Assignment Sample on MBA_7_CEI Creativity Enterprise and Innovation
Introduction
The continuing professional development plan is a learning framework where the learning becomes conscious and professional rather than reactive. It focuses on individual improvement in a professional career (Manley et. al. 2018). This report is a professional development plan showing the gaps of the required skill for achieving the capstone project and future managerial goals. The self-audit, reflective model, and SMART action plan for short-term and long-term achievements will be implemented here to enhance the chance for employability in the future.
Background
Refer to Appendix A and the digital competency test (Appendix B) to identify the research and digital skill I possess from the professional course related to creativity, enterprise, and innovation. The reflection will include the model of Gibb’s analysing the learning events and explaining about work performed that will act as evidence for the professional development skill I acquired.
Gibb’s reflective cycle
Description
Week 1: The first event was the learning of the creativity, innovation and the importance of the enterprise to implement these skills were basic knowledge I obtained from the first session.
Feeling
Week 1: I felt very confused as the creativity, innovation was directly focused on digital advancement and social importance for influencing the style of creativity in entrepreneurship (Van den Berg, 2020). I however have been able to enhance my learning in enterprise managerial skills and the communication importance with class sessions to communicate with various group members.
Evaluation
Week 1: I have nervous feelings and I panicked to learn new things suddenly and I hesitate to communicate with group members. But the good feeling was I learned the importance of entrepreneurial skills to influence people for solving problems.
Analysis and conclusion
Week 1: The insecurity among groups went off after the learning of entrepreneurial importance in enhancing creativity. The innovation process related to technology was also some learning I acquired (Kane, 2019). However, the communication among groups was awkward as the communication process was not taught at this session.
Action Plan
Week 1: SMART plan to increase my communication among groups must be initiated. The target must be for a 1-year communication course to enhance enterprise management efficiency.
Description
Week 2: The seminar was conducted related to the entrepreneurial mindset and technology importance were taught in this session. The data retention process for analysing the problems were some basic skills I was taught for digital competency improvement with the help of entrepreneurial mindset topics discussion.
Feelings
Week 2: The technology and digital skills importance were taught in this session as part of the entrepreneurial mindset to solve problems in the new digital era (Sambell et. al. 2020). The feeling for learning about digital importance was very good and I have a mixed feeling as the change in creativity and innovation to technology has been a challenging task for me.
Evaluation
Week 2: The good situation was my new learning on solving problems with digital up-gradation (Thu, 2020). Also, entrepreneurial mindset to creativity has provided me the confidence to learn digital tools more deliberately to cope with the new business world as an innovator.
Analysis
Week 2: The analysis has shown that I have improved my ability to understand the technology and solve the problem with the help of digital tools as part of an entrepreneurial mindset.
Action Plan
Week 2: The Action plan must be to target 3 months of course related to utilisation of digital tools for information retention for increasing the creativity level in terms of technology as a new entrepreneurial skill.
Description
Week 3: The business model canvas shows how to analyse the key problems, target customer, value proposition relationship management, cost structure, social and environmental benefits (Smith, 2018). This seminar was taught to me and teams were allotted to conduct a presentation regarding various digital technology advancements business firms utilise.
Feeling
Week 3: This model learning was very confusing as the projects were allotted to analyse the key aspects. The teamwork was difficult and research methodology implementation was confusing to research the topic areas from digital platforms.
Evaluation
Week 3: This session has provided me with an understanding of research and social awareness of technology, digital search. This event was very successful for me that has taught me about research and digital search steps for better information retention (Sailin and Mahmor, 2018). However, the teamwork and research methodology selection process lacked behind.
Analysis
Week 3: The teamwork management was tough and conflicts were major issues alongside the selection of research methodology to conduct research work on digital changes.
Action Plan
Week 3: The action plan must be a course for research development and teamwork management development for at least 1 year for effective area improvements to be a successful entrepreneur.
Figure 1 Gibb’s reflective cycle
(Sources: Gibb’s reflective cycle, 2021)
Description
Week 4 and week 5: These two weeks were related to the power of pitching with the importance of communication as an entrepreneur (Hale, 2018). The guest speaker also provided us with practice sessions for better pitching capabilities to influence people.
Feelings
Week 4 and 5: The communication session has helped me to solve the problem faced in the first session. The process helped me to collaborate better managerial outcomes in the future.
Evaluation
Week 4 and 5: The group seminar and guest lecture have helped to enhance my level of confidence in pitching and communication to solve problems.
Analysis
Week 4 and 5: The analysis says the pitching and communication process will help to improve my ability to bring more collaboration in work for better creativity.
Action Plan
Week 4 and 5: The seminar creating various situations and pitching tactics must be provided to the participants for practical awareness (Brantley-Dias et. al. 2021). The target must be for 1 year with weekly seminars.
Description
Week 7: The technology innovation and various creativity in technology, after pandemic changes in technology, the process of innovation was major learning provided in this session.
Feelings
Week 7: The feeling was very positive as the innovation process was clearly taught and the changing need of technology as part of innovation was understood (Reisoğlu, 2021). I was provided the task of digital topics in the group which was very effective for innovation in technology.
Evaluation
Week 7: The research related to the topics of digital innovation has been a good experience I have retained. The development of statistical tools increased with digital research topics for innovation ideas.
Analysis and conclusion
Week 7: The innovation session has been effective and requires more awareness with research work for better technology-changing ideas to enhance digital knowledge.
Action Plan
Week 7: The action plan must be to allow 6 months of research report topics in the team and learn the technology-changing strategy for better innovativeness.
Description
Week 8: The digital competency of the ability to search for information on the internet, collaboration, media to retain the information, safety protocols, the digital exploration were taught in this session.
Feeling
Week 8: The feeling of learning digital competencies in the area of research, data retention, safety protocols, critical analysis were some skills that have been taught in the session (Chang and Windeatt, 2021). I was very privileged to learn about digital tools for better creativity and
| Target | Specific activity | Methods (Measurable) | Achievable (Deadline) | Who/what is involved | Attainable | Reflection |
| What I intend to achieve | What will I do to achieve the specific objective | How am I going to do the activity | When by? | What resources and who will the activity need? | When will I actually achieve the target? | What am I going to learn as an opportunity from the plan |
| Digital critical analysing skill | To achieve critical analysis skills digitally, I have to attend various digital analysis courses (Joyce and Jackson, 2021). I have to read and analyse various digital and innovation topics online for better analysis skills to be a good researcher. | I will attend a course on digital competencies that focuses on critical analysis skill improvement (Thiagraj and Karim, 2020). I will also read articles and journals from online sources to increase my ability to conduct research online. | 4 months | The team must be allotted for each session and at least 4 days a week the classes will be conducted to achieve the digital skill of critical analysis for better research topic awareness. | I will achieve the target in a short and 4 months is enough to learn the digital analysis skill for retaining research skills to enhance my ability to retain correct information. | The target is attainable and I will be able to achieve the opportunity to enhance the research ability that will help me in the future to the shortly select a topic that is important (Counihan, 2019). Also, provide accurate information in research to achieve relevant capstone projects outcome on time. |
| Research methodologies awareness | The research methodology needs a proper course of research and the online course will help to retain research methods knowledge and understanding. | The method for acquiring the skill of research should start with a course of research and books of research methodologies will help to clarify the doubts for successful research work in an MBA program. | 5 months | A mentor that guides to select topics and guidance to select the methodology as per the area covered must be involved in the session (Downer and Slade 2019). A proper guidance and availability of a mentor for 5 days class a week will help to enhance the research methodology awareness. | I can easily achieve the target in 5 months with regular classes. It is very attenable as the course will be guided by a mentor online for 1 hour, 5 days a week related to methodology. | From the action plan, I am going to learn about the right implementation of the methods of research as per topics. I will achieve the opportunity to learn and apply the methods of research that will help assist for the capstone project (Abas, 2019). The updated project topic and updated methodology for effective research can be easily acquired with this course. |
innovativeness in the future.
Evaluation
Week 8: The good achievements were my ability to learn digital tools and data-driven tactics. But the limitation to safety protocols while retaining data and privacy security while doing research on personal information were some key areas I did not learn effectively in this session.
Analysis and conclusion
Week 8: The analysis is to improve the area of safety competencies digitally while doing research for ensuring the safety of the personal data collection process.
Action Plan
Week 8: The action plan is to implement a course for 1.5 years to learn digital tools for long-term business growth.
From the above reflection and self-audit of research and digital competencies, it is clear that I need an action plan for improving my required skills to achieve capstone project success and also career development as an enterprise manager.
Development plan to be an effective researcher
Development plan to be an effective enterprise manager:
| Target | Specific activity | Methods (Measurable) | Achievable (Deadline) | Who/what is involved | Attainable | Reflection |
| What I intend to achieve | What will I do to achieve the specific objective | How am I going to do the activity | When by? | What resources and who will the activity need? | When will I actually achieve the target? | What am I going to learn as an opportunity from the plan |
| Teamwork skill | The activity will be to regularly practice and attend seminars weekly as part of the course for enhancing teamwork and collaboration to accomplish work goals with more creativity and innovativeness. | The methods must be a regular 1-hour practice among teams related to solving problems, communication practices, discussion of topics to enhance coordination and teamwork support. Another is attending a weekly seminar to increase teamwork skills. | 1-year seminar program. | The seminar must involve one mentor to guide the teamwork skills and allot tasks in class for better teamwork practices (Beckingham, 2018). The daily course for 1 hour among the research team will be another way for achieving teamwork coordination for better management. | Yes, it is attenable by 1 year with good guidance and amount of dedication from all the members to solve issues and enhance team coordination while working on research. This will help to attend to the business outcome effectively. | From the action plan, I have the opportunity to acquire good jobs as an enterprise manager as this skill will help to collaborate and retain creative ideas among groups for better innovativeness for business sustainability. |
| Digital safety and privacy protection skill | The activity of an online course to learn about safety and privacy protection in digital data retention. | The methods will be to attend a course online for 1.5 years related to policy and privacy protection skills. Another method is to join an internship related to digital operation for better safety and privacy protection awareness. | 1.5 years online course and 6 months internship. | A mentor to teach the safety and privacy protection related to the operation of the business and personal information protocols (Magabo, (2020). Teamwork in office to learn about vast informational collection protocols. | I will achieve the target by 2 years easily while learning about each and every step related to digital safety measures. | The opportunity after achieving the targets will help to reduce the risk of fraud and breach of security and personal safety (Baykal et. al. 2021). This skill will help in the future as businesses are relying on digital technology and improvement of this area will increase the chance of employability in the future. |
Conclusion
Thus, from the above reflection and self-audit, it is clear that I had some gaps related to a research analysis in a digital platform, research methodology, teamwork, digital safety, and privacy skills. These skills were allotted in two different action plans to continuously increase the professional development of areas to improve research and entrepreneurial skill in the digital world. The above action plan enables us to bring short-term and long-term achievements as per the requirements.
References
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Online
Gibb’s reflective cycle, (2021). [Online]. [Accessed through]:<https://www.crowe-associates.co.uk/coaching-tools/gibbs-reflective-cycle/ >
