Personal and Professional Development: Goals, Strengths, Weaknesses, and Action Plan

This report discusses personal and professional development, including work-related goals, personal strengths and weaknesses, and an action plan to improve weaknesses. It emphasizes the importance of gaining new skills, improving productivity, and identifying strengths and weaknesses to develop an optimal action plan for high levels of productivity.

Personal and
Professional
Development

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
Discussing work related goals..................................................................................................................3
Discussing personal strengths.................................................................................................................3
Discussing personal weaknesses.............................................................................................................4
Action plan for personal weaknesses......................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Professional development involves development of oneself in the role to entirely
understand the job one desires. Effective personal and professional development involves
ensuring knowledge and understanding of area of expertise for career at highest possible level.
Given report involves work related goals along with personal strengths and weakness as student.
Moreover it will involve action plan to improve weakness.
Discussing work related goals.
There are various work related goals that are vital for personal and profession
development. Some of these goals are elaborated below:
Gain new skills:
It is vital for to gain new skills as they help in enhancing the development of personal as
well as professional life (Borg ., 2018).
Improve productivity:
It is important to have the goal of increasing productivity in order to complete task and
have personal and professional development.
Discussing personal strengths.
There are various personal strengths that can enhance personal and professional
development of an individual. Some of these strengths are mentioned below (Bryson ., 2020).:
Problem solving:
I have identified that my problem solving skills are Strengths in context to the
employability because within the academic task and professional task I have observed my
efficiency in problem solving.
Communication:
I have identified that strength is effective communication because I interact with the peoples
effectively and influence them with my interactive conversation as people easily understand that what I
am trying to explain.

Discussing personal weaknesses.
There are various personal weaknesses that can reduce personal and professional
development of an individual. Some of these weaknesses are mentioned below:
Time management:
The management of time has been my weakness which is causing hindrance in my
personal and professional development.
Procrastination:
I have Procrastination in my work as a direct influence of my ineffective time
management. This has negatively affected my personal and profession development.
Action plan for personal weaknesses.
In order to overcome this weakness of time management I have developed an action plan
which is mentioned below:
Short-term:
In order to develop my time management skills it is important for me to begin with basic
tasks and gradual develop time management by effectively prioritising them (Koonce and et. al.,
2019)
Medium-term:
I need to focus on completing task which have specific deadlines as it will enable me to
eliminate procrastination and enhance my overall ability to perform task on time (Madalińska-
Michalak ., 2019).
Long-term:
It is crucial for me start multitasking in order to make time management my strength over
time. It will help me in prioritizing my task in an effective manner which will result in effective
delegation of work (Machado ., 2019).

Conclusion of action plan.
The following action plan will help me in eliminating my weakness of time management
and convert it into a valuable strength for me. I can utilize this skill to achieve complex task in a
timely manner which will result in improved productivity and effective completion of task.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that, skills play a vital role in personal and
professional development. Moreover, it is important to identify strengths and weakness to
develop optimal action plan for high level of productivity.

REFERENCES
Books & Journals:
Borg, S., 2018. Evaluating the impact of professional development. RELC Journal, 49(2),
pp.195-216.
Bryson, D., 2020. National guidelines and your continuing professional development. Journal of
visual communication in medicine, 43(2). pp.97-99.
Koonce and et. al., 2019. Principal engagement in the professional development process. NASSP
Bulletin, 103(3). pp.229-252.
Machado, I., 2019. Context based participatory professional development of educational teams:
educators and assistants learning in companionship. European Early Childhood
Education Research Journal, 27(3). pp.346-359.
Madalińska-Michalak, J., 2019. School-Based Professional Development Programs for
Beginning Teachers. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education.