Personal and Professional Development Report: Challenges and Solutions

This report delves into the realm of personal and professional development (PPD), encompassing essential academic skills and career planning strategies. It begins with an introduction defining personal and professional development, followed by an essay exploring the three most important academic skills for university students: time management, reading and understanding information, and research. The report then transitions into a detailed overview of PPD, discussing key models and theories, particularly the social cognitive learning model, and identifies challenges faced in personal and professional plans, such as clarifying vision and mission, understanding strengths and weaknesses, and adapting better strategies. The report concludes by proposing solutions to overcome these challenges through the application of the social cognitive learning model, offering valuable insights for career advancement and skill enhancement. The report provides comprehensive analysis and practical advice for individuals seeking to improve their personal and professional lives.

Personal and
Professional
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body ......................................................................................................................................1
Task 1. Academic Essay..................................................................................................................1
Three most important academic skills required for university students and why these skills are
important:....................................................................................................................................1
Task 2. Report..................................................................................................................................3
An overview of personal and professional development and discuss key models / theories
relating to PPD............................................................................................................................3
Identify the key challenges in your own personal and professional plan ..................................4
Apply a chosen model to analyse how you are able to overcome those challenges ..................5
Propose a solution to enhance your personal and professional development and key academic
skills required .............................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is a process of enhancing oneself through such activities is that
employment skills, increasing the wealth opportunities and building the career goals and
continuous approach of building the skills will assist many business managers in obtaining more
qualified and motivated personal for the particular companies(Hildebrand, 2018)This personal
development is highly induce with self motivational factor which are continuously growing and
encouraging the peoples to go into the business and develops the decision making abilities by
enhancing self required skills. Professional development contains the ability and capabilities of
employees or staff in the organisation which will increase through the appropriate eduction and
training opportunities in the workplace which allows the staff to build their learning abilities and
enhance the professional development, they relates with both the workforce and individual
performance within the organisation. Personal development relates with the individual
development in the course of learning new skills with having motive to generate their career
goals with clarity in mind about the particular field in which he/she wants to go. The below
report covers the academic skills require for the university students and how will they contribute
to the process of education.
Main Body
Task 1. Academic Essay
Three most important academic skills required for university students and why these skills are
important:
The most important factor which will contribute in the career of any students which will
be required in the university phase is that an individual in respect to their career growth they
have to built the knowledge and learning by taking interest in their particular field but before that
they have to be clear about their academic skills which are the important aspect in the future
career growth of an student in the university phase(Christie and et. al., 2018). In the daily
working of the student they have to be sure about what he is going to do in their appropriate time
scheduled through proper work life balance student must be ensure about their goals and tasks
which relates to their academic growth. These aspects will work in the future if the student or
individual will implement their skills in the organisation work life this will assist them in the
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employability skills so here are some of the academic skills which are required for university
students is that:
Time management
Its involves with the process of managing the time in systematically manner in respect to
maintain the work life balance by dividing the daily activities for a particular time period. There
are only 168 hours in a week, the students having the full time should 45-60 hours on their
studies not including the travel time which relates in daily activities concern , assume if the
student spends an hour a day travelling then its hardly 67 hours on their studies a week, then
there basic activities are concern is that eat, sleep, other works and shower ,that leaves hardly 10
hours a week to do other things like shopping ,time with friends and other necessary works , so
basically for full time students its necessary to manage time according to their working.(Akrivou,
Scalzo and Orón, 2020)
Reading information and understanding
The most important academic skill for the student is to don't take time to read the full
article but to understand the context of the article by this they can easily understand what the
article is all about, student have to make sure about the article importance in relation to what the
article want s to convey(Choy and Chua, 2019).
Research
This research by the students is based on the information or data which are collected by
the student practically through reading books in library and by preparing the appropriate
questionnaire for their particular studies . Students here definitely bear losses if they will prepare
their research report on the basis of internet sources which are already researched by the
someone(Earley, 2020).
How they contribute to the process of education for a student :
By these important academic skills student will be able to do the tasks in their higher
education by having the compatibility in dealing with the daily work life balance yes its
important in the process of education process through proper researching approach by the student
they will able to produce more effectiveness in their higher studies assignment by creating the
phase of learning environment.
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By proper time managing process student will able to categorized the task related to their studies
through initiating the process of time scheduled management by taking each activities according
to the time management.
By reading and understanding the information which relates with the students academic culture
Task 2. Report
An overview of personal and professional development and discuss key models / theories
relating to PPD
Personal and professional development relates with the development of an individual in different
stages which consists as per self individual level and at organisational professional level by
maintaining the aspects which are related to the skills and capabilities to enhance the value of the
personality through particular approach to built the learning skills and knowledge. Effective
personal and professional development involves ensuring your capabilities and knowledge
according to the area of expertise for the career will always be the highest possible level. Its the
basic development phase of skills and knowledge for career advancement, this aspect is the
element of the personal development which can be the source for generating the value of the
organisation through improving the overall professional development phase by inducing in the
skills and learning stages with the important growth factor for an individual as well as for the
organisation point of view(Ahmed, 2018). Basically we talk about the personal development then
its comparatively the focus on self actualisation and self motivational factor through which an
individual will enhance their skills and knowledge by adopting the value which are important in
making the career growth for the self . Here an individual will maintain their approaches through
enhancing the skills for a particular carrier growth which will be the major aspects of the
individual likewise professional development relates to the improvement of an individual in the
course of organisational point of view,it relates with the formal types of vocational education or
training learning which contribute or assist in developing the career path of the individual in
organisation. For example It training,health and safety and legal knowledge and expertise.
Theory relating to PPD is that :
Social cognitive learning :Its a process in which an individual learns from the behaviour of
other members in the group by observing their actions on certain tasks handling and imitating the
behaviour of them through the process of correspondence between this individual behaviour for
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that aspect this required a certain level of cognitive development. Social cognitive approach by
the individual will be the aspect through which they will try or learn to act as that person based
on their behavioural aspects and attitude towards the organisation in respect to build the action
which is required during the processes of finding best option of cope with the situation through
particular learning experience of the individual by making efforts in achieving the tasks
(Williams, Rathert and Buttigieg, 2020)
Identify the key challenges in your own personal and professional plan
In clearing vision and mission: There are lots of challenges are occur in the process of making
the personal and professional plan is that as per my own experience there is a crucial step taken
before any preparation for the career development is that to know and determine the targets and
platform where an individual wants to achieve something by taking certain steps is that you have
to be sure about the objectives regarding your career planning by properly establishing the value
of their motive what you want to achieve in the process of making the professional planning but
before that process you have to clear about the self actualisation point which relates with whether
I am capable of doing that activities or able to go for that carrier path this will be the important
source in making themselves in a strong position and create the environment of looking into the
longer futuristic process by adapting the sources required in making the objectives very
clear(Lewin And et. al., 2019).
Understanding about strength and weakness for improvement:The most common challenges
in developing the personal and professional development plan is that to know about the strength
and weakness of ourself by taking important decision which are necessary in building the plan is
that on personal level I experience that you have to be so sure about your strength like in which
field you interest generates and what will be the strong point of yours in relation to deal with the
particular situation through determining by self actualisation through enhancing your strong zone
by regularly develop expertise in through particular situation which will arises in future also by
adopting the value of that strength like wise by analysing the what will be the weakness which
are going to be create obstacles in making the personal and professional planning in inducing the
several sources which will going to assist you in overcome the weaker point in respect of
achieving the career path which will be the important source in the beginning phase of an
individual to determine the weaker aspect of themselves by working on it effectively through
learning.
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Review and adaption of better strategies:After analysing the strength and weakness by
working on it properly through past activities the most important factor is to analysis the career
oriented activities which are to be done through inducing in the activities which will help you in
determining the performance regarding the value which are compatible in making the tasks
possible , as per I experienced that after enhancing the core value of going for personal as well
professional development the main aspect is to developed the sources through working on your
small targets in the stage of creating the personal and professional plan by dealing with the
situation through attempt them is that If the student wants to give any competitive exams after
analysing the obstacles behind their career path, by attempting that exam and determine their
strong point and flaws during that attempt this will generates the importance for the career
growth (Baecher and Chung, 2020).
Apply a chosen model to analyse how you are able to overcome those challenges
Social cognitive learning will gong to perform several assistance while making the personal and
professional development planning through applying this model and by generates opportunities
in developing the best career growth planning with several steps through which all the related
challenges will be overcome by the individual and group of people also through making certain
adaptation while preparing the personal and professional plan in the course of developing the
career planning with the major adaptability of the situations which are going to be emerge in the
process of developing the career planning so as to overcome from the challenges which are
relatively occur in the career path planning. While preparing for the PPD planning its necessary
for the individual to enhance the activity by taking social cognitive model as a base in which an
individual will learn from the behaviour and attitude of the individual and group members
through their way of doing the tasks and activities which are required in the phase of adopting
the certain career path through maintaining the value taking by the individual in making the
planning successful ,this social cognitive learning will help the individual in learning and
adopting the essentials moves which are required by the particular individual in making the
activities complete so as to develop the importance which will determine by the individual itself
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through its attempt in the career goals by adopting the social cognitive learning which will
enhance the ability of individual in making the process of developing the capabilities and skills
which are going to be important in the phase of developing the strategies,Learning abilities will
be the main aspect in which an individual will develop the qualities through adopting the values
of different individual qualities and through creating the importance by initiating the them into
their real life career path which will be the main growing skills that can be done through
important skills and abilities which are necessarily the major role played in the development of
any individual and assigning them with the particular career goals and objectives through that
process challenges will be met by inducing the certain activities in the context of developing the
chances in future objectives also(Cheon and et. al., 2018).
Propose a solution to enhance your personal and professional development and key academic
skills required
Skill Current
Proficiency
Target
Proficiency
Course of Action Time period
Time
management
6 9 The course of action will requires in
making the value of career path
more effective through generating
the appropriate target goals which
will be done through proper time
management aspect in which an
individual will work on their aspect
by making certain changes in their
daily life in respect to achieve the
organisational or career growth
value by making efforts in the time
scheduling by designing the specific
activities tasks through maintaining
the time frame in respect of daily
30 days
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working of the particular individual.
Reading
information
and
understandi
ng
7 10 It is essential for the individual or a
student to learn the abilities by
reading and understanding the
context which will be engage with
the life of an individual and students
to cope up with situations in which
individual will maintain their ability
to enhance the knowledge through
developing the abilities to
understand the context of the article
which are essentials for the student
who deals in higher educational
studies.
40 days
Research 6 10 It is an action in which will be the
important aspect in doing the
personal and professional
development by enhancing the value
through analysing the approaches
which are done by the individual in
making the completion of particular
goals and objectives so as to build
the knowledge in respecting to their
strength and weakness which are
requires in the course of actions
while preparing any personal or
professional development program
so as to cope up with the given
situation in making the career path
easy by implementing the sources
35 days
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which are required in the context of
developing the organisational targets
and goals which will be the
important factor in initiating the
steps that will help the individual in
developing the tough decisions in the
process of career path.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report is that every individual needs to adopt the career
path by preparing the personal and professional development planning which are the source of
designing any career planning which will results in making of the strategies which are required
in the context of developing the individual growth through improvising the knowledge and skills
factor in the course of completing the particular tasks and making it easy through several theories
which will assist the individual in developing the process of personal and professional
development planing through learning skills is that social cognitive learning approach which will
direct the individual in making the objectives successful.
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