Personal and Professional Development Report: Skills, Learning, Plan

This report delves into the realm of personal and professional development, examining various aspects crucial for individual and organizational success. It begins by exploring self-management learning approaches, different learning styles, and the benefits of self-management for both individuals an...Read More

PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Approaches to self-management learning and different learning style.................................1
1.2 Different learning and development methods.......................................................................2
1.3 Benefits of self-management learning to the individual and organisation............................3
4.1 Solution to work-based problems..........................................................................................3
4.2 Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels.....................4
4.3 Effective time management strategies..................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Current skills and competencies against the professional and organisational objectives.....6
2.2 Own development needs and the activities required to meet them.......................................8
2.3 Development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs.................................9
2.4 Personal and professional development plan based on identified needs...............................9
3.1 Process and activities required to implement the development plan..................................10
3.2 Undertake and document of planned activities...................................................................11
3.3 Own learning against organisation aim and objectives.......................................................12
3.4 Development plan based on feedback and evaluation........................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is a self learning and analysis process in which a
individual enhance their interpersonal skill to attain organisation's objective in appropriate
manner. Through this process all employee of a company examine their own skill and ability for
a particular working approach to improve them for attain future objectives easily. It involve
enhancing necessary skills to carry out own job role as effectively as possible and provides
appropriate contribution and services to get future objectives easily. This project report includes
various approaches of self management and life long learning as well as benefits of self
management learning in a organisation. In this process, the project is represent Kolb learning
theory and its benefit for a individual (Anderson and Anderson, 2010). At last it ground on self
development plan which is based on feedback and self evaluation or a portfolio for own
evaluation.
TASK 1
1.1 Approaches to self-management learning and different learning style
Self management is a analysis process in which a individual examine their own skill and
working capacity to enhance them effectively. For this they use various learning method which
help them to improve their knowledge criteria and ability to attain various task appropriately. For
a individual government and business organisations conduct learning in program in which they
easily get various opportunity to exchange their thoughts and ideas in front of professional.
There are different learning techniques for a candidate such as -
Seminar and conferences – This is a effective tool of learning in which a individual can
easily improve their interpersonal skill and knowledge criteria effectively. Seminar and
conferences are provides various opportunity to people for exchange idea sand thoughts on
particular topic by their own observation. Through this process a individual learn how to make
effective decision on different situation easily (Avalos, 2011).
Internet – In new era, internet has landscape their structure to providing effective and
appropriate knowledge and information to each and every one. Through this process people can
easily adopt new ideas and valuable material of learning that help them to provide future success
easily. Internet is a only tool that is used by not only individual's but also in each and every
organisation to mange vast data and information effectively. Through this tool, individual can
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easily get learning material, professional development classes and adopt effective
communication skills.
Social networking – This is a self learning process because now each individual spend
their time to get connected with social networking. This is a only source that helps to provide day
to day information and current affairs that affect real life issues. Various tools of social
networking includes Facebook, Twitter, you tube etc.. All these networking sites have
negatively and positively impact but depends on individual how they use it in their learning
approaches.
1.2 Different learning and development methods
Learning and development methods are used to get knowledge and self skill improvement
technique that help them to achieve organisation's objective effectively. In this process a
individual requires to enhance their skill in professional manner that help them to increase their
knowledge criteria and thoughts on specific topic. In this process a individual can enhance their
own skill by using Kolb's learning method -
Assimilating – In this process individual prefer to attain various task by their own ideas
and techniques. They do not other's ideas and thoughts to solve various problems. It is their
required need to adopt various thoughts by their self observation to effective outcome of
different problems. These type of individual can be self task oriented who take lots of time to
observe problems (Croft, 2010).
Accommodating style – These type of individual are more theoretical and they believes
to observe more issues by their own sense and learning. These people are believe on their own
concept and theories that implement various ideas properly after a brief research.
Diverging – These kind of personalities are more creative than others and they observe
various ideas and techniques in different way. Their thoughts and ideas provide instant result of
large volume problems at a particular time. They are more observing by nature and they get brief
research on particular topic before getting final result.
Converging – These kind of person are believe solve problem by using their own ideas
on practical issues. They are prefer to use technical support to analyse practical issues in business
and their own lifestyle. People with conversing style are best to finding practical uses of idea and
theories in their working environment.
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1.3 Benefits of self-management learning to the individual and organisation
Self management is a learning process in which a individual learn various aspect to
improve their skill to achieve business objectives easily. Through this process people can easily
identify different areas in which they have to develop by learning approaches. After improving
these areas a individual can easily provide their effective services in organisation to get their
objectives and goals easily. In this process organisation also analyse their employees skill to
provide them task and different training to improve their working approach as well. There are
various benefits of self management learning in individual and organisation context such as -
Benefits for individuals – Through this process individuals can easily improve their
interpersonal skill and working capacity to face different challenges. This process help them to
get higher success through their own ideas and skill for a particular task. It will help them to
provide higher growth and ability to face various challenges easily to fulfil them by their own
style and approaches. Self learning for a individual is directly and indirectly affect on
organisation's objective to get them appropriately (Cummings and Worley, 2014).
Benefit for organisation- This process of self learning helpful organisation to get their
future objectives and goal easily. In it a individual analyse various area of their skill the needs to
be improve by their own examination process according to organisation's need and their want.
After this process organisation easily get their desired outcomes by their employees and their
own efforts as well.
4.1 Solution to work-based problems
In a business organisation conflicts and barriers can be rise due when different employees
and their ideas are work together. So for employees and organisation, it is very important to
solve them effectively to get higher business success easily. For this process it is very important
to monitoring all business activities to get brief knowledge on various areas where problem may
rise and after that provides proper solution of them. In a business organisation these barriers and
conflicts can be happen because of unexpected changes that affect business and employees
activities. So for this it is important to face them because they provide various opportunity and
advantages in organisation (Dowling, 2014).
Work based problems – It is all about various problem that may rise in business
organisation while they make new objectives and goal for future success. This is all about
different kind of changes that affect organisation and employee's working activities. For them it
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is very important to manage all activities in effective and appropriate manner to according to
their future need and want. In it management of company needs to make proper planning and
strategy for their business activities to manage and organise them accurately to employees for
getting higher advantage easily.
Solution for Work based problems – For a business their are various kind of solution
that they can adopt for resolve barriers, conflicts and problems in their business activities such as
-  Providing training and learning to employees – It is required need for employee to get
effective training and learning to attain various business task easily. So for this,
organisation needs to provide them proper training to develop their skills and ability
according to their need (Elliott, 2011).
 Qualification of employees – It is required need for a education to select well qualify
candidate because they provides specific idea to build relation toward others business
members and management. It is a solution based technique that helps to reduce barriers
and conflicts from organisation.
4.2 Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels
This process is used by manger of organisation to reduce barriers and conflicts from
organisation. In is a individual learn how to manage their skills and provides effective services
in organisation to get desired outcomes easily. In a bushiness organisation all the learning style
are required according to various level who work to provide their effective contribution to
achieve company's future goal easily. There is a brief explanation of Honey and Mumford
learning style to explain various learning style such as -
Activist – They are the kind of personality who learn various business approaches by
doing this own. These type of people are open minded and they believe to verify practical issue
of life (Fullan, 2014).
Theorist – this kind of persons are believe to learn various business approaches by
following previous model and theories. They believe to collect proper information about specific
task and term.
Pragmatist – They are experimental by their approaches and believe to spend time on
particular task, work and theories to get effective outcomes.
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Reflector – they are the kind of personality who believe to build a example for others
who can easily follow to get desired outcomes.
There is a brief explanation of learning theories for different levels are -
Strategic – In this level, employee of organisation create various strategy and planning to
achieve company's target easily. In this process they defining various strategy, direction and
making proper decision effectively(Levangie and Norkin, 2011).
Tactical – This level of organisation is provides various technique to mange their
working approaches according to specific time. In it they reduce extra work burden from
individual's to adopt various opportunities easily.
Operational – This level in a organisation is work to create vision, organising activities
and manage working task specifically. In this they manage different kind of strategy and
planning to implement all business activities properly.
4.3 Effective time management strategies
Time management is a organisational activity that used to get desired objectives of
company at a particular time. In this process employees of organisation make various strategy
and planning to attain their objective in proper manner. This process is very help full for
organisation to reduce extra work load on individual for getting specific outcomes. There are
various time management strategies are given below such as -
Setting preferences – For a business organisation it is important that their employees set
their business objective according to its preference that they need to compete first. Through this
they can easily manage time and business activity according to its necessary and want.
Focus on high volume activity – All business organisations are working with specific
strategy and planning in which they analyse which task and activity take a lots of time and
efforts to hand over them top more skilled and professional individual in their company. This
process help to reduce work burden from low skilled employees and manage time effectively
(McNiff,2010).
Clear focus and objectives – In time management process, it is very important that their
manager create specific objective that help to getting higher business opportunity easily. In it
organisation reduce extra time consume activity from their working approaches. Setting clear
focus and objective help to reduce extra discussion to attempt it accurately.
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Reduce extra interruption – This time management activity is based on individual of
organisation who manage their working activity without any interruption of external
environmental factors. Through this they can easily organise working activity in appropriate
manner to get effective business advantages.
TASK 2
2.1 Current skills and competencies against the professional and organisational objectives
For a business organisation and a individual it is required to evaluate their own skills and
working ability to enhance them according to organisation need. Through this process they can
easily achieve future success in less efforts (Moon, 2013). There is a analysis which is based on
various requirement for the of post of Human resources manager of an organisation. It is reflect
various required ability through self auditing -
S. No. Skills and Competencies Score Score from
others
Variances
1 Motivational skills 8 9 -1
2 Use of advance tool and techniques 7 8 -1
3 Investigation skills 9 8 1
4 Leadership skills 8 7 1
5 Decision making skills 8 9 -1
6 Team building 6 8 -2
7 Communication skills 9 8 1
8 Problem solving skills 9 7 2
In this above representation all the positive variance reflect my weakness and negative
variance shows my strength. This analysis is based on my own and staff member's score toward
my skills. After this self audit I represent my strength and weakness as a HRM-
Strength Weaknesses
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 I have motivational skill which helps
me to motivate my employees toward
organisation's goals.
 I can easily use advance tool and
technique in organisation.
 I have decision making skill that helps
me to take quick decision for my
company.
 Through my skills I can easily build
effective team that help to achieve
organisation's objective properly.
 I can not collect effective data for my
organisation that's why my
investigation skill are not at good.
 I need to improve my leadership skill to
provide effective direction to my
employees.
 I needs to work on communication
skill.
 I am not as good to solve various
problems easily.
As per above analysis I have prepared my CV which is given below -
Curriculum Vitae
Name:
Address:
Telephone number:
Email:
Career Objective: I want to Establish and build a career in growing organisation of the
country, through which my skills, knowledge and qualification get more enhance in positive
environment and I can improve my ability and constant learning can be achieved.
Academic Qualification:
 Graduate with 72%
 Masters in Human resource with 76%
Experience:
 3 years working experience
Personal skills:
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 Able to make effective decision
 Honesty
 Strength to face various challenges and grab opportunities
 Team building and working
 Time punctual
 Unit spirit
Declaration:
I solemnly declare that all information are totally pure.
2.2 Own development needs and the activities required to meet them
Own development is very important for me to enhance my interpersonal skill to attain
organisation's objectives easily. This will help to attain opportunities for successful future
(McNiff, 2010).
Strength Weaknesses
 I have effective motivational skills.
 I have skills to use advance tool and
techniques in appropriate manner.
 I have effective decision making skill.
 I boost the whole team building process
 I cannot effectively analyse data of
research projects
 I do not have effective leadership skill
 Some barriers and conflicts are build
because of my communication skill
 My problem solving skills are not as
much effectively
Opportunities Threats
 This is provide skill development
training
 Various approaches to get desired
objectives.
 New Rivalry organisation
 Improper training and learning of
employees
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 Build relation with new era and with
advance technologies.
 Reduction in productivity
 Conflicts and barriers
2.3 Development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs
A particular individual must be focussing in gaining higher benefits by grabbing
opportunities from both micro and macro environment. Some of the important identified criteria
are given below
Strategic planning – planning which is based on taking required actions for market
reaction which are guided by strategic reactions. Without using strategic planning companies are
not able to achieve desired outcome without any proper planning . They cannot analyse and grab
opportunities of market without proper strategies .The strategies can also helps in matching and
stabilizing both internal and external market.
Business goals and their link with demand- Company are focussed on developing plans
and achieving desired objectives for achieving growth and development . For observing and
analysing targets and goals organisations form new strategies and policies which help in
achieving required goals. So enterprise make sure that goals are achieved in preserved time
frame.
Redevelopment and Flexibility- The company tend to re-engineering their project for
easing out flaws and and making their product more productive. It is very difficult to analyse
factors in external environment due to unsuitability in market as well as coping with natural
factors . External factors includes competitors, natural calamities, market crashes so the company
must be flexible to withstand against these changing scenario of markets.
2.4 Personal and professional development plan based on identified needs
This plan helps to identify development need that required various sources to attain future
objectives properly. There is a personal and professional plan is given below-
S.
No
.
LEARNI
NG
OBJECTI
VE
CURRENT
PROFICIEN
CY
TARGET
PROFICIEN
CY
DEVELO
PMENT
OPPORT
UNITIES
CRITERIA
FOR
JUDGING
SUCCESS
TIME
SCALE
EVIDEN
CE
1 Investigat My I need to By This will be 4-8 Senior
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ion skills investigation
skills are not
good and
effective.
develop my
research skill
to collect
effective data
for
organisation.
various
learning
events
and
professor's
books.
judge by my
senior
manager
Month managers
2 Leadershi
p skills
My leadership
skills are not
as much
effective to
provide proper
direction for
employees
I need to
manage
leadership
skills to
provide proper
guideline to
staff member.
Seminars
and
conferenc
es,
lectures
from
motivatio
nal
leaders,
articles.
My Senior
managers
will help me
to improve
leadership
skill
2 Month Senior
managers
3 Communi
cation
skills
I am lacking
communicatio
n skills which
is creating
barrier in right
environment.
It is my
requirement to
enhance
communicatio
n skill.
Internet
seminar
and live
conferenc
es.
Through day
to day
activities
and my
colleagues
judgements.
3 Month Colleagues
judgement
4 Problem
solving
skills
My problem
solving skills
are not as
much
effective.
It is required
for
organisation
and employees
to to resolve
their problems.
By
practical
issues and
different
challenges
My team
member will
providing
their
contribution
to improve
this skill.
3-4
Month
Team
members
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3.1 Process and activities required to implement the development plan
All the individual need to make their development plan to examine their short term and
long term required need. There is a development plan is given below such as -
Goals Short term Long term
My goal is to achieve
setting target
objectives to the
organisation.
Short term goal is to achieve
objectives of the organisation.
Long term goal is to reach on
target objectives.
Skills and knowledge
to be learned-
I have improve my leadership
skills.
Needs to improve my Investigation
skills.
How am I going to
acquire the skills and
knowledge?
Seminars and conferences, lectures
from motivational leaders, articles.
Through practical research,
professors help and various books.
What resources do I
need?
Seminar, conferences and live
session
Research new learning
What is my time
schedule?
2 months 4-8 months
Start When will I
start?
1st March 2018 1st March 2018
Finish When do I
expect to finish?
1st May 2018 30th Novembers
When have I
completed each step?
Mid April Mid July
3.2 Undertake and document of planned activities
Through this plan I can easily analyse my own skill and ability to attain various objective
properly. There is a developmne
Period of task Action What is learnt What to do next When
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undertaken up till now
March-May By practical
issues and
different
challenges
Learning how to
solve various
problem
effectively.
Attending
meeting and
seminar to
improve them.
Same period
March-
November
Use research
techniques
Learn how to get
research
information
properly
Needs to do more
research to
observe them.
Within this period
3.3 Own learning against organisation aim and objectives
This is required need for me to improve my skill and working approaches to attain
organization's aim and objective in proper way. After this research I can easily examine required
area of learning and improvement. I this process it is important that me and my employees
perform very well to attain future objectives in proper manner. Some other methods that helps to
evaluate learning process-
 In this process my colleague and senior manager can help to improve my skill and
develop learning process properly.
 In this process in need to provide proper motivation training to my staff member to get
various opportunities easily.
 For this process organisation and manager need to provide specific training and learning
to my staff members to get higher business advantages.
3.4 Development plan based on feedback and evaluation
This is a development plan which is based on organisation' feedback and my own evaluation
Objective number Objective Objective evaluation
1 Provide best training and
learning to employees
By improve their skills and
ability of working
Objective met YES
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Update action plan
Action plan-
Incomplete objective
number
Why the objectives
are not met
What needs to be
undertaken to
achieve the objective.
Revised target date
for completion
Enhance employees
skills and capacity
Increase productivity I need effective
workforce.
20th August 2018
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that personal and profession development is
required need for a individual to attain their future objective properly. Through this process they
can easily improve their interpersonal skill and working capacity. In this a person can easily
attain various task and challenges in effective manner. This type of individual have different
style and personality to organise things in effective manner.
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