PHI FPX 1200 Assessment 3 Skill Development Plan

Strengths: I have effective analytical skills, assess situations, and think through problems. I have the ability to learn quickly and can use my best thinking to make the right decision to overcome the many challenges. This is the most critical element for the difficult problems to be solved.

Areas of Improvement: To handle difficult situations better, I will learn to be more disciplined and to order the challenges I consider most important and urgent. Lastly, although it is not stated in the job description, I will try to improve my use of appropriate mathematical concepts for decision-making.

Desired Outcome: My goal is to create a comprehensive problem-solving method that will be useful for tackling the various issues faced by professionals and students in all of their personal and professional activities. Upon completion of my program, I want to use techniques and strategies that rely on evidence to create solutions that bring about positive change.

Goal Statement: I will enhance my ability to solve problems by devising effective solutions to difficult problems to become a dependable outcome-oriented healthcare professional.

Practices for Growth

To improve this skill, I will regularly assess case studies. I will generate a systematic approach and will understand how to collect, evaluate, and present data using the relevant software. I will also engage in innovation workshops.

Action Steps

Step 1: Enroll in the Innovative Critical Thinking course offered by Capella.

Step 2: Work through and resolve a different weekly healthcare dilemma and apply your own problem-solving techniques.

Step 3: Watch webinars on the use of evidence in decision-making.

Potential Obstacles/Challenges

An obstacle that may present itself is having to split time between the two areas of learning advancement and skill improvement. Coupled with this is a need to remove the fear of failure or the negative inclination that comes from trying new things to solve different problems.

Key Supporters

Supporter 1: The participant implied the importance of having a mentor in the healthcare innovation field to help provide feedback regarding the solutions to the challenges being addressed.

Supporter 2: A classmate from the same program who will be able to work with her to develop ideas and reach better conclusions.

Supporting University Resources

In this regard, Capella’s Writing Center will help you with problem-solving by helping you refine your writing on reports and your writing on analysis. Also, the Center for Academic Success and Excellence has critical thinking and data analysis as skills, which will help you formulate more organized and creative approaches.

This development will instill confidence within me to address the unknowns. Academically, it will augment my capacity to learn, as I will be able to creditably complete the critical thinking-based components of my course. With regard to my professional practice, its completion will equip me to address the challenges that the health sector is facing with a greater degree of confidence, thus improving the effectiveness of the team I will be a member of.

Strengths: I can keep up my end of the conversation, focusing on the other person and listening to what they have to say. On top of that, I can express myself in a professional manner to assist in listening and sustaining a focus when working on a task.

Areas of Improvement: I need to work on my confidence in front of an audience. Additionally, I hope to reach my long-term goals of building my skills in the analysis and synthesis of information, making it clear and understandable to everybody.

Desired Outcome: I want to surround myself with people who can communicate well and with whom I can build rapport irrespective of background. While at Capella, I want to improve my public speaking and also my written communication.

Goal Statement: I will develop my communication skills and capabilities to help me talk when I need to and when I should in class and in organizations to help me control and overcome my communication weaknesses. I will be seen and regarded by my peers and seniors as a good communicator, and I will also be an extemporaneous speaker.

Practices for Growth

To receive critical feedback, I will give presentations to small groups, then gradually give presentations to larger groups; additionally, to receive feedback on my writing, I will give myself writing exercises to help me practice writing in a clearer and more concise manner, and to help myself practice giving constructive criticism and helping build a better idea through discussion, I will participate more in the discussions.

Action Steps

Step 1: Become a speaker in a school or college debate or join a public speaking club or a workshop like Toastmasters.

Step 2: Writing written briefs or summaries for lengthy documents helps you understand what you may be asked to do in the workplace.

Step 3: Participate in other presentations and feedback activities, and take part in writing activities. Providing feedback is a plus.

Potential Obstacles/Challenges

Eliminating a fear of public speaking may be a challenge. 

Key Supporters

Supporter 1: A classmate who can present and explain in front of a group and a classmate who can motivate and uplift a person who is feeling down.

Supporter 2: A school teacher who can assist me in developing more clarity in my writing and speech and more persuasiveness as well.

Supporting University Resources

Writing Center: To improve precise articulation of messages in Business and Academic writing, among other forms.

Capella Connect: chances to communicate with other professionals for guidance, advice, and coaching instruction to improve interpersonal communication.

Personal: Higher self-esteem in both social and work-related encounters.

Academic: Improved results in group discussions, presentations, and in written assignments.

Professional: Greater ability to communicate with members of cross-functional teams as well as colleagues with varying degrees of technical expertise, and ability to communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Strengths: I have a talent for coming up with ways to create lists and plans that lead to finishing work on time. My strategy for large projects is breaking them into smaller steps to continue working at a steady pace.

Areas of Improvement: I have a special skill for making to-do lists and schedules that help me finish projects on time. I’m great at breaking large jobs into smaller pieces to plan the right amount of work to apply.

Desired Outcome: I want to improve my time management skills and multitasking skills to better coordinate various tasks to achieve the best results in both my studies and business dealings.

Goal Statement: By improving my focus and understanding priorities, I will learn better how to multitask with maximum efficiency to achieve the desired results in the various aspects of my life.

Practices for Growth

To reduce distractions, I’ll use specific time management methods, such as the Pomodoro Technique. In addition, I will create thorough schedules to limit excessive interruptions in work time. Mindfulness practice will improve focus.

Action Steps

Step 1: Add a goal-setting feature to your preferred productivity app to help create and track daily and weekly goals.

Step 2: Use time blocking to create a time slot for your most important tasks each day or each week.

Step 3: Build the habit of practicing mindfulness each day to help calm the mind and decrease distractions.

Attend trainings or webinars focused on health care management where you can practice and improve your leadership skills.

Potential Obstacles/Challenges

There are likely issues with procrastination and a lack of commitment to timeliness. There is the potential that this would be a challenge in administration, since this indicates that the person in this position has to successfully juggle many different aspects of their work in this position on a daily basis.

Key Supporters

Supporter 1: A person I can talk to about my successes or failures in terms of my work.

Supporter 2: Someone who can teach me time management and help me order the most challenging tasks.

Supporting University Resources

Personal Productivity Matrix: The method of structuring tasks for execution and the ideal arrangement of working plans and schedules.

Center for Academic Success and Excellence: Holds resources on a range of subjects intended to systematize learning and assist in the development of effective time management.

Benefits From Change/Connections to Personal, Academic, and Career Goals

Personal: Improved personal and organizational planning will lead to an enhanced equilibrium between professional and other personal life engagements.

Academic: Increased efficiency will help me in carrying out my duties as required and in a timely manner.

Professional: I will be able to develop a superior multitasking ability in order to deliver a greater number of projects on time and to meet the associated objectives.