Challenges and Strategies for Personal and Professional Development: A Reflective Essay

REFLECTIVE ESSAY

Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................3
2. MAIN BODY.........................................................................................................................3
Challenges to develop the skills and abilities..............................................................................3
Action Plan..................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

1. INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is the way for the people to access their abilities,
skills and set their goals in order to analyse and maximise their potential. Personal
development helps in improving and enhancing the employment skills for the development
in the future. Professional development is the process of improving the capabilities of staff
members through training and access to education (Noonan, 2019). The report covers the
various challenges to develop the skills required for the development of the career in future
and strategies and time period for improving the skills.
2. MAIN BODY
Challenges to develop the skills and abilities
The apprentice challenge, presentation challenge and T- shirt help an individual to develop their
communication skills and develop the sense of team work which helps in the personal
development of the person. It also helps in achieving the future career goals. By conducting these
challenges, an individual comes to know the skills they have to improve and focus on developing
those skills (Misko, et.al, 2020). It also helps in recognising the potential of the person which
helps in the personal development. It is very important for a person to improve their
communication skills and business skills in order to survive in the workplace and also helps in
increasing knowledge of the person.
1. Apprentice challenge: Apprentice challenge is considered as the effective way to
identify the leaders within the team and helps to promote team work. This challenge aims
to enhance the communicative skills of an individual and inspire the team members to
come up with new and creative ideas. An organisation use this challenge to boost the
communication skills of the employees within the organization as having effective
communication will reflect the productivity of the company (Knutson, 2019. While
performing the apprentice challenge I realised that I was not able to communicate with
other team members in the beginning and feared to interact like the other team members.
I realised that to work in a team it is very necessary for me develop my communication
skills. I have always feared from speaking in public. By conducting this I realised that
not only communicating with others is important but also to listen to the views of is
equally important. I also realised that having poor communication skills will lead to poor