Developing Individuals and Teams in Organisations

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Table of content
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Unit Number & Unit
Title
Unit 35 Developing Individuals and Teams in organisations

 Introduction
 Developing Individuals and Teams in organisations
 Determinate appropriate and professional knowledge, skills and behaviors that are required by a
HR Professional for the job role of HR manager in Virgin Media.
 My personal Developmental Portfolio
 Learning and development within Virgin Media for driving sustainable business performance
 Applying learning cycle theories (Kolb’s Learning Cycle and Kurt Lewin’s Change model) to
analyse the importance of implementing continuous professional development.
 Applying knowledge and understanding to the ways in which high-performance working
contributes to employee engagement and competitive advantage.
 Evaluate ways in which performance management, collaborative working and effective
communication can support high-performance culture and commitment
 References
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Introduction
Developing individuals’ teams and organizations can be understood as one of the most important aspect where
HR professionals along with top management has to focus on working on main functional paradigms for
building strong management teams. The report will explain professional knowledge, skills and behaviour
which are required by HR professionals and PDP to demonstrate personal reflection which enhances working
behaviour along with skills. Virgin Media is one of the biggest telecommunication company having wide
range of services within telecommunication and internet globally which has been also been serving consumers
with its effective standards and best acclaimed working parameters. Report explains HPW for contributing to
employee engagement and its benefits and justification using approaches to analyse performance culture and
commitment among various parameters. There is analysis developed on how HPW mechanisms is used to
support innovation within management for gaining stable working efficiency.
Who are HR Professionals? What knowledge, skills and behaviour are required of them?
Human resources professionals are responsible for recruiting, interviewing and handling payroll issues,
employee benefits and functional administration which further build higher employee strength. HR
professionals must have organization and management skills, ethics of governance and problem-solving
expertise where leadership plays an important role to form effective paradigms where working aspects are
functionally strong (Al-Khaled and Fenn, 2020).
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What do you understand by a Skills Audit? What role does it play in the personal and professional
development of an employee?
Skill audit plays one of the most essential roles in measuring and recording skills of individuals and groups
where main purpose is to identify which skill company management requires within future and how
employees are working towards their responsibilities analysed. Skill audit plays an effective role in personal
and professional development of employees as there is enhancement of their skills and knowledge which plays
a major role in developing functional working standards, evolving with demand of competencies within
industry.
What is a Personal SWOT Analysis?
Personal swot analysis can be understood as framework enables to analyse strengths and weaknesses, which
minimizes risks and develops various possible advantages within future goals and to analyse various pathways
where working advancement is required.
What do you understand by CPD?
CPD can be understood as holistic commitment within professionals working in management towards
enhancing personal skills, proficiency which describes learning activities and enables learning to become
consciously growing proactive experience. The CPD is highly important working parameter which HR needs
to adopt for practical qualifications up gradation within working scenarios and also develop future patterns for
gaining stronger levels of efficiency.
What is a Personal Developmental Plan?
Personal development plan can be understood as process of creating an action plan based on varied working
aspects such as awareness, values by reflecting on personal growth and goal setting, planning and personal
development parameters within personal academic and professional success.
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Why is it important to evaluate and reflect on a PDP?
It is important to evaluate and reflect on PDP where it enables personal growth scenarios to be actively
working as one of the major paradigms for developing analysis towards strengths and weaknesses which
develop reflection, to work on future performance levels with high synergy (Della Torre, 2019).
Good knowledge and understanding of skills within knowledge of skills that enhances new goals for
generating larger quest horizons to keeping up new leveraging scenarios, which will keep evaluation active on
new goals parameters. Practical life of company Virgin media can be analysed as widely enhanced on various
domains within critical scenarios for keeping up practical developed growth efficacy which also enhances
employees’ motivations
Activity 1a
1) Determine appropriate and professional knowledge, skills and behaviors that are required
by a HR Professional for the job role of HR manager in Virgin Media.
JOB ROLE NO 1
Organisation Virgin Media
Employee Name John David
Department: HR department
Position/Job Role: HR manager
Knowledge Skills Behaviour
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Organization and planning
HR manger need to have
organized and planning skills
where it highly important for
developing all employees planned
working structure.
Professional acumen
2 Technology and industry
awareness
HR manager needs to have
technology and industry awareness
for planning out training and
Dynamic working behaviour
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development activities with proper
planned structure for gaining
professional competitive growth.
3 Collaboration and
communication.
HR manager must have
collaboration and communication
skills to take effective decisions
Strong communication skills
4 Data skills and numeracy HR management must have data
skills and numeracy for obtaining
accuracy within performance
measures while analysing
employees’ skills and operational
duties.
Higher academic knowledge and
professional acumen.
5 Commercial and professional
acumen
HR professionals must have this
skill to work for company goals
formulation, empower varied ideas
and business evolving demands in
industry.
This will be worked on as behaviour
where there shall be professional
experience and working innovation
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