Personal Development Report: Employee SWOT and PDP Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of personal development within the context of a Hotel Hilton employee. It begins with an introduction to personal development and its significance for career advancement, followed by a detailed explanation of the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis. The SWOT analysis evaluates various internal and external factors influencing an individual's performance, specifically focusing on skills relevant to the hospitality sector, such as patience, carefulness, teamwork, quick learning, and initiative. The weaknesses identified include perfectionism, indecisiveness, lack of concentration, and language barriers. Opportunities for growth are presented, along with potential threats. The report then outlines a personal development plan (PDP) based on the SWOT analysis, which includes short, mid, and long-term goals, required skills, strategies, and resources. The PDP incorporates time management, communication, and team working skills. The report concludes by summarizing the personal and professional skill development of the employee, highlighting the importance of the development plan.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Personal SWOT Analysis............................................................................................................1
Personal Development Plan.........................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is a process that is used by an individual person to learn different
skills for improving personal capabilities and qualities. Purpose of personal development is
important for future growth and development (Tattum, and Tattum, 2017). Personal development
plan is a way to improve personal and professional skills. This method or plan provide a
guideline to individual person to develop a development plan to develop required skills with in a
specific time period. This report is providing brief of personal development of employees in
Hotel Hilton. The personal development plan is based on SWOT of individual employee and as
per SWOT analysis PDP is developed.
MAIN BODY
Personal SWOT Analysis
SWOT analysis is a basic frame work that is used to analysis various internal and
external factors that can influence performance of project, product or a person. The acronym of
SWOT is Strengths, Weaknesses Opportunities and threats. The strengths are the positive points
of person that can help them to achieve goals in the effective manner (Kraiger and Cavanagh,
2015). This could be professional or personal skills. Strengths of person improves their
efficiency in particular task or work. Weaknesses are negative for growth, development and
work in any organization or personal life. If a person is lacking in some skills then this will be
considered in the weakness of the person. Opportunities can be considered as a chance that can
be used to gain advantage in personal carer and growth. Opportunities are also consists of
learning and gaining new skills which are good for personal and professional growth. Threats of
a person are the external factors that can create barriers in the success and development of a
person in their carrier and organization. In SWOT all these factors are learned by the analyser to
know the capability of individual employee in the organization to plan further changes in the
organization.
For hospitality sector there are different skills and qualities are required in a person. The
SWOT analysis is conducted by a employee to evaluate the personal capability and qualities. As
per qualities need in an employee in hospitality industry the SWOT analysis is performed (Faris,
2018). For swot analysis different tools and methods can be used to find and analysis the various
aspect of person in an organization.
SWOT
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1. Patience- For a job in the hospitality sector patience is most important thing. For the
hospitality sector employees should have ability to wait for different things. To deal
with clients in the Hotel industry is important for better client satisfaction. In Hotel
Hilton every different day various kind of customer come to stay and for all customer
the behaviour of employees should be good enough to make their stay comfortable for
them (Pais and dos Santos, 2015). Patience is also important to avoid the situations like
conflicts between employee and customers. As I have analysed that I am good at waiting
and can wait for longer time without getting troubled.
2. Careful- In Hotel Hilton we have to deal with different problems every day and also we
have to work with delicate luggage and cutlery of hotel and customers. It is important to
deal with these things with high care to keep them safe from damage (Rose, 2018). As I
have analysed that I am good at dealing with these objects. Also, this careful behaviour
is required in different activities in the hotel industry for high efficiency of hotel
operation.
3. Team Worker- Team working is required in all organization and operations. Efficiency
of organization and specific task is dependent on the effectiveness of team working and
cooperation. I have good experience of team working and in hotel industry different
operations are based on the team working. Functions like cooking, serving, managing
and house keeping services need coordination to finish those task with high efficiency
without affecting customer during their stay. The large experience helped me a lot to
learn about team working and cooperation.
4. Quick Learner- Hotel industry works on the real time working and efficiency. If
organization have to make certain change in the organization then they need to
implement that change in the running time without interrupting the other operations. I
am able to learn different things with in short time and this ability help me to learn new
things very fast.
5. Initiative Skills- As a team leader I am having efficient ability to take initiative in
different conditions to motivate the co-workers to perform different tasks in difficult
situations. My this skill is important for job in Hotel Hilton.
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Weaknesses
1. Perfection- This is one of my biggest weakness to perform tasks with high perfection
and accuracy (Lancer and Eatough, 2018). I ma very particular about my work in the
organization. This thing creat mess some times. This is little difficult for my collogues
to get compatible with my work.
2. Indecisive- To perform job in the hotel industry person need to be good at decision
making and this also a trouble to me that for difficult and uncertain conditions I am not
able to make clear decision and this is reducing my ability in team.
3. Less Concentration- For management in the hotel high concentration on work is
required and I got easily distracted while I am working on some project. This distraction
affect my work with dead lines.
4. Language-As English is second language that I have learned to get job. This is causing
me trouble to make communication with customers and collogues.
Opportunities
1. Presentation of Skills- For the professional carrier this will be very good to show of the
skills that I have learned through different courses.
2. New Carrier Direction- Innovative skills I have learned inside or outside the Hotel
Hilton Helped me a lot to plan a new carrier in the hotel industry.
3. New Challenges- New challenges can help me to learn and gain experience. This is also
important to gain growth in the organization.
4. Focus On New Technology- There are new technology are currently used in the hotel
industry and by learning this new technical skill will play crucial role in future carrier.
Threat
1. Other employees in the organization are big threat to my personal growth.
2. To learn new skills I need extra time and it is difficult for me.
3. The new entries in the hospitality sector is giving tough competition to experienced
employees of organization.
4. To start new things we required extra time and that is also a threat for me inn the
industry.
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Personal Development Plan
Personal development plan is a procedure of creating a action plan that is based on
awareness, goal setting, values, reflection and planning for personal development (Chen and
Huang, 2017). This personal development plan is related to carrier, education, relation or self
improvement. The self development plan is consists of different things like goals, priorities,
deadlines, strengths, new skills, actions and support.
Short term Time
Frame (3-6 months)
Mid Term Time Frame
(6 to 24 months)
Long Term Time
Frame (24 to 36
months)
Goals-
1. Learn To
concentrate
2. Communicati
on
Development
3. Cooperative
work
1. Develop a time
management
plan to reduce
the distraction.
2. Develop
vocabulary.
3. Get involve in
the team
operation.
1. Develop ability
to complete
work with in
the time to
meet time
lines.
2. Start speaking
with new
language and
communicate
with
employees.
3. Perform
needed actions
with new team
members.
1. Work
efficiently
without ant
time chart or
time table.
2. Get fluent in
speaking
English.
3. Get
comfortable
with team
members and
perform
together with
them.
Required Skills-
1. Increase focus
strength for
professional
work.
Focus Skills
1. Use meditation
and sports to
improve
concentration.
Communication
Skills
1. Try to improve
the English
grammar and
Team Working Skills
1. Team working
skill only can
be learn by
working in a
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2. Active
listening skills.
3. Decision
making and
problem
solving skills.
2. Try to avoid
distractions.
1. Stick to the
plan.
pronunciation
of difficult
words.
2. Develop
Listening skill
to develop
better
understanding.
team. So this
will take little
longer to learn
this skill.
Next Step-
Strategies
1. Start paying
attention to
different
things.
2. Use
mnemonics.
3. Rehearse
information to
develop better
understanding.
1. Learn basics of
verbal
communication
.
2. Record
important
presentation to
self analyse it.
3. Speak in front
of mirror.
1. Set example
for other
employees.
2. Build up trust
in other people.
3. Set defined
goals.
Required Resources 1. Time
management
tools.
2. Technology
3. Monitoring
tools.
1. Internet
2. Books
3. Video Journals.
1. Fund
2. Time
3. Mentor
Time Schedule This process will take
at least 5 to 7 months.
The improvements
will be visible in the
one to one and half
year.
To develop this skill
person have to spent at
least 2 to 3 years in an
organization.
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CONCLUSION
This report is concluding about the personal and professional skill development of an
employee of Hotel Hilton. Importance of the personal development is analysed in context of
carrier. SWOT analysis is conducted for the self evaluation process. A personal development
plan is developed to improve the personal skills of individual person in the organization. The
weakness of the person are taken as skills to develop and whole plan was executed as per the
needs of employee. Form the execution of development plan personal development process has
been learned.
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