facilities,

windbreaks, fields position.

At this work placement I have used during the time many of my strengths,such as: adaptability, flexibility, I have manage to complete my duties even if I

am away from home and family, I left my comfort zone for the change to

create my own future.

During my first time to Plumpton I have the pleasure to see that I will study

many of mine interest objects such as: Team roles, Portofolio Building skills,

Personal Development Planning, and I am looking forward to studying many

others things.

Living, studying, and working in UK made me gain to trust myself, manage

challenging situation, working in different places and different jobs at my

working placement.

Mast Session identified, option for support and coaching from course

tutors, managers or other colleges

Writing this assignment I had found support from Plumpton tutor ( lots of

material to read, every tutor is willing to help with extra information every

time I have ask that) , from my manager (additional information about farm)

and books (that I have write about in reference part). It was an occasion to

discuss with my colleges that attempt to the first and second generation of

MAST course about their vision or perception about this assignment.

Other possible worked based learning opportunities

All most of my leisure time, I read self development books, and every day I

try to improve my performance regarding to work and personality.
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Planning and Managing Work

The benefits of managing Time

Dont start your day until you have it finished on paper first. Jim Rohn

What are they?

Those who fail to properly manage their time often end up with a list of

things left undone. These individuals often are stressed up, edgy and simply

not living up to their potential.

Time management is a crucial component for anyone who desire to truly

get the most out of life.

Benefits:

PERSONAL BENEFITS

Control: knowing exactly what you need to achieve each day and

having a plan to ensure that these things get done; help you be more

in control of your work and destiny.

Productivity : proper time management allows you to be productive.

Writing down what you have to do you can estimate realistic period

time to achieve it.

Confidence: proper time management gives you confidence.

Checking things off from your to-do list will cause your confidence to

soar as you realize that you can finish what you started.
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Fun: by prioritizing and getting the most important and pressing

things done first, you then have time to enjoying that you really want

to do: favourite hobby, enjoy time with friends, or simply resting.

Ability to Meet Goals: it is nearly impossible to meet your goals when

you fail to properly manage your time. This is because you never get

around to doing what needs to be done in order to achieve the goals

that you set for yourself. Something always comes up, or you spend

too much time on frivolous tasks, eating away time that should go

toward meeting your goals.

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From this citation I have understand that if I have a plan, I will have clearidea about priorities, realistic time targets, and at the end of the day I will have

time to relax, and my self confidence will be at high levels because I have the

power to finish what I have started. I will have control of my life and work.

TEAM AND COMPANY BENEFITS:

IMPROVEMENT OF TEAM AND COMPANY setting goals, planning

properly it will improve during time, team performance, and

company accomplishments; COST SAVING having clear goals, realistic time targets and list of

priorities the jobs will be done in normal parameters avoiding loss

costs;

SATISFACTION: it is the same principle, when you finish something

that you have planned respecting the priorities everybody is happy,

the worker had accomplished the daily duties, the team has

performed to a high standard, and the company has been farming

successfully.

PLANING

To carry out my job to a good standard, I need to be healthy, and

focused at reaching daily duties, and to be sure that I have enough rest,

because I need to complete the assignment on time. That means that

sometimes I will not be able to meet with my friends, or get to louse time with

minor tasks.
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For now I have some priorities: get the job done in the asked standards,

and complete my assignment at the established date trying at the same time

to put in practice what I have learn from this first homework.

The best opportunities in life in the ones we create. Goal

settings provides for you opportunity to create an extraordinary life

Gary Ryan Blair

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets

even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or

Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all

the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great

street sweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King Jr.

This is how I would like to remain here in this company and in my life. Iplan that everything I do to have my full devotement, pleasure, love and

potential.


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Research and evaluate methods and processes to determine

work priorities

Deciding work priorities:

Doing what you enjoy.

It is important for my own quality of life that I enjoy my job. If you

know what you like or dislike, you will be more able to move your job towards

doing things that you enjoy.

This is important as you more likely to do your job effectively if you love

it than if you loathe it. Almost every job has tedious or unpleasant elements toit, it is important that there parts are done properly.

Concentrating on your strengths

It is important to know what your talents and weaknesses are. A good

way of doing this is to carry out a SWOT analysis (see page no 5). This provide a

formal approach to evaluating your strengths, and weaknesses, and the

opportunities and threats that you face. It makes a lot of sense to find a job

that suits your strengths, and where your weaknesses do not matter.

My job it is strictly related to my strengths, because I work in agriculture.

Almost every day it is different, but I can adapt very fast to my job needs. At

this work placement it wasnt necessary to have experience, and one off my

weaknesses do not matter.

Understand how to be excellent at your job.

One excellent way of ensuring that you concentrate on the right things

is to agree them with your employer!

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What is the purpose of your job?

The purpose of my job is maintenance of experimental fields within

Edward Vinson Farm.

Figure 3- Raspberry Experimental Field

Figure 4-Strawberry Experimental Field

Breeding it is a special part of agriculture, requires attention, passion,

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they are moved out, where I have to take care about them, with some special

procedure, depends what is the purpose of the new plant. For example they

are interested to obtain a new strawberry variety with bigger fruits, so I am

responsible to cut shoots ( a strawberry plant at maturity sends out shoots in a

attempt to propagate a new plant, but when this process starts the plant wont

produce flowers and after that fruits).

Figure 5-Cutting runners example

As you can see in these picture cutting runners involves a special

procedure, the runner must be cut with a special dimension, not sorter than

the edges of the pot, and has to be made careful, because the leaf can be

easily confused with a runner.

What are the measures of success?

1. Commitment to work and company ( trust)

2. Attitude at work ( towards authority and other members of the stuff)

3. Performance to work.

What is exceptional performance?

To reach required standard of work. Individuals are different. Progress

is the key to good performance.


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What are the priorities and deadlines?

Every job has it is deadline, and priority due to weather conditions and

plant development. When raspberries grow, they get different heights, they

have a special growing support, so depending how high they are we have toattach the plant to the growing support.

Figure6 Attaching the plant to the grown support

We use clippers, cutters, string, and as long we take care about them we

can perform our duties.

Be aware how we handle the plants. Reduce any damages.

We work usually two persons, and every day I am part of the team so

the job to be done in normal parameters, we make the same things, we are not

in competition, and we dont sabotage each other..

Every morning we meet with our manager to discuss the daily tasks, and

obvious during the day I have to respect operating procedures and policies

established by my manager.

Because my work placement it is outdoors, many times I have to work in

the windy or wet condition, thats why I have to use the proper outfit and to

be prepared to work in different climate conditions.


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I have to evaluate correctly how mach string I need for one row, not to

waste more than I need.

We use sharp objects so any kind of unexpected movements can easily

injure, so we have to be careful most of the time. Drinking water is animportant issue for my body and brain health.

We have at our disposal facilities such as toilets, car that take us in the

morning and drop us in the afternoon, caravans, and how we used we have

them in the future.

Enjoy what I do This is a very important issue from which I guide all my

life. I do things right and I enjoy doing it.

What resources are available?

passion for agriculture, love that I share with the plants and people, my

work place, good managers, perseverance, seriousness and

commitment, and the fact that I am readyto do my job.

Conclusion of report

I can understand that there are many opportunities for my developmentbecause I am at this course, but first of all I have to prove that I know how to

use the TRUST that company gives to me, that I am ready to work with people,

with responsibility, and that I have to deal with different people and different

situation that can be sometimes difficult. After I do all this I gain the right to be

in Edward Vinson Team.

Thats why I am willing to learn more about my work, and my

performance at the work placement.


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Managers comment:

Ana worked for Edward Vinson in the 2009 season, in this time Ana

showed that she is responsible person who can be left unsupervised to carry

out a number of tasks, which were carried out to an excellent standard. Anas

daily tasks included the breeding of raspberry and strawberry plants for future

production. Ana showed an ability to plan her daily objectives to a high

standard without any difficulty, making Ana an important part of my team who

is respected and trusted.

Ana has a very good outlook on life and her future, both for herself and

for her employer. Ana has shown that she has the right attitude to move

forward within the company and her in her private life. Ana has the ability to

succeed further and has good personal skills.

Anas report is accurate and professional in its approach, it covers all the

areas her life in and out of work to a very high level.

I wish her every success in the future.

Richard Pendry - Manager


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