Personal Development Report: Skills, SWOT Analysis and Plan

This report provides a detailed exploration of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of skill enhancement for career growth. It begins with an introduction to professional development, highlighting the significance of individual development plans. The report includes a section on feedback received, outlining key steps such as defining objectives, setting priorities, and recognizing opportunities. It then delves into observations and discussions on crucial skills like communication, time management, planning, decision-making, and presentation skills, alongside a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. A personal professional development plan is presented, outlining activities, timeframes, and methods for skill improvement. The report concludes with recommendations for improvement and emphasizes the importance of utilizing opportunities to achieve goals and foster professional development.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Disclosure and Feedback Received........................................................................................1
Observation and Discussion...................................................................................................2
Recommendations..................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Professional development is the procedure of enhancing abilities of employees by
providing them training and development. The report talks about individual development to
achieve professional objectives which are important in processional growth and development.
Further, personal and professional development plan enables to take actions in effective manner.
Further, it also enables to develop the areas in which one lacks.
Disclosure and Feedback Received
On the basis of feedback from the various people helps to focus on certain skills which
are important aspect of personal and professional development. It will help to improve
knowledge and build the network in professional career (Avery and et.al., 2016). To achieve
anything, it requires forming a plan as per the different activities which is like:
Define your objectives: It is primary step for the development plan in which objectives
require to define each and every individual regarding the goals that has to be attained. For each
and every professional it require various skills and knowledge from attaining workshops to get
higher growth and development in professional career.
Set priorities: It is another step which is needed to be considered for time management
for each and every activities are required for effective outcomes.
Set a deadline: This can be another aspect for achieving outcomes which is important to
set deadline so that improvements can be seen in the particular timeframe (Thomas and
Lampadan, 2016).
Understand your strength: The objectives must be based on strengths of each and every
individual. This is an important aspect.
Recognise opportunity and Threat: It is significant to analyse the opportunity and threat
for individual and steps are to be taken to over come them.
Develop new skill: The plan must have goal to develop the certain skills which are
important to meet recent and upcoming requirements for professional growth in the career.
Take action: These is a significant step which required to be considered by individual so
as to take action during any conflicts that arise in personal and professional development
(Zimmerman, 2015).
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Get support: To find out all the possible sources for getting better assistance for own
development as well as achieving professional objectives.
Measure progress: It is an important aspect which required people to think for measuring
performance as per the development plan.
Observation and Discussion
In each and every individual, a better professional development plan is required so that he
or she will get higher growth and effective development if certain skill will be improved which
can be discussed as follows:
Communication Skill: This can be the most important skill which will help to manage
the level of performance. Communication makes an individual more effective for building a
strong network and solve conflicts in professional career (Lejeune and et.al 2016). For achieving
long and short terms objectives, it is important for individuals to focus on communication skill.
Time Management Skill: This can be an important skill which is required to be improved
because this will help to make a proper career growth. The Abstain from multitasking: - In this
location time association isn't advert in the doubtful event that you are revolve around
multitasking in affiliation. In multitasking a man is parcel there imperativeness for various works
without a moment's delay and it diminishes productivity in affiliation. Thusly base on one
endeavor in a day. It is help to manufacture the level of execution and kept up improvement rate
in affiliation. Selected astutely: - Whether you are finishing an occupation or a business, you are
handle part various things in a day. So at this moment all work is to be done on time and as per
the time is to be called keenly work (Von Haenisc, 2011). Delegate tinier endeavour in a day, so
every task can manage truly and completed on time. Perceive needs, in this setting a man is to be
revolve around doing manage time and as indicated by the requirements in affiliation. It is help
to grow the level of execution and completed work on time. Utmost preoccupations, in affiliation
work completed on time than diminish redirection instruments in work put. They will give
negative impact on execution and other factor in affiliation. All such factor is most crucial to
extend the level of execution and kept up the improvement rate in exhibit (What is Personal
Development? 2018). To oversee honest to goodness time is most indispensable to construct the
execution level and completed work with full utilize way.
Planning Skill: organise and plan are the two most important part which is useful for the
professional and personal attainment of set objectives (Mattsson and Mutvei, 2014). This skill
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will help to form and implement better decisions. It is major part of organisation if person
performs top management roles and responsibility where each and every task is required to bring
a certain plan. The skill of planning must be improved thus it is not creating any issue or problem
during working or performing all activities. So appropriate planning will help to know the idea to
accomplish any task. This will help to reduce time of various events which is required to
accomplish certain activities in organisations. Each and every employee is the part of system
who need to follow a rules and regulation. For that, individual needs to plan for self-growth
which will be determined with help of taking actions that require planning skills in person.
Decision Making Skill: This can be the most important aspect which is required to be
considered for the professional development that is decision making skill. These are skills which
require high mental ability and presence of mind for those individuals who are on the top
position who need to take decision for improvement of organisations (Stenfors-Hayes, Kalén and
Ponzer, 2010). The various decision can raise huge conflicts in the firm or it can damage
goodwill. So decision making skills would be important for overall professional and personal
development.
Presentation Skill: This is also a type of skill which must be there into a professional manager
who would be on many times need to give presentation on various products and services of
company.
SWOT Analysis
Strengths: In this factor incorporate handle troublesome issue. It is more point and this
would help to accomplish any work with no mistake. This is called quality and utilize them to
expand execution level in association. Time management and decision making skills are the two
most important skills which need to be there within professional so that they could effectively
achieve targets which are set.
Weaknesses: We have many shortcomings as well (Sperber, and Wilson, 2013). We have
to build up our respectable aptitudes in association. Along these lines abilities are required
preparing process in association. Preparing is help to evacuate shortcoming and increment the
level of execution in association. My communication skills and presentation skill are the major
weakness which required to improve as per my development plan.
Opportunities: There are parcel numerous open doors in showcasing segment. To
discover the best opportunities in showcasing recorded is relied on the aptitudes and ability of a
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man. I have opportunity to achieve my long and short term objectives with overcoming my
weaknesses which are the important areas and these are major hindrances in my professional
development.
Threats: In showcasing recorded there are parcel numerous rivalries. Along these lines it
is help to expand the level of execution and kept up the development rate in association.
Presentation skill is the major threat while dealing with external people such as customer (Urban,
2016).
Personal Professional Development Plan
Activities Time period Method
Communication skills 3 months Communication Skill is great
in pioneer in any group or any
association. Pioneer utilizes
appropriate into season of
work, so work will be finished
on time.
Time management 2 to 3months Event facilitator has great time
administration in every last
occasion. It is extremely
helpful to self-improvement
design. They manage every
single occasion on time.
Planing skills 4 to 8 months Director has appropriate
planning of every single work
in the association. To figure
out how to plan need to take
long time. Planning isn't a
simple work, in planning to see
future. To enhance future
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utilize planning (Nahavandi,
2016). It is extremely valuable
to self-improvement design.
Decision Taking 6 to 8 months The top management required
to give small roles and
responsibilities. Solve case
studies.
Presentation Skill 4 to 5 months Presenting mock presentation
certain topic and attained
development classes.
On the basis of SWOT analysis, I have to focus on my communication skills, as it is my
major weakness and it is important for me to overcome such weakness in the 3 month with the
help of attending training which is provided by the organisation as well at personal level I have
to attend various workshops. Further, my time management skill is effective which will help to
achieve each and every aspect in the organisation time and presentation skill is the major thereat
in my professional development which required to improve on the basis of decide time that is
overall 4 to 8 months (Wise and et.al 2016). Therefore, I have to utilise all opportunities to
achieve goals as well as it will be beneficial in professional development.
On basis of development, it is important to take actions and measure performance once
all methods will get completed. The plan is for 12 months which is needed to be considered for
effective personal and professional development to improve certain skills (Wong, 2014).
Therefore, I have to improve my communication skill which is a weak area and give more efforts
on time management skill as it is my strength.
Recommendations
There are certain recommendations that have been made on the basis of personal and
professional development such as:
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 If all the skill will be improved as per the set time than chance of high growth in
professional development in terms of promotion and getting other responsibilities in the
organisations.
 Decision making and time management skills require using for the benefit of
organisational development which will help to get higher professional development and
growth.
 Presentation skill is the major threat in my professional development which is required to
improve on the basis of decided time that is overall 4 to 8 months
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be easily concluded that to achieve anything, it requires
forming a plan as per different activities in which the most important aspect is to define
objectives. Communication makes an individual more effective for building more network and
solve conflicts in professional career. Recommendations based on plan are required to implement
for certain improvement can be made and long term and short terms objective will assist in high
growth and development in professional career. Therefore, I have to utilise all opportunities to
achieve goals as well it will be beneficial in professional development.
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