PPD Plan for Enhancing Academic Skills and Professional Development

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).