Personal and Professional Development (PPD) and PPD Planning Process

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Determine what is Personal and Professional Development (PPD) and PPD planning process. 3
Carry out skill assessment...........................................................................................................5
SWOT Analysis of your skills in relation to Continuous Professional and Personal
Development................................................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
Write a reflection on the challenges that arouse from the PPD Plan...........................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
Write a reflection on practice-consider the development of transferable skills based on
engagement in CPPD activities and your program of learning...................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
Appendix-A –Skills Audit.............................................................................................................13
Appendix-B –Results VARK Questionnaire.................................................................................13
Appendix-C –Results from Belbin Questionnaire.........................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Skill development is an important aspect that contributes personal and professional
development. Thus, an individual should focus on acquiring and developing the set of
transferable and employability skills in order to accomplish the future career objectives.
Learning from the university renders understanding and knowledge different transferable and
technical skills that frames out the wholesome knowledge of the individuals. Group projects
from the learning programs develops the team work, communication, time management and
other transferable skills of an individual which is crucial for working in future workplace. when
an individual acquires the set of transferable skills and knowledge she/she can easily address the
employability and other challenges in the personal and professional career goals. Thus, it
becomes important for an individual for acquiring the skills set and knowledge in order to attain
the career goals. Learning program help to develop the practical knowledge of an individual that
determines an idea of how work is to be done, critical analytical abilities, decision making for
analyzing different situation and other that helps to support an individual by useful skills and
knowledge. This report covers definition of PPD which is Personal and Professional
Development and the process, skill assessment, SWOT analysis to Continuous Professional and
Personal Development, reflection on the challenges highlighted in PPD plan, reflection on the
developments of the transferable skills acquired from the learning program (Bandaranaike,
2018).
TASK 1
Determine what is Personal and Professional Development (PPD) and PPD planning process
Personal and Professional Development (PPD) is nothing but accessing own skills and
abilities in order to determine the potential abilities in own self. PPD is prepare in order to
accomplish the set of certain goals and objectives in the future course of action. These involves
that an individual must have accomplish the hard and soft skills wherein an individual might
identify certain areas where there is need of improvements and develop the desired action plan in
order to accomplish these. It is important for an individual in order to draw out conclusion of
one’s potential and what far one should put efforts to accomplish the desired set of objectives
(Cabral and Dhar, 2019).

Personal and Professional Development planning process are as:
The first step of the PPD starts with determining the clear set of objectives that on wants to
accomplish in the future course, these involves the basic purpose of the planning process of the
personal and professional plan. These set of objectives ca be determined by SMART objectives
which involves that the objectives must be specific to accomplish the set of personal and
professional career objectives, they must be measureable to value the strengths and weaknesses,
achievable, relevant in the workplace and time bound which involves that the objectives must be
acquired within the determined span of time.
The second step is determined by identifying the development needs, wherein an individual
recognizes the area to make development and to focus upon, these can be identified by
determining the strengths and weaknesses and evaluating the grey areas (Cajiao and Burke,
2016).
Look at development opportunities, these involves identifying the opportunities from which the
above identified opportunities so that skills and knowledge can be developed. Personal and
professional opportunities like group discussion, project work, learnings acquired from the
university and others in order to improve and focus on the set of skills that needs to be
developed.
Formulate action plan, is determined by the planning out the course of action that needs to be
developed and prepared. The action plan involves the importance of the specific set of skills and
knowledge in the personal and professional life, how these can be improved, the resources
required, and setting out the clear time span to accomplish these set of objectives (Carbonell
Carrera and et.al., 2017).
Undertake developments, in this stage the individual looks for implementing the measures
involves the above stages and works on them to accomplish the set of objectives.
Record Outcomes, the individual records the outcome and developments of the objectives, to
valuate that how effective and individual to accomplish the desired personal and professional
development objectives.