Developing HR Skills: A Personal Learning and Development Plan

This personal development plan is designed for an aspiring HR Manager, focusing on identifying goals, strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. It begins with a skills audit, assessing problem-solving, communication, management, and technological skills, among others. Strengths include public speaking, strategic thinking, and people orientation, while weaknesses encompass time management, forward-thinking competence, and command of technology. The plan outlines opportunities such as improving networking and management skills, and addresses threats like rapid changes in the business environment and high competition. Goals are set to solve problems, enhance management skills, improve technological command, and develop forward-thinking abilities. Personal objectives include organizing a morning routine, exploring new things daily, and long-term goals of attaining a position in a multinational company and doubling productivity. A development record details activities like attending seminars and playing online games to enhance skills. This detailed plan serves as a roadmap for self-improvement and career advancement, emphasizing continuous learning and skill development.

Personal Development
Plan

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Stage 1: Analysis.........................................................................................................................1
Stage 2: Setting goals...................................................................................................................3
Stage 3: Personal objectives........................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal development plan could be referred to an action plan which is used for
identification of goal of a student, their strengths and weaknesses, areas of improvement and
actions for meeting the goals. It helps learners to learn something new together with achieve new
heights in career (Meisha and Al‐dabbagh, 2021). The present personal development plan is
prepared for HR Manager which is a profession wherein an individual oversee activities
including recruitment, interviewing, selection, training and development of new staff.
The assessment includes analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of a
student. It further includes setting goals and personal development plan.
MAIN BODY
Stage 1: Analysis
Personal analysis is a phase of self-evaluation wherein an individual identifies their
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. With this, a student is able to assess themselves
for planning a career. It could be done at any phase of life in order to determine educational
choices, self-improvement or growth opportunities. To perform personal analysis, a skill audit is
effective.
Skill audit
It is assessment of knowledge, skills and behaviour of an individual. It is concerned with
analysing needs and personal development (Cunningham and Stein, 2018). For making career as
HR Manager, my skill audit is as follows:
Skills required Rating
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Problem solving skill ✓
Administrative expert ✓
Communication skill ✓
Networking skill ✓
Management skill ✓
Administrative expert ✓
Command of technology ✓
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Teamwork skill ✓
Cultural awareness and sensitivity ✓
Strategic thinking ✓
People orientation ✓
Time management ✓
Forward thinking competence ✓
Public speaking ✓
Strengths:
My strength to make career as HR Manager are as identified:
 Good with public speaking: I have analysed that my public speaking skill is
good as I am able to speak fluently to group of listeners in engaging as well as
comfortable manner.
 Strategic thinking: My strategic thinking is great as I have an intentional along
with rational thought process which emphasises more on analysing critical factors
as well as variables which influences long term success of mine.
 People orientation: I am more people oriented as I prefer engaging directly with
people in my day to day work life.
 Presentation skill: My presentation skill is excellent that help me to create
innovative ideas for illustrating talks with others.
Weaknesses:
My weaknesses for career in HR Manager are as determined:
 Lack of time management: I fail to manage my time in various activities as I
have no control over my time because of which I end up letting tasks sit at last
minute.
 Limited forward thinking competence: I lack forward thinking capability due to
limited emphasis on finding sustainable work life balance.
 Low command on technology: My command over technology is low as I have
low knowledge about emerging technology that makes me low confident in using
advanced technologies to finish tasks.
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 Not able to solve all problems: I lack ability to solve problems in various
situations as I avoid to take actions or invest my time in providing solutions to
complexities.
Threats:
The threats for career in HR Manager are below:
 Rapid changes in external business environment: It is threat for me to make
career as HR Manager as changes in external business environment or industries
are rapid.
 High number of qualified candidates in market: In the market, competition
among candidates for position of HR Manager in a multinational company is
high.
Opportunities:
My opportunities to pursue career for HR Manager are underneath:
 Improving networking skill: It is an opportunity for me to improve my
networking skill through creating a solid network for making connections in
industry through my personal connections.
 Developing management skill: To build a career as HR Manager, it is one of
opportunity for me to develop management skill as it will aid to position me an
effective leader that can make rational and effective decisions and problem
solving to bring clarity in all kinds of situations.
Stage 2: Setting goals
What do I
want/need to
learn?
What will I do to
achieve this?
What resources or
support will I need?
What will my
success
criteria be?
Target
dates for
review and
completion
To solve
problems
(Problem
solving skill)
 Work out my
brain with logic
games or Puzzles
or Games.
 Using mind maps
 Top
management
support.
 Statistical data
on
Success
criteria for
learning the
skill is to
solve
February
15, 2022
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for visualising
problems.
 Creating
psychological
distance.
 Brainstorming
ideas.
organisational
issues.
 Practice during
social activities.
problems that
arises around
my nearby or
in my
personal and
professional
life.
To manage
people
(Management
skill)
 Reinforcing good
habits.
 Cultivating self-
awareness.
 Carving out time
for making
reflection.
 Complete
management
training.
 Management
books.
 Online courses.
 Training and
development
sessions.
Success
criteria for
learning
people
management
skill is to lead
a team and
February
20, 2022
To have
command on
technology
(Technological
skill)
 Reading technical
books.
 Allocating
adequate time for
performing
research and
exploration of
variant
technologies.
 Spending time
with technical
people.
 Using different
software.
 YouTube
videos.
 Online Courses
as well as
Training
programs.
 Seminars &
Conferences.
Success
criteria for
developing
command
over
technology is
becoming
expert to use
any
technology for
performing
working.
March 01,
2020
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 Learning
programming.
To think
forward
(Future
thinking skill)
 Taking risks, kick
tries along with
experiments.
 Leaning on
particular
industry addition
to peer to peer
networks.
 Controlling news
feed.
 Finding energy in
others.
 Adopting
winning edge
concept.
 Developing
personal foresight
system.
 Playing amusing
puzzle and other
online games.
 Small group
activities.
 Discussions.
 Digital
storytelling
videos.
 Online games.
Success
criteria for
developing
forward-
thinking skill
includes
analysing
situation and
providing
adequate
solutions for
circumstances.
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2022
To build
networking
(Networking
skill)
 Emphasising on
‘Know, Like
addition to Trust’
factor.
 Building
relationships with
professionals.
 Leveraging
 Social media
platforms.
 Online courses.
 Learning
materials.
Success
criteria for
building
networking
skill is having
personal
contacts with
huge
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25, 2022
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influential
connections.
 Honing
impressive
elevator pitch.
 Attending
industrial events.
professionals
and strong
presence in
social media
platforms.
Stage 3: Personal objectives
Personal objectives are specific goals of a person which they expect to attain in the
upcoming period (Bautista-Mesa, Molina Sánchez and Ramírez Sobrino, 2018). It permits an
individual to reflect on ways for a better quality of their life by self-improvement. Setting
personal objectives assist in triggering new behaviors, guide emphasis together with aid in
sustaining momentum in life. My personal objectives are as follows:
Short-term goals (next 12 months)
 Organising morning routine: To organise my morning routine for getting disciplined in the
ways to align work schedule with the day I face ahead.
 Exploring new things everyday: To unleash my inner potentials through trying out something
new and explore new things every day.
 Forward thinking skill: To learn ways for thinking abut solutions to issues that might arise in
future.
 Networking skill: Networking is ticket for collaboration as well as learning from the industrial
point of view.
Medium term goals (next 2-3 years)
 Completing HRM course: To complete the HRM Course with good grades.
 Learning new language: To experience different cultures as well as learn new language.
Longer-term goals (beyond 3 years)
 Attain position in Multinational company: All students have long term goal that they would
love to work for. To set my sights on multinational company addition to strive for HR
Manager position.
 Have command over technology: To gain command over variant of technologies.
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 Doubling productivity level: To double up my productivity level and remembering schedule
to manage complex workings.
Development Record
NAME: STUDENT NUMBER:
COVERING
THE PERIOD
FROM:
TO:
Key dates What did you
do?
Why? What did you learn
from this?
How have/will you
use this?
Any further
action?
February
05, 2021
I have attended a
seminar to
develop
networks.
Seminars are attended
as they are good way
for building
networking and
learning perspectives
of others about a
situation or event
(Sleptsova and
Sokolova, 2018).
While attending
seminars, I have
gained knowledge
about making
interactions with
professionals from
field of Human
Resource
Management.
It will be used by
me to build
networks at
multination al
company and
learning about new
skills based on
concerned subject.
February
10, 2022
Spending time
with technical
people.
Spending time with
technicians helped
me to build skill set
of technological
competence and
overview about
ample number of
technologies together
With this, I have
learned about various
technologies and
software that are used
in multinational
ventures to manage
people.
I will use the
acquired learning
while working in a
multinational
company as HR
Manager to manage
group of workforce.
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with their usage.
February
15, 2020
Started playing
online games
To develop quick
decision-making
skills and improve
competence for
dealing with
unexpected situations
(Chan, Wan and Ko,
2019).
In playing online
games, I have learnt
about clear indications
required in taking
future actions.
Learning developed
while playing
online games will
be used to make
future decisions and
completing working
in a team.
CONCLUSION
From the presented information, it is concluded that with a personal development plan,
student plan career and work for building their existing skills. Skill audit provides detailed
information about most essential areas related to skill development, comprehensive review about
individual abilities. Personal objectives are significant for a learner as they define what is
important and required quality of efforts to attain goals for career.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Bautista-Mesa, R., Molina Sánchez, H. and Ramírez Sobrino, J. N., 2018. Audit workplace
simulations as a methodology to increase undergraduates’ awareness of
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Chan, S. C., Wan, C. J. and Ko, S., 2019. Interactivity, active collaborative learning, and learning
performance: The moderating role of perceived fun by using personal response
systems. The International Journal of Management Education. 17(1). pp.94-102.
Cunningham, L. M. and Stein, S. E., 2018. Using visualization software in the audit of revenue
transactions to identify anomalies. Issues in Accounting Education. 33(4). pp.33-46.
Meisha, D. E. and Al‐dabbagh, R. A., 2021. Self‐confidence as a predictor of senior dental
student academic success. Journal of Dental Education.
Sleptsova, M. V. and Sokolova, N. V., 2018. Formalization of Students' Individual Educational
Objectives for E-Learning. Astra Salvensis. 6. pp.67-74.
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