Personal and Professional Development

This presentation discusses personal and professional development, competencies, career planning, and strengths identification. It is aimed at students pursuing BA in Business Studies (Foundation Year) from University of Suffolk.

Personal and
Professional
Development
Student id <225002>
BA in business Studies (Foundation Year)
University of Suffolk

Table of content
• Introduction
• Professional field of interest
• Identify your competencies/qualities
• Discuss and Analyse your career planning
• Discuss and Analyse your career planning
• Identification of strengths and link them with career path
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Personal and professional development focus on
the enhancement of various skills and abilities so
that individual can achieve their goals and
targets. These developments can improves the
quality of life and work which is essential for the
maximization of true potential. Organisations
should also focus on improving the skills and
abilities so that they can retain employees for
longer time period.

Professional field of interest
• Human resource manager plays important role in an organisation
who carries various operations related to recruitment and hiring.
• Every organisation require skilled and experienced human
resource manager so that they can handle the human behaviour
in an organisation.
• They assist in better decision making and planning about various
rules and regulations of an organisation so that all the employees
collectively achieve them.

Identify your competencies/qualities
• Team work skills
• Communication skills
• Time management skills

Discuss and Analyse your career
planning
• The human resource manager of an organisation contribute their efforts in managing
employees and focus on their requirements. Their main target is to provide right
employees at right time so that they can continue operations in effective manner.
• They help organisation in achieving various competitive advantages which help in
establishment of brand image in targeted market. They maintain proper work culture
which should be followed by each and every individual in desired manner.

Discuss and Analyse your career planning
Human resource manager plays important role in
motivating employees by providing them various
benefits including monetary and non monetary
benefits. All the conflicts and problems of an
organisations are resolved by human resource
department so that operations and activities do not
affected in negative manner.

Identification of strengths and link them with career path.
• An individual should possess some of the skills which help them
in fulfilment of requirements of their respective operations.
• Person should evaluate and understand skills and abilities which
assist them in achievement of their career objectives. Human
resource department require lot of skills as it involves various
critical tasks.

Discuss and Analyse
your career planning
• The human resource manager of an
organisation contribute their efforts in
managing employees and focus on their
requirements. Their main target is to
provide right employees at right time so
that they can continue operations in
effective manner.

Identify Possible challenges and discuss how you can overcome them with your strengths
Uncertainties and changes
Competition
I possess decision making skills
which help me in taking several
actions which can easily eliminate
negative factors which acts as
challenge.

Conclusion
• From the above presentation it can be concluded that individuals should develop personal and
professional skills so that they can grow in future.
• It helps them in focusing on their aims and objectives by enhancing their knowledge and expertise
in respective field. Individuals can develop their overall personality with the help of skills and
talents.

References
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• Weller, J., 2019. Critical reflection through personal pronoun analysis (critical analysis)
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• Jones, W.M., 2021. Teachers’ perceptions of a maker-centered professional development
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