Farina Akhtar's Professional Competences

Personal management means you should know how to manage and conduct yourself in a professional environment, with things such as your appearance, time management, have the confidence to adapt to different environments, understand differ cultures, to recognise your strengths and weaknesses, have the ability to build professional and personal relationships.

This is important to employers as it all should employees should have this as a basic skill to function productively in a professional environment

To improve this you need make sure you manage your time well learn how to conduct yourself in a professional environment, make an effort to understand the people you work alongside so build good working relationships, make sure you are trained in all the right areas of your job and if you are not ask your manger to provide you with the suitable training to help you progress.

The ability to collect information for different sources, so research is also of aspect of information management, be able to break information down and add your own conclusions then distribute tis information in a format where is understandable to others. You should also know how to deal with any personal information.

This is important to an employer as you must have the ability to understand any information you are dealing with and also if you are working within a role where you gave to manage peoples personal information this should be done in a confidential way or this could cause problems not only to the employee but also to the employer.

To improve this you must ensure that you are able to analyse, categorise, filter and understand information. And find way to make this easier for you to process, and also practise can help you learn how to do this.

This means you must be able to work in a methodical manner, you must have the skills to priorities and manage your work load

This will be important to your employer as you will have the skills to plan and work on projects and you will be able to meet deadlines and have the ability to multi task.

To develop these skills you must learn how to organize your time, set yourself goals to complete tasks and if you’re in a group sets tasks for each individual to complete.

To finish a task, achieve a goal and to do it to your best standard. To try and excel, push and dedicate to achieve the best possible result.

It's important to the employer because it will determine the quality of work carried out.

To improve commitment to quality workers should work to the best standard they can and work towards a postive, hard working enviroment.

To understand how your behaviour affects others.You understand the outcomes of your actions and hold yourself accountable for them.

Because this will determine how you conduct yourself around others and how you react in certain situations.It is important for employers to have a good nature and an understanding of different cultures and social enviroments. It is compulsory for the businesses reputation.

To constantly be aware of yur actions both inside and out of the work place.

It is important to have communication not only as a verbal but also a written skill, these needs to be done Cleary and respectfully in all situations. Have the ability to express your thoughts and views confidently.

This is important to employers as they if employees do not have the right communication skills they will be unable to perform their job efficiently.

To improve this you make sure your communication skills are competent, know how to speak and write professionally and if you, and if you struggle with any of these. Take a course or practise the areas in which you lack.

You must have the ability to collect different information form this resources in order to research it in depth, recognise information that is relevant and important to your topic of research. You must then be able to use this information to solves problems, with solutions and make decisions

These skills are important to employers as they can be applied whenever you need to do research within your work to fulfill your professional goals.

You can develop these skills by learning how to use things such as books, internet and journals then drawing the relevant information from these.

Teamwork means you must have the skills to work alongside others in an understanding and respectful manner. You must listen to eachothers opinions and be able to work together to achieve the same goal in social and professional enviroments.

Without teamwork the working enviroment wouldn't be able acheive company targets and goals.By working as a team, even if you have different roles, you are all working towards achieving the same goals.

Ensure I spend time and commitment within my own work load but yet help those others members of staff around me. To be considerate of others and ensure of a healthy working attitude.

Profession behaviour is to conduct yourself in a professional and respectable manner, not only in the way you communicate but in your visual appearance also.This would also mean you'd have to abide by any policies put in place by your place of work.

It is important to maintain a profession level of behaviour at work to ensure workers are focused and commited.It is also massively important for the company as a whole and the public image they need to have.

Esure you carry yourself professionally not only within mannerisms but also within appearance.

You strive to learn more information to better yourself and to achieve goals in life and in your career.

It is important to employers so that they can ensure they are getting the most out of their job role.It could also open up other oppurtunities within the work place for the employee for example further training and promotions.

In order to improve continuous learning, it would be beneficial for workers to set themselves goals and to try and achieve these. Constantly achieving and bettering their knowledge of the role and how to carry it out to their full potential.