Professional Development Plan Assignment 2022

Professional Development Plan
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Executive Summary
The career development plan is one of the most effective values within the field. This can be
effectively understood with the help of SODI model that is self-awareness then opportunity
awareness then decision-making and planning as well as the goals that are associated with the
career development. In this, all the parts are highly effective for dealing with the situation and
providing some of the valuable aspects of the career development process within the field.
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Table of Contents
Section 1 – Introduction..................................................................................................... 3
Section 2 – Self Awareness................................................................................................. 3
2.1 – Personality........................................................................................................... 3
2.2 – Values and Motivators............................................................................................ 3
2.3 – Emotional Intelligence............................................................................................ 4
2.4 – Leadership........................................................................................................... 5
2.5 – Power and Politics................................................................................................. 5
Section 3 – Opportunity Awareness...................................................................................... 6
3.1 – My Career........................................................................................................... 6
3.2 – Industry sector and Location..................................................................................... 6
Section 4 – Decision making and planning.............................................................................. 7
Section 5 – Goals............................................................................................................. 8
5.1 – Career Satisfaction................................................................................................. 8
5.2 – Status and Respect................................................................................................. 8
5.3 – Learning and education........................................................................................... 8
5.4 – Spiritual growth and religion.................................................................................... 9
5.5 – Material rewards and possessions...............................................................................9
Section 6 – Conclusion...................................................................................................... 9
Reference List............................................................................................................... 10
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Section 1 – Introduction
The purpose of the paper is to discuss effectively regarding the career development plan for
future growth. The paper will discuss regarding the self-awareness with the facts of personality
than the value and motivators along with the leadership, power and politics and even emotional
intelligence among the individuals within the workplace. Furthermore, there will be a discussion
on the opportunity awareness along with the decision making and planning that took part within
the process of career development. Setting the career goal is also an essential part which will be
further discussed within the paper.
Section 2 – Self Awareness
2.1 – Personality
Personality is considered to be the combination of the characteristics of the individuals that form
their distinctive character (Nilforooshan, and Salimi, 2016). Individuals need to develop their
value and their characteristics. The personality of the people can be described effectively by
using the Big 5 Personality Model, which eventually identifies five types personality and it is the
fact that every individual falls within at least one of these types. The types of personality are;
Open, Extraverted, Conscientious, Stable and Agreeable. Open personality deal with the
openness of the people towards curiosity, creativity as well as novelty.
Conscientious is the state of being steady, self-disciplined as well as focused. Extraversion
personality shows confidence as well as a tendency for exploring various things. Agreeable is the
state of being compassionate as well as co-operative. Emotional stability is the state of being
sensitive as well as nervous nature (Thomas, Larson, Solberg, and Martin, 2017). I can consider
my personality as the state of conscientious because I like to be in self-discipline for performing
any work and also maintain a steady lifestyle. It is my strength, but my weakness is that I can
never give priority to planning for maintaining the situation. My personality trait is considered to
be part of conscientious about developing the self-awareness.
2.2 – Values and Motivators
The attitude, value and motivators are the most effective part in the program of self-awareness
that helps to make the effective foundation of being a good employee (Sortheix, Chow, and
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