Personal and Professional Development

Personal and Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Approaches of self management learning .............................................................................4
1.2 Ways to encourage life long learning ...................................................................................6
1.3 Benefits of self managed learning .........................................................................................6
LO2..................................................................................................................................................7
2.1 Evaluation of current skills and competencies.......................................................................7
2.2 Own development need and activities attached with the need..............................................7
2.3 Identification of development opportunities to meet the various needs................................8
2.4 Professional Development Puan ...........................................................................................9
LO3................................................................................................................................................12
3.1 Process and activity to implement the development plan....................................................12
3.2 Document development activity as planned........................................................................13
3.3 Critical review about the learning .......................................................................................13
3.4 Updadation of development plan based on the feedback.....................................................13
LO4................................................................................................................................................14
4.1 Solutions for work based problems......................................................................................14
4.2 Varieties of communication style to communicate in appropriate manner.........................15
4.3 Time management strategies................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................17
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REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is recognised as the process to improve and
enhance skills. To meet the changing demand and requirements of the sector personal and
professional development programs conducted by the company management for the human
resources of the company. In this report National Trust is taken as an organisation. National
Trust is located in UK. National Trust is engaged in supervising cultural heritage of UK and also
to conserve the natural beaurt in UK. This report include various approaches related to the self
management learning. Ways associated with the life long learning associated with the personal
and professional development. Benefits attached with the self management learning is also
summarised in this report. Various aspects attached with personal and professional development
plan is also summarised in this report. All the needs and development opportunities will be a part
of development plan. Various activities to achieve the efficiency of personal development plan
will be summarised in this report. Aspects related to the up-gradation process in self
development plan will also be summarised in this report. Based on the development plan
acquired skills will elaborated in this report. Utilization attached with acquired skills from the
development plan in the professional context will be summarised in this report.
LO1
1.1 Approaches of self management learning
Self management learning is about to improve the aquired skills and also to learn new
skills in process of developing the professional efficiency (Dithole and et.al., 2017). Self
management learning ensure individual to take responsibilities attached with the own learning or
improvement program conducted by the management in organisation. It involves goal setting,
decision aims and responsibilities, orientation in achieving goals and also self reflection of
development activities.
Learning Theory: Learning theory focuses over how the knowledge can absorb, process and
sustain for the longer period of time. Prior experiences are also used while aquiring new
knowledge and skills under learning theory. Methods like Kolb Study is an effective tool in
learning theory. Kolb Study involve concrete experience which enable to do and collect
experience. After collecting the experience reflect observation is use that enable to review and
reflect the experience of learning. This theory also enable to active experimentation that involve

practical experiences of outcomes involved in the learning. The final stage of Kolb Study guides
towards Abstract Conceptualisation that involve conclude the learning.
Learning from research: Learning and acquiring skills with the guidance of various researches
conducted by professionals is one of the approaches of self development adopted by the
management of National Trust (Mehrabian, 2017). This approach enable the management to use
professionals research over time management, work management, skills improvement and skills
adaptation. Various Researches over information technology will also be involved to improve the
technical knowledge related to the information technology.
Advantages:
 Researches are a vary precise approach to improve the skills and knowledge as it conver
all the aspect related to the skill improvement and acquisition.
 Suitable approaches and techniques also guided in research that save a lot of time in
planning for the right and productive approach and techniques.
 Researches also guide about the negative aspect that enable the personal development in
the right direction.
Disadvantage:
 Many times researches only drive in one direction of learning programs that reduces the
scope of new dynamics in the development programs.
Conducting Seminars: Conducting various seminars over skill improvement and development
is an another approach towards conducting self development program in organization (Mathis,
and et.al., 2016). This will involve various seminars and meeting with professional towards skill
improvement and development. The management of National Trust is planning to involve and
conduct seminars over skill improvement and development as professionals can guide the
employee's and management in right direction based on the pros and cons attached with such
skills.
Advantages:
 This is a vary professional approach towards the self development in organizations as it
improve the assurity from benefits arises from self development program.
 Professional can guide in detail about every stage attached in improving various skills.

 Professionals are very keen towards analysing about the changing needs and demands of
the sector so the guidance will also enable the employee's to cope up with the changing
needs and demands of the sector.
Disadvantage:
 This is a costlier approach towards self development.
 No assurance of productive outcome.
Reflexive Modernization: The management of National Trust will also enable the reflexive
modernization. This theory drives towards the ideal changes in the sector based on the analytical
review and based on the demand attached with the ideal changes this theory guide about the
required skills to adept such changes effectively. This approach is more towards meeting the
future requirements and necessary of the sector.
Advantages:
 Well efficient approach to meet the future need and demand of the market.
 Proper approach towards advancing the skills of employee's.
Disadvantage:
 This theory is more based on the predictions about the future that involve the huge risk
aspect in the self management programs.
 Many times the proper guidance is not accessible in this approach.
Conducting seminars and learning from researches will be the prioritise approaches for
the management of National Trust as both the methods of self improvement guided the
management in the more professional manner. The management will also implement the aspect
of reflexive modernization with the professional guidance in seminars. All the approaches are
usable in different context and also cover needs of National Trust related to the self development
and management.
1.2 Ways to encourage life long learning
Lifelong learning is a continuous process of learning to parsuit the new information and
knowledge associated with the market (Evers and et.al., 2019). Based on the changing needs and
demands lifelong learning is implemented to improve the professional competency of
employee's. Several ways that can encourage the life long learning is as follows.
Provide financial support: The management of National trust can encourage the initiative of
life long learning by giving financial support to employee's. Financial support will enable the

employee's to bring suitable learning resources that can guide the employee's towards the right
direction in life long learning (Welford, 2016). Most of the time employee's skip to engage with
life long learning due to the financial issues as it requires financial assistance as well so by
providing the financial resources the management can effectively encourage and promote life
long learning.
Subscribe to trade magazines: The management can also subscribe trade magazines for the
employee's to give the right direction to the lifelong learning. Access of magazines will provide
the complete measures and techniques in respect to lifelong learning to employee's.
Convey the benefits: Conveying the benefits attached with lifelong learning is among the
primary ways through which management of National Trust can encourage all employee's
towards the lifelong learning. This will also boost the energy level of employee's towards
lifelong learning.
1.3 Benefits of self managed learning
Various benefits involved in self management learning that can be summarised as
follows.
Improve efficiency: Self management learning enable the employee's and management to learn
new skills and also to upgrade the acquired skills that improve the work efficiency of employee's.
Management also access the benefits by achieving better productivity of employee's.
Improve awareness about the future need: Self managed learning make aware the employee's
and management to analyse the future need and based on the analysis implement various changes
to improve the work efficiency.
LO2
2.1 Evaluation of current skills and competencies
Based on the self analysis and analytical review of self appraisal few skills has identified
by being in the position of manager. Such skills effectively improved the work efficiency.
Oral communication: Being in the designation of manager communication is a primary aspect
of my work. In the entire day routine to implement several operations the manager need to
communicate with hundreds of people in organization and that too possible only with the help of
oral communication (Mascarenhas, 2019). Oral communication helped me to convey the idea or
process to lower designated employee's and many times to upper authorities in the organization