Professional Development: Skills Audit and Development Plan

Professional
Development

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
P1............................................................................................................................................................3
P2............................................................................................................................................................6
M1 Provide a detailed professional skills audit and professional development plan that demonstrates
evidence of personal reflection and evaluation........................................................................................9
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................9
P3............................................................................................................................................................9
P4..........................................................................................................................................................11
M2 Apply learning cycle theories to critically analyse the importanceof implementing continuous
professional development......................................................................................................................12
TASK 3.....................................................................................................................................................13
P5..........................................................................................................................................................13
M3 Analyse the benefits of applying HPW with justifications to a specific organisational situation.. . .14
TASK 4.....................................................................................................................................................14
P6..........................................................................................................................................................14
M4 Critically evaluate the different approaches and make judgements on how effective they can be to
support high- performance culture and commitment.............................................................................15
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................16
REFRENCES............................................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
A company is considered as business venture in which candidates are employed as well
as they perform their allotted task as that will aid firm in attaining their predetermined target and
objective successfully. For a company this is necessary to develop strategies and plans in order to
the development of individual which leads to develop or growth of team as well as organization
impressively and effectively. Moreover, development program also leads to some other benefits
such as increase motivation level of staff, enhance in performance, attainment of goal
successfully, and proper team working and many more (Bellisand Verganti, 2020). Company
chosen for the respective project is John Lewis Partnership that is operating its practices in the
retail sector as well as they offer cloths, jewelry, watches, giftware, furniture, beds, cosmetics,
beddings, food, direct services and many more. It is founded in 1929 by John Spedan Lewis and
its head office is located at the London, United Kingdom. Respective project contains numbers
of topics related to development of individual, team and company. Topics explain in report are
skills, behaviour and knowledge required for the Human Recourses professional profile as well
as it also includes professional development plan and personal skill audit. It also contains
knowledge about comparison of individual, organization training, learning and development.
TASK 1
P1
In respect of becoming a HR expert or professional at John Lewis Partnership, it is
essential for them to conduct improvement of skills, behavior and knowledge as that will help in
building or develop successful career opportunity. Through this a person can increase its
capabilities, skills, abilities and knowledge that aid them in retaining at the workplace for the
long time as well as it leads to achievement of predetermine outcome and target in the effective
way. Through this effectiveness of whole workplace get enhanced and it also improve the
workplace performance impressively(Brilingaitė, BukauskasandJuozapavičius,, 2020). There are
several skills, behavior and knowledge which a person needs to have who want to become HR
Professional at the John Lewis Partnership, from which some knowledge, skills and behaviour
are mentioned below: -

Knowledge Skills Behavior
Recruitment and selection
process –In order to become a
Human Resource executive at
John Lewis Partnership an
individual need to have
knowledge of recruitment and
selection process because
through that they able to select
most appropriate candidate for
the vacant position. Moreover,
it will also help in saving
training and development cost.
Understanding skill – It is
necessary for a person to have
understanding skill if they
want to become HR executive
in John Lewis Partnership
(Gupta, 2020). This is so
because through this skill HR
executive able to understand
need and requirement of
employees which help them in
developing proper decision for
the achievement of
predetermined outcome as
well as target impressively.
Transparency –For a Human
Resource executive of John
Lewis Partnership it is
essential to have transparency
behaviour because that will
help them in always be
transparent in front of others.
This will also help in
developing and maintaining
positive working environment
impressively which enhance
employee’s performance.
Knowledge of English –For a
HR Executive it is necessary
to have excellent knowledge
of the English in both oral and
written manner. This is so
because HR executive need to
communicate with superior,
clients, subordinates,
customers and so on and for
that they need to have use
English because it is
considered as widely used
professional language.
Communication skill –In order
to become a Human Resource
Executive, it is essential to
have communication skills
because through that skill HR
can easily interact with others
in effective manner as well as
through communication skill
Executive make other
understand what they want to
convey.
Creative nature –In order to
become human resource
executive in John Lewis
Partnership a person need to
have creative nature because
through that they able to make
innovative decision that aid in
attainment of predetermined
outcome and objective
successfully (Kautzand et. al.,
2020). This will also help in
developing creative training
and development session
which encourage staffs to
involve in the session properly
and effectively.