Professional Development Plan for Project Management

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management
[Name of the Student]
[Name of the University]
[Author note]

1PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Purpose:
Personal or Professional Development Plan is the formal mean which is adopted by an
individual so as to set out particular goals along with strategies and outcome of learning and
training. This is also considered to be the alignment with the professional program, which is
made in order to meet the requirements from the regulatory or the statutory bodies existing
around the continuous professional development process. Revalidation is done so as to retain
a practice license and stay on the professional register. This is done in order to demonstrate
the professional standing.
Development needs:
The development needs of the professional development plan include the following:
1. So as to emphasis upon the importance that the individuals are taking so as to lead their
careers, or at least be involved
2. Building of the Programme on the concept of The Four Stages of Careers
3. Developing of the programme based upon the competency
4. Balancing the need of short-term focus with the desire for long term “career path
concept”
5. Implementation of a system so as to make sure that the development plan is being
implemented
6. Putting a special emphasis upon the fact that the professional development process is
transparent

2PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Learning opportunities
The various opportunities learnt from the professional development have been listed
below:
 Better leadership qualities.
 Better communication skills
 Better planning skills
 Time management qualities
 Risk management qualities
 Better negotiating qualities.
Action plan
The action plan for having a better professional growth includes the following:
 Attending certain professional development trainings and resources so as to support the
requirements that have been identified. Long training program needs to be attended so as
to have a tailored curriculum design that would be helping in development of the skills
and capabilities that are needed to fill the job opportunities in a project.
 The new projects along with the responsibilities should be explored so as to obtain
assistance in understanding projects of similar kind. This type of opportunities can be
used for development of new skills.
 Learning along with project development are associated with offering a variety of
workshops and seminars that would be helping in developing the works along with
gaining skills so as to tackle the technological aspects involved in a project.