Reflective Journal and Professional Development

This assignment focuses on the concept of reflective journaling as a tool for personal and professional growth. It examines how educators, health professionals, and other individuals utilize journaling to enhance their learning and development. The provided texts delve into diverse perspectives on reflective practice, highlighting its effectiveness in fostering self-awareness, critical thinking, and improved performance.

MANAGE PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1.1 Compare sources of information on professional development trends and their validity 1
1.2 Identify trends and developments that influence the need for professional development2
1.3 Evaluate their own current and future personal and professional development needs
relating to the role, the team and the organisation..................................................................2
2.1 Evaluate the benefits of personal and professional development.....................................3
1. Increment the aggregate information of your group...........................................................3
2. Lift workers` employment fulfilment.................................................................................3
3. Make organization all the more engaging..........................................................................3
4. Draw in popular applicants.................................................................................................3
5. Amplify maintenance technique.........................................................................................3
6. Make progression arranging less demanding.....................................................................4
2.2 Explain the basis on which types of development action are selected.............................4
2.3 Identify future and current likely skills, knowledge and experience needs using skills gap
analysis...................................................................................................................................4
1. Recognize business objectives...........................................................................................5
2. Gather information.............................................................................................................5
3. Decipher the information and make suggestions................................................................5
2.4 Agree a personal and professional plan that is consistent with business needs and personal
objectives................................................................................................................................5
2.5 Execute the plan within the agreed budget and time scales.............................................6

2.6 Take advantage of development opportunities made available by professional networks or
professional bodies.................................................................................................................7
3.1 Explain how to set specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART)
objectives? How did you set your goals and ensure they were SMART?..............................7
3.2 Obtain feedback on performance from a range of valid sources......................................7
3.3 Review progress towards personal and professional objectives.......................................9
3.4 Amend the personal and professional development plan in the light of feedback received
from others..............................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The personal or professional development plan (PDP) is a formal means by which an
individual (normally working with a teacher, mentor or supervisor) sets out the goals, strategies
and outcomes of learning and training. Again this is in alignment with the professional
programme of study and is often written to meet requirements from regulatory or statutory
bodies around continuing professional development (CPD) and revalidation to retain a licence to
practise, stay on a professional register and demonstrate professional standing.
1.1 Compare sources of information on professional development trends and their validity
It is examined that there are numerous work setting that are vital situations regarding the
new innovation that can help an individual in the process of developing their professional skills
and expertise. As the manager of the ABC organisation, and as a learning innovation expert, I
am normally heard conversing innovation measures being used as a part of the work setting; how
they are carrying effectiveness to business and why direction must look to these developments to
irradiate efficacies in their own association.
 Go portable – Training associations of various kinds and sizes have been going versatile,
conveying preparing here, there and all around, making learning as available as could be
allowed.
 Comprehend social – The very way of classroom or gathering coneyance is that it gives
the chance to social cooperations and it`s what educators know and love.
 Consider a versatile learning – Adaptive learning and separation has dependably been at
the heart of good educating.
1.2 Identify trends and developments that influence the need for professional development
It is critical for all employees in any association to build up their abilities and individual
qualities all through their profession. This permits people to increase new aptitudes and
information identifying with their part, and additionally having the capacity to perform
requesting errands that require more skill. It is essential to effectively seek after advancement
openings, as this guarantees a more fruitful professionAbraham and et.al, 2015 ).
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In my working environment, I am offered a yearly audit meeting with my line administrator.
This is likewise an ideal time to talk about future vocation arrangements, and how I think I will
advance inside my profession and picked part(Vetere and Stratton, 2016).
1.3 Evaluate their own current and future personal and professional development needs relating
to the role, the team and the organisation
It is critical to have the capacity to assess your own execution in your part, as this makes
you mindful of what should be enhanced and how to do as such. You can direct a SWOT
examination as this recognizes both inside and outer elements. Qualities and shortcomings are
inside variables that influence advancement from inside the association. Openings and dangers
are outer elements exhibited by nature outside the association (Bozalek and et.al, 2014). Be that
as it may, considering these aptitudes, I trust they could all be created and enhanced as this
guarantees vocation movement. There are numerous courses for me to get some answers
concerning profession openings and pathways I could take. For instance, the National Careers
Service furnishes people with data and sets of expectations of numerous parts in a scope of
various ventures(Keville and et.al, 20132).
2.1 Evaluate the benefits of personal and professional development
1. Increment the aggregate information of your group
Urging workers to prepare in related subjects and applications — a propelled course in a
product program they utilize every day, for instance — can immediately affect efficiency.
Proficient improvement can likewise help raise general staff ability when workers have
boundlessly extraordinary foundations.(Bates, Swennen and Jones, 2014)
2. Lift workers` employment fulfilment
At the point when staff individuals can carry out their occupations adequately, they
develop more certain, which prompts to more noteworthy occupation fulfilment and enhanced
worker maintenance. They should seriously mull over offering them proficient advancement
openings, for example, mentorship, work shadowing and broadly educating, so they turn out to
be more unmistakable (and flexible) players in the association(Nasser and et.al, 2015).
3. Make organization all the more engaging
When employees offer proficient improvement openings, they are building a positive
notoriety as a business that thinks about its workforce and endeavours to utilize just the best. The
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customers will profit, as well, from the abnormal state of the proficient, technically
knowledgeable administration conveyance they get. Remember that representatives are
organisations image envoys. When they go to meetings and courses, they speak to and mirror all
that is great about association.
4. Draw in popular applicants
Most planned representatives see that expert affirmations can net them higher pay rates,
raises and advancements. On the off chance that candidates know there's the possibility to raise
their aptitude level and remuneration at your organization, will probably pull in top
applicants(Qablan and et.al,2015).
5. Amplify maintenance technique
The specialists need to feel like they`re having any kind of effect and developing. On the
off chance that colleagues don`t feel tested, or they sense stagnation in their vocations, they'll
search for progression openings somewhere else. Long lasting learning opens the specialists to
new encounters and keeps them occupied with their work. When they are ready to assemble this
sort of excitement among their staff, they incite unwariness(Stanley, Snell and Edgar, 2014).
6. Make progression arranging less demanding
Initiative advancement and mentorship projects are apparatuses for prepping future
pioneers for your association. In the event that employees would jump at the chance to have the
capacity to elevate staff to administrative positions later on, focused preparing now can help
organisation guarantee its present workforce is set up to climb.
2.2 Explain the basis on which types of development action are selected
A training program has a superior shot of accomplishment when its preparation strategies
are deliberately chosen. A preparation technique is a system or strategy that a mentor uses to
convey the substance so that the students accomplish the goal. Selecting a proper training
technique is maybe the most essential stride in preparing action once the preparation substance
are recognized. Four central point are considered while selecting a training strategy: the learning
objective, the substance, the students, and the useful prerequisites(Rae, 1999). The training
techniques ought to be chosen on the premise of how much they do the accompanying:
 Permit dynamic support of the learners.
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 Help the learners exchange taking in encounters from preparing to the occupation
circumstance.
 Furnish the learners with information of results about their endeavors to move forward.
 Give a few intends to the learners to be fortified for the fitting conduct.
2.3 Identify future and current likely skills, knowledge and experience needs using skills gap
analysis
Building up anskills gap examination regularly includes characterizing the abilities and learning
required to finish an assignment and after that contrasting a man`s present level with that
necessity. As per the American Society for Training and Development, the hidden reasons for
abilities crevices regularly incorporate changing occupations and absence of instruction and
preparing. Deciding the required expertise levels more often than excludes characterizing the
occupation obligations when organizations present new advances or procedures(Bates, Swennen
and Jones, 2014).
1. Recognize business objectives
To stay aggressive, private ventures regularly need to keep up a talented work compel.
Evaluating the basic abilities required by an association permits the organization to guarantee
present and future workers have the correct aptitudes to empower ideal business execution. Set
up a venture plan that run downs the present business needs and key destinations of the
association. Distinguish the methodology and procedures set up and the sorts of staff required to
do organization capacities. Verbalize the sought state(Bates, Swennen and Jones, 2014).
2. Gather information
Make a spreadsheet that rundowns the errands in one segment and the aptitudes and
information in another. Watch individuals finishing the work to approve your suppositions. Rate
work force as passage level, ace level or master level. Also, direct concentration assembles or
make an online study utilizing an apparatus, Contrast the results of specialists and the results of
less experienced staff to distinguish the strategies utilized by talented experts. This figures out
what preparing should be executed to enhance the achievement rate for less prepared
representatives(Bassot, 2013).
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3. Decipher the information and make suggestions
Set up a report that rundowns the missing abilities and information required to finish
work effectively. For instance, list the aptitudes needed by existing specialists, recently procured
school graduates or brief workers. Work abilities may miss the mark in zones, for example,
correspondence, innovativeness, administration and collaboration. Other common crevices can
include extend administration, deals, specialized or client benefit aptitudes(Bassot, 2013).
2.4 Agree a personal and professional plan that is consistent with business needs and personal
objectives
I have included notes made by my line supervisor with respect to my present advance.
Development Need
How this will be
assessed
With assistance from Completion date
Taking minutes
Attending weekly
meetings to minute
RS, HH On-going
Finance training
Designated days for
undertaking training
RS, EB, JB
Training to be start from
Feb 10 2017
First aid training
In-house continuous
training
RS, SW On-going
Attendance and
administration training
Support from the line
mar and team of
administrator
RS, EF, AB On-going
2.5 Execute the plan within the agreed budget and time scales
The projects offered me the stage for improving my abilities in different administration
positions. Additionally, crevice examination is effectively attempted amid the temporary
position as the desires of the market are proficiently dictated by the projects embraced amid that
period(Qablan and et.al,2015). Certain models of operations have turned out to be instrumental
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in surveying the advance made in the accomplishment of the underlying improvement arranges.
The SWOT investigation assumed a vital part. By breaking down the shortcomings and qualities,
more endeavors are made on the preparation projects to help in enhancing the ranges of
shortcoming. The accessible open doors likewise altogether helped in the improvement of the
conceivable components to adequately accomplish the required advancement arranges. Positive
open doors gave stages to enhancing individual and expert abilities(Qablan and et.al,2015).
2.6 Take advantage of development opportunities made available by professional networks or
professional bodies
Organisations with individuals from different social foundations and with various mental
points of view on issues offered a stage for learning and seeing how some of these individual
aptitudes can be achieved, and furthermore how they can be utilized as a part of the expert field.
The capacity to get thoughts from individuals of different statuses in associations and clients at
various levels, the technique of persistent practice and examination discussions has assumed a
critical part in improving my shot of getting the opportunity to take in more perplexing matters
on managing individuals(Hill and et.al, 2016). These individuals need to cooperate in agreement
to ensure that the objectives, missions and every day exercises presented on the workforce or
associations is accomplished. It is not just the part or individual activity of the workforce on
such situations, additionally the command of the initiative and administration to affect
concordant change towards accomplishing the objectives and missions of the association(Hill
and et.al, 2016).
3.1 Explain how to set specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART)
objectives? How did you set your goals and ensure they were SMART?
SMART is the acronym used to ensures objectives and targets set utilizing a self-
awareness plan are sensible. This guarantees targets are straightforward and simple to reach.
Normally, it remains for particular, quantifiable, achievable, practical and time-related, however,
varieties incorporate, key, assignable, goal-oriented, applicable, sensible, time/cost constrained
and time-based.
3.2 Obtain feedback on performance from a range of valid sources
Managers trying to enhance the input procedure should first build up an exhaustive
comprehension of the sources of feedback. There are 5 primary sources of input in organizations.
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Every sources of feedback can give an alternate point of view on execution and can be a
profitable part of the input procedure(Bassot, 2013).
Clients
Clients can be the most essential source of input. Organizations ought to request input from
clients about individual, group, gathering and administration execution. They ought to do as such
utilizing overviews, client visits, a grumbling framework and client center gatherings.
Target information
Factual measures, KPIs and constant information ought to all be utilized to give target
feedback to a worker. These can be the most target source of feedback, however can likewise be
deceiving. For example, benefit level may not be the best estimation of execution for client
benefit delegates whose objective is to expand consumer loyalty.
Peers
Associates performing comparative employments can have a superior comprehension of
their companion`s execution than administrators and upper administration. The kind of criticism
given to workers majorly affects their resulting execution. With the end goal for directors to be
best at giving input, they should comprehend the contrasts between the three primary sorts of
criticism:
 Valuable criticism – data particular, issue-engaged and in light of perceptions. There are
four sorts of helpful input:
 Negative input – restorative remarks about past conduct. Concentrates on conduct that
wasn`t effective and shouldn`t be rehashed.
 Positive input – attesting remarks about past conduct. Concentrates on conduct that was
effective and ought to be proceeded.
 Negative feedforward – remedial remarks about future execution. Concentrates on
conduct that ought to be stayed away from later on.
3.3 Review progress towards personal and professional objectives
Habitually, when execution administration is specified, individuals think about the
worker execution evaluation or audit. Execution administration, nonetheless, includes quite a lot
more. Legitimately built evaluations ought to speak to an outline of a continuous, year-round
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exchange. A successful execution administration prepares empowers administrators to assess and
measure singular execution and streamline profitability by:
 Adjusting individual representatives everyday activities with vital business goals
 Giving perceivability and illuminating responsibility identified with execution desires
 Reporting singular execution to bolster pay and profession arranging choices
 Building up center for expertise advancement and learning movement decisions
3.4 Amend the personal and professional development plan in the light of feedback received
from others
In view of the criticism given to my fund preparing, I will keep on using the best of my
capacities to do back errands, and in addition request help and direction when essential from the
fund chairmen and my line supervisor. I will keep on following the school`s strategies when
putting requests and handling solicitations; these are expressed in the approaches "Budgetary
Procedures" and "Monetary Regulations" which are both accessible on the staff share.
CONCLUSION
Thus, we can conclude that personal and professional changes are very important to br
taken into consideration so that an employee woerks in the best way. The report covers various
sorts of improvement and changes that are been made to meet the requirements of the company.
Apart from this, the planning of time mangement and SMART approach is needed to be taken
into consideration which will help an individual to developing his skills.
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