Report on Learning on an Individual

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
LO1............................................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Evaluate the Approaches to self-managed learning....................................................................4
1.2 Methods of encouraging the lifelong learning............................................................................5
1.3 Assessment of learning to the individual and organization.........................................................6
LO2............................................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Evaluate the Skills and Competencies.........................................................................................6
2.2 Identifying own development needs............................................................................................7
2.3 Development opportunities to meet current needs and future defined needs..............................8
2.4 Own development needs.............................................................................................................8
LO3............................................................................................................................................................9
3.1 Processes and activities required to implement the development plan.......................................9
3.2 Document development activity as planned..............................................................................10
LO4..........................................................................................................................................................11
4.1 Learning against the original aims and objective set in the development plan.........................11
4.2 Update the development plan based on the feedback and evaluation.......................................11
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Personal and Professional development is all about how an individual can improve
himself in order to perform the specific job or task in an organization. In this report includes
about the learning's on an individual it can be self-managed or by the help of others in the
organization. In the first part this report consist of how self managed learning can be enhanced
and how it can be used for lifelong development, various learning styles, approaches and
assessments are discussed for the development of the individual. In second part report highlights
about the responsibility for own personal and professional development, in which self appraisal
and various development plans are being discussed (Wright, 2009). In the third and last part
report will discuss about the reviewing of the measure taken by the manager and how the
organization will change their strategies in order to sustain in the targeted market.
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LO1
1.1Evaluate the Approaches to self-managed learning
Self managed learning is the method of improving our own skills with or without the help
of others. This method of learning allows me to learn about the thoughts and the insights of our
self (Bennett, 2006). It encourages me to review my learning’s of past performance which assist
me to take charge of my learning's and help me to realize the learning strategies which suit my
personal needs for future career growth. There are different approaches to evaluate the self-
managed learning such as: Always being ready to learn, setting personal learning goals, engaging
in the learning process, and evaluating learning (Siebert and Costley, 2013).
 Always being ready to learn – This is the basic approach of learning, as an individual I
always try to learn new things improve my skills and ability. Learning is the process
which can never be completed according to the age it goes on increasing.
 Setting learning goals – For achieving the overall goals as an individual I have set the
short term goals which assist me to achieve my long term goals effectively and
efficiently (Beausaert and et.al. 2013). Setting the learning goals always help us to
make decisions without much trouble.
 Engaging in the learning process – As a team leader I always have to make my team
engaged in the learning process because if they will learn more they will perform better
and for doing that they have to understand their basic needs and wants, and then
according to that they can perform their task to achieve the target.
 Evaluating Learning – Evaluating learning is a process of looking at the efforts which
we have made to perform the particular task (Throop and Castellucci, 2010). In self-
evaluation things which an individual can understand are what I have learned, am I
able to adapt and implement the knowledge.
Individual can process their learning according to their needs and wants and it can be done
in Kolb’s learning cycle. In which it suggested that every individual first should experience
about work task he/she going to perform, observing the various methods of performing that task
and while performing individual should reflects to the work they have performed and according
to that they can improve their skills and ability, after improving they can develop new innovative
ideas for performing task more effectively and efficiently, testing ideas in practice refers to the
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