Personal Development for Employment: Skills and Development Report

This report delves into personal development strategies crucial for enhancing employability. It begins by exploring various learning styles, followed by an in-depth SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report then addresses potential barriers to learning, such as childcare, work-life balance, and financial constraints, offering solutions to overcome these challenges. Furthermore, it outlines learning options tailored to meet personal demands, support mechanisms for self and peer development, and a comprehensive development plan with specific goals, actions, and target outcomes. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of self-improvement and the utilization of various methods to control and enhance personal development, highlighting the significance of skills such as time management and communication. The report draws on various academic sources to support its findings.

Personal Development For
Employment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Personal learning styles ...................................................................................................3
1.2 Techniques to find personal development needs..............................................................4
1.3 Potential barriers for learning...........................................................................................4
1.4 Barriers to learning overcome..........................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Learning options to meet personal demands. ..................................................................6
2.2 Support mechanism for development of self and other members....................................6
2.3 Development plan to achieve personal learning objectives.............................................6
2.4 Method which used to control personal development. ....................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is usually life long process. This is how the people access their
qualities and skills in the consideration for the aims and goals .So through which they maximise
their possible way of improvisation. This assignment depicts all the skills through which they are
able to contour their skills and capabilities so they can achieve their life goals by heighten their
prospectives of employability. Personal development demands for the great plans so, which
Automatically leads to the positive effects and help in personal management (Wickramasinghe
and Perera, 2010). This report will present the learning styles, and find the barriers to learning
and ways through which it can be overcome.
TASK 1
1.1 Personal learning styles
Learning model is basically a conceptual framework which defines organised process for
the learning experiences. So they can achieve their objectives which may serve as the guide for
learning. Some of the learning models are as follows: -
Diverging Learning style: - In this learning style an individual prefers to notice and
observe carefully before they take over in that practical implementation mediate. Usually people
who adopt this style are usually in artistic profession in which rational creative efforts are
needed.
Converging learning style: - In this learning style they usually are more concerned about
the practical and applicable work more as compared to the theoretical and exceptional.
Specifically, this style is adopted by those who are more willing to do difficult tasks resolving.
As according to these, there are some learning models which I enjoy technically and
practical task in which they demands for the collecting and understanding wide information in
very logical format. Therefore, resolving the problem is also a skill in the terms of advising the

teams by dictating them how to solve issues and problems in the process of management as well
(Treuren and Anderson, 2010).
1.2 Techniques to find personal development needs.
SWOT analysis is a tool which help to find my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and
threats are as follows :-
Strengths Weaknesses
My actual strength is I got very good
communication skills. I am not short temper as
well which keeps me cool and calm at my
work place. I am hard working and concerned
about my work and try to achieve it in the best
possible manner. I am basically good at
performing well in the under pressure which
supports me and motivated me to complete
challenge.
I am very emotional person, which at times
becomes hurdle between me and my goals. I
easily get emotionally attached to people which
distracts me some times. I need motivation
from time to time, otherwise I would feel
monotonous.
Opportunities Threats
As, I perused journalism and mass
communications through which, I got many
opportunities to observe and notice the social
environment. Whether in the future there is
probability to get many opportunities in
electronic media and print media as well.
Through which will probably get chance to
reveal the truth and actual mirror of the society
in front of the people.
In the workplace, I recently faced one threat
that was another person assigned at the same
designation as mine. But his knowledge and
experience was superior and the organisation
valued and preferred him more as compared to
me. If there is high competition in the
organisation it demands to be perform well to
stay in the competition if not then there will be
chances of the out of the competition which
resultant to be disastrous.

1.3 Potential barriers for learning.
There are some barriers which become hurdle in the process of learning. There are some
barriers which are as follows: -
Childcare: - When I usually attend the classes or either at home there is children who
always demands for the extra care and nourishment. It needs some time as well through which it
is hard to for me to handle and focus about the both important things (Stephenson and Yorke,
2013). There are many responsibilities of kids to looks after them while studying, so it’s hard to
manage both at same time.
Work life Balance: - When it comes to work balance, it’s quite hard to manage
professional and personal life with the proper way and concerned about these (Spencer, 2013).
Along with overcrowded schedule there I got very few time to relax myself while busy with all
these stuffs.
Financial barriers: - To manage family along with managing study is quite typical in the
routine life. It demands for good financial budget and I can’t afford all these, so I took student
education load which helped me to continue my study further.
Geographical barriers: - Usually isn't very far from my home it will take some time and
will reach there within some few minutes. But when I am at work then I have to travel more for
my classes. I usually opt carpooling with others as it saves time as well as money.
Social barriers: - No, I am not first in the family who is perusing higher education, there
is little pressure from them like to become and chive some good goals. They have higher
expectations from me and they are supportive.
1.4 Barriers to learning overcome.
Childcare: - When I attend my classes there is baby sitter to take care of my children
after me, while at home I do it by myself. There is a nanny for backup emergency and I usually
schedule my holidays so I as to give quality time to my family.
Work life balance: - I manage and schedule my plan in a way so that I could manage all
my work, home as well as family, and plan holidays in advance for that. By this overcrowded
schedule I plan and make strategies and I compel them totally that's how I manage all of them.
Financial barrier: - It is hard when you don’t have enough financial resources and in
that you have to manage home and studies both (Rosenbloom, 2014). As such I preferred to
take student education loan in which I am totally comfortable with that.

Geographical barrier: - I go to class easily by my bicycle, its little far from my work
place so I prefer carpooling because I don't have my own car.
Social barriers: - I am not the first one who is pursuing higher studies, my siblings and
parents feel good about what I’m doing something good in carrier. They feel proud that I’m
managing personal and professional life altogether by own. They expect from me a lot and they
are truly supportive when I need them by my side. If they will be resentful then probably I will
give them real examples and make them understand that education is important it will help me
getting great carrier opportunities in future (Fossey and Harvey, 2010).
TASK 2
2.1 Learning options to meet personal demands.
As according to the, my personal SWOT analysis I realised that I want to stay on the
same designation and learn more by gaining experience. It helps me to get empower and resolve
the threats. So, job appraisal is needed so it will get me motivated to do hard work more and
meet my personal demands by getting experience and appraisal of the job. I need to work more
on my weakness and try to overcome and work on them so on, I will get better result in the work
place by performing well.
2.2 Support mechanism for development of self and other members.
There are many factors which brings hurdles in carrier path and to overcome them I need
to plan a good strategy through which I will able to give appropriate time to all the aspects of my
life such as social, geographical, financial, child care and balance the life through all these. I
need support of my family and friends so that I can accomplish my cognitive content and
enhance by skills through which able to achieve my goals and objectives and get the better,
positive result. (Boxall, 2013).
2.3 Development plan to achieve personal learning objectives.
Goals Action Target
Education Increase the study time to
28hrs per weak. Keep track of
how many hours spent, or
To raise the study time so
achieve good marks and
grades.

increase if necessary.
WorkComplete all the
challenges and tasks by time.
And keep self-updated with
new technologies.
Job appraisal and job
promotions.
Financial Manage home, study
financially and took student
education loans.
Pay back the student education
loan .
Child care To give them time to take care
of them and nourish them.
pamper and nourish them in
proper manner by passing
good values.
2.4 Method which used to control personal development.
This personal development plan, it provides the full framework which make that single
person to identify their strength and weakness and how to use them by overcoming through these
weaknesses. They provide the guide to analyse the establishment and enhancing of capabilities
and skills which directly or indirectly help them to raise the personal growth and due to this they
perform well. There are few factors and methods if we compel them then that help individual to
enhance our performance such as current skills, time management, leadership skills,
communication skills, decision making skill, self-management skills and with SWOT analysis
too (Arrowsmith, 2011).
CONCLUSION
This report concluded that the self-improvement is very important by analysing skills,
strengths through which we can empower them, imperfection through which overcome them,
opportunities to grab them and prepare oneself for resolving threats. It is important to plan and
make strategies so this will help in managing all the schedule whether if its related to the
personal life or professional one. It also mentions development options and how to meet personal
demands and strategies through which they achieve self-objectives and raise growth.

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