PPD Plan for Enhancing Academic Skills and Professional Development

This report covers analysis of own skills and abilities with the help of SWOT analysis, use of smart goals in order to monitor and identify improve professional practice, preparing CPPD plan in order to set deadlines and expectations that needs to be met for accomplishing professional and personal career objectives.

PPD Plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
SWOT based on your skills assessment with clear links to higher education and personal
performance.................................................................................................................................3
Good use of SMART goals that enable effective reflection and monitoring to identify
improved professional practice....................................................................................................5
Prepare CPPD plan in detail and incorporates a range of planned activities that are fully
justified enabling the achievement of goals within timescales set..............................................6
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................13
Issues and problems explored and their impact on planned CPPD activities considered within
your evaluation and changes made outlined within your reflective analysis............................13
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................15
Reflective statements should be incorporated to provide analysis of progress made against
planned personal professional development activities linked to targets and goals...................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are important to get future employability and become a successful
leader. Right from the beginning an individual should keep on working for enhancing academic
skills and rightly planning and organising resources with a specified period of time. This report
covers analysis of own skills and abilities with the help of SWOT analysis, use of smart goals in
order to monitor and identify improve professional practice, preparing CPPD plan in order to set
deadlines and expectations that needs to be met for accomplishing professional and personal
career objectives. Apart from that, the report also covers the issues and difficulties faced and
their impact on the planned CPPD activities, reflective statement on the analysis of progress
made in the planned personal and professional development activities (Beeson, 2020).
TASK 1
SWOT based on your skills assessment with clear links to higher education and personal
performance.
SWOT analysis determines four dimensions’ strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,
threats. Further, SWOT analysis performed on higher education and personal performance is
discussed as:
Strengths
Written communication skills
By proactively taking part in different research and projects helps me to enhance my written
communication skills. Written communication skill is important both in personal and
professional life, where in I am able to write my own understandings to different situations.
Decision making skills
Decision making skill is important everywhere and any time irrespective of what the event or
situation is. With the help of taking part in group project I was able to work on my decision
making by analyzing each and every situations and requirements, further formulating sound
decisions and planning. Decision making skills would help me in my future professional career

in order to draw supported analysis and relevant ideas to every event (Cowley and Hyams-
Ssekasi, 2018).
Creativity
With the ability of being creative and adding my own innovative ideas to every decision is an
event helps me to be a great contributor in every group activity. With creative ways of doing
things and drawing ideas helps me to accomplish working standards and meet expectations.
Weaknesses
Oral communication skills
oral communication skill is one of my weaknesses where I am not able to communicate properly.
This happens due to lack of confidence and having an introvert behaviour that negatively impact
both my personal and professional life where I am not been able to open up and interact with
people. Due to lack of oral communication skills I also get nervous when I start speaking in front
of my colleagues and my team leader. Effective communication plays a significant role in
professional work to rightly manage each task assigned, being accountable and to communicate
the organisational objectives among the employees (Hobbs and Holley, 2015).
Time management
sometimes I get overworked that negatively impacts my creativity. Time management is
important in order to schedule each and every activity and balancing both personal and
professional life. I need to work on my time management skills rightly for each and every
activity, so that I am able to use my skills and competencies in the most appropriate
manner. Further, not able to managing different activities properly makes me over stress about
the deadlines to be met.
Team working
I need to work on my team working skills, which is also a crucial employability skill that will
help me in near future in order to work as a team to accomplish organisational objectives as I
want to be a human resource manager as my future career goal so I need to work on enhancing
my team working skills so that I am able to manage the human capital of the organisation as a
team to accomplish organisational targets and expectations (Lah and Smith, 2015).

Opportunities
Group project
By actively taking participation in group projects provided by our University would help me to
work on my weaknesses and accept challenges. It would also help me to working group where I
would be able to address my key skills such as communication and others.
Threats
Technologies
Due to rising advancement in technology, it becomes very difficult to gain knowledge and
experience about using each and every technology. Working and studying on a technology would
not be suffice, wherein I need to gather information and proper knowledge about different
technologies, their uses in businesses (Lejeune, Beausaert and Raemdonck, 2021).
Good use of SMART goals that enable effective reflection and monitoring to identify improved
professional practice
Smart goals as such objectives that are set in in order to plan specific objectives and
accomplish them within the specified period of time. Smart is the acronym that stands for
specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. I need to prepare smart goals in order to
rightly determine an effective schedule with a particular time being and act accordingly to
accomplish the future personal or professional objectives.
Specific
I want to enhance my academic skills in a time period of two months. For which I need to work
on different group projects provided by the universities and conduct research and other related
activities. Enhancing my skills would greatly benefit me to accomplish my future career goals
and help me to get employment opportunities (McGill, Heikkila and Lazarowicz, 2020).
Measurable
In order to measure the progress for accomplishment of set of goals. I need to track and reach the
targets and collect feedbacks from my teachers, colleagues and self-evaluation age.
Attainable

In order to accomplish the specific set of goals I need to be consistent and determined to words
my work. For in I would prepare a time schedule for each and every activity that I need to
accomplish and work accordingly for being closer two the goal.
Realistic
With the help of the set objectives, I would list down the activity that needs to be accomplished
and that have already accomplished so that I am able to measure the developments, progress and
effectiveness of the set expectations (Moir, 2021).
Timely
In order to accomplish the pre-determined objectives, the timeframe that I have set of two
months.
Prepare CPPD plan in detail and incorporates a range of planned activities that are fully justified
enabling the achievement of goals within timescales set.
Areas of
development
How it is
important?
How will I
accomplish
them?
How will I
measure
them?
Resources
required
Time
period
Oral
communication
skills
Communication
skills plays an
important role
in order to
develop an
overall
individual
capability
where he or she
is able to
express be it in
professional
and personal
In order to
accomplish
objectives of
improving my
effective
communication
skills, I need to
work on group
projects where
in I would be
able to interact
with the team
members and
Self-
assessment
Group
projects
Three
weeks

career.
Communication
skills would
also help me in
future to get
employability,
where in I
would be
accountable
and answerable
for my work.
As I want to be
a human
resource
manager as a
future career
objective, thus,
effective
communication
would help me
to communicate
with other
individuals and
manage the
organisational
activities as per
the
predetermined
objectives
(Morris,
Goodyear and
help me to
make
answerable
towards my
work. All these
approaches
will help me to
enhance my
oral
communication
skills.

Organ, 2017).
Time
management
I need to work
on my time
management
skills so that I
am able to
manage and
balance my
personal and
professional
life. Time
management is
crucial that
would help me
in near future to
manage
different
assigned task to
the best of the
expectations
and determined
deadlines.
In order to
work on my
time
management
skills, I need to
prepare time
schedules for
each and every
activity to be
completed, by
the end of
every day I
would evaluate
that whether in
if I have
completed the
project work
and other
related
activities as per
the specified
time period. I
would also
refer books in
order to
understand that
how great
leaders
manages their
Self-
evaluation
Books, time
schedule
charts
Two
weeks

time and utilise
them into the
productive
manner
(Mulherin,
Walter, and
Cox, 2018).
Technologies Having a
suffice
knowledge
about latest
technology is
important, as I
want to become
a human
resource
manager, where
in I need to
have
understandings
about latest
technology for
managing the
human resource
activities.
To accomplish
objectives of
working on my
technological
skills, I need to
attend online
classes for
latest
technology
used in human
resource
platform, I
need to refer
books, I also
need to take
internships in
order to
enhance my
practical
knowledge and
implementatio
n of my
theoretical
I would take
feedback
from my
tutors
Books,
Internship,
online
classes
2 months

knowledge into
real work
(Qureshi and
et.al., 2016).
Teamwork Team working
skills is
important that
will help me in
my future in
order to work
as a group
which same
vision for
completion
organisation
objectives.
Teamwork
helps to
coordinate each
and every
efforts of
different
individuals into
the right
direction in
order to
accomplish the
group
objectives. It is
crucial in
In order to
enhance my
team working
skills I need to
have an
interactive and
a collaborative
relationship
with people
around so I
need to work in
group to
accomplish my
team working
skills. To
accomplish
team working
skills I need to
work in team
projects that
will not only
help me to
enhance
communication
but make me
more
I will collect
feedbacks
from my
team
members
Group team
projects
Two
weeks

businesses so
that all the
employees are
able to work in
the same
direction with
same vision and
objective. As I
want to be a
human resource
manager in near
future so I need
to ensure that
each and every
individual is
working as per
the
predetermined
organisation
expectations
and working
standards. Also
I need to
enhance my
team spirit and
team working
skills so that I
am able to
work as a team
in order to
accomplish
interactive and
coordinating
with each and
every one to
build team
spirit and
improve my
team working
skills (Sallati,
de Andrade
Bertazzi, and
Schützer,
2019).

organisational
objectives.
Leadership
skills
I need to work
on my
leadership
skills in order
to become a
successful
leader in the
near future. As
I want to
become a
human resource
manager in near
future so
effective
leadership is
important in
order to
motivate, guide
and manage the
human capital
in the most
productive and
as per the
organisational
objectives.
Leadership
skills would
help me in my
In order to
accomplish my
leadership
skills and I
need to refer
books,
seminars,
group
discussion
sessions to
enhance both
practical and
theoretical
skills (Sasson
and
Miedijensky,
2020).
I would take
feedback
from my
mentors
Books,
seminars,
group
discussions
Three
weeks

new future to
work as a
human resource
manager, where
effective
leadership
skills I would
help me to
rightly manage
the human
capital,
communicate
and ensure that
the work is
been carried as
per determine
standards and
objectives.
TASK 2
Issues and problems explored and their impact on planned CPPD activities considered within
your evaluation and changes made outlined within your reflective analysis.
Issues and difficulties occurs when there is too much workload at a point of time, such
issues bring long-term and short-term barriers for accomplishing career objectives. Issues and
problems that I faced and how it impacted on the CPPD activities are discussed as:
Difficulty for acquiring course materials
The success of accomplishing academic objectives is dependent upon acquiring and organising
right sources. These includes different resources such as books, guidance of teachers or any other

equipment which is required to learn effectively. The inadequate or inappropriate learning may
lead to the wrong direction. Thus, the main issues that I feel was to organize all the resources at
the right time, wherein some other or the other resource would always fall short at a point of
time.
Anxiety that leads to poor performance
Due to many distractions such as not able to work as per the specified deadline and standards
would become a major contributor for poor performance further, it also damages my overall
CPPD plan to accomplish the academic career objectives. Due to so many distractions I would
feel overstressed and anxious and lack good concentration. Feeling anxious would let to number
of problems such as unable to recall things, unable to organise different activities and majorly
hinder productivity.
Inconsistency
Inconsistency is another issue that causes hindrances for accomplishing my objectives in CPPD
plan. Wherein I was not able to maintain a consistency as per the time schedule that I prepared.
Major reasons of inconsistency included distractions such as watching television, video games,
outings with friends, social media resulting to lack of focus on learning. It also left me feel
unproductive due to distracted working environment.
Difficulty planning in organising different activities
The most common issue that I faced for managing different academic task was difficulty for
organising and planning different activities. Due to personal and professional commitments at
same time period it was result chaos and manage things at same time leading to delays and
failure for meeting the targets.
Time management
The another important issue that I faced included proper time management due to busy schedules
it was difficult to manage all the activities including work, extracurricular activities, social life,
class schedules and so on. Further, it negatively impacts the CPPD planning, as I’m not able to
enhance my time management skills as per specified time period and fails to address the areas of
development. Due to inability to manage time I was struggling to meet the deadlines and felt

overstressed and burdened with the work, used to end up staying and waking up late night to
finish off with my work which further also damaged my time schedules for different activities.
Difficulty in remembering facts and figures
Because there were many activities including internships, project work, taking classes and
others, resulting to feel overburdened at a time and make me unable to remember all of the
information at a time. Though I used to prepare notes so that I am able to re-collect all the
information but still I would always miss certain important facts and information that further
damage my CPPD plan to enhance my skills and knowledge (Smale and Fowlie, 2015)
Low motivation
Low motivation is also one of the biggest challenge faced for accomplishing the career
objectives. Without internal drive to accomplish determined objectives it is impossible or
difficult to figure out and understand learnings. Low motivation occurred at times when I feel
tired and over stressed, not in the best of the health, too much worrying about the outcomes and
other events that distracts and further negatively impacts the learnings. Low motivation is one of
the factor that impacted CPPD plan to accomplish skills and knowledge at a specified period of
time.
TASK 3
Reflective statements should be incorporated to provide analysis of progress made against
planned personal professional development activities linked to targets and goals.
Recording the CPPD plan developments becomes important to evaluate the effectiveness
of the CPPD plan. Keeping records and reviewing the plan helps to analyse the personal and
professional achievements. analysis of progress made against planned personal professional
development activities are discussed as:
Keeping record
Keeping a record of each and every activity helps to me to determine the shortcomings and the
strengths that I experienced. Keeping records and review them frequently about what all actions I
took, what all I accomplished and learned from the experience. With the help of CPPD plan I
was able to accomplish knowledge about latest technologies and internships helped me to gain

practical knowledge about technology used in HRM, it would also help me in my future career to
accomplish employment opportunities in HR and build my resume in a better manner (Watkins
and Smith, 2018).
Reflecting and reviewing
Reviewing is an important aspect that helps to analyse the developments, achievements and the
shortcomings in the performance. With the help of reviewing the goals I was able to make self-
assessment for development made over period of a time. With the help of group project work I
was able to enhance skills such as leadership and team working that helped my team to
accomplish expectation and meet deadlines in order to complete the project work. Teamwork,
leadership would further help me in my professional career objective to get easy employability
and to become a successful leader.
Recording achievements
Recording is also important in order to keep a record of the strengths, things which worked well
and recording main achievements. Completing my internships and group projects achievements
helped me to feel satisfied and driven for fulfilling the objectives of CPPD planning.
Recording skills and abilities
Recording skills and personal qualities is an evidence that reflects the skills learnt and acquired
with the help of CPPD planning at a point of time. With the help of CPPD planning I was able to
work on different set of skills such as oral communication that supported me to feel confident
and interactive in the project work. Other skill sets such as time management and leadership
skills helped me to build good resume and with good efforts put to complete the project, I got
recognised in the University.
CONCLUSION
Thus, in a nutshell it can be said that analysing own skills and capabilities becomes
important in order to step closer to accomplish personal and professional career objectives.
Where in an individual can analyse the skills and capabilities with the help of SWOT analysis
that determines the strengths and grey areas that negatively or positively affect an individual ‘s
performance. Apart from that, an individual can also prepare CPPD plan and smart objectives to

acquire set of academic goals at a specific time period. It is also important to conduct reflective
analysis to measure the developments of the CPPD activities and cover the challenges and issues
faced while accomplishing the career objectives.

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