Personal and Professional Development

Personal and Professional
Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Task 1:.............................................................................................................................................3
Continuing Professional Development (CPD).............................................................................3
Evaluating CPD by individual:....................................................................................................3
Learning theories.........................................................................................................................4
Feedback affect on Learning:......................................................................................................4
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................5
Job roles and related qualification...............................................................................................5
CV for HR Manager Profile........................................................................................................6
SWOT Analysis of HR Job..........................................................................................................7
Reflective statement.....................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is growth of individual in terms awareness, talents and potential in
changing world. Professional development defines as growth of employees in the organization in
terms of skills, promotion, awards and rewards recognition. The report highlights Continuing
Professional Development (CPD) in the organization and ways in which employees and
employer attached to it. The report also discusses learning theories and its impact on knowledge
of individual. Feedback affects learning of individuals also describe in the below report. Report
also discusses about different job roles and building CV according to it. In the end personal swot
analysis and according it build a plan for the job roles.
Task 1:
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CPD define as learning activities of employees to increase their efficiency, quality and
productivity. This activity helps in leaning of individual to become conscious and proactive
(SKIBA, 2019). Continuous professional developments use various methods for professional
development of individual such as training programs, group meetings and events, e-learning and
suitable practices (Paine, 2019). Professional growth increases the chance of getting good job at
higher wages and also prepare for future threats and opportunities for individual.
Evaluating CPD by individual:
Individual engage in different professional development programs in the organization or
can join CPD firms which focuses on professional development. CPD Programs can be recorded
for better understanding of professional growth.
Engage in Continuous Professional Development:
Individual can engage in CPD by the company or because of personal interest for future
opportunities. Organization provides various training and development programs for employees
because of changing work system in the world and hence for continuous growth of the
employees as well as organization. Individual can also join in CPD programs at various training
and development centre available in the country which focuses on training for professionalism.
Record CPD:
Recording progress of individual against CPD is another important task. It includes date
of CPD with the length of course and training provider in Digital or diary record. Number of
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CPD point gets in the course and in the end certification of CPD by the employer or trainers.
Research and review time to time for better achievement.
Evaluate:
Evaluation helps to understand professional development of the individual by CPD. It
Can be evaluate by self assessment of perception and satisfaction and it also include competency
assessment of knowledge, skills and attitude. Professional performance assessment is another
way of evaluation of CPD.
Learning theories
Learning theory help individual in professional growth because cooperative interaction
with others. It helps individual in understanding and better functioning according to changing
business environment by proper behaviour, healthy relationship to achieve success. There are
three types of learning theory, namely Experimental, Single- and double-loop learning and
Informal learning (Worley, 2020).
Experimental Learning Theory
Learning from experiment is genuine among all learning theory and in this individual try
and try until get the final result. This process increase passion among the individual and increase
his experience.
Single- and double-loop learning Theory
Single focuses on detection and correction in the process and hence incremental changes
and on the other hand double loop emphasize on radical changes in the process (Gerken, 2016).
This theory helps in avoiding mistakes in the process and increases knowledge of employees
working in the organization.
Informal learning
Informal learning comes from observing others such as outsider ways of interaction and
understanding to the process of work that influence individual.
Feedback affect on Learning:
Feedback refers to response of the individual work by the observer. Learning improves
by checking changes according to feedback or it can serves as catalyst for the learning.
Management observe mistakes of employees in the workforce and give feedback for changes.
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