Personal and Professional Development: Communication as a Quality

PERSONAL AND
PRSOFESSIONAL
DEVELOPEMNT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................4
Define and describe the quality...................................................................................................4
Evaluate this quality and describe the ways by which the quality becomes strength.................5
Attributes, behavioural preferences and values of the strength..................................................6
Difficulties which are experienced by considering the theory....................................................7
Contradictions from the experiences...........................................................................................9
Benefit of the quality...................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development refers to the process which helps the organisation
and individual to engaging them in the process of learning and development which helps in
meeting the challenges and their desired goals. It is a formal mean which is used by an individual
in order to set up the strategies, goals and results of learning and development. This process is
concerned with the development of requirements and needs of both the individual and group
(Olsen, 2015). Professional skills are concerned with those skills which helps in developing the
manner in order to support their team and fulfilling their learning and development requirements.
Professional skills are primarily the soft skills which are intangible and helps in interacting with
others. In some people they have hybrid skills which is the combination of soft and hard skills as
it is required to perform a job or task. This task is associated with the evaluation of key personal
and professional communication skills which include interaction, guiding, supporting and
managing the workforce or team which can be accomplished by analysing the current skills. This
report is going to focus on the evaluation of the quality and its strengths. Its attributes,
behavioural preferences and values which are underpin their strengths. Moreover, various
challenges are also analysed and experiences are also explained by defining the theory.
MAIN BODY
Define and describe the quality
The quality which is taken in this report is “communication” which is used in order
convey the meaning of one group to another in order to understand the signs, symbols and
semiotic rules. It helps in transmitting the message from the sender to the recipient which can be
affected by the wide range of things (Kroll and Dussias, 2017). Communication includes the
emotions, various situations, medium which is used to communicate and many more. In order to
complete this process it require many channels and communication is done through various
ways. In order to describe this quality “Cognitive Dissonance Theory” is used which is the
formation of social ties and bonds. This theory refers to mental clashes and tension which results
in understanding the knowledge through the senses. In the context of communication, this theory
can increase and decrease the capability of mind in order to choose and explain the thoughts.
This theory helps in developing the communication skills by improving the decision making as it