Unit 35: Personal & Professional Development Plan - Grafton College

This assignment presents a personal SWOT analysis and a professional development plan, focusing on the skills and attributes required for HR professionals. The SWOT analysis identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, leading to a personal development plan aimed at improving communication skills, building self-confidence, and gaining practical HR experience. The reflection highlights the importance of continuous improvement and leveraging theoretical knowledge in practical settings. The student identifies key areas for development to enhance their effectiveness and contribution to the HR role. Desklib offers a range of solved assignments and study tools to support students in their academic and professional development journeys.

Task 1
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Task 1.........................................................................................................................................3
Skills and attributes analysis required by HR professionals..................................................3
Personal SWOT analysis........................................................................................................5
Personal development plan.....................................................................................................6
Reflective Statement...............................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
This task will analyse the skills and attributes needed by the HR professionals. It will state
my personal SWOT analysis and will also present a professional development plan. A
reflective statement on my SWOT analysis will also be done.
Task 1
Skills and attributes analysis required by HR professionals
Human resources are one of the important pillars of an organisation. HR team of an
organisation is responsible to ensure that right candidates are hired for the company’s
operations(Bratton and Gold, 2017). As HR serves a very important position in a company, it
is important that the HR team has the required skills to hire employees from entry level to the
managers. Here are some of the important skills and attributes required by HR professionals:
The ability to communicate: In HR management, communications are at the core of it. An
HR team could not be successful without being able to communicate effectively with the
employees(Parmar, 2014). It is important that the HR manager has the ability to easily
communicate with the business employees, its management team and with all other
individuals involved in the business. The HR communication skills not only need to be good
in verbal and nor-verbal communication but also the ability to communicate across any
platform to ensure that the information is received and perfectly understood.
Good Judgement: Human resources must have the ability to make good judgment on the
ability of the candidates(Parmar, 2014). They need to ensure that right people are placed at
the right positions in the company to assist in the business development. Another area where
the stated skill is required is between disputes, issues and difficult situations. Disputes and
conflicts could arise anytime in the business, so HR manager must have the ability to solve
the conflict.
Sensible and Honest ethics: for every HR professionals, ethics are very important for good
management. An HR manager should posses a strong sense of ethics to deal with the private
and personal information in order to ensure that the company’s needs are met. This skill of
the HR extends in both the direction of the management and the employees(Hailey et al.,
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2005). They need to ensure that the company follows laws and regulations efficiently and
every employees of the company is treated equally by the company’s management.
Good negotiation skills: It is evident that HR professionals have to act between the
employees and the management. They must possess strong negotiation skills for ensuring that
the negotiations and disputes at the company are handed fairly and both the parties’ gets
satisfied with the decision(Hailey et al., 2005). They have to effectively negotiate and have to
ensure the situations are provided with mutual benefit. The negotiation ability of HR
professional also requires strong communication skills.
Multitasking abilities: HR managers have to deals with various issues and situation on daily
basis(Bratton and Gold, 2017). Thus, they must possess good multitasking abilities for the
success of the position in long term. HR professionals have a very busy work schedule and
require strong multitasking abilities.
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Personal SWOT analysis
It is important to reflect and analyse personal strengths and also to consider in which area I
have to develop. I also have to recognise my opportunities and also on the problems I might
face in future. Here is the SWOT analysis:
Strengths
 Ability to communicate effectively
 Reliable
 Hard-working
 Able to make the proper initiative
 Analytical skills
 Honest
 Ability to get on with people
Opportunities
 Gain experience to deal with the
people
 Working in HR professional
 Working in HR team
 To be professional
Weaknesses
 Lack of confidence when dealing
with people
 Not much experience related with HR
tasks
 Lack of spreadsheet and database
skills
 Time-taking
Threats
 Not being supported at the work
 Fitting into the company’s culture
 Problems might result in unreliability
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Personal development plan
Objective: Action steps Time to
achieve
the
objective
Resources/support
required
Barriers
 Good communication Skills  Learning
communicati
on skill
 Study
materials
Short-
term
(within 1
year)
 Experienced
colleague
 Study materials
 Jealousy between
friends
 Participative with team mates  Increasing
my self-
confidence
Medium
term goals
 Principle, ethics
and guidelines
 Distractions
 Team members
who wastes time
 Outlining and
correcting team
member’s mistakes
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Reflective Statement
After analysis of my strengths and weakness, I have learned that some of my sills are still in
initial stage and requires continuous improvement. With improvement in my skills, I would
be able to justify my duties and responsibilities towards the role of HR. My theoretical
knowledge about the HR duties and responsibilities would also help me in my professional
skills and during the course of my work.
Conclusion
This study has evaluated my personal SWOT analysis. I identified that I have to improve my
communication skills and also have to consider my multitasking abilities. It is important to
reflect and analyse personal strengths and also to consider in which area I have to develop. I
also have to recognise my opportunities and also on the problems I might face in future.
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References
Bratton, J. and Gold, J., 2017. Human resource management: theory and practice. Palgrave.
Hailey, V.H., Farndale, E. and Truss, C., 2005. The HR department's role in organisational
performance. Human resource management journal, 15(3), pp.49-66.
Parmar, A., 2014. The role of HR department in employer branding at public and private
sector. Journal of Human Resources Management and Labor Studies, 2(2), pp.201-225.
sumHR - Employee Attendance, Leaves and Payroll Management Software. (2018). [MUST
READ] Roles & Responsibilities of HR Managers in Growing Organizations. [online]
Available at: https://www.sumhr.com/hr-manager-role/ [Accessed 11 Apr. 2018].
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