SH4004: Crafting a Personal Development Plan for Professional Growth

This essay presents a personal development plan focused on enhancing skills relevant to the health and social care sector. It addresses challenges in communication, team working, and clinical skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and adaptation. The plan incorporates theories such as cognitive and behavioral theory and Tuckman's team-building model to improve communication and teamwork. It reflects on research interests, particularly qualitative research and the deductive approach, to understand diverse perspectives. Gibbs' Reflective Cycle is used to evaluate experiences and plan future actions. The author aims to improve their ability to deliver effective services to patients by developing these skills and embracing a commitment to ongoing professional development. Desklib offers a variety of resources, including similar essays and solved assignments, to aid students in their studies.

Personal Development
Plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LEARNING ON THE MODULE...................................................................................................1
RESEARCH INTERESTS..............................................................................................................2
PRINCIPLES AND VALUES CHALLENGED THROUGH PARTICIPATION ON THIS
MODULE........................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Personal development plan of my own will be covering the different challenges that I
have faced while learning. Since I am willing to make a professional career within health and
social care sector, is pretty much needed for me to overcome the different challenges that I have
already mentioned like communication and team working skills. Along with this, personal
development plan will also going to take into consideration of different theories that will help me
out in improvising different skills that I am lacking in. On the other hand, considering different
approaches like taking communication classes in order to improve my vocabulary and moreover
working with my colleagues and lecturers will help me out in becoming a successful specialist in
health and social care sector.
LEARNING ON THE MODULE
There are a range of learning needs that are required by me to fulfil in order to become a
specialist within health and social care sector. Improving communication skills required for need
to improve my overall learning because as I mentioned in the previous assessment that English is
not my native language which has impacted negatively on my performance level why learning
different clinical skills and engaging with my colleagues, supervisors and lecturers. another
crucial learning need that came in front was improvisation of clinical skills as I am looking
forward to grab an abortion within health and social care sector where it is may be possible that I
have to perform different activities in a certain time frame if any sort of situation takes place just
like the whole world is dealing with outbreak of Corona Virus or Covid-19 (Harlock and et. al.,
2020).
Basically, if I will become effective within clinical skills then it is may be possible that I
might start delivering services to do the patients dealing with any sort of injuries disease and so
on. In present context, I have taken different actions in order to improve my communication
skills I have started ring online classes in order to improve my vocabulary, reading dictionary,
novels and so on. On the other hand, in order to improve my team working skill I first improved
my listening skill through which I can judge the other person with whom I am working and give
them suggestions based on the analysis over a particular topic. In order to improve
communication skills, I have utilised cognitive and behavioural theory, which might lead me to
understand other person’s perspective in rightful manner. Because it is must for me to become
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much more effective within communication skills because I have to deal with a number of
individuals that belongs to different cultures but knows English as it is universal language in
present time.
Basically, in order to improve my team working skills I have taken into consideration of
Tuckman’s team building theory where there are four different stages that I have to consider
which will not only help me but my colleagues also to get clarification of different range of
tasks. Forming, storming, norming and performing are the different phases of this theory which
will first help in identifying the different team members, assigning of different jobs, building
understanding of a particular group and then it will also lead to improve the performance level of
my own with the team and of my colleagues as well. On the other hand, in order to improve
clinical skills, I have started practicing based on the instructions given by tutors and lecturers.
With the help of improvisation of these skills, I can say that I might become successful and grab
ample number of opportunities which will help me out in in delivering services to patients and
also getting a permanent job within health and social care department (Holmes, 2020).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Initially, when I started this module I must say that I have had to read about different
cherries that I could utilise for improving my communication, team building and clinical skills.
At first, I was nervous because I only had the notes which was taken by me, when the lecturer
was delivering the information about how the whole module is required to be conducted. This
nervousness has brought many challenges and situations where I had to take help from my
colleagues in relation to what theories I should considered in order to help myself out through
overcoming the different challenges faced by me. Also, while I was conducting this module I
have analysed to that my research skills also got improved because I was continuously going
through different online websites, books and journals in a constant speed if it is examined from
the past when I was completing the action plan and personal development plan 1.
Research skill specifically helped me in choosing the best theory out of many. Also,
qualitative research is something that stays based on different perspectives along with the
psychological perception of many researchers and respondents. This type of research specifically
fascinated me, because it is really very hard for a researcher to conduct analysis based on the
perceptions taken from the chosen participants and then reach to a conclusion. Including this, I
can also say that quantitative is the investigation which specifically delivers the exact conclusion
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based on mathematical formulas, statistics and so on. But, what's more important and difficult is
conducting a qualitative investigation because it is really very hard to consider perspectives and
then perform an analysis on it (Hallewell and et. al., 2020).
On the other hand, if it is talk about research approaches than there are ample number of
they and these are abductive, inductive and deductive. The research approach that effectively
field he was the deductive approach, because it is directly connected to qualitative investigation
and helps a researcher in gathering the data based on different perspectives, perceptions and
values of society (Todd, 2020). I am willing to consider this approach and method to conduct an
investigation based on the topic which is going to be given by my lecturer, because it will not
only improve my knowledge towards the topic but it will also help me out in understanding the
behaviour of others which can differ from time to time over a particular section or an area.
Including this, it can also be said that it will be required by me to focus on my goal so that I may
become able to deliver right range of services to patients based on their requirements and code of
conduct. Qualitative methodology and deductive approach are the two set of elements that
combines with each other and helps and investigator in pulling out favourable outcomes in
specified time frame (Diak and et. al., 2020).
PRINCIPLES AND VALUES CHALLENGED THROUGH
PARTICIPATION ON THIS MODULE
Gibbs' Reflective Cycle was created by Graham Gibbs in the year of 1988 to offer structure
to gaining from encounters. It offers a system for looking at encounters, and given its cyclic
nature loans itself especially well to rehash encounters, permitting you to take in and plan from
things that either worked out positively or turned out poorly. It covers 6 phases that I will be
utilising in order to present the different challenges faced by me while conducting present
module:
 Description: The Primal challenge for me was to effectively take into consideration of
one or two particular theories over the challenges faced by me like I utilised cognitive
and behavioural theories for improving communication skills. Feelings and thoughts about the experience: Initially, I was filled with fear of not
completing the module in the given time frame because I was unable to select the theories
in order to overcome the challenges like team building, communication and clinical
skills.
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 Evaluation of the experiences: When I started conducting the module, I can say that fear
is something that may break a person. But, I can also say that until and unless a person
tries for something it is may be possible that he or she might not reach to the end point
which is success. This is something that I felt when I was going through the problem
which is to identify a particular theory. Analysis to make sense of the situation: Considering my own experience, I can say that
due to less knowledge of different range of theories that are available a particular topic, a
person like me can easily get confuse where it is must to get some guidance from both
colleague and lecturers. Conclusion: I have learnt that, until and unless an individual starts working on something
it is to that he or she might not reach to the conclusion in the given time frame or it is also
maybe possible that the results might not be much favourable at the end of the session. Action plan: Without visiting any sort of time, I will be directly taking help from my
guides, lecturers and colleagues because it is not possible for a person to perform every
single activity by his or her own.
CONCLUSION
Considering the above mentioned information and the participation that I took on SH4004, it
is concluded by me that I have improved my I team building skill as it was pretty much easy for
me to take suggestions from others without interrupting them and also so this situation and hands
to my communication skills, it may impact positively on overall performance level of my own in
near future while conducting practice in health and social care department.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Harlock, J. and et. al., 2020. Challenges in integrating health and social care: the Better Care
Fund in England. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 25(2), pp.86-93.
Holmes, A., 2020. A two-way street; enhancing professional services staff engagement through
effective career planning, development, and appraisal. Perspectives: Policy and
Practice in Higher Education, 24(1), pp.35-38.
Hallewell, R. and et. al., 2020. Training educational supervisors to support physician trainees
returning to practice. Future Healthcare Journal, 7(2), p.120.
Todd, F. ed., 2020. Planning continuing professional development. Routledge.
Diak, A. and et. al., 2020. Coaching in the professional and personal development of
nurses. Pielegniarstwo XXI wieku/Nursing in the 21st Century, 19(1), pp.42-46.
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