Personal and Professional development PPD : Assignment

Personal and Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK A...........................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ........................................................................................................................................1
1. Skills audit in the context of my personal roles and responsibilities and performance
objectives within the organisation..........................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
1. Identification of some interpersonal keys and transferable skills and various tools and
techniques to increase these skills..........................................................................................3
2. Personal SWOT analysis to identify my strengths, weaknesses and learning and
development opportunities.....................................................................................................6
3. Appropriate proforma, carry out individual appraisal within the organisation..................8
TASK 3 ..........................................................................................................................................9
1. Personal and professional development plan with clear aims and objectives, areas for
development which is based on the personal organisation objectives...................................9
TASK B.........................................................................................................................................10
1. Reflection on my personal and professional development plan and activities which is
carried out in my Task 1. Here, is the evaluation of my own learning in the form of
maximising my personal and professional skills..................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is a continuous activity for change the knowledge
and practice as thoughts alteration quickly within the organisation, so that there are always a new
things to be learnt from everything which are necessary for an organisation. It is a development
programme through which people or an individual can generate their goals and objectives and lot
of training programmes skills in a effective manner. PPD is a very necessary tool for everyone
which provides different functions like computer based learning, workshop and on the job
training that all are helpful in order to improve an individual quality. According to this skill
people can achieve their targeted goals easily and they also can share their ideas with each other.
Therefore, it is important technique or tool which is the part of candidates or people life that
helps the employees in order to maximise their learning skills with good knowledge. In this
present report 'Harrods of London' has been selected as an organisation which is the famous
retail store across the world. This was formed in 1849 by Charles Henry Harrod and their
headquarters in Kensington, London. Along with this, report will covered various topics like
personal and professional development with identification of various and tools and techniques of
interpersonal and transferable skills and so on (Trede, Macklin and Bridges, 2012).
TASK A
TASK 1
1. Skills audit in the context of my personal roles and responsibilities and performance objectives
within the organisation.
Personal and professional skills are mainly designed through the managers of the
company to increase the staff members in a attractive manner. There are various roles and
responsibilities which is based on the performance of employees within the organisation in order
to achieve goals and objectives, so that plays an important role in the company (Schoeman and
Mabunda, 2012). Therefore, in this personal and professional skill managers has to make
different planning and process to their employees so that they can easily achieve organisation
target in an appropriate manner. According to this I have audited my leadership skills using
theoretical models and refereed to particular situations and experiences. In developing of my
management skills, I am regularly doing further ways of changing the effectiveness of
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interactions which is rewarding for me. Along with this I was able to my task effectively before
the given period of time which was very helpful for me in order to making my future.
Apart from this I was completely able my roles and responsibilities efficiently with lot of
energy in the organisation. Along with this I have bothered about the policies of the company
and I have also attended many work shops and different event. I have focused on the different
guidelines which helped me a lot in order to improve my knowledge and skills in a effective
manner (Pallisera, 2013). I was responsible for allotting work to my juniors in order to increase
their learning skills, so that they easily help with other people within the organisation.
Furthermore, as an employee of this organisation I was able to provide and maintain a safe
working environment it was my duty. My duties was includes in protecting both physical hazards
like slippery floors, unguarded machinery and heavy loads on the workers and psychosocial
workplace hazards such as bullying, violence and aggression. Therefore, I was able to fulfil my
roles and responsibilities in order to provide correct information about hazards, training that
includes in induction and consult with safety regarding issues and so on to my colleagues.
In the context of this Harrod organisation, I played various important roles and
responsibilities in order to increased my working skills with lot of knowledge or experience of
work. It was very great opportunity for me that I was selected as an employees in this
organisation and able to provide better information for my team members and colleagues.
Performance objectives: In this scenario, I was able to performed my skills in a
effective way. According to performance in the organisation I have prepared a plan and organize
my work with achieving predetermined results or outcomes. Through the completed
performance goals I have able to lot of things in a better way like:
 I have created my job knowledge and skills that was very helpful in my work.
 I always supported the company's goals, vision, mission and strategies in a effective
manner.
 I collaborated with my colleagues as well as team members with mutual understanding.
 I have implemented successful reports and projects and take initiatives also.
So that for better performance in the organisation SMART model helped me a lot in order to
increase my skills and knowledge in each function or activity of the company which was helpful
in represent my goals within the company (Olsen, 2015).
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S- Specific goal provided me enough detail that can be easily understood by me and my
team members.
M- Measurable offered me lot of knowledge related with goals that how can I achieve my
target in the organisation.
A- Attainable provided me information about the availability resources in the
organisation.
R- Relevant according to this I was able to know about mission, goals, strategies and
principles of an organisation.
T- Time bound as per this I was collected information about time limit in order to
accomplish my goals.
Therefore, it was very helpful model for each and every individual with in the organisation in
order to accomplish goals and objectives with lot of knowledge in an appropriate manner.
TASK 2
1. Identification of some interpersonal keys and transferable skills and various tools and
techniques to increase these skills.
Interpersonal skills- These are very important part of every business organisation in order
to increase performance level of employees. Mainly these skills are involved in communication
that is helpful for employees in their job interview and interaction with different types of people
within the organisation. There are some keys of interpersonal skills, given below:
Empathy: In the simple words, it is the knowingness of the feelings and emotions of
other individual. It is a key elements of emotional intelligence that shows the behaviour self and
others. There are some elements of Empathy, which are given below:
Understanding others- In this all individual have to understood all people or employees
within the organisation. According to this, people have listening skills by this they can
understand with each other easily or can make plan for achieving the targeted goals or objectives
in an efficient manner (Moon, 2013). Communication skill also important for empathy which
helps in way of communication in order to follow company's rules by communicating several
candidates in the organisation.
Developing others- It refers to the needs and requirements of the organisation ans it is
helping them in order to increase potentiality of the employees skills in an perfect way.
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