Personal and Professional Development

This document discusses personal and professional development, including identifying career goals, strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. It also provides options to bridge the gap between the current situation and career goals, and includes a personal development plan. The document concludes with three SMART steps to improve skills.

Personal and professional development
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Table of Contents
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
Identify 3 career goals and select preferred options....................................................................3
PART 2............................................................................................................................................3
Identify and explain your strength, weakness, opportunity and threats......................................3
PART 3............................................................................................................................................4
Explain any gaps in skills and knowledge you want to address to achieve goals......................4
Options available to bridge gap between current situation and career........................................4
Personal development plan..........................................................................................................5
PART 4............................................................................................................................................6
Identify 3 steps that are SMART.................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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PART 1
Identify 3 career goals and select preferred options
In recent times, there are many career options and choices available for an individual to chose
from. These career options depends on skills and knowledge possessed by individual and what
are his or her aspirations. Similarly, i also have a 3 career choices to be choose from. They are
defined as below : (Bukharina, 2018)
Teacher – it is my first career option in which i want to become a teacher. This is because i am
having interest in teaching students. Also, my hobby is to give tuition to other people. thus, i can
develop interest in this field and become a good professor or teacher in any field.
Doctor – this is my second career goal to become a doctor. I want to save lives of people and
provide them health care services. Moreover, there lie many fields in which i can become a
doctor like dentist, psychiatrist, cardiologist etc. Moreover, i want to serve people by helping
them.
General Manager – it is my last career aspiration. In this i want to become a GM of large
organisation. Here, i want to handle and manage team of 50-100 people. i like to manage people
and my interest is in doing it.
From above i selected goal of becoming a GM. This is because i think that skills and
knowledge possessed by me is relevant for this career. Also, i will be easily able to become GM
and apply these skills in it. So, with that i can attain company goals and objectives. Besides that,
i will get vast opportunity for growth in this career and a handsome salary as well. I do not want
to become doctor or teacher because it requires high skills and knowledge in it. (Dacillo, 2018)
PART 2
Identify and explain your strength, weakness, opportunity and threats
In order to analyse my current skills and qualities i did a SWOT analysis. It can be very
effective as it analysis the areas of personal development. It is equally useful regarding
evaluating as a part regarding career discussions. Personal swot analysis focus on own goals as
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well as objectives of own. It is because every person has various goals as the skills as well as
attributes that aids towards goals or even weakness within other context.
Strength – As a manager my communication skill is very good as i need to communicate with
other employees in a firm as well as other team members to discuss various issues and motivate
them and for all that my communication skills needs to be strong. So i am good in
communication skill. It is also noticed that as a manager my leadership skills is also good and i
know different types of leadership skills. In addition to this my decisions skills are also good as i
know how to take effective decisions also i know the process of decision making and how it is
applied in taking decisions. (Utting, 2017)
Weakness- I do not know how to solve a problem and analysis it to get effective solution. My
time management skills are also not good as i am not able to finish my tasks on time. My one of
the weakness is that i am not emotionally stable as if something occurs at firm i reacted usually
very offended. It is consider as one of the major weakness as it sometimes creates a huge loss in
my own career as well as for firms also.
Opportunities- I want to learn about new software and applications which will help me in my
personal and professional group. I also needs to improves my interpersonal skills such as
planning, organising ,discipline and many more.
Threats- I have faced very high completion from other people. Due to Covid 19 people feels
scary to move outside and so their job which would becomes one of the major threat for me also
as now firms can uses robots so it will also becomes one of the major threats for me.
PART 3
Explain any gaps in skills and knowledge you want to address to achieve goals
I came to realised that i am very weak in the problem solving skills and it creates a lot of
problem with my professional life as i am unable to solve the problem that can be occurs with me
and with my employees and leads to loss (Nguyen, 2017). In addition to this i am unable to
finish my tasks on time and this weakness leads to dissatisfaction among myself as well as leads
to low performance. This creates a bad impression on my peers as they earlier thought that i am
very efficient but because of this they thought that i am inefficient at my work, it also stops my
promotion. One of the major weaknesses is that i am also not emotionally stable as this weakness
also creates very loss in my professional life as an unstable person i can react on unusual things
as well as takes decisions very emotionally instead of practically.
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Options available to bridge gap between current situation and career
By developing PDP ( personal development plan) i can form short term and long term goals and
along with that i will be able to find out strategies to improves those skills and reduce the gaps.
Also by the help of the Swot analysis of myself i came to realise that what are my weakness so
that i can improves that such as my emotionally unstable nature and lack of time management
skills, after that i can completed my tasks on time as well as also completed my meetings on
time which will provides a new height within my career. In addition to this my problem solving
skills is also improved as it aids my personal as well as professional skills. (Shaheen. and
Hameed, 2020)
Personal development plan
There is need to develop a PDP by me so that i am able to attain my goals and objectives in
effective way. Furthermore, with this skills gap can be reduced and i will be able to improve my
weakness. Thus, the PDP is as follows :
Skills What to improve Ways to enhance Time frame
Problem solving skill I need to enhance this
skill so that i am able
to solve complex
problems quickly and
in effective way.
For this i can analyse
case studies and solve
them. It will increase
my knowledge
1 month
Time management I need to improve this
so that i do all my
work in time and
attain goals in
effective way. I will
not miss deadline and
work in disciplined
way.
Here, i can develop
schedule and then
follow in daily. Thus,
it will be simple for
me to finish my goals
in time.
2 months
Emotional
intelligence
I must control my
anger and emotions so
that i remain calm in
This can be done by
attending training
sessions and seminars.
3 months
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critical situations.
In this way, i will be able to improve my weakness and attain goals in effective way.
Also, i will gain skills and knowledge as well in it.
PART 4
Identify 3 steps that are SMART
In order to improve my skills i decided to take 3 steps in it which are defined as follows :
Specific - to improve my creativity skills so that i am able to grow professionally.
Measurable- to measure it with my set standards and goals.
Attainable- to become a creative general or regional manager
Relevant- To become a great manager in future.
Time based - to attain this skill within 1 month
Specific – to become a great leader as well.
Measurable- to compare it with my manager skills and abilities.
Attainable- to be a good leader along with manager
Relevant- to lead a team of 5-10 person in a large organisation.
Time based- to be a leader within 6 months
Specific – to gain knowledge about various leadership style
Measurable- to evaluate outcomes by applying styles in practical way.
Attainable- to be aware about all types of leadership style
Relevant- to gain knowledge about styles such as participative, autocratic, etc.
Time based- to learn those skills within 2 months
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Bukharina, A.Y., 2018. Personal development plan (PDP) in practice and technology of
introducing mentoring in organizations. Social Psychology and Society, 9(1), pp.162-176
Dacillo, L.V., 2018. Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievements of Elementary Pupils
in Mathematics of Batangas State University ARASOF Nasugbu, Batangas: Input to a
Proposed Development Plan. KnE Social Sciences, pp.862-878..
Nguyen, H.L., 2017. Thesis C-Personal Development Plan in Windsor (Doctoral dissertation,
Saxion).
Shaheen, S. and Hameed, M., 2020. Personal Development Plan (PDP). Middle East Journal of
Family Medicine, 18(4).
Utting, H., 2017. A case for a personal development plan. Planning News, 43(2), p.26.
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