(PPD)Personal and Professional Development Assignment

Personal and
professional
development

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Approaches to self managed learning...............................................................................3
1.2 Ways in which lifelong learning could be encouraged..........................................................3
1.3 Benefits to self managed learning..........................................................................................4
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................5
4.1 Solutions to work based problems.........................................................................................5
4.2 Communication at various levels in variety of style.............................................................5
4.3 Effective time management strategies...................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Evaluation of current skills and competencies against professional standards.....................6
2.2 Identification of own development needs..............................................................................7
2.3 Identify development opportunities.......................................................................................8
2.4 Personal and professional development plan.........................................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
3.1 Processes and activities required to implement the development plan..................................9
3.2 Document development activities..........................................................................................9
3.3 Reflection of own learning against original aims and objectives.......................................10
3.4 Update the development plan based on feedback................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is a process under which individual take part in
different learning programs and sessions with the aim of gain knowledge. All this help individual
in find better solutions of complex problems. Self managed learning is one of the best way to
find different ways of learning (Personal and professional development. 2015). Before setting
goals it is very essential for enterprises to first find out the learning skills of employees. In an
era of technology advancement people face lot of challenges and concept of self learning give
them a chance to come up with innovative ideas. ALDI one of the leading grocery retailer is
taken under this report for study. Different approaches of self managed learning and various
ways through which lifelong learning can be encouraged is all detailed under this report. Benefits
to both organizations and individuals with the help of self managed learning is also include in
this. Further, different strategies of managing time and communication at variety of level is all
mention under this.
TASK 1
1.1 Approaches to self managed learning
Basically self managed learning is a process where an individual do various efforts to
increase level of his knowledge. Different approaches are there which can be used by an
individual for this. Learning with the help of research is one of the best way. An individual
may research and analyze different sources such as journals, books, websites and magazines.
Different methods which can be used by an individual for gather information and enhance
self managed can be better understood by following points:
 Participate conferences and seminars: Number of seminars and conferences take place
on personal and professional level by attend these seminars an individual can increase
his knowledge. In seminars number of individuals take part and share their
information which each other which help an individual to gather information.
 Internet sources: Today internet is known as a source of unlimited knowledge on any
topic. This help an individual in gather information on particular topic and help in self
managed learning. An individual can learn or collect information on any topic.
 Participation on social media sites: Number of social platforms are available today
where individuals interact with each other and share information. All this help an
individual in get information about different facts and figures.
1.2 Ways in which lifelong learning could be encouraged
Lifelong learning is about learning which can be personal or can be a professional one.
This type of analysis boost self confidence of individual and enhance its communication skills

and relations with other. Main methods which can be used to encourage lifelong learning include
the following:
 Self evaluation: With the help of SWOT analysis an individual can get benefit in his
professional learning. This help an individual in get know about its strengths, weakness,
opportunities and threats. For example:
Strengths are “good learning skills, friendly behavior”.
Weaknesses are “leadership skills, high tempered etc”.
Opportunities are “Better environment and opportunities of growth”.
Threats are “recession”.
 Continuous learning: This means personal and professional growth from events and
experiences. This can be apply to individuals, groups and organizations. This is one of
the key point for an individual to be successful and achieve set results and goals. For an
individual this type of learning could be done with the help of training, coaching and
workshops.
 Effective leadership: Basically leadership is a quality or skill of influence an individual
and is a part of learning process. Under this , an individual learn how to influence the
behaviors of others further, this help an individual in find better solutions to complex
problems.
1.3 Benefits to self managed learning
Self managed learning provide number of benefits to both individual and organizations as well.
This enhance decision making ability of an individual through his past professional and personal
experiences (Stenfors-Hayes, and et. al., 2010). When different individuals gather together to
solve a problem in enterprise then different type of skills as problem solving skills can be learned
with the help of self managed learning which are transferable in nature and can be learn from
coworkers at workplace. From the concept of self managed learning an individual can be
benefited from following advantages:
 Team work skills: Concept of self managed learning encourage an individual to
take part in different seminars and conferences and all this develop team working
skill in an individual. When number of individuals work in a team then it increase
productivity and profits of firm and provide number of advantages to
organization.