Action Plan for Career and Professional Development Goals

This homework assignment presents a detailed professional development action plan, focusing on the student's self-analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses related to career and professional development. The plan incorporates the SMART model to outline specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals for skill improvement in areas such as teamwork, academic writing, communication, and time management. The student aims to enhance these skills to improve academic performance and achieve career objectives. The assignment includes a breakdown of each skill, outlining how the student will measure progress, achieve goals within a specified timeframe, and utilize resources such as team feedback and academic research to support development. The action plan references relevant literature and sets a framework for achieving undergraduate study goals. The student aims to attain desired grades and achieve career goals by making improvements. The assignment includes references to books and journals.

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Action Plan: For an individual it is required to analyse their target and objectives related to their
career and professional development practices (Dow, Gaffy and Hwang, 2018). These kind of
practices are also essential for me, thus I carry my self-analysis which aid me to analyse own
strength and weaknesses. All these activities are based on my undergraduate study goals that I
require to achieve appropriately. In this regard I identify some major areas team working skill,
academic writing skill, communication skill as well as time management skill that I requires to
improve within a set time period in order to attain desired grades easily (Norrving and et. al.,
2018). All these practices will assist me in undergraduate studies in order to attain desired career
goals by making required improvements. Therefore, it is required to measure their progress
within the set duration so that I can attain my objective on deadline. In this process I need to
apply SMART model in order to develop a specific action plan for myself as:
Skills Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time bond
Team
working skill
Research,
work
distribution
and team
leading
I can measure
the
improvement
in my team
working skill
by analyzing
views of
superior as
well as
feedbacks of
my peers.
This skill will
be achievable
within 3
months by
making
effective
improvements
in Research,
work
distribution
and team
leading.
By improving
team working
skill, I can
improve my
research
abilities with
other
candidates,
can distribute
work with
other by
providing
them help as
well as can
lead a team
with the help
of my ideas
and views.
3 Months
Academic
writing skill
Analytical,
Persuasive and
Critical
approach
I can measure
effectiveness
in my
academic skill
by analyzing
This skill will
be achievable
within 6
month that
also assist me
By improving
academic skill,
I can enhance
analytical
approach on a
6 Months
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views of my
tutors upon
my assignment
and my
research.
in maximizing
ability of
Analytical,
Persuasive and
Critical
approach.
specific topic
as well as can
enhance
critical
approach in
order to
determine
appropriate
ideas and
views in my
upcoming
projects.
Communicati
on skill
Interaction and
learning
By identifying
my interaction
process with
my team as
well as my
influencing
power to
others.
This skill will
be achievable
within 3
months that
can assist me
in make
improvements
in Interaction
with others as
well as
learning with
the help of
taking ideas
with my team
mates.
By improving
my
communicatio
n skill, I can
improve team
working
abilities in
which I can
easily interact
with other
without any
hesitation as
well as clear
mind set.
3 Months
Time
management
skill
Prioritization
and work
distribution
By attaining
targets within
a time
duration as
well as by
identifying
ability to
handle random
task on
different time
period.
I can make
improvement
in this skill
within 4
months by
taking help of
superiors in
order to
Prioritization
the task and
work
Effectiveness
of time
management
approach will
assist me in
prioritizing my
work in order
to complete in
give time
period.
4 Months
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distribution on
the basis of its
priorities.
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REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Dow, B., Gaffy, E. and Hwang, K., 2018. Elder abuse community action plan for Victoria.
Parkville: National Ageing Research Institute.
Norrving, B. and et. al., 2018. Action plan for stroke in Europe 2018–2030.European Stroke
Journal. 3(4). pp.309-336.
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