Personal and Professional Development: Skills and SWOT Analysis Report

This report provides an in-depth analysis of personal and professional development, encompassing reflective journaling, employability skills, and leadership effectiveness. It explores the importance of skills such as management, reliability, and group working, while also recognizing the significance of adaptability and networking. The report emphasizes the value of personal development planning (PDP), including vision setting, skill assessment, and goal prioritization. Additionally, it covers the application of SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, offering strategies for leveraging advantages and mitigating risks in both personal and professional contexts. The document aims to guide individuals in enhancing their career prospects and achieving their developmental objectives.

Personal and
Professional
Development

INTRODUCTION
Development is all about getting new abilities and knowledge. It is also termed as the
growth that associate to the circulating role in the organisation. In this project the chosen field is
personal and professional development that is also a constant activity growth. The project
involves two tasks like individual presentation paper and reflective report. Personal development
is the process of rising an individual by such activities as it intensify the employment abilities
that increase their state of mind and create wealthiness(Amundsen, D’Amico, 2019) . It is a life
long procedure that accomplished the motive of individuals to assess their skills and abilities. It
helps to acquiring more skilful and motivated personnel for the organisation that motivates more
individuals to go through into business. The professional development is the process of
improving and increasing abilities and skills knowledge of faculty by approaching the education
and training opportunities in the organisation by follows the quora of performance with another
organisation.
TASK 1
Complete a Reflective Journal that assesses your learning process in relation to the
Employability/Study Skills of the module.
Skills such as management skills, reliability and group working that ranked higher than
the alternative content abilities, commercialised perception, discussion and networking that were
given least precedence. My set of achievement that relates to growth of my learning process
that make it more categorized even to increase profitability and benefits of individuals, team
members and the organisation. I believed that learner with good employment abilities are noticed
because they have earned good theoretical qualifications. Personal development might appears
like isolated from my professional career that would deal in actuality that will be a great way to
achieve my career oriented goals and objective. The skills to giving response is defines as en
essential ability that should be in a continue form of growth hence, it enables to accurate the
faults that evaluates the process and growth of the people(Bowe, Gore, 2017) .
As per the study it includes the standardise values of an individuals that relates their self
assessment skills and it may utilise of the growth planning that enhance the recruitment process.
It will develops my own personal conceptualization to work and learning in a manner that fits my
own respective necessity. It will increase the awareness to guide the way of study to become

more effective. Study skills are also transferable that will determines the instruction into new
context. Various skills are mentioned in my study tool like active listening, reading
comprehension passage, note taking, stress management, time management, record management,
testing taking and memorization. However, each and every content have different perspective
that ensures the different learning skills and approaches(Demir, Gazioğlu, 2017) . There are
various skills to make learning more easier that are as follows:
 The concept of written record: It is important to get well- known with written abilities
while making it and their policies and plan of action more effective and determine the
one that suits major content. After wards to this, using bold captions, variety of modes of
notes that includes highlighter, sticky notes, index cards, graphs, virtual diagrams and
charts.
 Utilising knowledge representation: It considered as the framework that purpose of
assisting the organize, virtual and summarize method to give a better way to store
information and knowledge at single point. It can be made by itself or by analysing
particular procedures.
 Interpret to yourself out loud: By memorizing through interpretation itself is the thing
that more than once it may also be remembered or understand it more clearly. I also
analyse the main section to redefines the learning content.
 Up skills others: The main perceptive of fresh material is instruct it to other also. By
studying together it allows the individuals to understand the content better.
 Time management skills: As organising the learning process it deliver the energy, time
and potential that is important for the tasks which is involved into small tasks and it may
make it fresh and inferior devastating.
Recognise the importance of leadership skills in the development of personal managerial
effectiveness
Leadership is the primary role of organisation that plays an essential activities that assists
the efficiency in the management to achieve its target and goals. It is a leader who plans each and
every task and execute it in the management, that is also allows the observance of the work by
which goals and target can be achieved(Fabriz, 2020) . The terminal point of the organisation's
leadership ability is the cover on the general total skills of a business to perform the leadership
development.

Here are some values that clearly justify why leadership is a important factor in respect to
management that are as follows:
 Initiates action: A controller is the one who arrange the task in the management and
executes it in an exceeding manner after wards the controller examines the task as
according to their perspective. As without the formulation of task there will be no goal
and target achieved(Gasparovich, Tokareva, Tokarev, 2017) .
 Motivation: It is termed as the encouragement in the management through which is also
related to the work and time and to a plan of action which is required in the leadership.
By effectively encouraging the candidates with both financial and non- financial
advantage and benefit hence, the task will be carry forward with happily nature and
motivation.
 Guidance: In the management there is always a need of support from individuals. In
such matters, the leader can shows the abilities by providing facilitative directions
through which they shows the path for the individuals as they need to present it as
effectively and efficiently.
 Confidence: It is seems to be unmarked but it can be essential when it comes to a
enterprise achieving its goals and targets. A right- thinking leaders are able to justify their
candidates function to them as giving them adequate instruction on the basis of and
guidelines by which it may help them to work within the organisation to achieve their
orientated targets and goals.
 Building morale: I also apply my adequate morale that is comes from the part of
leadership which leads to prepared the co- operative sections towards their task and goals.
It also assist the candidates to win their trust and factors. A leader who is capable to help
another leaders and individuals by helping them to increasing their morale as well
positioned to achieve their full co- operation from the team members.
 Work environment: The management is all about completing things in an adequate
manner. As the grateful and pleasant work environment will assist me and other
individuals to encourage in the development of organisation(Grau, 2017) . By achieving
a good working place that comes from the leaders of the management who is well
capable to behave their individuals as like their priority.

Recognise the importance of taking control of your individual Personal Development Planning
(PDP)
Personal development planning is the procedure of scheduling a plan of action that is
based on awareness, belief, consideration, goal and target orientation that is also relates to
planning and growth with the main perspective of career, education, relationship or for self-
improvement that relates the statements(Gröschner, 2018) . Personal development plan usually
includes how the plan and policy to be accomplished as per the value of statements that points
the line of work and priority life style, career aligning, logical thinking of possibility and risk and
secondary arrangement as personally.
There are number of the elements and factors that includes the number of things that
may be necessary in the personal development plan are as follows:
 Visual understanding: I also believe that visual understanding is important for an
individual that where the individual want to be in the management. It may also be used in
the term of various lengths and factor interval period of time. It may also facilitative to
create the vision and as detailed which frequently possible that is includes the right down
off to know that how it may evaluates about it and make it more easier that it will be hold
to cover it.
 Understanding of the skills: A good understanding of the skills may ensures the
development and growth to achievement that relates the vision of an individuals. It is
widely important to ensures my skills and abilities that are target orientated that are
clearly connect with the purpose of the personal development that enhances the efforts it
may fluctuate the vision of an individual.
 Standardise idea to achieve target: The magnitude of the task and policy that effects
the current situation of an individual(Hui, Kwok, Ip, 2020) . It ensures the subjective
content that is acquire need to achieve the target and goals by such it may concentrates it
that how it may separate from current standard.
 Level of priority: Instead of making the level of order it is necessary to set a level of
priority for each sessions that formulates the main objectives in the quora of content as
per personal development because they are either more essential or they may be not as
their type.

Skills to be developed Development plan Target date
Scheduling It is important for every
individual to nominate a task
that allows individuals to
achieve their targets and
objective
successfully(Kasemsap, 2017)
. I have experience for
arranging and executes more
than one task in the
organisation which taught me
various procedures to manage
the plan of actions and
management of records and
time intervals to completed all
task as on the mode.
Within 3 to 6 months
Customer service Human asset line of work need
a lot of societal activity and
guidelines to present their task.
I set up every individuals who
are practically knowledge and
serving other people also at
some how(Ke, Yin, Huang,
2019) .
Within 6 to 9 months

Identify your individual strengths and weaknesses and how you can utilise the conversion and
matching strategies to take advantage of available opportunities and minimise the threats
SWOT analysis stands for strength, weakness, opportunities and threats analysis. The
objectives of a SWOT analysis is to measures the departed, immediate and future of the
organisation or an individual that relates to career objectives. It enhance me and other individuals
for structured leadership on a frequent orientation on what the organisation assumes its position.
SWOT analysis helps me and other individuals to analyse and ask the varied question
about each and every topic that inverted the area of topic hence, it is important for analysis the
meaning of terms (Links, 2018) . To make SWOT analysis it makes sense to appropriate term
and get examine it as a internal strength of value. It also fails my level of effectiveness that is
simply treated the factors through which it identified in the objective that can analysis at the
individual carrying out the assessment.
Once I start using path of my section it will enhances me to keep performing that is set up
that is all measures the plan of action which is ensures the professional and personal growth in
the organisation. SWOT analysis is important for the growth and make it more valued by
identified and evaluates my own personal oriented targets. It should be considered on awareness
before creating a SWOT even if I consider this with other individuals about the topic relates to
strength and weaknesses that may effect to their own circumstances for in support for or in
without consideration to it.
 Strengths: The first sector is to examines my recruiting procedures that suits the
organisation terms. It may also ensures it by my quora, that the leaders motivates the
organisational task and program for individuals activities.
 Weaknesses: The second sector is to determine my weaknesses that is related to SWOT
analysis through which it considered measures like often getting late, time management
and record management skills etc. and it may improved by performing it more
effectively.
 Opportunities: The another sector features my levels of opportunities as per its modern
methods that is important for the authorial changes that affect the plan of action.
 Threats: The last sector mentions my career obstacles that is obstructed my growth that
is assisted the orientated things in the management as per the managerial issues.

Identify individuals areas for professional development
An area of development is a ability or concept that is good for growth of professional life.
As per to this, an individual focuses on the improvement and development as in major sectors of
the growth areas that assist the ratio of more productivity, empathetical and coordination in the
members of the management(Markussen-Brown, 2017) . Here is also an individual and handler
that may allows the activity for individuals growth and academic abilities after wards it measures
the terms and values for the personal and professional growth in the areas.
The areas of self growth is often making bit changes that pursue the big results that are as
follows:
 Goal setting: The setting of goals delivers that building a platform and a clear
perspective to analyse visual representation of the target orientated
performance(Westfahl, Wilkins, 2017) .
 Communication: It creates a proportion between the varieties that initiates it to bring a
perspective but it may express how abstraction of manner may differ from another
individual.
 Collaboration: It involves the working manner in respect with other from different fields
with the same target to achieve the goals that influences it as a common goal. It also
inspire productivity when an individual works alone.
 Listening: There are a lot of qualities of good listener that can be guide and formulated
with exercises. There are a value of good listener in the management for another effort or
career advice for sharing thoughts that relates the task of project.
 Conflict resolution: By taking part and showing interest in an organisation there will be
least possibilities of arising of issues and problems.
 Adaptability: Individuals who may take more interest in the organisation there will easy
for them to adapt new changes in the management that will be more productive and
happier even secure with the unsteady project and condition as related to the
management.
 Integrity: One of the frequent way the managers and the individuals as it prefer the main
motive is to establish the honest and ethical dealing(Wyatt, Ončevska Ager, 2017). It
may enhances it that the company virtually assign the program and task in the
management during the expected period of interval.

CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been determined that personal and professional
development is an important term for every individual to achieve their targets and objectives in a
frequent manner. By the measure of individual growth is may examines that variety of fields that
relates to personal and professional development and its way by which the oriented target and
task implement for the various terms (short and long term) that enhances the growth of
individual as per the ratio of personal and professional growth. The personal and professional
development ensures the target that accomplished with the variety of adaptability by which the
track of growth may achieve that passim the individual manner.

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