Comprehensive Personal Professional Development Plan Report

This document presents a personal professional development plan (PPD) aimed at enhancing skills for future career success and academic achievements. It outlines the individual's goals to improve communication, leadership, teamwork, digital technology proficiency, problem-solving abilities, and patience. The plan includes specific objectives with target dates and resources for skill development, alongside a SWOT analysis identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report details strategies for continuous professional development, self-reflection, and methods for evaluating progress toward achieving personal and professional goals, ultimately contributing to academic success and career advancement. Desklib offers similar resources and solved assignments for students.

PPD Plan

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Aim..............................................................................................................................................1
Objectives....................................................................................................................................1
Continuous Professional Personal Development Plan.................................................................2
SWOT Analysis...........................................................................................................................7
Personal and professional development plan...............................................................................8
Self-reflection............................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Personal professional development plan is a plan for the development of the individual
skills, weakness, development for competency and the objectives that helps to achieve the goals
and be effective in the future for career. It is also termed as an employee development plan and
the individual development plan. It is a document that is for the career goals and helps to make
strategies to meet the goals (Rolfe, 2021). To create the personal developmental plan it needs lot
of time and planning. It’s an effective process that helps to achieve the goals and get success in
the future effectively. Continuous personal professional development plan is an ongoing process
for developing and maintaining an individual developmental professional skill that helps to get
success in the future. This skills can be developed formally or through informally with the
training or coursed or by watching others.
MAIN BODY
Aim
The aim of this report is to develop the skills that are required for the success in the future
and for the career goals and also helps in the academics in the universities for the future. Skills in
which I am in lack of and want to improve through the implementation of the personal
professional developmental plan. Improvement in the skills so that it helps in the academics to
get succeed and helps in the workplace to be competitive and effective that helps to achieve the
career goals effectively. I am lack in the some of the skills and want to improve in it. The
personal and the career based goals are to be achieved. I want to improve my weakness and work
on the opportunities of the learning of new skills and working on the strength for the success on
in the future and achieve the career goals. By analysing the SWOT analysis and with the
preparation of the personal developmental plan helps to improve the skills and achieve the target
goals in the future. The aim of the report is to build up the skills that help in the academic and
the career goals.
Objectives
My personal objective is to develop the competent skill that helps in achieving my career
goals effectively by improving and learning the skills (Zhang, and et.al., 2019). Skills that are to
be learned help to get success in the academics, in future career goals and in the workplace to be
the effective and the competitive employee. My objectives are
 I want to improve my communication skills in a year that is to be improved by June 2022.
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 Want to build up my leadership skills by the end of October 2021.
 Learn to work in the team in a 5 months.
 With the increase in the digital technology I want to learn the digital technology and the
use of the digital technology within a year that is to be completed by the May 2022.
 Develop my problem solving skills in the 3 month that is enhanced by the August 2021.
 Want to improve my patience level in a 6 month (Mitchell, and Manzo, 2018).
Continuous Professional Personal Development Plan
Areas of
development
Developmental
plan
How it will
help?
Resources
required
Evaluation
criteria
Target
date
Communication
skills
I want to
develop my
communication
skills as I am
good at my
writing skills
and want to
increases my
verbal
communication
effectively that
helps to
achieve my
career goals. I
don’t know
how to do
conversation
effectively in
the formal or
informally
meeting and
always lack in
It helps me in
my academics
in the debate
presentations
group
decisions to be
effective by
improving my
communication
skills and it
also helps in
my future to
convey my
thought or
ideas in the
workplace
effectively and
can present
meeting
effectively and
became an
efficient
To enhance the
communication
skills I want to
join the online
course to
develop my
verbal skill.
By giving
the online
test
conducted by
the online
course
academy the
evaluation
can be done
(Lee, 2020).
June 2022.
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it and gives
bad impression
in front of
others.
employee of
the
organization.
Leadership
skills
I have an
ability to lead
the people but
don’t have the
knowledge to
manages to
their need and
lead them. I am
not an effective
leader so want
to improve my
skills and lead
the teams in
the university
as well at the
workplace and
achieves my
career goals to
be a general
manager.
To be an
effective
leaders help
me at my
workplace to
lead the team
and be the
effective
general
manager
(Hussin,
Harun, and
Shukor, 2019).
At the
university I can
lead the team
of the projects
and work with
the
coordination
with the team
for the best
results of the
projects.
To be an
effective leader
I will do the
training with
the experts to
build up my
leadership
skills.
The
evaluation of
the
leadership
skills is done
after the
training
sessions and
the task are
allotted by
the trainer
and they will
evaluate.
October,
2021.
Team work As I don’t
work with the
groups and
To build up the
ability to work
in a team helps
By taking the
participation in
the different
The work
can be
evaluated
November,
2021.
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don’t have
knowledge
how to work in
the group with
the
coordination
even though I
have a good
friend circle.
With the work
in a team helps
to understand
how to
coordinate
with the
members of the
groups and
understand
them
effectively
(Rudolph,
Rauvola, and
Zacher, 2018).
me at my work
place to work
effectively
with my team
member and
understand and
coordinate
them
effectively that
help me in my
future to
became an
effective
manager that
understand
every team
members
perspective
and in the
university it
helps me in my
group studies,
learning and in
the debates and
presentation.
group activities
held in the
university and
also other
group
competitions.
with the
results of the
competitions.
Digital
technology
With the
increase of the
digital world
where most of
the work is
happening
With the
increase of my
knowledge of
digital
technology it
helps me in
By joining the
digital
marketing
course and use
of digital
technology
The
evaluation
can be done
by giving the
test held by
academics
December,
2021.
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digitally I want
to learn my
digital
technology
skills that help
in my
academics as
well as at my
workplace.
reducing my
burden of work
at the
workplace with
the use of
digital
technology and
the whole
organization
can run
digitally and it
helps me in my
academics with
the e learning.
with the
training
sessions with
the experts.
and the
trainers.
Problem
solving
I am getting
over stressed
when I have to
face the
problems and I
can’t solve it
effectively and
directly jump
to the decision
without
solving and
understanding
it properly
(Sarver, and
Spooner,
2020). To be
an effective
Having the
problem
solving skills
helps me in my
academics to
solve the
complex
problems
easily that
came in
between the
learning and to
be a general
manager in the
future where I
have to solve
the problems
This can be
improved with
by solving the
difficult case
studies
The
evaluation
can be done
by solving
the complex
case studies
easily.
August,
2021.
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general
manager in the
organization I
want to solve
my problems
effectively by
analyzing and
understanding
it effectively.
faced by the
subordinates
this skills is
help me in the
future to
achieve my
career goals.
Patience I am stubborn
and reaches to
the decisions
quickly that are
sometimes
wrong and
want to build
up my patience
level that helps
me making the
effective
decisions and
lead the teams
effectively to
be a general
manager and
learn the things
at the
university with
the patiently
and calmly.
To have a
patience it
helps me to
learn the things
and understand
it more
properly and
helps me to
achieve my
career goals to
be a general
manager easily
by having
patience and
learning the
skills I will
became an
effective
general
manager in
future.
This can be
improved by
the training
give to build
up the patience
level (Zhang,
and et.al.,
2019).
This can be
evaluated by
the trainers
through the
evaluation by
the tests.
November,
2021.
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To be a general manger in the future wants to improve my skills that helps to achieve my
career goals and also helps to get success in my academics. To build up the leadership skills that
helps to be a effective leader to be a general manager of the organization and achieve its goals
and it helps in the academics to participates and lead the team effectively in the presentations,
group decisions. Improve my verbal communication that helps me to convey the messages and
ideas in the university as well as in the organization effectively. To get participate in the debates,
group decisions verbal communication skills is necessary and it helps me at every stage of the
life, that help to achieve my career goals (Mitchell, and Manzo, 2018). By learning of the digital
technology that helps me in my learning with the e learning and also at my workplace by to
effectively use of the digital technology and performing the work effectively. With the effective
problem solving skills and the having the patience helps in the workplace to solve the problems
easily with the calmness.
SWOT Analysis
SWOT analysis is used to evaluate the strengths and the weakness of a person in the organisation
or on the general basis. The analysis helps in the identification of the strengths,
weakness,opportunities and threats. The analysis help in the understanding what is strong part
that can help in the development and the weaknesses that need to be worked upon for the
development.
Strengths
 I am excellent at analysing the problems and make the way out. I am able to identify the
factors that are causing the problem and act upon it to solve the problem.
 I have a good academic background and have potential to do great ahead as said by the
professor.
 I have travelled to different and extensive places that helped me in better understanding
of the people and I have empathy for different cultures.
 I have good relations with my friends and good networks (Leiber, Stensaker and Harvey,
2018).
 I have good management skills.
 I have excellent academic writing skills.
Weaknesses
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 In the time when I am over stressed with some problem, I jump to the conclusions and do
what feels right at that time and do not analyse the situation accurately, this had put me
more difficult times and this need to be improved.
 Many times I become so stubborn and unwilling to change my mind once I had made a
decision. This hashelped me sometimes while sometimes it had put me in hard times.
 I have less technical knowledge about the modern tools for the work.
 Poor verbal communication and I am unable to talk with a group (Gürel and Tat, 2017).
 I have not worked more in groups even though I have a good friend circle.
Opportunities
 I am good at learning and like to try new things.
 I can be joining the new speech club at the university.
 Add to the new networking groups.
 Attending seminars for the career development at the university.
 Education opportunity in the desired field of career.
 Professional development opportunities.
Threats
 I am good at problem solving by sometimes I get so involved in solving the problem that
I forget to pay attention to other important work that I am good at.
 The number of competitor in my chosen field of career is increasing and the competition
is highly increased due to this.
 There are massive technological changes (Wang and Wang, 2020).
 Too many applications for too less job opportunities.
Personal and professional development plan
In the personal and professional development strategies as well as the result of the
learning from the personal experiences or the trainingexperiences are discussed. The individual
is able to decide the objective and the strategy to apply for the development. The skill evaluation
helps in development to some levels (Rubens and et.al, 2018). The desired development is made
in a time frame for the better use of the given time and reaches to the desired goals.
Skills Improvement
areas
Action for the
development
Timescale Evaluation
Communication Verbal Taking Three For
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communication communicational
classes and trying to
enhance the
communication by
interacting with
other people.
months development
of the skill
for general
manger and
increasing
the
networks.
Professional
knowledge
Technological
knowledge for the
role of manager.
Using online
resources for
acquiring the
knowledge and
enrolling in the
program for the
general manager
post.
By attending the
seminars at the
university for better
knowledge of the
desired technological
skills.
Three
months
For the
development
in the career
and
performing
better in the
academics
(Backfisch
and et.al,
2020).
Time
management
Lack in giving time
to other important
tasks while dealing
with other problem
By scheduling,
planning, identifying
the important tasks
and allocating them
time in which the
need to be
completed.
Two
months
Completing
the task on
time and
achieving
the goals.
Planning Proper execution of
ideas
By understanding
the requirements
Two
months
Managed a
decision
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needed to solve the
problem and
collecting
knowledge before
analysing the
solution for the
problems.
correctly
and without
jumping to
the decisions
I feel right.
Stress
management
Management of
stress in the task
completion.
Building a strong
and healthy body by
exercise and relaxing
the muscles.
Taking breaks and
taking deep breaths.
Three
months
Tried to stay
calm and
relax at the
time of
chaos and
uncertain
situation.
Collaborative
working
For completing the
task in groups and
keeping the
performance high.
Communicating
strategies that are
needed to be
undertaken with the
group for team
working (Barrett,
Zhukov and Welch,
2019).
Placing games in
groups for
understanding the
importance of
collaborative
working and its
benefits.
Two
months
Completed a
group
project at the
university
and won the
best project
award.
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