Career Development and Life Long Learning: PDP and Skill Development Strategies

REPORT AND
REFLECTIVE BLOG

Table of Contents
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Question1 : Career development and life long learning-............................................................3
Skill audit:...................................................................................................................................4
PDP..............................................................................................................................................7
Assessing Strategy for skill development.................................................................................10
Ways career development contribute in employee satisfaction-..............................................11
SUMMARY...................................................................................................................................13
REPORT ON HIGH PERFORMANCE STRATEGIES...............................................................16
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................3

Main Body
Question1 : Career development and life long learning-
Goal: The main aim is to be Human resource manger in reputed firm and short term is to
improve skill and build good personality.
PDP- Personal development plan is a strategy which is prepared for the purpose of self-
development in which the targets are made and to achieve that the road map is fabricated which
also covers strategies, resources, time required and evaluation etc.
Importance of PDP- Developing new skills: This type of career strategy involves enhancement
of skills and abilities that will improve performance of current job as well as it required for
future growth. Along with this, this framework stated that for developing strategies an individual
can participate in training and development programme.
PDP from the last 12 months-
What are my
development
objectives.
What activities do I need to
undertake to achieve my
objectives.
What support
resources do I
need to
achieve my
objectives.
Target date Achieve
date
I realized that my
communication
was not good so
wanted to
improve it since
it is essential for
having higher
performance to
be a good
communicator.
The experience of
improvement in
communication has been
wonderful I have developed
key skills like learning how to
interact with people. The bad
part was my slow
improvement in the beginning
which affected my morale of
doing good.
I purchased an
online course
for the purpose
which costed
me 5000 euros.
15/03/2021 10/2/2021
For higher
performance I
I had been more conscious
about time management for
For this
purpose I got
31/1/2021 15/02/2021

decided to
improve my
managerial skills
especially
decision-making.
For that purpose
I have joined a
special course
last year.
this purpose I went for
something new like self-
practice and may also attend
workshop.
myself
enrolled to an
online diploma
course.
Personal SWOT:
This framework is mainly used by firm in order to analyse internal and external factor
that are present in comparative market. Moreover, personal SWOT is known as method of
individual assessment that can be done at any stage of life in order to determine self-
improvement (Issayev, Masalimova and Magzumova, 2018). Although it is helpful in finding the
right career path or growth opportunities and educational choices and it good for social
comparison. It helps individual in avoiding mistake and it address weakness, opportunities,
threat and strengths.
Strengths: I have good command on
communication skill that has helped me in
building good relation with other as well as
enhance my speaking abilities
(Kamrozzaman, Badusah and Ruzanna, 2019).
Along with this, my unique ability is my
strategic thinking that contributes in finding
innovative and appropriate solution for
complex situation.
Weakness: My major weakness is that I
delegate a lot of tasks to others and due to that
I am not able to build good leadership skill.
Along with this, my marketing and sales skill
is also poor and I have lack of knowledge
about market condition.

Opportunity: I have educational opportunity
like free online course for learning about
management and internship programme for
gaining practical knowledge. Moreover, I have
ability to look at things from fresh preselective
that is helpful for accomplishing business goal
(Lejeune, Beausaert and Raemdonck, 2021).
Threat: Due to pandemic there has been
negative impact on business growth thus in
order to attract employees Human resource
management need constant upgrade and make
use of the latest innovation.
Skill audit:
skills Typical description Skill level low to
high
Specific comments
Time management: Planning
Goal setting.
Auditing and
improving workflows.
1 2 3 4 5
Honesty. Integrity
trustworthy,
loyal,
fair
sincere.
1 2 3 4 5
Active Listening Be attentive.
Ask probing
questions.
Summarize
1 2 3 4 5
Decision making skill Reliability
Teamwork.
Leadership.
Responsible.
1 2 3 4 5

Organizational skills Working under
pressure.
Self-
motivation.
Analytical thinking.
1 2 3 4 5
Communication Listening.
Non-verbal
communication
Written
communication
Contextual
communication
1 2 3 4 5
Self-discipline Resolving
Mutual
Problems.
Taking the
Initiative in
Problem.
Following Instructions
1 2 3 4 5
Interpersonal skill Self-
confidence.
Positive
attitude
Openness to
feedback
Patience
1 2 3 4 5
Training and development
skills
1 2 3 4 5
Budgeting skills Empathetic skills 1 2 3 4 5
Technical skill Programming
languages.
1 2 3 4 5