Personal and Professional Development Plan

Personal and
Professional
Development plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................2
1.1 Evaluate approaches of self managed learning.....................................................................2
1.2 Lifelong learning process in personal and professional context..........................................2
1.3 Benefits of self managed learning to the individuals and organisation................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Evaluating skills and competencies against professional standards and organisation
objectives.....................................................................................................................................5
2.2 Identifying development needs and activities to meet organisation objectives....................6
2.3 Development opportunities to meet current and future needs..............................................8
2.4 Devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
3.1 Process and activities required in implementing development plan....................................9
3.2 Undertake and document development activities as planned.............................................10
3.3 Reflect critically on your own learning against original aims and objectives set in the
development plan. ....................................................................................................................12
3.4Update the development plan based on feedback and evaluation........................................12
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................14
4.1 Select solutions to work based problems............................................................................14
4.2- Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels..................15
4.3- Evaluate and use effective time-management strategies...................................................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development refers to the gaining of skills and knowledge by
the individual in order to enhance career development opportunities. It is a formal way by which
an individual sets strategies for the outcome of learning and training (Cooke, 2012). It also
improves job performance of employees within organisation by assigning to them high duties
and responsibilities. Continuous professional development is important for maintaining ongoing
progress of employees which makes them competent in its profession. Present assignment will
be based on Travelodge hotel. It is a private company operating in the hotels and hospitality
industry in United Kingdom. The report will going to analyse the various approaches of self
learning for life long development as well as evaluates current skills and competencies against
professional standards. Moreover it also determines personal development portfolio such as
processes and activities required to implement development plan.
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TASK 1
1.1 Evaluate approaches of self managed learning
Self managed learning is a continuous and gradual process in which individual takes
initiative to analyse their learning needs, formulates learning goals and implement appropriate
learning strategies accordingly. This helps the individuals to enhance their self development. It
is also known as learning by motivation. Their are different approaches of leaning which are
discussed as follows-
Seminars and conferences- Seminars and conferences are regarded as an effective tool for
self managed learning. When the employee or the individual attend the seminars it provides
opportunity to learn new and different things. It makes the employee to share ideas and self
experience which creates a dynamic business environment and allows them to improve their
presentation and communication skills. While sharing of knowledge and ideas it creates
confidence of speaking in public. This type of learning benefits both the organisational and
individual in performing work (Dixon and et. al., 2014).
Internet- Internet is the source of large amount of data. Learners can access journals,
articles, online books , google scholar top gather relevant information over different topics.
such which the learners can access in order to gain and enhance their knowledge. It will be
helpful both in personal and professional development of learners to gain high information
about the topic which ultimately helps them to succeed in their business performance.
Social networks- These are very important in self managed learning processes. Their are
various social networks such as twitter, Facebook and many more which helps learner to gather
different information from sites and can improve their communication skills. Information
gathered can be applied to their own performance which helps in succeeding of career.
From the above mentioned approaches of self learning, seminars and conferences will
definitely help the employees of Travelodge to improve their learning process and self
development of individuals which would benefit the respective organisation in efficient
performance of work (Floyd, 2012).
1.2 Lifelong learning process in personal and professional context.
Life long process is a type of learning activity undertaken by individuals through out their
life with the aim of improving knowledge, skills and competencies. Managers of Travelodge
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are using various ways for life long learning process of its employees which would increase
their knowledge and it would be beneficial for the employees as well as the organisation. Their
are various life long learning process adopted by the managers of Travelodge which are
described below-
Continuous professional development- It is life long and systematic process to develop
and enhance skills and abilities of individuals. In general it refers to the process of tracking and
documenting the skills and knowledge required for life long learning. It helps the manager
within the respective organisation to properly manage and develop individual skills and
knowledge which helps them to perform their job task properly.
Further learning- In an organisation if the managers of the respective company allow
their employees in continuing their education to enhance their knowledge which would
produce highly skilled and knowledgable workforce. It will provide an opportunity to the
individuals to enhance their career opportunities and increase their quality and standard of life.
Apprenticeship- This is the most successful method of learning for employees as it
provides an opportunity to employees to learn continuously during their job. Employees are
provided on the job training which enhances their capabilities of performing task effectively. It
is very useful for employees and organisation to attain their objectives (Hildebrand, 2018).
Self directed learning- It is life long learning process in which individuals selects and
manages their own learning activities which can be pursued at any time irrespective of age. It
benefits the individuals to meet their career goals as they can increase their knowledge which
enables them to achieve organisational goals.
By this way manager of Travelodge can encourage life long learning process among its
employees for the betterment of individuals as well as organisation.
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