1.Goals

1.1 Professional and personal development goals

Goal 1: Improvement of listening skills (personal goal)

Goal 2: Team Management skill development (professional goal)

Goal 3: Adaptation of situational leadership (personal goal)

Goal 4: Time management skill development (professional goal)

Goal 5: Technical skill development (personal goal)

Goal 6: Becoming CEO (professional goal)

Personal goals focus on the improvement of self-awareness activities and increasing effectiveness in order to ensure the development of professional qualities by balancing emotional and mental statements from an individual perspective. My personal goals include improvement of my listening skills, personality representation and learning of business management skills. Improvement of listening skills is highly necessary for understanding the views and perspectives of different people in spite of cross-cultural differences. According to the view of Lindberg et al. (2017), focusing on the development of my listening skills is highly necessary for avoiding any kind of problems with understanding while interacting with people from different cultures and geographical areas. It can contribute to the improvement of my personal effectiveness and help in developing appropriate leadership skills to manage difficult situations by understanding the perspectives and views of different people.

Another potential personal goal I am intended towards achieving is the improvement of my personality by focusing on verbal and nonverbal communication areas. As argued by McComb and Eather (2017), the culture of the international marketplace provides importance in developing appropriate body language in order to maintain respect and standard during conversation and meetings. Focusing on the improvement of my personality in order to boost my leadership skills are highly necessary for successful achievement in my professional goals in the near future. I am also focused on achieving my other personal goal, which is learning new business management skills to improve my ability and capability of analysing problems and making effective decisions (Tsay et al. 2018). I am going to focus on improving my awareness of technological development and innovative results that are implemented in modern-day business management for simplifying Organisational performances activities and maximizing opportunities from market competition. I am also highly intent on focusing on improving my technical knowledge of using multiple software and applications for business purposes (Melesse and Gulie, 2019).

My professional goals included effective time management skills, Team Management capabilities and being a Chief Executive Officer of a successful company. The goal of learning proper time management is highly necessary for achieving success in future by proper management of time and resources. According to the view of Melesse and Gulie (2019), team Management capability is the identity of successful business leaders in order to ensure the maintenance of mutual interest of internal and external stakeholders by the balance in all the minor differences.

1.2. Ways and actions required to accomplish goals

Table 1: Action Plan for Goals achievements

(Source: Nguyen et al. 2020)

The major actions I am considering for accomplishing my goal are the development of effective strategies to manage time and plan in a sequence order for the achievement of all the long term and short term goals. As argued by McComb and Eather (2017), the development of an action plan that includes strategies and resources for the achievement of goals can contribute to achieving and accomplishing long term and short term goals in an effective way. Focusing on the improvement of listening practices, engagement with maximum team works, attending business seminars and conferences along wait solving business problems challenging activities that will be considered for accomplishing development goals to achieve in the short term, medium-term and long term periods (Nguyen et al. 2020).

1.3. Current economic conditions and their impact on   professional goals

Contemporary businesses are facing multiple problems due to changes in macro-environmental factors mainly in Healthcare and environmental climatic regions. The outbreak of covid-19 has restricted the growth and development of business by controlling supply networks and engagement with customers directly with the traditional method. As argued by McComb and Eather (2017), enforcement of businesses towards adaptation of online business models to maintain social distancing and implementation of covid-19 has increased operational cost to a great extent. From the current scenery of covid-19, economic conditions are becoming worse as compared to the last few years due to increasing market competition and changes in customer buying behaviour. In such circumstances, limitation of resources and legal implementation can negatively result in the achievement of my goals associated with Careers and professional development. In addition, I can benefit from an online platform to learn technical knowledge about business management by signing into remote learning programs in order to achieve my professional and personal goals effectively (Oyenuga et al. 2020).

The increasing global climate concern associated with increasing carbon footprints and the rise of global temperature also affect business from multiple dimensions. According to the view of Passmore and McGoldrick (2020), increasing law and enforcement towards reducing the carbon footprint of companies restricted supply networks and negatively impacted business by increasing the operational cost of adopting green energy. This process can affect my goal achievement by limiting opportunities in the job market due to minimum hiring and lack of use opportunities. In the words of Ratnaningsih and Hidayat (2020), most companies are changing their organisational structure by adopting a Change management strategy to incorporate government policies associated with low carbon. Engaging with multiple projects by volunteer participation of helping companies in understanding customer buying behaviour and strategic options development will contribute to the achievement of professional goals associated with Team Management and time management. In addition, working on companies as internships will also create huge opportunities for learning modern business methods and legal implementation that has been developed due to economic and climate issues. This process will help me to understand the role played by economic fluctuations such as International exchange value and inflation rate in the operational cost of business.

1.4 Recommendations to minimize the negative impact

For the purpose of minimising the negative impact of the economic climate and global pandemic in achieving my professional goals, I can focus on developing innovative strategies by analysing all the opportunities. As influenced by Rouf and Mohamed (2017), utilisation of remote job opportunities and virtual communication tools can be helpful for the achievement of my long term and short term goals within the targeted time period. Enrollment in multiple online programs that offer technical skill development courses can help me focus on the improvement of my business management skills associated with innovative technology and artificial intelligence. On the other hand, consideration of remote platforms will also provide opportunities for engaging with team members from different cultural backgrounds and learning how to deal with them. It can help in the improvement of my team management and time management skills to improve professional and personal effectiveness for being a successful business leader. Using modern communication tools for virtually connecting with all the team members will also help in improving problem-solving and decision-making skills in order to achieve personal and professional goals respectively (Tahmasebi et al. 2018).

2. Conclusion

An intensive study has been conducted in this report that focuses on both development goals based on personal and professional aspects. With the successful application of theories and models such as “Kolb”, “Jenny Moon”, both aspects of development goals are explored. The notion of the importance of “CPD” is discussed in terms of both individual and business operations. An in-depth reflection has been conducted on “Honey & Mumford Learning style” as well as audit skills and thereby focussing on evaluation of respective tasks such as MBTI, values and many more. Future aspirations are analysed in terms of critical reflection and implication. Six goals are involved such as short, medium and long term goals which contribute to both professional as well as personal development. Moreover, discussions are conducted based on ways and actions in order to accomplish those respective goals. The current situation of deadly pandemic COVID-19 and its impacts are taken under consideration to evaluate goals. Recommendations are also provided on basis of how to eradicate negative impacts of the prevalence of the current situation.