Enhancing Skills: A Personal and Professional Development Report

This report provides an overview of self-learning skills and their importance in personal and professional development. It defines self-managed learning and discusses strategies such as project-based training, online learning, and research. The report evaluates the strengths of self-learning from a personal perspective, emphasizing planning, organization, evaluation, and continuous effort. It highlights the attributes, values, and preferences associated with self-managed learning, including increased responsibility, personal ownership, and cost savings. The challenges faced in skill development, such as multi-language issues, communication gaps, time management, and target achievement, are addressed with potential solutions. The report also examines contradictions that may arise in communication skills and explores the benefits of self-managed learning for future career growth, highlighting the importance of continuous learning and adaptation.

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY........................................................................................................................................3
Explain the skill of self-learning along with its theory......................................................................3
Evaluate the strength of the skill in personal perspective..................................................................4
Highlight the attributes, values and preferences in order to underpin the strength.............................4
Explain the challenges being faced during the experience of the skills..............................................5
Explain the various types of contradictions that may take place in various situations. For an
instance, an individual might possess strong communication skills but in a few situations the skills
may seem lacking..............................................................................................................................5
Explain the ways in which the quality might benefit to an individual in future. Reflect upon the
ways in which the skill can be developed..........................................................................................6
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development plays a crucial role for an individual to excel
in their career. Apart from career in big corporates, the concept of personal and professional
development proves to be quite beneficial at various phases in life. The need of personal and
professional development arises when the person feels a person seems to lack something in
their life. In order to fulfill the need and purpose of the stuff that the person finds to lack the
concept of personal and professional development can be adopted by the individual. The
concept of personal and professional development holds various benefits that help in
accomplishment of the goals (Chaykina and et.al., 2021).
MAIN BODY
Explain the skill of self-learning along with its theory.
Self-managed learning can be defined as the approach that facilitates learning and it
involves various elements in order to organize to develop a learning mechanism such as self-
development, action learning and self-directed learning (Chigwedere and et.al., 2020). There
are various approaches that can be used in order to accomplish self-managed learning which
include planning, monitoring and control along with evaluation of the performance. Self-
Learning is an approach that enhances the capacity of an individual to manage the learning
capacity of their own through various ways. At the same moment the personal and
professional development allows the individual to outline the various strategies that can be
formulated and further implemented in order to encourage the skill learning process. The
various strategies are discussed below-
 Training through projects- The organization assigns various projects that are to be
completed by the trainees that help them enhance their professional skills. The
project completion will help the trainees to capture knowledge in the practical aspects
that will help the candidates to work in the related sectors.
 Online learning- Internet has proved to be boon for various telecommunication skills
and digital platforms that has helped the organizations and institutions with various
software and learning programs such as Computer managed Learning, Distance
learning, Virtual learning and various other online resources that facilitate grabbing
the knowledge and skills with ease (Christie and et.al., 2018).
 Research- In the present scenario, it is very important to deal and comply with the
changing environment in the business and the industry. Organizations therefore make
huge investments in the research and development in order to gather information
about the taste and preferences of the individuals that will help them serve their
productivity through the skills.
 Other strategies- From the above mentioned strategies, there are various other
strategies that can be adopted by the individuals in order to gather knowledge and
enhance skills. The various ways to enhance skills are attending seminars and

conferences, giving interviews and various examinations along with keeping a track
of various networking sites.
Evaluate the strength of the skill in personal perspective.
The certain level of expertise in the skills is mandatory in order to achieve the heights
of success in the career and as a person. These skills require a lot of patience, efforts and hard
work in order to be excelled. These require continuous efforts through continuous and life-
long learning. A merit in this sense is that as these skills do not have any prescribed time
limit, they can be learned at any point of time. The ways that can be adopted to adopt the
mode of continuous learning are discussed below. The quality of the skill can be evaluated
with the help of following process-
 Planning- It requires a proper action plan before an individual aims to adapt to
something new. Hence, I need to plan in depth before switching upon a skill learning
process. It is important as the level of skills for every person differs in their aspects
and the planning needs to be done on individual basis (Davies, Curtin and Robson,
2017).
 Organizing- It is very important to have an organized learning process. I need to set a
routine under which I can put in consistent efforts to acquire the skills and enhance
them as per the requirements. Else the planning process might go in vain.
 Evaluation- The evaluation step is quite important in order to analyse and measure
the progress of the skills that have been learned by the individual. The evaluation is
mostly done by the superiors in order to analyse the shortcomings or the drawbacks
of the individual while attaining the skills. These determine if extra amount of efforts
need to be put, in order to enhance the level of skills.
 Continuous efforts- It is very important for the individual to practice continuously
and consistently in order to achieve the skills. The skills can bot be acquired or
enhanced until and unless the person puts in regular efforts towards the learning
process and move from the current level to the required level (Hildebrand, 2018).
Highlight the attributes, values and preferences in order to underpin the strength.
The concept of self-managed learning is very important concept for the employees as
well as the organization. The self-learning process allows the employees and the individuals
to act in a more responsible manner. This way the learning process will turn out to be more
fruitful for the organization as well as the individual. There are various benefits and values of
self-managed learning and these are discussed below-
 The self-managed learning helps the individual to learn and explore things in a
different manner that can be helpful in using them in the career and organizational
goals.
 The self-managed learning concept helps the individual to opt for personal ownership
and address their own strengths and weaknesses.
 The self-managed learning concept allows the employees to implement the skills
learnt, at the organization (Jansen and et.al., 2021).

 The self-managed learning concept can be considered as cost saving wherein it helps
by providing cost effective solutions in terms of learning.
 The self-managed learning concept facilitates the individual to possess knowledge
regarding the assets and resources that are being used at the workplace.
 The self-managed learning concept provides an advantage of practicing and learning
at the same and parallel intervals.
 The self-managed learning concept facilitated the arrangement of learning resources
as per the various styles (Knight and Newby, 2019).
 The self-managed learning concept helps in managing arrangements as per the Just in
Time learning process at the organization that helps in saving cost of the organization.
Explain the challenges being faced during the experience of the skills.
During the phase where an individual works within the organization, they need to face
and tackle with various kinds of challenges in the organization. The burden of the issues is
considered as a part of self-learning plan in order to seek improvement. At present, I am
functioning as a sales executive at Tesco where I deal for certain serious issues. A portion of
these issues are talked about here with legitimate arrangements
 Issue of multi-language- As Tesco is an overall association, I as a business leader
need to deal with various kinds of clients from various areas and from various culture,
which turns into an immense issue for me. Concerning arrangement, while going to
managing any unfamiliar clients, I should begin discussion in English and for the
individuals who don't realize English need an administrator who can comprehend the
neighborhood language (Kroll, and Dussias, 2017).
 Absence of good relational abilities- As the Sales Executive, I generally need to
impress the clients with my speaking and communication skills. For this situation,
correspondence skills should be improved as per the concern of the arrangement
where I can practice show without anyone else or under others' watch. It requires an
individual to be confident while communicating with the customers.
 Using time productively- The major issue at any type of organization is to use the
time in a productive and efficient manner. A large number of my associates are seen
late in the work environment, which is vital to reduce both for the expert just as close
to home achievement. To be opportune, there is no immediate or explicit arrangement
or idea yet everybody should practice to be ideal.
 Working with target- As a business leader, I need to keep up with standard objective
like others, which is especially critical to consider as the benchmark for progress,
which seems to be an issue here and there. In aspect of the arrangement, I need to
distinguish my objective within different little objective. Also, these little targets are
to be considered to reach in the last objective. It is essential to work as per the targets
in order to accomplish goals in the well-defined and required time limit as well
(Markham, Gentile and Graham, 2017).

Explain the various types of contradictions that may take place in various situations. For an
instance, an individual might possess strong communication skills but in a few situations the
skills may seem lacking.
In certain situations, it may happen that an individual may face some contradictions at
the workplace. Hence, it is very important for the organization to have an effective and
efficient communication at the workplace to avoid the situation of miscommunication at the
organization among the employees. The communication needs to be efficient among all the
levels of employees whether it is intra level or inter level i.e. among the senior management,
junior management and the middle level management employees. The communication must
be such that it provides an ease of discussion of the problems at the organization and derive
to a solution (Pugh and Broome, 2020). This will also help the employees to keep themselves
motivated for doing their tasks at the organization due to an open communication. The
communication at the organization goes in three ways namely, top to bottom, bottom to top
and horizontally. These types of communication processes can be formal as well as informal.
The mode of communication among the employees in the organization is discussed below-
 Formal communication- In terms of formal communication the communication takes
place between the superiors and the subordinated with the help of official meetings,
official letters, newsletters, notices, etc. As under the formal communication, the
senior staff tends to communicate convey a set of formal instructions and information
to the junior staff that are necessary. This information can be passed on with the help
of minutes of meeting, official emails as well as written orders through a proper mode
of communication channel (Ragan, 2018).
 Informal communication- In form of informal communication the information is
passed to all the employees in a not so well defined manner. The information
communication process follows a standard of informal grievance system where the
information in form of reverts are collected from the employees through various
channels rather than a defined medium. After the information has been collected from
the various sources after that they are addressed one on one basis. This method can be
considered as unorganized but it facilitates quicker delivery of information in the
organization (Serin, 2017).
Explain the ways in which the quality might benefit to an individual in future. Reflect upon
the ways in which the skill can be developed.
Self-managed learning can be practiced in various ways and thus it requires a lot of
efforts in order to be dealt in future. The learning skills have a lot many benefits to the
individual as well as the organization. In order to grab the benefits of the self-managed
learning, it is essential for the individual to possess time management skills and work upon
them effectively. There are various kinds of time management strategies that are introduced
by the organization that help in completion of the time bound activities and tasks in a
prominent manner. The self-managed learning process allows the individuals to develop a
stringent line that provides optimum utilization of resources and further the use of digital
technologies help the individual to reduce the time duration that will be required in order to
accomplish the goals of the organization (von Suchodoletz and et.al., 2018).

In order to accomplish the self-managed skills, the following steps can be adopted-
 I can opt for training in terms of time management skills while keeping in mind the
various milestones that can be achieved within the time limit. During this course the
individual will be properly monitored and guided in order to complete the tasks.
 The organization can help the various individuals to enhance their time management
skills with the help of their advanced and visionary skills to operate upon the each
employee and each project.
The time management skills will allow the effective and efficient completion of the goals
and objectives within prescribed time duration. These can be comprised as a basic part of
training and development towards the self-managed goals (Welp and et.al., 2018).
CONCLUSION
The conclusion that can be derived from the study is the personal and professional
development is of huge benefit. The personal and professional development allows the
individual to develop a skill that allows the individual to accomplish their goals in near
future. The concept of personal and professional development also allows the individuals to
acknowledge the strengths of the various skills and the ways to possess them. The study
revolves around the skill of self-learning, the study also highlights the strengths of the skills
along with the various challenges faced in the accomplishment.

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