Continuing Professional Development: Skills, Reflection, and Action Plan

Continuing
Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Skills learned by attending this module..................................................................................1
Gibbs Reflective Cycle...........................................................................................................3
Continuing Professional Development log.............................................................................4
Action plan with objectives to hone these skills in the future................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Continuing Professional Development can be explained as the combination of approaches,
Ideas, and techniques that are helpful to manage the learning and growth process of an
individual. Continuing professional development is very important for improving personal
development and academic growth for achieving the best results effectively (Alt, 2018). This
personal reflective journal will discuss various skills that were developed by me during the
module or session for enhancing my employability and study skills. It will discuss various skills
that I have developed by attending this module and how it has helped in achieving the
professional and academic skills. Moreover, it will explain the use of a reflective cycle for
reflecting over the learnings that I have gained from the module.
MAIN BODY
Skills learned by attending this module
The professional development is a continuous process and it can be obtained through
continuous learning. Continuing professional development is explained as the combined
approaches, methods and ideas that are helpful for managing the learning and growth process of
an individual. With the help of modules I had attended in the university, I have achieved various
skills and abilities that can be helpful and improve my future career, employee ability and
academic success. The skills that are large by attending this module are as follows:
 Communication skills: It can be explained as a very essential part for interacting with
each other during the module (Ding and Bruce, 2017). Communication can be defined as
the transmission of data among the people through verbal and nonverbal means. By
attending the module I learnt about the ways I can communicate with the people and how
its effectiveness can be improved for creating the best impact on them. I learnt that for
communicating properly students need to listen carefully with open mindedness and
proper attention.
 Research skills: It refers to the ability of an individual to identify and discover new
things by constantly searching in different areas of aspects (DiPaola and Wagner, 2018).
With the help of research skills I was able to discover new knowledge and concepts about
different perspectives for completing the projects. I researched through various online
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