Amending and Reflecting on a Personal Development Plan for Practice

This report provides a comprehensive review and reflection on a previously developed personal development plan (PDP), with the aim of amending it to better align with future developmental needs. It highlights the importance of PDPs in identifying skill gaps and setting professional goals. The author reflects on their previous PDP, acknowledging areas of success, such as improved understanding of employment law and data protection, while also identifying areas needing improvement, like becoming a role model and facilitating difficult conversations. The report includes an amended PDP with specific actions, resources, and success criteria for achieving these goals. Furthermore, the author details their efforts to enhance their knowledge and skills through training programs, workshops, and self-assessment, pinpointing areas like employee relations and leadership where further development is required. The reflection incorporates insights from professional maps and feedback from colleagues, leading to a revised PDP with a focus on mentorship, team working, and positive thinking.

Developing professional practice

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................1
ASSESSMENT CRITERION – 3.3...........................................................................................1
ACTIVITY – 4C........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The current research report aims to include a reflection as well as review of the
personal development plan being prepared earlier in this module. The focus will be made on
amending the existing PDP for the purpose of meeting out the future developmental
requirements. In addition to this, it will also be going to include a reflection after the
submission of the personal development plan and will involve development of an amended
PDP based on that.
ASSESSMENT CRITERION – 3.3
Reviewing and reflecting in regards with the personal development plan is being
considered as the most important activity as it helps in determining the gaps and flaws in the
existing development plan being developed and make changes based on that for creating new
personal development plan (PDP) (Kryscynski and et.al, 2018). Earlier, I have created a
developmental plan which clearly established my own developmental requirements. I have
highlighted different goals that I wanted to achieve such as becoming a role model, learning
in regards with the data protection act, facilitating different conversations, learning ways of
addressing employment laws and so forth. The options that were most suitable for meeting
these requirements of professional development was also used by me. All these processes,
resources and activities being used by me because I believed that these all will support me to
think in regards with my own learning, achievements a well as performance and will help in
planning my social, educational, personal as well as career advancement. However, I was not
able to attain the desired goals as per my anticipations and thus, there is a requirement to
make changes in the previously developed personal development plan.
During the whole course of this module of developing professional practice, I came to
know about the significance of the professional development plan in setting out the
professional requirements. I learned that creating PDP by self is nothing but building the self
as a brand of recruitment consultancy. This is a long-term goal objective which initiates with
recognizing as an authority figure such as developing association with the entities like CIPD.
Since, I have developed the plan within the personal development plan, there are some of the
modifications which I have witnessed happening in my career, learning as well as social areas
(Koda, 2018). For illustration, I have noted that I have enhanced in a number of fields which I
have highlighted in my last PDP. Firstly, I was able to learn different ways of addressing the
employment law issues at work right from recruitment, TUPE and redundancy. Secondly, I
was also successful in grasping knowledge and understanding in relation with the Data
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Protection Act and the manners min which it can influence me as a human resource
professional. Thirdly, the last PDP being developed by me also supported me in learning one
more field of human resource that is payroll like ADP. Overall, it can be said that the
personal development plan being prepared by me was quite successful and helpful enough in
achieving by learning goals. I also learned how to remain confident and initiating the day
without getting anxious about anything. Consequently, it can be said that with this earlier
plan, I worked hard to perfect all my skills, strengths and flaws and corrected my weaknesses
and made that as my strong points. I have utilized the opportunities available in front of me
and avoided any sort of negative influence being posed by different threats (Bolton, 2019).
Nevertheless, still I some of the goals being pointed out in the previous professional
development plan was unmet and I need to work even harder and plan different activities for
achieving the same. the very first thing which I want to amend in the previous PDP is
activities related to goal of becoming a role model for colleagues and champion positive
behaviours. Other than this, it is also crucial on my part to learn better ways of facilitating
conversation with other individual as still I am not able to do this when the problem or thing
that needs to be conversed is difficult. Therefore, there is a requirement to make changes in
the previously developed personal development plan. The amended personal and professional
development plan is being elaborated below:
What do I
want/need to learn?
What will I do to
achieve this?
What resources or
support will I
need?
What will my
success criteria be
Becoming a role
model for the
colleague
Earning as well as
building trust by
showing respect,
Joining HR forum,
taking on changing
jobs and leading as
well as inspiring
others, working
under the
supervision of
learning and
development
managers (Banfield,
Notebooks, support
from the learning
and development
managers and
superiors for making
suggestions, HR
community forum
Right from the
listening to each and
every member and
employees, be in a
position to execute
effective policies
and procedures,
augmented level of
communication
between the
workers,
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Kay and Royles,
2018)
Improving
communication
skills regarding
discussing
difficulties with
employees
Learning about
varied cultures,
interaction with
different types of
employees in
company and
comprehending the
meaning of verbal
and non-verbal
communication
Human resources,
books, support of
leaders and
managers in the
organization,
workshops and
seminars for
learning more about
communication
skills
Be in a position to
effectively listen to
the needs of others
and communicating
difficulties
efficiently, assessing
the intent and main
purpose of the
speaker
To become more
confident
Reading materials,
taking challenging
tasks and attending
seminars
Reading materials,
books and articles,
support of leaders
and managers in
allotting challenging
tasks, seminars and
workshops
Effectively
communicating with
others and
successful enough in
embracing change
ACTIVITY – 4C
Subsequent from the beginning of this course, I have been making continuous and
professional development plan for the things that I wanted to learn for advancing my career
in the field of human resource profession. From the past several months I have been making
efforts to make improvement in my knowledge, skills, abilities and understanding in relation
with different aspects related to human resource such as employment laws, employee
relation, communication skills, leadership skills, learning to be more confident, data
protection act, handling employee conflicts and issues and so forth (Power, 2014). I have also
attended different training programs, workshops, seminars and other activities which has
substantially supported me learning many things in relation with profession of human
resource. I conducted self-assessment utilizing learning and development for the purpose of
determining ongoing professional growth requirements.
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The assessment of the professional development plan suggests that there are some of
the areas which still needs to be improved such as employee relation, insight in relation with
various employment laws for resolving issues at work and leading HR. I have further realized
that there are certain set of skills along with the knowledge which I am still in a need to
develop and comprehend of this specified area. Therefore, for the purpose of overcoming the
same, I require to create strategies and must take charge of the operations. For becoming a
good leader and role model and leading HR, I always remain proactive. In the same way, I
am now in a position to handle all the external factors successfully which might influence the
firm and me. In addition to this, in the perspectives of employee relation, I am required to
work on managing improvement in my skills and capabilities of managing conflicts (Beltrán-
Martín and Bou-Llusar, 2018). Even though, with the previous personal development plan
being developed, my employees are trusting me and listening to me and thus, now I am in a
position to lead in any business corporations. It can also be stated here, that the amended PDP
which was developed six months ago was quite beneficial for me and has determined most of
the key areas. This has also supported me a lot for my future endeavours.
Moving further, during this evaluation and reviewing process, I have successful
determined the strong points of the professional development plan and my own learning and
development, but it is not easy to highlight some of the areas on which I am not in a position
to work on. Thus, for doing this, I took the support of the professional map wherein I have
reviewed all the anticipated knowledge, skills along with the behaviour. Further, I took a
comparison with myself. In addition to this, I have also utilized my intuition and in some
instance considered the opinion of others for comprehending the subject areas where I am
excellent and the areas which I am quite weak. On this note, I have realized that there are
some areas on which I am unbale to work or I am quite weak at such as working with the
colleagues and team leaders and actively participating in giving insight when developing any
strategy. I will take all this in a positive manner and will make efforts to work on the
identified weak points (Maurer and London, 2018). Other than this, I have also
comprehended that I can make improvement in my skills on developing amended
professional development plan with improved activities, resources and goals. All these skills
being identified above can be gained and obtained from reading books, work experience,
training as well as seminars and through development of professional development plan
which is as follows:
What do I What will I do to What resources or What will my
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want/need to learn? achieve this? support will I
need?
success criteria be
Improving
knowledge and skills
about team working
Mentorship,
coaching, consulting
seniors, attending
workshops,
engaging in team
working exercises
Teams, support of
leaders, seminars,
books
Be able to any kind
of task and projects
with teams in
harmony
Augmenting
leadership attributes
Reading materials
related to leadership
skills development,
attending seminars,
comparing leader
and manager at
workplace (Komives
and Wagner, 2016)
Time, support of
managers and
leaders, books
Being in a position
to inspire and
motivate other and
take decisions on my
own
To actively
participate in giving
insight
Setting the priorities
right, gaining deeper
knowledge through
readings, attending
lectures and
workshops on
positive thinking
Seminars, books,
articles on positive
thoughts, support of
leaders and
managers and other
reading materials
Being in a position
to actively
participating in
group decision and
offering insight into
any type of issues
without any
hesitation
CONCLUSION
Thus, overall, it can be said that the report has clearly reviewed and offered reflection
on the career and professional development plan being developed earlier and has effectively
amended the same as per the requirement for meeting out the future developmental
requirements.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Banfield, P., Kay, R. and Royles, D., 2018. Introduction to human resource management.
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Beltrán-Martín, I. and Bou-Llusar, J.C., 2018. Examining the intermediate role of employee
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Bolton, G., 2019. Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development. Hoboken, NY.
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Koda, K., 2018. 3 Integrated Communication skills approach. Reading to Learn in a Foreign
Language: An Integrated Approach to Foreign Language Instruction and Assessment.
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Komives, S.R. and Wagner, W., 2016. Leadership for a better world: Understanding the
social change model of leadership development. John Wiley & Sons.
Kryscynski, D., Reeves, C., Stice‐Lusvardi, R., Ulrich, M. and Russell, G., 2018. Analytical
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Maurer, T. J. and London, M., 2018. From individual contributor to leader: A role identity
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Online references
Power, K., 2014. 5 Benefits of Continuing Professional Development. [Online]. Available
through: <https://ed4career.com/blog/5-benefits-continuing-professional-
development>. [Accessed on 29thApril 2022].
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