Report: Self-Managed Learning, Development Needs, and Plan

This report delves into personal and professional development, focusing on self-managed learning approaches, different learning styles, and the benefits for individuals and organizations. It examines various self-managed learning techniques such as seminars, social networks, and the internet, highlighting their roles in enhancing knowledge and skills. The report also includes a CV analysis for an HR manager, identifying personal and professional development needs like communication, time management, and leadership skills. It outlines development opportunities such as mentoring and work-based methods, alongside a detailed personal and professional development plan. The report discusses the implementation processes and activities required for the plan, emphasizing the importance of undertaking and documenting activities, critical reflection, and plan updates. Furthermore, it explores solutions to work-based problems, communication styles, and time management strategies. The report emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and skill enhancement in the workplace, providing valuable insights for individuals seeking to improve their professional capabilities.

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Approaches of self-managed learninig and different types of learning styles.......................1
1.2 Purpose different ways in which lifelong, learning in personal and professional contexts
could be encouraged....................................................................................................................2
1.3 Benefits of self-managed learning to an individual and to organization...............................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
2.1 CV for HR manager...............................................................................................................4
2.2 Personal and professional development needs......................................................................5
2.3 Development opportunities....................................................................................................6
2.4 Personal and professional development plan.........................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Processes and activities that are equired for the implementation of the plan........................7
3.2 Undertaking and documenting activities...............................................................................8
3.3 Critically reflection on own learning in comparison with the originl aim and objectives....9
3.4 Updation of the development plan.........................................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
4.1 Solutions to work based problems.......................................................................................10
4.2 Variety of communication styles at various levels..............................................................11
4.3 Effectiveness of various time management strategies.........................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Self-managed learning helps to increase their knowledge and also enhance their
communication, inter-personal, intrapersonal skills in the company. There are different types of
approaches which helps to learn innovative things from different sources. It porvides an
effecftive way to learn different things from the sources which helps to increase their knowledge
in the company. self-managed learning provide benefits to an individual and to an organization.
This report includes approaches of self managed learning, learning styles, personal and
professional development plan, development needs and development opportunities. PDP helps to
increase the level of personal and professional development. It also provides the way in which
they can easily increase their skills and knowledge in an entity.
TASK 1
1.1 Approaches of self-managed learninig and different types of learning styles
There are different types of self-managed learning approaches which help to increase the
confidence and also increase a knowledge. From different approaches of self-managed learning
the person can easily learn innovative things in the organizations or in the outer world. To
manage and increase the knowledge of the person or employee in the company they should use
different types of learning styles and also use different approaches of self-managed learning.
Peoples can learn from various techniques and things such as by the behaviour and perceptions
(Trede, Macklin and Bridges, 2012). Some of the self-managed learning approaches as follows:
Seminar
Seminar is the best approach that help to improve the level of knowledge in the world.
this technique provide two way communication between the peoples. Peoples can give their own
ideas and suggestions to other peoples. By seminar and confereences they can easily increase
their different skills such as communication, technical and inter personal skills. By using this
approach of self-managed learninig peoples can easily increase and enhance their knowledge in
the company or world (Hudson, 2013).
Social networks
Social networs are very effective way to increase their knowledge in a world. There are
different types of social networks such as Facebooks, Twitter and Myspace etc. these all are the
social networks which helps to increase the person behaviour and skills. They have different and
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advanced features such as chatting and interacting with other people etc. Peoples can learn
different things from different people of an another country (Roeser and et.al., 2012).
Internet
Internet is one of the best technique to learn different thing in the world. from this
effective tools peoples can easily increase their knowledge and also enhance their skills in a
company or world. there are different sources on the internet which helps to increase their
professional and personal development in the world (Rienties, Brouwer and Lygo-Baker, 2013).
Different types of learning styles
There are different types of learning styles of learninig which helps to increase their
knowledge in different ways. All types of learning styles have different parameters and criteria to
learn something in the world. some of the learning styles as follows:
Linguistic learner
This types o flearner ios one who learns best through the liguistic skills which includes
reading, writing, listening or speaking.
Naturalist
In thios types of learning style the peoples can easily learn from the working, nature and
experience.
Musical learner
This type of leraner focuses on the musical themes and rhythm. These components of
musical learner helps to increase their knowledge in an industry. These learner learn from the
musical theme to increase their knowledge in the world (Pillen, Beijaard and Brok, 2013).
1.2 Purpose different ways in which lifelong, learning in personal and professional contexts
could be encouraged
There are different types of ways which help to increase their knowledge and also help to
enhance their skills in a world. To improve their persoanl and professional development in the
world they need to use advanced tools and techniques of learning styles. Some of the purpose
ways that help to increase their knolwdge and also helps to imrpove personal and professional
development as follows:
Self-directed learning
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Self-directed learning is a combination of four essential components such as being ready
to learn, set learning goal, engaging in learning process and final implementation etc. these all
are the factors or elements which helps to increase their knowledge in the world.
Coaching and mentoring of learners
From this types of purpose of lifelong learning they can easily increase their knowledge
and skills to innovate the things or services. Some of the purpose of coaching and mentoring as
follows:
 Help to a team to develop and improve persoanl and professional development in specific
context (Newton, Becker and Bell, 2014).
 Provide effective support to a person in a given context.
 It helps to develop tasks to accomplish and handle their learning to fulfill their potential.
1.3 Benefits of self-managed learning to an individual and to organization
Self managed learnining helps to increase their knowledge and also improve their
communication and intra-persoanl skills in the industry. This learning help to the individual and
also help to the company. By this self managed learning peoples can easily learn something from
different techniques. There are different approaches of self-managed learning which help to
increase their knowledge and skills. Peoples can easily learn from different sources to improve
their personal and professional development. There are different benefits of self-managed
learning to an induvidual as follows:
 Peoples can easily learn from the different sources such as internet, social media and
interviews which help to enhance their knowledge in the world.
 Incfrement in self confidence
 It provides different approaches which help to imrpove their personal and professional
development.
 It motivates personal and professional development.
These all are the benefits to an individual. They can easily innovate the product or service
in the compnay by learn form different sources (Chu and Majumdar, 2012). Spme of the benefits
of self-managed learning to an organization as follows:
 It is more compatible with innovative training. Sometimes companies do not need to
provide appropriat training and development to an employee beacause they can also
learnn by themselves through learning styles.
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 Firm can get higher performance in an industry.
 It reduce the problem of transfer of learning.
TASK 2
2.1 CV for HR manager
Name: Tom
Email-Id: [e-mail]
Contact number: 8956234710
Objective
To obtain a position as a HR manager that will utize my skills, knowledge and experience
to fulfill the obejctives, needs, mission and vision of an entity.
Acedmic qualification
 NUIT university: B.COM
 NUIT university: MBA(Human resource)
Skills
 Communication and inter-personal skills
 Decision making
 Excellent communicator
 ADP payroll
 Expert in computer technologies
Professional skills
 German(Fluent)
 French(intermediate)
Key responsibilities
 Expertise in recruitment and selection
 Effective employee relation
 Investigation and providing appropriate instruction to maintain employee relation barriers
through progressive disciplinary procedure
 Enhanced knowledge in HR software and automated systems
 Developing process, policies and valuable standards for recruitment
Area of expertise
 HR processes and systems
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 Effective document generation
 Note taking
 Efficient strategies and employment legislation
Personal details
Name: Tom
DOB: 4/06/1990
Gender: Male
Nationality: Indian
I hereby declare that thisdetails are furnished above are true and corect to the best of my
knoledge and belief.
2.2 Personal and professional development needs
To improve the personal and professional neds they need to follow differnet strategies
and approaches of learning. It helps to increase the level of knowledge and also enhance their
skills, knowledge of an individual or the company. In ths above CV they not have these skills
such as time management, communication and leadership skills. They have communication skills
but that are not effective and appropriate (Trorey and Cullingford, 2017). Some of the personal
and development needs as follows:
Communication skills
HR manager must have good and effective communication skills. By having good
communication skills in the company threy can easily communicate with the employee to
maintain employee relation in an entity (Gernaey and et.al., 2012). it includes different factors
such as right tone of voice, clearity etc.
Time management skills
HR manager has a responsibility to manage and handle entire organizational activities
effectively. They need to conduct a particular actuivity on the right time so that employee can get
benefit from that. They should have a ability to prioritise, delegate and use essential resources to
manage time better in the company.
Leadership skills
Leadership skills increase the efficiency between the employees ina firm. HR manager
must need to concantrate on this skills because by having these skills they can easily
communicate with employee and also provide appropriate solution for the specific barriers.
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2.3 Development opportunities
There are different types of development opprtunities helps to develop their personal and
professional development in the company. Manager of the firm needs to follows effective tools
and techniques which helps to increase their knowledge and also enhance skills of an individual
in an entity as follows:
Mentoring
Menttoring is the best tool for the personal and professional development. By the
mentoring tool company can easily maiontain employee relation in the firm. There are two types
of mentoring such as non-directive and directive. Both have different functionality to enhance
their personbal and professional development in an entity (Andrews and Ford, 2013).
Work based development methods
In this type of development opportunities, it includes different types of methods which
helps to imrove their knolwdge and also enhance their performance in a firm. some of the work
based development methods as follows:
 Practice and reflection
 Collabrative working
 Networking
 Teching
 Provide appropriate presentation to the groups
 Prvide effective training and development to an employee
 Ordering equipments
 Prepare and schedule minutes of a meetings
2.4 Personal and professional development plan
Objective Activities Time frame
Leadership skills For developing leadership
skills, I can go for various
books on leadership. It will
help me in developing
efficient skills so that the I can
be able to manage and control
2-3 months
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the employees in such a way
that they obey all the orders of
the mine. Efficient leadership
helps in a proper management
of the tasks and activities that
are undertaken in the
company.
Communication skills For effective communication
skills, I can join personality
development classes where the
ways of communicating are
also being taught. It will help
me in an increased level pf
confidence so that I will be
confident enough in speaking
front of others.
1 month
TASK 3
3.1 Processes and activities that are required for the implementation of the plan
The concept of personal and professional development has changes the actors of success
thus including various innovative concepts that can help in changing the strateges that can help
in a better analysis. For executing this, various new schemes have been developed by the
organisation for a better analysis and implementation of the personal and professional
development. Activites, procedures and processes required for a better impelmentation are
discussed as under :
Scope of the plan of the personal and professional development
It is the responsibility of the organisation and employees of an organisation for
development of the personal and professional development plan. Every organisation has a
specific way and methods for its implementation. The scope of this plan is wide enough to make
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effective changes in the organisation that can help them in gaining a succesful position at a faster
rate.
Implementation
While the implementation of a personal and professional development plan, an
organisation has to go through two major isues. One, the communication factor which every
person does not ahve. So, some employees may go thorugh the communication issue. Second,
self learning is important as well. An example of this can be considered that after the
imlementation of a particular process, the employees have to work on it themselves also. It
cannot be improved on the basis of organisation itself. Personal learning and hard work is
necessary as well. A proper support from the authorities is required to mainatin their focus
towards it. Along with the support of the organisation, the employyes lso have to work on their
own. By this way, it can be implemented better and help the organisation as well in achieveing
targets.
Impact
The impact of a personal and professional dveelopment plan can have a positive impact
on various factors of a company such as the culture, interacton level between the employees,
success factors etc. It is because when all the employees discuss these activities, there interaction
level will also increase to a huge extent which will help in maintainingt the culture of the
company more happier and healthier (Roeser and et.al., 2012).. Other than the support of the
employers, employees will be responsible for their own profesional and personal skills which
will not only help them in the company but also in the rest of their life.
3.2 Undertaking and documenting activities
For a proper undertaking and documentation, there are some activities that can help the
organisation in making the process more better and valuable so that it can have a positive impact
on the employyes as well as on the organisation. Some activites which the organisation has to
follow are discussed as under :
 Collection of all the data and information that can provide benfits to the organisation and
documenting all these activities .
 Also, including a range of ideas and decisions that can be involved in the process (Chu
and Majumdar, 2012).
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 Also, include the alternate solutions that can be used when any of the solution have been
failed or not worked in a way that it seems satisfied.
 Review the document and check for any possible flaws.
 Develop strategies that can help in resolving those flaws and again checking the
document that now it is satisfied or not.
3.3 Critically reflection on own learning in comparison with the originl aim and objectives
There are some key points that can be considered while doing the comparison and these are
discussed as under :
Initial preparation
Whether it is related to any factors, personal or professoinal, preparation is must. It is
because it helps in maintaining the expectation of the employees and they also have to stay
focused towards the process (Trede, Macklin and Bridges, 2012).
Previous knowledge
Thee previous information and data related to the development plan makes it easier to
analyse and evaluate them by comparing the new and the previous data.
Motivation
Providing some means of motivation or encouragement is necessary as it helps in staying
confident towards the developement plan. It also helps ina better investigation that can help
in an efficient analysis. So, to motivate employyes, the organisation can include various
means such as providing some sort of incentives or increments to the employees so that they
can stay more confident towards the work and it will help the company as well in achieving
success at faster rates.
3.4 Updation of the development plan
Objective Activities Time frame
Leadership skills For leadership skills, I go
through various books and
journals on leadership and
they helped me in
development of these skills to
an extent. But I feel, I still
lack in these skills and ned
1 month
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more time for more efficient
skills so that I can be able to
manage all the employees
well.
Communication skills For developing
communication skills, I joined
personality development
classes. It helped me a lot in
improving my
communication. Now I feel
confident enough to speak to
any one. Now, my confidence
level has also been increased
to a huge extent that I can
participate in seminars. By
this way, it will boost my
encouragement and
confidence for speaking
anywhere without any
hinderance.
1 month
TASK 4
4.1 Solutions to work based problems
In any work place, it is an obvious fact that employyes face various problems, some face
regarding the work load, some regarding the salary and some have interaction isues. So, the
solutions for such issues are discussed as under :
Excess work load
Various employees go through the issue of work load. For this the company can involve
some strategies such as assigning the work to the employyes that is related to their field or
department. By this way, employees can focus on the work properly and if it is related to thei
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field, they can have more intrest in doing that work (Newton, Becker and Bell, 2014). This can
reduce the work load of the employyes. Also, the company can divide the work in shifts and
teams. Uneven allotment can always lead to various conflicting situations, so diiding it
effciiently and regarding the field can help in reducing the work load and thus it will also reuce
the employee turnover of the company.
Interacting sessions
The company can involve various seeesions in which employyes can be able to interact
well with each other. Apart from the work, some activities should be organised in the
organisation in which the employees can interact with each other and it will also help in
providing them a relaxation from the daily routine. These small means can help the employye in
maintaining their focus towards the work well which can provide enormous benefits to the
company.
4.2 Variety of communication styles at various levels
Various styles and methods can be developed for a better communication at different
levels. Some of them ar discussed as under :
Controller style
There are people who have a sort of leadership skills in them, they are also considered as
the controllers. They know various ways how to keep their topic up and does not get bother by
the others (Roeser and et.al., 2012). This is the controller stye that can help in raising their voice
up than the others, so keeping a contol over the process as well. This feature helps in getting
them efficient results.
Promoter style
Apart from the general communication, this style involves people who know well how to
promote some activity or process. The people having this trait seems to be more attractive and
also can manipulate the other person in any complex situation by their attractiveness and charm.
Analyser style
In this, people are considered that analyses the whole situation and after a proper
evaluation only, they take their step forward. This acts quite strategic as the person first analyses
the whole sitation and on the basis of that only, will take any further step.
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4.3 Effectiveness of various time management strategies
There are various strategies that can help in the management of time efficiently and
effectively. Some of the well known strategies are discussed as under :
Keeping records
This acts as a very effective method for a better evaluation of the time used. By keeping a
record, a person is able enough to check and analyse what tasks have been completed in what
time and what other factors were done in the rest of the time. A record helps in making a better
evaluation of the consumed time.
Keeping deadlines
Seting deadlines can also be very effective. It is because when a person sets a deadlines
that the following task hs to be completed in a particular time, then it becomes able to finish that
work in that time duration only. It helps in a better management of time. Also, the person is able
to decide what other work they can do in the rest of the time (Newton, Becker and Bell, 2014)..
Avoiding the multi tasking
Working on various tasks at a single time can cause conflicts. Working on a task at a
single time can make the work effective enough that it can result in better outcomes. But,
working on various tasks at a single time can cause less efficiency in all those tasks which can
cause the inefficiency of the outcome as well. So, it is better to focus on a work at a time such
that it can result in positive and a better outcome.
CONCLUSION
From the report, it has been concluded that the personal and professional development
plan can help in making various differences in the personality and characteristics of a person. It
brings effectiveness in the workplace but along with it, it also makes the person more efficient
and confident for the general part of the life as well. The development is not limited till the
workplace only, it helps the person in other factors of the life as well. Various strategies for time
management has also been used that can help the person in making a better evaluation of time
being used and ways how it can be used for getting poisitive outcomes.
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