Report on Personal and Professional Development in Next

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Self managed learning approaches............................................................................................3
1.2 How people can increase their life long learning .....................................................................3
1.3 Benefits of self managed learning for an individual and organization......................................4
Task 2....................................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Evaluating current skills and competencies against professional standard and organisational
objectives.........................................................................................................................................5
2.2 Identifying own development needs and activities are required to meet them..........................5
2.3 Determining the development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs............5
2.4 Developing personal and professional development plan on the basis of identified skills......6
Task 3....................................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Explaining the processes and activities are required to execute the development plan............7
3.2 Document development activities as planned............................................................................7
3.3 Reflect critically on own learning against original aims and objectives set in the
development plan.............................................................................................................................7
3.4 Updating the development plan based on feedback and evaluation..........................................8
Task 4....................................................................................................................................................9
4.1 Selecting solution to work-based solution ................................................................................9
4.2 Communicating in a variety of styles at appropriate manner at various levels in the
negotiation.......................................................................................................................................9
4.3 Explaining use of time management strategies........................................................................10
Conclusion..........................................................................................................................................10
References...........................................................................................................................................11

Index of Tables
Table 1: Development plan...................................................................................................................7
Table 2: Updated development plan.....................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal and Professional development is a process in which organisation as well as
employees provide their efforts to learn new concepts ans ideas to perform organizational work. It
is essential for employees to achieve different skills an abilities which can help them to achieve
organisational as well as personal goals (Haarhoff, Thwaites and Bennett‐Levy, 2015). Next is a
retail organisation which provides better retail product and services to its consumers in the Britain.
The present report describe about the self managed learning and its advantages and disadvantages.
It represents my current skills against my professional skills and corporate objectives. Further, It
discusses activities which are required to implement current plan in Next organisation. In addition
to this, it defines work-based problems and their solutions to reduce organisational complexities. It
also introduce the importance of time-management strategies for employees and organisation.
1.1 Self managed learning approaches
Self managed learning is the best way for the development, In this competitive world,
individuals are facing many problems in every stages. With the help of this learning approach,
people meet with other members and change their idea and increase their learning. There are some
self learning approaches which are explained below;
Seminars and conferences- In this people attend the seminar and change their ideas, views as well
as perception. Therefore, with this self learning approach they increase their knowledge in every
field and improve their confidence in speech because in this approach they have to speak in publicly
(Billing. and Steverson, 2013).
Internet- People can increase their knowledge by surfing on different websites and through social
media sites. On internet, so much knowledge is available which are related to every field, so with
the help of these they can support co workers at their working place.
Books and newspaper- These things provide information about what is really happening in the
world and personal experience of some people (Nicholls, 2014). With the help of these approaches,
they can relate themselves with the practical world.
Further, with the help of these approaches, individual can easily develop themselves in
personal and professional level.
1.2 How people can increase their life long learning
People can learn anything from anywhere, it depends on the person quality and the
determination. Life long learning is very helpful to know about the strength ,weakness and threats
which are related to themselves. After knowing their weakness, people can easily avoid and learn
from them (Swain, 2015). Further, by applying some tips, the individual can increase their life long