(PDF) Personal and Professional Development Assignment
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Approaches to self-managed learning..............................................................................11.2 Ways of lifelong learning in personal and professional context......................................21.3 Benefits of self-managed learning to organisation and individual...................................23.1 Processes and activities to implement development plan.................................................33.2 Undertaking development activities as planned...............................................................53.3 Reflect critically on own learning against aims and objectives set in development plan.63.4 Update development plan based on feedback and evaluation..........................................7TASK 2............................................................................................................................................92.1 Current skills and competencies against organisational objectives..................................92.2 Identify own development needs and activities to meet them........................................112.3 Development opportunities to meet current and future needs........................................112.4 Personal and professional development plan based on identified needs........................12TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................14Covered in PPT.....................................................................................................................14CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
INTRODUCTIONProfessional and personal development can be described as collaborative, intensive stagein which learning is done to attend conferences and coursework. It can be considered as array ofany specialized training, advanced professional learning which improves knowledge, skill sets,competency and entire effectiveness in the professional world (Asongu and Nwachukwu, 2016).Personal development improves talent and develop potential that facilitate employability andenhance quality of life. It can include developing other individuals by providing training,consulting and coaching. In this report there is description about the approaches of self-managedlearning, development plans and competencies required to meet organisational objectives.TASK 11.1 Approaches to self-managed learningIn order to learn efficiently, the best way to self-manage is to observe the presentbusiness and examine the problems systematically. There should be a research done on businessenvironment to learn effectively. Following are some approaches for self-managed learning:1. Seminars and conferences: Attending seminars and conferences are the best way for self-managed learning because in these sessions people share their ideas, views and experienceswhich help them in personality development and improving their skills (Bennett, 2017). It helpsin gaining confidence to speak in public which is very important for the firm. These seminarsprovide an opportunity to individuals to develop their own personality and represent themselvespublically.2. Social Networks: this another way through which individuals can communicate and getsocialize easily (Botelho and et.al., 2018). It can be virtual or local community like Twitter,Facebook or Instagram. Nowadays, people spend hours and share their views on these socialsites and chat with their friends. They learn new skills and thereby improved personality.3. Internet: Internet is a home of huge amount of data. People can browse and search formanagement related theories, practices and use Google Scholar for accessing academic journalsand articles (Boahin and Hofman, 2014). They can get information written by various authors onthe subjects like management studies, risk management and business concepts. Individuals canobtain experience on wide range of divergent topics that can enable personal development to1
happen in both professional and private contexts. They could also communicate and share theirviews with co-workers at their workplace.Thus, these are some approaches which should be adopted by individuals for theirpersonal as well as professional development in an organisation.1.2 Ways of lifelong learning in personal and professional contextLifelong learning is about self-evaluation through continuous learning, effectiveleadership and good communication.1. Self-evaluation: Individuals must evaluate their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities andthreats. Good learning skill should be developed and friendly behaviour with other employeesand persons can be included in their strengths. They should remain away from stress andimprove their bad habits. Enhancement of talent, better environment must be adopted at everystage (Cheung and Hew, 2015). These opportunities help them to develop their managerialpower and enable them to learn new skills. Some of Threats could be recession of money,entrance of fresh talents and some health issues.2. Continuous Learning: Continuous learning is not constant. It changes after long terms andbrings new understanding, knowledge and skills. At an individual level, this can be considered asa behaviour and developing own knowledge and talents in order to handle new and expandingsituation which further requires time, efforts and their interest to learn more.3. Effective Leadership: Effective leadership is relevant to interpersonal dynamics and is allabout process of influence. It is also a part of lifelong learning in which leadership puts directaffect to bring all diverse culture and individuals together to do particular work (Davis, Taylorand Reyes, 2014). Like this, they learn to handle situations and find alternatives of the problem.Effective leadership empowers team of members to attain their goals.4. Good communication and relationships: In order to learn communication skills andfacilitate lifelong learning, managers need to devote effective time by communicating with theircolleagues. In today’s world most of the companies are multi cultured, so it is difficult to tackledifferent types of people for planning, organizing and controlling.1.3 Benefits of self-managed learning to organisation and individualThere are many positive impacts of self-managed learning to the organisation as well asindividual. It helps in acquiring decisional making skills through earlier professional andpersonal experiences. Individuals can learn from their general experience and implement it in2
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