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Importance of Learning Personal and Professional Skills Assignment

   

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PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTSTUDENT’S NAME:STUDENT’S ID:PROFESSOR’ NAME:1

Table of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Task 1...............................................................................................................................................31.1 Analysing techniques of self-managed learning........................................................................31.2 Suggesting ways through which lifelong professional and personal learning can be motivated.........................................................................................................................................................41.3 Analysing the advantages of self-managed learning for both the organisation and theindividual.........................................................................................................................................5TASK 2............................................................................................................................................62.1: Evaluate own current skill and competencies against professional standard and organisationobjectives.........................................................................................................................................62.2 Identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them...............................72.3 Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs.........................72.4 Devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs:...................8Task 3.............................................................................................................................................103.1 Describing the activities and procedures needed the development plan’s implementation....103.2 Implementing and documenting activities of development plan.............................................113.3 Evaluating own learning critically against objectives and aims based on development plan.123.4 Updating development plan on the basis of evaluation and feedback.....................................12Task 4.............................................................................................................................................144.1 Choosing solutions for work-based problems.........................................................................144.2 Interacting in different types of styles and proper manner at different levels.........................154.3 Analysing and using appropriate strategies of time management...........................................16Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................17Reference list.................................................................................................................................182

Introduction Employees and stuednts always try to improve themselves professionally and personally, so thatthey can contribute to their organisation more efficiently. Professional development refers todevelopment of an employees, so that the person can understand the job role properly andtechniques of improving those skills. On the other hand, personal development provides anemployee an opportunity to strengthen some practices in order to develop skills such asrelationship building, mindfulness, creativity that are essential for leading life happily. The mainaim of the study is to understand importance of learning personal and professional skills to meetboth career and personal goals. In the first section, various methods of self managed learning, techniques of encouragingprofessional and personal development, several benefits of self-managed learning are evaluated,in the second section, analysis of own competencies and skills, requirements of development andactions for meeting those requirements, designing a development plan on the basis on therequirements are discussed. In the third section, procedures needed for the implementation ofdevelopment plan, implementation of those plan, evaluation of own learning and updating thatplan are thoroughly discussed. In the last section, methods of resolving work-based problems,various styles of interaction and usage if appropriate management strategies are described. Task 11.1 Analysing techniques of self-managed learning Accordin to Hopkinson (2014, p.385), Self-managed learning is a procedure through whichemployees learn various things and enhance their skills in order to become efficient andconfident. Individuals can learn several things with the help of different techniques. As a studentof David Game College , one should try to improve professional career and personal life. Conferences and seminars:Conferences and seminars are effective methods because they provide individuals opportunitiesto represent their knowledge and learn various new, interesting things. Therefore, these seminarsand conferences enrich people and make them much more confident. They help in developingpeople’s presentation skills as well. Social networking sites:3

In today’s world, millions of people use various social networking sites to stay connected withtheir family and friends. These social networking sites include Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.However, these sites can also be used by employees as an effective tool for learning new andinteresting things. Many people share knowledge and information with others in various groups,pages and forums. Internet:Internet is one of the most powerful tools of learning many things about various topics. Forinstance, Google Scholar is very useful when it comes to accessing articles and academicjournals. All these articles and academic journals are written by experts based on various types oftopics (Moon, J.A., 2013, p.45). With the help of a general internet search, people can get hugeamount of information, which are written by many writers. Therefore, Individuals can easilyaccess information that are needed to become successful in an organisation. 1.2 Suggesting ways through which lifelong professional and personal learningcan be motivatedWith the help of various techniques, lifelong professional and personal learning can beencouraged. The student of David Game College can be benefitted if that person gives himselfsome time for learning every day. However, they are also some other ways that help in lifelongprofessional and personal development. Personal strategies:Individuals should read books on various topics and access internet in oder to gain knowledge.They must also read newspapers to keep updated with the news of different countries. Theyshould participate in different forums and group activities. Employees must do an assessment oftheir own strengths and weaknesses. They also need to understand how their companies haveenhanced their performance. They also must analyse what can happen in the future in theirorganisations. Self-reflective learning:As opined by Dowson, P. (2015, p.44) self-reflective learning is a technique, which helpsemployees in analysing their learning eperience and developing their critical thinking skills.With the help of self-reflective learning, individuls can review their experiences, continue theirdevelopment and devise some techniques, approaches and ideas in order to develop learning.4

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