Professional Development and Practice (PDP)

Professional Development
and Practice (PDP)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
REFLECTION.................................................................................................................................1
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIO.......................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is a process which assist an individual in
improving his skills, knowledge, ability, capability and strength through which he can attain the
business objective in an excellent manner. With assistance of this mentioned aspect, organisation
and individual can engage in the process of learning to meet the challenges and desired goal. The
present report provides the detail knowledge and understanding about the personal and
professional development of individual and its impact upon the company’s progress and growth.
In this report, various strategies and activities undertaken by an individual in the professional
development plan has been discussed.
REFLECTION
Personal and professional development is a procedure under which individual can
enhance their existing level and standard by acquiring different skill, knowledge, idea, creativity
and ability about the subject. In order to develop the personality and professionalism, it is very
important for the individual to engage with systematic professional development plan and do all
activities which are required in this aspect.
Being a student of the MSc course, I have taken participation in the program of final
independent research project. I have attempted course program for 18 months under which
various extracurricular activities have been organised for completing the final independent
research project. The major objective of this course programme of MSc is to become more
skilled and competent business practitioner in the future. For attaining this objective, I have
focused on the various activities and event within this program of the personal and professional
development. In the future, I want to become successful business practitioner that is why I have
selected this MSc management course. With help of this course program, I will gain the ability,
skills and knowledge about business practices, strategies, tactics and management. This course
program will assist me in gaining the knowledge and idea about the business management,
strategies, tactics, practices etc. This will further assist me in conducting the business in the
market and gain effective success in the future. With help of this program, I have taken lots of
positive and negative experience.
Gibbs Reflective cycle is the best method to describe my reflection in more systematic manner.
In this reflective cycle, there are six stages: description, feeling, action plan, conclusion,
evaluation, analysis etc. With help of this model, I can effectively describe and define my
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experience in the MSc course program. Following are my learning experience of this MSc course
program-
Description- This is first stage which defines that why and where the situation has occurred and
who was involved in this situation. What did the person do, what did other people do and what
was the result of this situation As per this stage of the Gibbs Reflective cycle, I have to discuss
the description about my experience. As I have taken the participation in the program of final
independent research project. I have attempted course program for 18 months under which
various extracurricular activities have been organised for completing the final independent
research project. I have attempted this course program with my other colleagues and friends who
are also students of MSc. The major objective of this course programme of MSc is to become
more skilled and competent business practitioner in the future. For attaining this objective, I have
focused on the various activities and event within this program of the personal and professional
development. In the duration of the MSc course program I have major focused on the four-
different report such as operation management and strategic excellence, LBO presentation and
coursework, strategy course work, management report. These all four reports have undertaken by
me in the duration of MSC management course program. In this period, the basic objective of
prepare these report is to understand the purpose of successful business practitioner and about
their working within the company. These research report will assist me in developing my
knowledge, idea, ability, creativity, thoughts about business tactics through which I can conduct
and survive a successful business enterprise in the market and gain effective success in the
competitive business environment. I have learnt so many things about the business such as
operation management, management principles, tools, techniques, strategies, business
environment, employee’s motivation, top management communication role in employee’s
engagement, corporate culture successful change management, research methodology, supply
chain of the corporation, internal and external business environment analysis, current innovation
theory, strategic recommendation etc. Thus, from these all study in the programme of MSc I
have learnt the effective knowledge about the business management. However, I have faced the
issue related to the lack of proper resources such as time, finance, information etc but overall
with help of my project team, tutor, friends etc I have successful designed these project under the
MSc course program.
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