Importance of Professional Development and Self-Directed Learning

This document explores the importance of on-going professional development and self-directed learning in enhancing professional identity and career opportunities. It examines the key benefits of professional development for different stakeholders within a specific organization, as well as the expectations of professional employers in terms of skills and competencies. The document also evaluates the importance of on-going professional development and the associated professional skills requirements within a specific organizational context. Additionally, it assesses the author's own skills, competences, and different learning and development approaches.

PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND
PRACTICE

INTRODUCTION
Overview
Vodafone Group Plc (Vodafone), consolidated on July 17, 1984, is a radio communications
agency. The company's activities are divided into two areas: Europe and Africa, the Middle East
and Asia Pacific (AMAP). His clips include Europe and AMAP. Its Europe includes
geographical areas, for example Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and other Europe.
Other Europe includes the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece, Hungary and Romania, among others.
Its AMAP portion includes India, South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho, Africa,
Turkey, Australia, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and others. The Company offers a range of
administrations, including voice, information and information through flexible and embedded
systems.
The Company acquires the scope and licenses to transmit the radio frequencies transmitted by
portable administrations. Its embedded capabilities include connectivity, fiber and copper
systems to power TV, broadband and voice administrations. The company's data innovation (IT)
range offers its server farms, customer relationship capabilities, customer debt management, and
online resources. Vodafone Global Enterprise (VGE) serves the company's global customers.
The Company has a customer base that includes people, similarly-owned domestic organizations,
multinational companies and open offices, with a range of matching needs. The Company
reaches its customers through direct business groups, roundabout accommodation and telescope
stations.

LO1. Explore the importance of on-going professional development and
self-directed learning to enhance professional identity and career
opportunities
1.1 Examine the key benefits of on-going professional development for
different stakeholders within a specific organization
An on-going professional development program can be invaluable to your career. By managing
your vision and your skills, you can be sure to work at the top of your call. You will be expert in
your work and appreciate a compensation role.
On-going professional development projects can be a useful tool when trying to understand one's
own merits and shortcomings within the workplace. You can focus on the specific areas where
you need to take a bullet, allowing you to develop your skills.
Benefits of On-going professional development program
 Build your authenticity and legitimacy in the field in which you are working
 Tool to appear at representative assessments
 A guide to manage the promotion you have moved
 Come up with your career goals
 Promote your vision and your skills in your work non-stop
 Being progressively productive and productive within the workplace
As operations of Vodafone Plc, I also have a call that involves constant changes in operations
and minimization of incomplete capabilities of the highest quality. An ongoing professional
development program can help keep up to date with operational strategies and convince us to
leverage our expert skills. This level of responsibility will be assessed by current and future
managers, always in charge of different partners and partners. Candidates can end by taking on
multiple roles, extending the salary and following the call transition stool.
Given the many benefits that a continuous professional development program can offer, it is a
great idea for anyone who wants to update or expand their CV within their work area. While

some consider it a vague commitment to their time and work, if you go away or engage in a life
where guidelines and laws change constantly, it is an integral part of your job.
1.2 Investigate professional employer expectations of skills and competencies
within a specific organizational context
Vodafone Employer Plc. was contacted to assess the necessity of employee feedback,
information and feedback. The Vodafone employer evaluated professional knowledge of
employees, Latvian language skills, purposefulness, caring for the agenda and organization of
work, co-operation ability, ability to plan and control, initiative in addition to the actions to be
taken, initiative in additional duties taking, progress towards development, the ability to plan
further education of employees.
The present expectations of Vodafone plc for the current position of operations manager are as
follows:
Operations managers must have a large capacity configuration to be successful in the large
number of situations in which they can end up. To be as strong as one might reasonably expect,
executive leaders should have a combination of delicate skills and unique skills. .
The delicate skills essential for the operations management are:
 Strong interpersonal skills
 Great motivational skills
 Hardware configuration features
 Exceptional organizational skills
 Understanding the needs of internal and external users
To make the most of these delicate skills, an executive can develop their range of skills by
supporting complex skills such as table clothing, coordination, audience creation. action, giving
initiative to the board of directors and human resources.
Operations managers should be flexible in any situation and have the necessary skills to help
them solve them. With the right equality of both the logical skills of delicate and specialized
tasks you will have the opportunity to search for desires to satisfy your career, regardless of the
situation.

Operations managers should be strong communicators since their roles involve talking to
individuals at different levels. They should also have strong motivational skills to successfully
build their organizations. Solid exchange skills are also important, authoritative skills combined
with a strong sense of customers' internal and external needs.
1.3 Evaluate the importance of on-going professional development and the
associated professional skills requirements within a specific organizational
context
Some of the importance of on-going professional development and the associated professional
skills requirements within Vodafone plc has been discussed below:
 It ensures that your skills are in line with the prevailing dimensions of others in a similar
field.
 It is committed to maintaining and developing the knowledge and skills needed to
provide expert support to your customers, customers and the network.
 It ensures that you and your intuition remain important and forward looking. You are
gradually aware of the changing patterns and direction of your call. The pace of progress
is faster than ever at any time - and this is part of the new norm in which we live and
work. Just in case you stop you will be left behind, while money is deceived and ideas
disappeared.
 It keeps you making an important commitment for Vodafone Plc. You become
increasingly successful in the workplace. This will help you progress in your career and
take on new roles where you can lead, lead, influence, educate and educate others.
 It makes you feel interesting and interesting. Experience is a wonderful apprentice, but it
means we usually do what we did before. Centralized On-going professional program
liberates you from additional opportunities, new information and new competency
categories.
 It can provide a deeper understanding of being an expert, along with a more focused
evaluation of the recommendations and impact of your work.

LO2. Assess own skills, competences and the different learning and
development approaches
2.1 Assess own abilities, skills and competences for a specific job role
An operations manager is a key element of a management team and manages human resource
responsibilities at an important level, for example, drawing on skills and setting up preparatory
stages and recruitment systems. In the same way, they analyze and promote authoritarian
approaches and work to improve quality, profitability and efficiency.
Below are some skills and abilities which I have and compares it with skills and abilities which
is required by Vodafone Plc
Current Skills and abilities Required Skills and abilities
 Master degree in operations management
 Fresher; only internship done in 2
companies for the period of six months
 Good understanding of accounting, cash
flow and balance sheet; but need more
skills on budgeting.
 Requires more ability to have good
relations among managers and
employees.
 Good communication skills
 Bachelor’s degree in operations
management or related field.
 Experience in management,
operations, and leadership.
 Understanding of general finance
and budgeting, including profit and
loss, balance sheet and cash-flow
management.
 Ability to build consensus and
relationships among managers,
partners, and employees.
 Excellent communication skills.
 Solid understanding of financial
management.

Operation managers plan, immediately and organize association activities. The general manager
is responsible for ensuring and improving the presentation, efficiency, effectiveness and benefits
of departmental and authoritative functions through the provision of sound methods and systems.
Below is the comparison of current competences and required in Vodafone plc:
Current Competences Competences Required
 Team work
 Stress tolerance
 Problem solving
 Adaptability
Note: Rest of the competences need to be
developed as these required practical
knowledge and experience at workplace.
Application of these competences required
regular practice in different situations because
circumstances varies from organization to
organization no competences are prefect and
universally applicable in all saturations.
 Critical thinking and problem solving
skills
 Planning and organizing
 Decision-making
 Communication skills
 Persuasiveness
 Influencing and leading
 Delegation
 Negotiation
 Conflict management
 Adaptability
 Stress tolerance
 Team work
2.2 Review a range of learning theories and approaches used for personal and
professional development processes
Behaviorist Approach to Learning
The behavioral approach to learning revolves around the belief that appropriate behavior can be
taught by regularly withdrawing work along with facilitator criticism. Positive criticism supports
and reinforces performance while negative interference and sudden changes discourage
repetition of mixed or unwanted behavior.
Consolidation can work both positively and negatively. Positive reinforcement is no matter what
reinforces the unique rebound. In preparation, where the point is learning, for example, this can
be triggered by verbal recognition, rational printing or a feeling of accomplishment. In addition,
if oral withdrawal is activated, this will have a negative effect and the motivation to learn will
decrease.
Cognitive Approach to Learning

On the other hand, cognitive theories concerned about the functioning of the brain is dynamic in
the preparation of openings of learning and creation. The coach (if any) and the ball come with
information; the task of the mentor is to choose the best strategy for understanding.
Dewey (1938) believes that learning involves "understanding how to think". He says that the
path to learning is more than being responsible or moving; similarly this requires reflection and
benefit. For Dewey, the purpose for thinking is to achieve a state of harmony, which allows one
to deal with problems and prepare them for further demands.
David Kolb - The Experiential Approach
The experiential discovery model proposed by David Kolb supports much of the exchange with
existing adult preparation providers.
Basically, Kolb accepts that learning is a unique technique, in which we are always ready to
build our learning and advancement by traveling through the circle that is a foot.