Analyzing HR Skills, Learning, and Performance at Aston Martin

This report delves into the essential knowledge, skills, and behaviors required of HR professionals, using Aston Martin as a case study. It examines the importance of management skills, IT proficiency, teamwork, and leadership. The report analyzes individual and organizational learning, training, and development, emphasizing the need for continuous professional development to drive sustainable business performance. It explores the application of learning cycle theories and the benefits of implementing high-performance work (HPW) practices to enhance employee engagement and competitive advantage. Furthermore, the report evaluates various approaches to performance management, assessing their effectiveness in supporting a high-performance culture. The analysis includes a personal skills audit, SWOT analysis, and a proposed professional development plan. The report provides a comprehensive overview of HR practices, offering insights into the skills and strategies needed for organizational success.

DEVELOPING
INDIVIDUIALAS,
TEAMS AND
ORGANISATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Determine appropriate professional knowledge, skills and behaviour that required by HR
professionals................................................................................................................................3
P2 Analyse completed personal skills audit to identify appropriate knowledge, skills and
behaviour and develop professional development plan..............................................................5
M1 Provide detailed professional skills audit that demonstrate personal reflection and
evaluation....................................................................................................................................9
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9
P3 Analyse differences between organisational and individual learning, training and
development................................................................................................................................9
P4 Analyse need for continuous learning and professional development to drive sustainable
business performance................................................................................................................11
M2 Apply learning cycle theories to analyse importance of implementing continuous
professional development..........................................................................................................12
D1Produce detailed professional plan development plan that appropriately set out learning. .12
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................12
P5 Demonstrate understanding of how HPW contributes to employee engagement and
competitive advantage within specific organisational situation................................................12
M3 Analyse benefits of applying HPW with justifications to specific organisational situation
...................................................................................................................................................13
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................14
P6 Evaluate different approaches to performance management...............................................14
M4 Critically evaluate different approaches and make judgement on how effective they can
support high performance culture.............................................................................................15
D2 Provide valid synthesis of knowledge and information resulting appropriate judgements.15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
INTRODUCTION

Individual and team of the organisation it is work like a management, in which they do
work in a group or individuals which is select their goals and objective for the organisation.
Employees have to loyal about work or for the organisation. So, they develop their skills and
gain the knowledge. And experience plays a very important role because what employee did
commit mistakes in previous organisation. They have a chance to improve themselves.
Organisation cant run without team, it requires the excellent team work to select their goals. And
team work defines the majority of the work. In they are work for each other and brush up their
skills which is necessary for the personal as well as future growth. This reports include the
massive brand of the auto mobile industry which name is ASTON MARTIN( Barratt, 2018) .
Aston martin is highly famous for its manufacture of luxury sports cars and epic tourers
machines with high octane power along excellent brake horse power. The owner of this brand is
David Richard and investment Dar and company was founded by Lionel martin and Robert
Bamford in 15 January 1913. headquarters are situated in Gaydon, united kingdom,
Warwickshire, England. They served its cars at globally, and number of employees works in this
organisation around 2,350. Although, this reports includes the knowledge, skills, behaviour
which is required by the HR professionals. Along with the factors which implementing,
evaluating, inclusive learning and development to drive the efficient enterprise program and also
considered to apply the knowledge the way of understanding, effective communication
collaboration of work. This thing is very beneficial for the organisation to achieve the success.
TASK 1
P1 Determine appropriate professional knowledge, skills and behaviour that required by HR
professionals
Human resources management is the method of selection, recruitment, conducting
orientation, performance of the employee, build strong relations among the employees, offering
benefits and it ensures the employee safety, welfare and health measures, development
appraising. It also approaches the the efficient administration of the persons in an organisation.
Such as, to gain the business competitive benefits. And it is built for increase the performance of
the employee. In addition to the Aston martin includes the skills, knowledge and behaviour.
Knowledge

 Management It is necessary for HR manager to examine and control all the task that are
connected with workforce of the corporation. It ensures all the activities which is done by
the administration to get the success. The general manger of Aston martin requires the
excellent skills like: effective communication, motivation of employees etc. they must
have understood the assumptions which is connected to the human resources
management. It shows the results, which is done in certain period of time. Even though,
administration also helps to do execute the projects in significant manner(Martin, and
Manley, 2018) .
 Information Technology Today all tasks are performed with the help of information
technology. It includes the smart devices, software’s, tablets, laptops are needs of the
personnel’s to perform the projects with the help of information technology. So, This is
compulsory for Aston martin manager to adopt the technological skills to finish the task
in ethical manner( Staniszewska, and et. al 2018).
Skills
 Group and team work HR manger work with large number employees which work in
group and team to complete the organisation task which keeps the steps towards the
success. Aston martin doing its work globally so, administration explicate the group to
complete the work in significant manner. The seeking skills for the employee is helpful
for the human resources to build the better coordination towards the employees which
makes a good relation between employer and employee.
 Leadership skills- leaders plays a very important part in the organisation. They put more
efforts on the task along with the employees and keep motivating the employees to come
up with higher results. It requires because to motivate the working area or to fulfil the
needs and work on the objectives. The manager of Aston martin learn the leadership
skills, to encourage the employees to do work and come with great outcomes with
minimum utilisation of resources( Backholer, 2018).
Behaviour
 Self motivated- This weapon is very essential in life in every step. This weapon is to
grab more success in the corporation and marketplace is to act all activity do with self-
motivation. It involves in the operations and activities so that strategy for corporation are

developed in well manner. It also implements on the manager of Aston martin which they
do motivate them and willing to work more effective and efficient.
 Overcoming for problems- This is mandatory for the HR managers to add on right
authorities in the corporation in which outcomes is simple to performing the task to
overcome from difficulties that effects on the company operations. Aston Martin is
known as superior luxury brand in all over the world which needs to conduct all the
projects in well manner. HR managers also interest that organisation build positive
atmosphere which never effects on culture and climate of the corporation ( Elo, and
Vincze, 2019).
P2 Analyse completed personal skills audit to identify appropriate knowledge, skills and
behaviour and develop professional development plan
In business organisation the main reason of working is to developed the firm in the
present changing environment so that goals and objectives can be attained effectively and
efficiently. In this CPD i.e. continuing professional development helps in tracking the document
and related skills, knowledge and experience of a person that is gained in their management job
on formal and informal manner. In other terms continuing professional development is a process
of recording what a person is to be experienced, executed and study to enhance their overall
development for future perspective within organisation ( Joel-Edgar, and Gopsill ,2018) .
CPD helps the company to maintain and organise all the employee’s skills that can use
for enhancing the enterprise professional services related to their customers and potential buyers.
In this business venture must assure that they executed the skills and knowledge within working
area which is relevant and upgraded to attain the task in possible manner as per the set time
frame. This business sales assistant manager play and perform the vital role for gaining the high
profitable results by completing the task in effective and efficient manner ( Wilke, 2018) . In this
Multinational, retail and wholesale organisations can offer the goods for sustaining in
international market and setting the high image in the global market by focusing on sales
practices in effective and efficient manner. This helps in generating the results by
communicating with customers so that perception can be developed. It is related to the company
offerings within their mind can be enhanced in effective manner. For the assistant manager of the
business enterprise it is very easy to manage and maximise the future sales so that high profits
can be attained. It also reflects that several task are to be included to communicate and connect

with the market people for a particular reason related to enhancing the profits by business. IN
this assistant manager play an essential role in developing the strategies that is prepare by
analysing the external environment so that it helps in beating the competition within market
place. In terms of Continuous development plan it is important to learn and adopts the new skills
based on the current market conditions. IN this assistant manager can also help in evaluating the
development of personal audit so that weak factors can be improvised effectively and firm will
highly focus on encouraging the high factors( Gabbett, and et. al, 2018).
Personal skill audit- It refers to the process of analysing the level of expertise in the
range of several skills and knowledge. It helps in examining the company to focus on which
skills and knowledge is to be needed to developed for sustaining to a longer period of time. It
includes the Table that can reflects the personal skills audit for assistant manager of the company
and also the global brands( Coetzee, 2018) .
Ability Personal audit questionnaire 1 2 3 4 5
Management Organise the time so that work can be
done systematically.
*
Computing
machine
Nice in accomplishing task on time *
Know Microsoft office and its usage *
Effective use of Microsoft windows *
Communication oral communication *
In writing communication *
Display in front of public *
Non-verbal communication *
Leadership Always come with some innovative ideas
and thoughts
*
Good for the team mates to follow *
Encouraging and motivating team mates. *
Teamwork Good to work with different people in a
group
*
Acquire and transmit of thought and
content
*

Good to involve in a teamwork that shows
participations
*
Problem solving Good to solve the issues that are arise
within the company.
*
To effectively manage the critical issues. *
Self-motivate Positive and extrovert, easy to connect
with other person
*
Accountable and focus on taking initiative *
Cheerful and helpful *
Guidance - 1) Bad, 2) Not bad, 3) Average, 4) Good, 5) Excellent
By analysing the above prepared table it elucidates the several skills and also their related
audit in accomplishing the work with their rates based on their capability to connect with their
team mates and employees. On the basis of skills and their related audit the table based on
SWOT analysis can be prepared within Aston Martin as a sales assistant can be shown below:
Strength Weakness
 From the above analysis the major
strength can reflects that I am best to
manage the time and work so that it
will be completed on time.
 I am also best in writing due to this I
can communicate with client and team
mates using mail for explaining the
roles and responsibilities.
 Another major strength is to work
effectively within groups.
 The major weaknesses is my oral skills
which is not so good due to which I can
face major issues in presenting myself
in front of so many employees.
 The inspiring power is not so strong
that will affect the leadership quality
and also affect the creative work within
firm.
 In this my information technology skill
is also not so good due to this I can face
the issue in managing and operating the
work within firm.
Opportunity Threats
 The biggest opportunity is my self-
encouraging skills that helps in
competing the work effectively in
 The main threat is not having a good
technical skill due to which work is to
suffer as it includes the error.

timely basis.
 Another opportunity is to completing
the big projects effectively(Widmann,
and Mulder, , 2018) .
 Not effective verbal communication is
creating a threat in completing the
operations and conveying the message
efficiently and effectively.
According to the analysis of SWOT person weaknesses is to be identified and to
overcome this issues personal development plan is to be prepare so that the weak skills and
knowledge also to be enhanced that can be shown below:
Personal development plan
Area for
development
Date on
which
skills are
learned
Ways of
learning skills
Present
happening
How to
examine
achieving
targets
Progress
Computers
software
01-10-2020
to 05-11-
2020
To enhance the
skills related to
technical
software like
Microsoft
word and excel
I can focus on
taking online
lectures and
classes.
By reading the
magazines and
books it is
simple to
execute the
work
effectively.
To get the
higher
success I can
focus on
taking the
full guidance
to complete
their jobs in
appropriate
manner.
In enhancing
the
knowledge
related to
computers
my current
skills is very
helpful to
progress
knowledge
and also
employees
performance.
Verbal
Communicatio
n
15-10-2020
to 30-11-
2020
For developing
the skills
related to
communicatio
n more
importantly
Attending
seminars and
participating in
presentations t
can learned
effectively to
For
enhancing
the success
and see the
development
I can focus
For
enhancing the
knowledge, I
can deliver
the
presentation

oral I have
decided to
participate in
the seminars
and
presentation.
communicate
in groups and
many
employees
effectively.
on analysing
my
performance
on timely
basis in
appropriate
manner.
and message
that includes
major
information
to complete
the task on
time.
Reflective statement
Name Description
Select a specific job role for reflecting
statement
The selected role is assistant sales manager in a
company because of my good communication and
team handling skills. Because of this I can easily
convince the people effectively.
Challenging task related to job role The major complexity of this job position is to
handling the complexity for attaining the goals
because every individual have their own skill to
reach the goal and to handle all of them in a group
is major.
Reflect reason the most challenging task
according to personal skills audit
The most challenging part that can found in
completing the task is developing the
communication skills. Because of language issues
communication is difficult to me nut by practising
it on regular basis I can enhance it
M1 Provide detailed professional skills audit that demonstrate personal reflection and evaluation
The business development manager has various skill behavior and knowledge that is
beneficial for the overall outcomes and subordinates of productivity. To become an excellent
development counselor in addition to SWOT analysis which helps to conducting the strength,
weakness, opportunities, and threats to acquire the outstanding growth. Plan is built to evaluate
major weakness and give the explanation of threats which must be improve to gain trust of the
candidates with the help of increasing revenue and moral of employees.

TASK 2
P3 Analyse differences between organisational and individual learning, training and
development
This is compulsory for the organisation because they should know how to do work in
ethical manner which takes the organisation in hype. Learning is very important is any field and
without learning nothing is impossible. It improves the skills and gives the new opportunity to
perform the well.
Learning: learning is a tool in which achieve something special and new knowledge,
behaviour, values, ideas, thoughts, understanding, preferences. This thing is done by humans,
animals or by machine. It relates to permanent change in human of knowledge and learning due
to experience. In the context of Aston martin, they have learned to grab the new opportunities
which is beneficial for the organisation. What is the need of the consumer? They are looking for
sports tourers or rally tracking machines and 4x4 cars. Which organisation able to generate bulk
revenue( Zeier, Plimmer,and Franken, 2018) .
Individual learning Organisational learning
1. It is a method in which changing the
behaviour and knowledge of the broker.
So, it identifies in with in one or two
times. In this agent would learn new
strategy and they can find the new
strategies to implement on the situation
and develop the different representation
condition.
2. This changes might be take more new
variations in the environment of the
organisation and able to conducting a
task and more intended about realities.
Individual learning implement the better
performances and good decision making.
1. Organisational learning is a tool in
which company change itself over the
timing of gaining the experience and
implement the experience to build a
knowledge and its going to transfer in
the organisation.
2. It involves the creation, retention, and
transferring the knowledge with in the
company. It gives a greater strength to
the firm( Söderhjelm, and et. al, 2018).

TRAINING DEVELOPMENT
 Training defines as developing,
teaching, creating, new skills,
knowledge or fitness to identify or
relate towards the new things.
 Training means that to giving training
for a particular work. Which gives the
higher knowledge to perform the best
in the battle.
 Development is a tool which helps to
build growth, to come best outcomes,
positive change in context of
environmental, physical, economic,
social and demographical factors.
 The major reason of development is to
change the quality of product along
with the level. It involves the huge
expansion of local monetary value,
opportunities of employment without
any kind of difficulties.
P4 Analyse need for continuous learning and professional development to drive sustainable
business performance
Learning is tool which builds the knowledge is developed to grab the previous aspects by
transforming itself. In addition to learning on continuous basis, it shows the achievements of
knowledge skills and show the previous aspects in certain time of period it goes as an ongoing
method, which involves the aims of the corporation, methodologies and results. It gives the
success in professional along with personal life. The overview success of the company in its own
basis of workforce that is beneficial to fulfill the continuous professional development. This
thing creates various difficulties and or challenges and own induction for the outcomes and
improvement of the organization(Johnson, and Voelkel, 2019) . To maintain the enterprise in
the complex environment. This is mandatory to keep step ahead in continuous seeking program
which given below:
 Plan:The present situation becomes bit accurate and also necessary in identify the
prominent aims and objectives of Aston martin. It shows with the help of CPD planning.
It also beneficial to build the corporation with the outstanding needs and opportunities for
the micro and macro strategies that takes good place or advantages to grab the more

experience. How it helpful, in terms of outstanding questions which is necessary to be
acquired( Degbey, and Einola, 2020).
 Do: It enhances the execution of plan and describes the method which revert into plan of
action. To execute the action and its needs to give various skills and enhance the
candidate in addition to giving the outstanding turnings for the employee which feel
connected with the corporation, although encourage their networking along with
communication.
 Record: In this process, elaborate the standard which action should be observed,
implemented, and checking by the supervisors to acquired excellence and growth. In this
keep record of the overall methods of strategies and analyze the different factors such as:
training experience, that are beneficial in the professional development(Calvard, and
Jeske, 2018). Reflect: It knows as beneficial kit which is necessary in different applications of
practices and these changes comes in desirable results. And raises the time of plan, which
take advantage in value of work and elaborate different deviations that is a important part
of CPD which is addressed.
 Submit: It shows the final deposition with the do away with risk from action which
considered last part of this plan. It involves the procedure of recordings which is insistent
in nature, and help to determine the coming reprobate with the action.
M2 Apply learning cycle theories to analyse importance of implementing continuous
professional development
Learning is very helpful in every aspect of the in addition to develop knowledge, and
skills regarding the particular organization. Organization acquire success in complex atmosphere
meanwhile knowledge for their development. Continuous program development takes the
efficient follow ups of the outcomes and to determines the different key factor which creates
hurdles in path of success. It is necessary to identify and record to seeking the results in terms of
plans and strategies.
LEARNING THEORIES
 Behaviorism learning theory- It refers to that learning theory in which a person behaved
according to the interaction with their surrounding. In suggested that an individual can
learn their behaviors from external sources as compare to internal sources. In Context of