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Components of Personal and Professional Development Report

   

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INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3TASK 1......................................................................................................................................31.1 Approaches to self managed learning, their suitability and different learning styles......31.2 Ways to encourage life-long learning..............................................................................41.3 Benefits of self managed learning....................................................................................4TASK 2 and TASK 3.................................................................................................................52.1 Own current skills and competencies as per the professional standards..........................52.2 Development needs and activities required to meet them................................................52.3 Development opportunities to build them........................................................................62.4, 3.1 and 3.2 Personal development plan...........................................................................63.3 own learning against the aims and objectives identified in development plan................83.4 Updated personal and professional development plan.....................................................8TASK 4......................................................................................................................................94.1 Work based problem........................................................................................................94.2 Communication in variety of styles at various levels....................................................104.3 Time management strategies..........................................................................................10REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTIONPersonal and professional development is the systematic and planned way for theacquisition of skills and talents in an individual. It is an effectual tool to establish prominentposition in market to fit in professional standards. Report is prepared to elucidate severalcomponents of personal and professional development such as self managed learning and itsbenefits to an individual and organisation, identification of learning style ad lifelong learning.Further, a development plan is prepared under the guidance of expertise and specialists in thefield that is needed for the career progression and personal achievements.TASK 11.1 Approaches to self managed learning, their suitability and different learning stylesSelf managed learning is an initiative taken by an individual with the set of activities toenhance knowledge and experience with the following approaches.Research: Reading and writing about the particular topic under the supervision ofguide with the aim to gain insight and broaden the scope of understanding research isdone. It helps in widening the domain of knowledge.Mentoring and counselling: Transfer of information and knowledge to an individualby an expertise in the field to nurture the learning provides a vision and sense ofdirection towards personal and professional development (Johnson and Fargo, 2010).Academic courses: This is the formal way of attaining knowledge and skills atschools, colleges and professional courses.Different learning stylesVARK ModelVisual, aural, read &write and kinaesthetic model with the help of 40 questionsreflects the experiences of an individual and suggest strategies to process information onthe basis of these sensory modalities (Yeh, Huang and Yeh, 2011).Honey and Mumford model

It identifies four distinct preferences people choose while learning that are Activist,pragmatist, theorist and reflector.1.2 Ways to encourage life-long learningLearning is the continuous process that is processed at every stages of life in differentforms. Self directed learning: Realising the need to develop on personal and professionalgrounds in a structured manner is referred as self directed learning. It helps incareer progression and fulfilling personal aspirations.Employment: Each organisation with the aim to enhance the productivity andprofitability enables training and development sessions for employees to improvetheir skills and talents (Lamote and Engels, 2010).Reflective learning: Surrounded by number of events and happenings anindividual learns slew of things by observing. It expands the horizons of thinkingad develops critical thinking.Higher professional degrees: In order to attain greater knowledge and in depthunderstanding of subject areas studied while acquiring preliminary academiccredentials, higher degree courses are helpful.1.3 Benefits of self managed learningSelf managed learning accrues lucrative benefits to both organisation and anindividual itself in various aspects.To an individualIt helps in developing the better insight towards he own personality by adoptingcertain measures such as VARK learning style ad self directed learning (Patrick andet.al, 2010).Proven scientific approach in useful in enhancing the knowledge and skills requires toestablish prominent position in volatile market.Identification o development needs, opportunities, strengths and weaknesses gives theprecise direction for improvement.To an organisation

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