Personal and Professional Development: Report on Habits and Frameworks

This report on personal and professional development explores the concept of continuous learning and its importance in managing career goals. It analyzes the 7 habits of highly effective people, including being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, putting first things first, thinking win-win, seeking first to understand, synergizing, and sharpening the saw. Furthermore, the report delves into various frameworks such as knowledge, skills, and performance, safety and quality, and communication, partnership, and teamwork, and their relevance to future career prospects. It also discusses a reflective model for personal and professional development, specifically Gibbs' Reflective Cycle Model, and concludes with the design of a personal development plan. The report emphasizes the importance of applying these principles to achieve personal and professional success.

PERSONAL
AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................4
PART 1............................................................................................................................................4
1)Discuss the 7 habits of highly effective people offers and effective framework for personal
development. ..............................................................................................................................4
PART 2............................................................................................................................................7
2)Determine various frameworks given in the module and also reflect on how it is related to
your future career........................................................................................................................7
PART 3............................................................................................................................................9
3)Design a personal development plan that addresses needs in relation to a particular habit....9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is basically a process through which an individual
is completely engage in various learning process in order to deal with challenges and to meet
desires goals and objectives in life. The prior objective of personal and professional development
is to assist individuals to manage their learning as well growth throughout the year. Continuous
learning and development will lead to keep skills and development up to date and also ensure
that individuals work legally, safely and effectively (Sugrue, 2016). However, personal and
professional development is also known as continuous professional development. The following
report is going to cover habits of highly effective people for personal development. Further more,
various frameworks for personal and professional development will be cover. At last, a personal
development plan will be created.
MAIN BODY
PART 1
1)Discuss the 7 habits of highly effective people offers and effective framework for personal
development.
Habits can be define as a constant behaviour which is done on a regular basis. They are
mostly unconscious and recurrent patterns of behaviour that could be attain from frequent
repetition. However, habits do vary from person to person. They actually shows a proven process
for interpersonal and personal growth which could have a long lasting impact. However, habits
are the reason to call a person effective or ineffective (Hildebr and, 2018). An effective
individual is basically a sum of his/her professional or technical expertise. The seven habits of an
effective individual is discussed here.
Habit 1- Be protective
Self awareness the unique quality of all human beings which makes them different from
other species. They have the ability to respond to any sort of stimulus. Some particular
conditions or situations could have a strong impact on individuals life to which they are not
determined. There are basically three theories of determinism. They are environmental, genetic
and psychic. According to genetic theory, nature of an individual is coded into their DNA, and
personal traits are arise from ancestors. Psychic theory states that upbringing of individuals
determine their personal traits. However, environmental determinism states that surrounding
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factors are responsible for individual behaviour. Effective individual has this particular habit of
reacting to external environment for their protection.
Habit 2-Begin with the need in mind
Effective individuals always have a mission in their life. They plan an decide some set
goals and objectives and work according to them in order to attain such goals. They never spend
their life aimlessly, instead they have a clear vision for their future and they implement their
actions for making it in reality. Such goals and objectives help an individual to make their life
effective by following a particular goal. It will be beneficial for an individual to keep things in
mind and to already plan for coming future. Effective individuals always try to plan everything
according to the situations (Vetere and Stratton, 2016). For doing this, individuals can make an
action plan for their life. There must be inclusion of both their professional life and personal life.
After that next step is to analyse the situations and make desired goals according to them. It will
even help individuals to identify their weaknesses and strength and make them to work on it by
deciding a particular date of accomplishing and fulfilling goals.
Habit 3- Put first things first
In order to get things done, effective individuals mostly prioritize their work. It is
important to focus on what is important by meaning the things which makes them to go closer to
their set goals and objectives. They usually spend time on doing what best fits for a personal
mission. It is important to analyse the key roles and make time individually for them.
Habit 4- Sharpen the saw
Effective individuals usually attain a sustainable lifestyle by taking time out from their
job life and spend some time for their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellness. It will
help them to lead a healthy lifestyle as they do not work up to their death. Spending time for
personal wellness is the key for attaining desired goals and objectives as a healthy individual
will be be able to work effectively (Choy and Chua, 2019). Thus, sharpen the saw will result in
bringing desirable outcomes in life.
Habit 5- Think win-win
According to this habit, an individual should have a genuine feeling in her/himself for
mutually beneficial agreements or solutions in a relationship. It is important to respect and value
other individuals for a long term resolution. Think win win is a character based habit of human
collaboration or interaction.
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Habit 6- Seek first to understand, than to be understood
An effective individual always seeks to understand other person perspectives and only
after that try to be understood. Effective listening is the key which makes an effective individual
to understand what other person is going through or what is the experience of individual in front
of them. It is basically a process of putting oneself into the perspective of other individual and
leads to share feelings and emotions mutually. Whenever, a articular individual present his/her
problem, most of the people directly jumps into conclusion which is the biggest mistake of them.
It must be the priority to first listen to the whole situation and then make recommendations after
analysing and understanding the problems. It will lead to build a healthy relationship between
individuals as they would like to share their issues more effectively to other persons. Persons
must adapt this particular habit for maintaining and creating an effective relationship with their
friends and families and even with strangers (Ahmed and Ward, 2016).
Habit 7- Synergize
For solving conflicts and issues, mutual trust and understanding is the key. It could be
attain through own personal solution. It is basically a habit of creative cooperation. It is generally
a process of finding new solutions to the old problems through team work and open mindedness.
By simply putting in words, synergize can be stated as two heads are better than one. This means
that it is more beneficial and productive if individuals collaborative try to find a solution to a
problem.
PART 2
2)Determine various frameworks given in the module and also reflect on how it is related to your
future career.
A framework can be define as a conceptual structure which provide support or assistance
in order to explain something that can be expanded into something helpful (Pennington and
Richards, 2016). The basic frameworks which were included in given module are discussed here.
Knowledge, Skills and Performance
This particular framework is helpful in developing professional skills effectively.
Knowledge is the mental or cognitive abilities which can be utilized for retaining and processing
information. However, skills can be determine as physical activities or abilities for performing
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tasks. Individuals skills and knowledge directly impacts on their performance. To perform
effectively, there is a need to implement this particular framework as it will help an individual to
enhance his knowledge and skills which will eventually help him develop professional skills. It
is important to be competent in overall aspects at a workplace in order to retain competence and
knowledge throughout the work. There is a need to enhance individuals skills in order to perform
work within the legal, ethical and regulatory guidelines. They all are the personal attributes that
actually help in to perform professional work. This particular framework help an individual to
maintain health and safety at workplace. Skills can be define as an effective use of knowledge so
that individuals could perform to their full potentials (Ruddy and et.al., 2016).
I could use this particular framework to enhance my knowledge and skills. It will help me
to develop my personal and professional skills and provide me assistance for utilizing knowledge
effectively in my skills. For future perspectives, this framework will be helpful for me in order to
perform better and for utilizing my skills in different situations.
Safety and Quality
Safety and quality framework is the most important framework for an individual for
ensuring the safety and quality of life. Safety can be determine as a situation of being protective
from any sort of risks or hazardous factors. It is helpful in both personal and professional
development. The particular framework could be implemented in order to access work in
progress of individuals in terms of quality and safety. It could be use in number of professions
but most prior it must be consider in public healthcare sector to ensure the safety of patients and
to analyse weather quality care is being provided to individuals. Quality and safety management
is important in personal life as it will help the individuals to be protected from any occurrence of
risks factors. Framework could be implemented on each and every individuals and thus it is
helpful in to ensure their safety and to analyse quality of work (Bates and et.al.,2016). It will be
beneficial for individuals to safely organise their tasks and activities so that it could bring some
quality outcomes.
As an individual, it is my responsibility to utilize this framework in order to bring safety
and quality in my life. It will be quite beneficial for my future perspective as it will help me to
improve the quality of my work and to learn about the safety manures which I could implement
on any serious situation arise in future. It will be effective for me to follow all the principles of
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safety and quality framework so that I could enhance my quality of life and could be able to lead
my whole life safely at workplace as well as for my personal development.
Communication, partnership and teamwork
The framework is a combination of three aspects which are most important for an
individual for perform effectively at a workplace. Teamwork or partnership states that work
should be completed in a collaborative manner (Moreillon, 2016). It will help the individuals to
perform effectively and to work to work with full potential. The framework could be
implemented in a particular workplace so that each and every individual could be able to
communicate effectively. It is the responsibility of individual to share information within each
department of organisation. In public healthcare sectors, this particular framework could be
utilized in order to enhance the professional skills of individuals. The healthcare professionals
when work in a team or in a partnership will be able to deliver best quality of services to their
patients as there will be proper communication and sharing of clinical practices. Communication
is the key in an organisation to achieve goals and objectives which were planned. An effective
team can be build when there is a proper communication between team members without any
conflicts (Sangster, 2017). It helps to build a healthy and a positive relationship with individuals
and also leads to bring successful life outcomes.
From this respective framework I could be able to develop my communication skills and
learn to communicate with individuals effectively. Better communication skills will help me to
contribute in team effectively and I could perform with my full potential. There is a requirement
of developing my team involvement skills. Thus, this framework will help me to improve my
skills and assist me to develop this quality. In future, communication, partnership and teamwork
framework will be beneficial for me as it will help me to attain a respectful position in my
organisation and also assist me to develop my skills and enhance my contribution in my team.
A reflective model for personal and professional development of an individual is discussed here.
Gibbs Reflective cycle model:
Gibbs reflective cycle model was established in the year 1988 by an American
sociologist. It was developed to motivate individuals to think in a systematic manner regarding
the experiences they have faced during a specific situation, activity or an event. The model help
individuals to think about their past experiences in a detailed manner and make them aware
about their own actions. The model was developed to change and adjust their behaviour in a
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positive manner. Gibbs refective model begins with a description and then run towards a
clockwise direction to feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and an action plan.
Step 1: Description
In this step, an individual needs to describe the situation, activity or event in a detailed
manner even without drawing any conclusion. It is important to note that no important
information is left out from the description.
Step 2: Feelings
This step states about the feelings and thoughts a person has during occurance of te event,
situation and activity which is described in above step. The most important goal of this phase is
awareness.
Step 3: Evaluation
In this step, the overall evaluation of situation, activity and vent is done. It identifies the
experience of the event was good or bad. It help individual to learn from their bad experiences
and critically evaluate where they went wrong.
Step 4: Analysis
This particular phase is related to what an individual has learned from his/her past
experiences. It gives an idea to the individuals that what needs to be done for the similar
situation if it arise in future again. It states that problems needs to be documented and then
should be analysed individually.
Step 5: Conclusion
In this phase, an individual look back to the situation again and think what else could be
done in order to deal with the situation. The overall information which has been gathered in the
earlier step is very beneficial for the individuals and help them to draw out a positive conclusion.
Step 7: Action plan
It is the final step of the model where actions are developed for the future situations,
activities or events. In the last step which is conclusion, individuals make promises to
themselves. The main intension ids to adhere to such promises. Thus, an action plan will help an
individual to learn what they can do if they have to face some bad experiences.
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PART 3
3)Design a personal development plan that addresses needs in relation to a particular habit.
Personal development plan is a procedure of creating goals and objectives. It helps an
individual to access current and on going realities and to analyse needs for developing skills,
knowledge and competence. It is basically a cycle for overall development of an individual.
Some of the steps in creating personal development plan includes analysing the objectives,
finding out requirement for development, look for opportunities, develop an action plan,
implement the plan, record the results and then evaluate the outcomes.
However, I need to develop a particular habit in me which is Seek first to understand,
than to be understood. I have analysed that sometimes it is difficult for me to understand others.
For developing this skill there is a need to design a personal development plan.
S.
No.
Learning
target
Present
Proficien
cy
Target
Proficiency
Development
Opportunities
Activities which
needs to be
consider
Time
Scale
1 Seek first to
understand,
than to be
understood
5 10 By developing this
particualar habit i
could be able to
communicate
effctively with my
fellowmates. I
conside thisa s my
weakness as
sometimes i get
failed in
understanding the
problems or issues of
others. Howevr, this
particular paln will
help me to develop
 I would
get
engage in
discussio
n and try
to listen
views
and
opinions
of others.
 Attend
some
seminars
and
conferenc
30
days
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this skill. I will be
able to share my
problems too if i
could i will be
successful in my
plan. I will have
more and better
quality of
friendships.
Understanding and
listening to otyher
problems first and
then to get
understood by others
will help me in my
workplace too as
sometimes
individuals take me
wrong and potray a
mean image of mine.
I could be a good
leader at my
workpalce if I adapt
this particular habit. I
could be able to deal
and tackle conflicts
an dproblems in
much better way
tahn i used to do. It
will thus result in
overall success and
es where
I could
develop
my
listening
and
understan
ding
power.
 Get
indulge
in social
activities
so that I
could be
able to
understan
d the
emotions
of other
individua
ls and
can
phrase
some
solutions
in my
mind.
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listening is consider
as one of the best
quality which will
help me to become
an effective
individual.
Thus, this particular plan will help me to develop my skill and will assist me regarding
how could I achieve my desire goals for fulfilling that skill.
CONCLUSION
From the above study, it can be concluded that personal and professional development is
important in individual's life as it help them in engaging in learning and development activities.
It brings the overall development of individuals by enhance knowledge and skills which will help
them to perform better in professional life. Certain habits could be achieved by individuals such
as prioritizing things, setting goals and objectives, be protective and many more.
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