Personal and Professional Development Plan: A Comprehensive Guide

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PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................................3
Task 1............................................................................................................................................. 4
1.1.............................................................................................................................................. 4
1.2.............................................................................................................................................. 6
1.3.............................................................................................................................................. 8
Task 2............................................................................................................................................. 9
2.1.............................................................................................................................................. 9
2.2............................................................................................................................................ 11
2.3............................................................................................................................................ 12
2.4............................................................................................................................................ 13
Task 3........................................................................................................................................... 14
3.1........................................................................................................................................ 14
3.2............................................................................................................................................ 15
3.3............................................................................................................................................ 16
3.4............................................................................................................................................ 17
Task 4........................................................................................................................................... 18
4.1............................................................................................................................................ 18
4.2............................................................................................................................................ 19
4.3............................................................................................................................................ 20
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................... 21
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................22

Introduction
Personal and professional development directs on the growth and enhancement of the skills on
the higher level which help in outreaching the goal (Hunzicker, 2010). It is important in every
phase of our life whether it is personal or professional. Personal and professional development
is like the overall development of body, mind and soul. Where one reaches one level to another
and explores more opportunity in your work as well as in the life. Now day’s companies want
those who understand this concept of self-development. And can also teach others how to
imply that. In today’s era everyone wants candidates who can make contribution in their firms.
This study will discuss about professional and personal content for the work. This can stimulate
the working principles of the individual and development of the skills within them.

Task 1
1.1
Role and importance of self-managed learning, in a work context
Self-managed learning is a big aspect in the development of personal and professional context.
It allows us to expand in our own ways. It gives us capability to handle our own leanings. In a
corporate world organizations can also have self-managed learning programs which fits into
their framework (Avery and Reeve, 2013). it ensures that all employees develop in a certain
direction, other than these employees can also choose that what and how they want to learn
even when and where they want.
Attending productive seminars and conferences -
Seminar and conferences are the best ways to learn because they provides opportunity to gain
others knowledge as well as present our own knowledge to the world. Along with it seminars
and presentations can also be converted as problem solving sessions (Bunderson and
Boumgarden, 2010). In the conferences people shares their ideas and experience which are
essential for enhancing our knowledge in cognitive as well as practical field.
Social networks-
One can also learn the art of self-managed through social network. Social network can be either
in the local communities or on the social networking sites likes Facebook, Twitter etc. It plays a
huge role in learning self-managed because by sitting in the group of people or by being
socialize one gets exposure to learn that how to communicate and when to communicate,
other than that when one sits in the group of people than also they learn new things
(Cunningham, 2017). This approach would be very effective for the team of visitor’s service
because as it is a national trust and visitors team always need to be interactive and practicing
being social would help them in to be interact with others.
Internet-

In today’s era internet plays a vital role in everything. Anyone can learn anything on the
internet by surfing different websites. It is a big source of information and anyone in the world
can access it. Visitor’s team can learn through the internet that how to interact with others and
can also fetch the information about the people.

1.2
Lifelong learning involves individual learning to enhance their power and help or add to
personal prospects. Two elements of lifelong learning are private ability and the use of the
professional framework (Kop and Fournier, 2011). Here are some ways which helps in lifelong
learning in personal and professional context which could also be encouraged in visitor’s
service.
Self-evaluation –
It means that evaluating an individual performance that where they stand and what are the
changes that individual need to do in themself. For doing a self-evaluation one can do the
SWOT analysis and through this they can know everything about themselves. This approach is
solely depends on individual. It is all about being honest with self and it is a lifelong learning. In
visitors service also one needs to do self-analysis on the timely basis to understand your
customers.
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Ones strengths can be:
 Good communication skills
 Punctuality
 Handwork and smart work
Weaknesses can be:
 Lower confidence
 Poor communication
 Hesitation
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
Opportunities can be derived from
strengths:
 As strength is good
communication skills than it
can open many ways to
learn new things
Threats can be like:
 A person doesn’t have a
desire to learn the things

Continuous learning –
it is all about growing through learning. Continuous learning helps us to learn new things and
technologies in every stage of our life. Continuous learning is helpful in personal as well as
professional development. It is the development of attitude, abilities, talents and
understanding at the individual level, whereas at the organizational level it is the enhancement
of team abilities, policy change, culture etc.
Motivation and achievement-
it is also a very important factor in any organization, if one wants the continuous growth in the
organization than they must need to keep motivated their employees by setting goal and when
the employees achieves these goals they gets the feeling of motivation within themselves to
achieve more (Kop and Fournier, 2011).
As a manager, it is very important to make the learning goals as significant as performance
goals in order to encourage lifelong learning within the team. Other than that linking staff with
the aspirational mentors, making opportunities for social learning’s are also important.

1.3
Self-managed learning is beneficial for everyone whether the person is an employee or a
manager or even the organization. It increases lots of skills in an individual like positive attitude,
decision making skills, self-motivation, time management, communication skills etc. some of
the benefits which are associated with the self-managed learning.
Improving presentations skills-
One of the advantages of the self-managed learning is that it boosts your self-confidence and
when one has self-confidence they can do wonders (Busà, 2010). Because presentation skills
one can convey their thoughts without hesitation.
Communication skills-
Self-managed learning’s also helps in enhancing communication skills. In self-management
learning one needs to work independently and that’s why everyone needs to deliver their idea
individually so through all this employees communication skills increases.
Team work-
The job or assignment of the team is very crucial for the organization. Many scientists
demonstrate that the organization's achievement depends on the organization's team
construction or working. Self-managed learning also increases the organization's teamwork and
team building. The team works at the individual level, increases communication skills (Adler, et
a; , 2016).
These all skills are very beneficial to the manager as well as the national trust because these are
all the benefits which employees are going to have through the self-managed learning and
when the employees are getting skilled so obviously the manager and organization going to
have benefits from it. So it is overall beneficial for all.

Task 2
2.1
Whenever the organization chooses the candidate they always prefer the employees who
can help the organization in achieving the goal and the objectives. Organizations have putted
some criteria about how and which candidate to choose, here the criteria are that the
candidate must know about the area where the organization needs to put the candidate.
Besides this candidate must have the communication skills as well as leadership skills
(Harrison, 2012). These are all the ideal skills which one employee should have, If one looks
at the common characteristics in an individual that can be useful to an organization, they are
friendly, willing to know fresh stuff that help to maintain a healthy working atmosphere. The
following is a correct assessment of these skills and capabilities against the professional
norm and organizational goals:
Skill Activities to enhance the skill Personal remarks Rating
(X/10)
Problem solving
skills
Observation is a big tool in any
problem. Before getting to the
solution first try to understand
why the problem occurred.
There are various training given
by the organizations to increase
the problem solving skills.
7
Time management
Regularly maintain to do list.
Before doing the work, first check
for the to do list. Have a to-do list and maintain it. 8
Strategy formation
and decision
making.
If the company is in the market
than it is obvious that the
company would have enemies
whether they are competitors or
political parties so in this situation
One can’t be the master of
Strategic formation instantly.
For getting command on it one
needs to solve lot of case
studies and attend conferences.
6

one needs to be very strong
strategically.
Motivation
Until and unless one is not
motivated for the thing they not
going to do it properly.
Motivation can be given through
many things like some have
motivation for appraisal, than
there are some who have it for
position.
8
Leadership skills
If one wants to grow in the
corporate world then they must
need to have the leadership skills.
A leader is one who always
takes the responsibility to
complete the work and make
others to do it.
7.5
Communication
skills
Communication skills, very
important factor in organization.
One can increase their skills
through newspaper reading.
The good communication skills
give the confidence to convey
the idea.
6
Social skills
Whenever any type of social
activities happens, manager
needs to involve in that and
involve the employees too.
Social skills include a healthy
relationship in the organization. 8

2.2
Skill assessment should be done very frequently, as it gives us a idea that what are the things
that we still needs to improve. It also tells us about our abilities to work against professional
behavior. The two very common areas where every manager needs enhancement are
communication skills and strategy formation. In a corporate world it is very important to
present your idea (Hudson, 2013). For that one need to have excellent command on the
communication skills so that the idea can be delivered easily and understood by everyone.
Manager requires improvements in both communication skills as both are necessary in an
organization. Oral communication helps in presenting ideas where written helps in written
work. These two communications abilities are important in order to preserve the competitive
benefit for both the person and the organization. As stated previously, the organization is
encircled by the multiple variables. The organization must follow the guidelines set by these
variables so that the significance of the creation of the strategy emerges (Beausaert, Et a;
2013). The strategy formation could maintain the competitive benefit, high sales, excellent
working climate, and it also helps to decrease the adverse impact on the organization.

2.3
There are numbers of staff working together in the organization. The organization always
prefers applicants who have the ability to fulfill the organization's goal and objective at the
moment of employing the candidate. The problem that occurs is diversity in nature, culture and
education due to which many disputes happen between the staff. If one want the organization
to work well than they first need to solve these minor disputes between the staff members.
Conflicts could be removed only by knowing or understanding each other’s culture and
that could be possible from through communication (Leary and Tangney, 2011). Good
communication plays a very significant role in eliminating disputes. As stated previously,
manager qualities are friendly in nature and attempt to keep a healthy connection with the
other staff that makes the individuals around me happy. Good behavior and respect for one
another culture also reinforce the connection between staff. Therefor to achieve a particular
target, firstly there is a need of unity in the team and that could only be achieved by
understanding each other. One of the factors behind strengthening anyone’s communication
skills is interacting with all the team members and performing the job as it also improves
person and organizational abilities.