Personal Development Plan Example

This document provides a solved example of a personal development plan. It details the individual's strengths in communication and technology, as well as their commitment to ethical principles. The plan outlines areas for growth, particularly in data protection and relevant legislation, to achieve both professional and personal goals. It also includes references to academic sources that support various aspects of learning and development.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Kolb's learning cycle is well known theory that assists in reflecting experience of
individual (What is Kolb’s Learning Cycle?, 2015). Present report will discuss my own reflection
with the help of Kolb's learning theory. I will describe personal goal of mine and my own
experience.
MAIN BODY
Kolb's learning cycle
It consists for stages; experience, reflection, plan and conceptualisation. In stage 1 of
experience person has to share its experience from the learning (Chen, Shah and Brechtelsbauer,
2016). In the second phase thinking of what have been done, in conceptualise stage individual
interpreted whether goal have been achieved or not. In the last planning stage person actively test
the hypotheses and try to achieve goal of individual (Wang and Chugh, 2014).
Personal Goal:
 My primary goal is to become the senior medical director in the Hoffmann-La Roche
company.
 To enhance my knowledge about medicines and health care sector.
 To provide correct medicines to patients and to improve services of health care sector.
Key principals of working in heath and well being pharmacy sector are such as:
Humanity:
Individual who is working in the HSC needs to ensure that person behave well with
patients (Riding, and Rayner, 2013).
Impartiality:
Medical representatives has to behave equal with all so that individual can treat them well
and can improve their well being (Delves and et.al., 2017).
Neutrality:

Pharmacy practitioners needs not to take side in a conflict. These are three major
principal of working in health care sector (Flores-Guzmán, Fernández-Sánchez. and Mayani,
2013).
I did my nursery for 3 days and then I got placement in the local pharmacy company.
Illustration 1: Kolb's learning cycle
Source: (What is Kolb’s Learning Cycle?, 2015)
Experience: I did my nursery for 3 days then I realised that some professionals are giving
proper medicines to patients and they are giving them medicines without examine them properly.
Principal of HSC in pharmacy states that medical professional has to follow humanity. But
people those who were working in this field were shouting at poor patients (Demirkan, 2016).
People have to wait for longer period for getting the right treatment. Though there are some good
medical representatives as well in the local pharmacy firm those who performed their duties
well. After that I got placement in the pharmacy, where I learned many things about
compositions of medicine ingredients. I got to know which chemical is better for particular
disease. It was the amazing experience for me and I became able to improve my technical skills.
I learned about key principles of working in pharmacy sector and I have adopted these principles
in my life so that I can become good senior medical director in the Hoffmann-La Roche
company.

Reflection: While working in the pharmacy firm my communication skill has been
improved to great extent (Aura. and et.al, 2016). I had to communicate with seniors and they
suggested me patients needs and how I have to behave with them. By this way I became able to
identify the requirements of the users and By this way my objective of providing them excellent
care services can be fulfilled easily. While working doing my nursery I learned many things
about perception of people and common problems that turn into big disease after certain time
duration. This experience have helped me in achieving my goal of increasing knowledge about
medical and health care sector. While working in the pharmaceutical firm I did not improve my
professional skill to great extent that is why I needed more training so that I can become a
successful senior medical director in the Hoffmann-La Roche company.
Conceptualisation is the phase of Kolb's learning which comes after reflection phase. In
this individual has to generate hypotheses about own experience and learning. It was observed
my me that I need to improve professional skills in me so that I can treat patients well and can
fulfil my responsibilities effectively (Medvinsky and Livesey, 2015). I have observed that my
communication, technical skills have been improved significantly and now I have good
knowledge about health care and pharmacy sector (Lavery, 2016). But my goal is to become
senior medical director in the multinational pharmaceutical organization for that I have to
develop more knowledge and experience so that I can provide excellent care services to patients.
I communicated well during my placement in the pharmacy company and I become able to
understand patients needs, importance of right medicine and chemical compositions. This helped
me in improving my knowledge so hat I can perform well in the health care industry. But I will
have to work on increasing professionalism in me. In addition, I have less knowledge about
legislation of medical field. Data protection act is great law which describes that privacy needs to
be maintained. I will have to gather good information so that I can protect data of users. By
enhancing my knowledge about this also I will be able to work legally and ethically. I observed
that to perform well in the health care sector it is essential to follow legal guidelines and to adopt
key principals of HSC.
Plan: it is the phase which is also known as active experimentation stage. In this phase
individual has to plan the activities in order to test the hypotheses (What is Kolb’s Learning
Cycle?, 2015). I have to develop my professional skills and also I will have to gain more
experience so that I can get better practical knowledge about the medicine field. For hat I will

need to continuously communicate with the seniors so that they can share their experience with
me. It will help in developing my knowledge to great extent. I will have to read internet articles
and have to search good frequently so that I can gather in depth information about chemical
composition and discuss the same thing with my immediate seniors. It will help me in providing
excellent medical treatment to patients.
SWOT analyses
Strength
 My communication skill is good.
 Good technological skill is my strength. I have completed my education in the
same field so I am well aware with the
terminologies.
Weakness
 My professional skill is not good.
 My knowledge about legislation are
little poor.
Opportunities
 Training can enhance my skills and can
help me in achieving my goal soon.
 May international firms are hiring the
candidates hose who have good
knowledge and experience about
pharmacy that can help in me
establishing my career in the big
reputed organization.
Threats
 Training and education obstacles.
 Competition is high so companies
require more skilled and experienced
persons.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that my communication and technological
skills are good and I can follow the principal of humanity well. I have to work on improving my
knowledge on data protection and several other legislation so that I can work ethically in the
organization and can accomplish my personal goal soon.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Aura, S. and et.al., 2016. Transfer of learning: Radiographers' perceptions of simulation-based
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Chen, W., Shah, U. and Brechtelsbauer, C., 2016. The discovery laboratory–A student-centred
experiential learning practical: Part I–Overview. Education for Chemical Engineers. 17.
pp.44-53.
Delves, P. J. and et.al., 2017. Essential immunology. John Wiley & Sons.
Demirkan, H., 2016. An inquiry into the learning-style and knowledge-building preferences of
interior architecture students. Design Studies. 44. pp.28-51.
Flores-Guzmán, P., Fernández-Sánchez, V. and Mayani, H., 2013. Concise Review: Ex Vivo
Expansion of Cord Blood‐Derived Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells: Basic
Principles, Experimental Approaches, and Impact in Regenerative Medicine. Stem cells
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Lavery, G., 2016. Quality improvement-rival or ally of practice development?.International
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Medvinsky, A. and Livesey, F. J., 2015. On human development: lessons from stem cell
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Riding, R. and Rayner, S., 2013. Cognitive styles and learning strategies: Understanding style
differences in learning and behavior. Routledge.
Wang, C. L. and Chugh, H., 2014. Entrepreneurial learning: past research and future
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David Kolb, 2017. [Online] Available through:
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kolb>. [Accessed on 10th June 2017].