Personal and Professional Development Plan Report - Leadership Module

This report presents a comprehensive personal and professional development plan (PDP) designed to enhance leadership and management skills. The executive summary highlights the importance of self-assessment and career planning, with a focus on developing key skills like communication ...Read More

Personal and
professional
development plan

Executive summary
Personal and professional development is Essential to take self assessment and make plans for
career development. This report presents all the skills criteria that need to be developed by taking
personal SWOT analysis that shows weakness in communication and time management skills.
The PDP plan is based on smart objectives that will be fulfil in specific time period. Also,
continuous professional development carries out short medium and long term goal followed by
the issues and challenges as a part of reflection.

Table of Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................5
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................5
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................5
Personal and professional development plan...............................................................................5
SWOT analysis..........................................................................................................................10
Continuous development Plan...................................................................................................12
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................13
Reflection on issues and challenges..........................................................................................13
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................14
Reflection...................................................................................................................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................15
Books and journals:...................................................................................................................15
Appendix A....................................................................................................................................16
Appendix B....................................................................................................................................16
Appendix C....................................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
The aim of the report is to carryout own personal development plan by setting personal
goals and targets with a well managed action plan. Personal and professional development is an
important journey for an individual life though which the individual learn and take actions for its
future development. Every individual has their own dreams to fulfil in terms of setting up own
business get their dream job. For that instance, personal development is must which helps in
learning required skills and set a clear path to achieve. Learning stage will never end in an
individual life as it is a continuous and pervasive function which goes further during the lifespan
of individual. Analysing self mistakes and work on them is the major criteria of learning. An
individual who wants to build their career needs to first analyse personal skills and set goals to
make improvement (Botha, and Herselman, 2018). Mainly professional skills do include
communication skills, IT development, problem solving and some technical skills also. These all
are employment skills which helps the individual to get their desired job role. Nowadays, there is
allot competition into market to get a good job but organisation always looks for capable and
talented individuals who could perform their job role effectively. So that, this report is going to
include personal development plan for the position of operational manager, through this plan, the
goal and objectives will be indentify with proper resources and time period. Also, the report will
carry out personal skills audit through SWOT analysis to check the need for improvement and
need to get better in which skills criteria (Widodo, 2018). Moreover, it is going to covered all
key aspect of personal and professional planning process and lastly, self reflection on the skills
developed during the course of time.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Personal and professional development plan
It is a set of document which consist the skills and goals an individual need to develop for
making a better future. It is a kind of document in which each and every detail gets involve about
what needs to be achieve, how much time it would take and what resources will be required.

First, an individual identify where they wants to go in and what job role they need to get in
future. After analysing personal aims, the PDP plan gives opportunity to mention each goal and
the skills required for it within a set period of time. Mainly this planning process is effective to
measure the criteria and work on self improvement by regularly get stick on the plan. Basically,
the PDP procedure is a goal setting and reflecting on skills developed in relation with career
planning education and self improvement (Butina, 2018).. It is unnecessary planning process in
order to professional and personal skills with the need of improvement and come out with weak
areas. Moreover it also develops an action plan with smart objective which helps individual in in
analysing opportunity and hurdles they may face into future.
Desired Position: Operational Manager
Career Mission Statement: To see myself as a operations manager in a reputed organisation by
being capable in operations work, team building, stakeholder relationship and become an
inspiration for others. Be versatile and effective assets for the organisation.
Major Career Goals:
Goal 1: Get assess in
communicati
on skills
Target
Date:
15-7-21
Goal 2: Leadership
and training
skills
Target
Date:
8-8-21
Goal 3: Build time
management
skills
Target
Date:
5-6-21

Goal 4: Decision
making and
problem
solving
skills to
manage
relationship.
Target
Date:
15-6-21
SMART
Objectives
(What are
my
developme
nt
objectives)
Priority
(High;
medium or
low in
importance)
Success
Criteria
(How will
I
recognise
success?)
Actions Resource
s
(Require
d to
achieve
objective
s)
Target
date
(for
achievi
ng my
objectiv
e)
Challenges
expected/Soluti
ons
Be effective
in
communicati
on about the
value in
operations of
product and
development
.
It is highly
important as
communicatio
n is a key to
get any work
done into
effective
manner.
Through
customers
feedback
about
product
usefulness.
I need to
engage more
in
communicati
on with team
members and
start taking
self
assessment
to make my
vocabulary
better. Need
to find my
mistakes
while
communicati
To make
vocabular
y strong, I
need
books,
magazines
and
articles.
15-7-21 The results must
be better product
development by
eliminating
wastage. So that,
cost will be
minimise.

ng with
others
through their
feedback.
Need to
develop
leadership
skill to
motivate
team
members
and be an
inspiration
for them.
It is also
highly
required and
without good
training and
leadership
skill the
objective will
not achieve in
my career
growth.
I will keep
check on
team
member’s
performan
ce which
will reflect
the impact
of my
training to
them.
I will put all
my efforts in
making my
team
member
understand
about work
by using
good
leadership
training and
my personal
skills so that
comma
mistake and
conclusions
will
eliminate.
I will need
good
training
tools and
techniques
in terms of
props and
presentati
on to
guide and
teach
properly.
8-8-21 The results will
be team
effectiveness and
coordination by
working together
for single
objective.
Develop
time
management
skills to
eradicate
unnecessary
time from
the meetings
without
lowering
down it
It is
moderately
important in
order to avoid
unnecessary
time
management
and use it for
other work.
Success
will be
measured
by
checking
the unit of
output
produced
in a
specific
time
I will
schedule the
best time
management
plan so that
all the work
will
complete
before time
and the team
will not get
Time
manageme
nt tools,
computer,
performan
ce
measures
software.
5-6-21 Results will be
efficient
production and
reducing labour
hours.

effectiveness
. By
changing the
routine and
schedule.
manner by
past
performan
ce.
pressurise. I
will assure
that each
activity will
complete as
per the time
duration.
Quick
decision
making and
problem
solving
skills will
help in real
time
completion
of objective
to reduce
complexities
and work
burden.
It is also
highly
required to
manage the
operations
effectively by
reducing
complexities
and disputes.
I will keep
check on
the
activities
on which
decisions
are
required
and what
will be
their
results so
that
affective
result will
be
encourage
and
ineffective
result will
be
eliminate
from the
process.
Indulge in
team
meetings and
sessions in
order to give
my ideas and
opinion for
making
process and
try to solve
business
problems by
doing
thorough
study about
the projects.
Computer,
articles
and
journals to
research
before
taking any
decision.
15-6-21 This process will
be challenging
and riskier if
decision will get
fail to achieve
objective.

SWOT analysis
Skills audit is a professional type of analyzing personal skills. This personal audit will
help in providing evidence of existing cells and development in the era of competition. In simple
words, is audit is required to analyses the skills for self development by understanding individual
good and bad outcomes which they face throughout in their life. Is a type of reflective
assessment through which an individual get to know all the internal areas about its personal and
professional development (Camargo Cely, 2018). In order to perform an effective skills audit,
SWOT analysis is a popular and effective framework which identifies inner strength weakness
opportunity and threat. My skills are identified through the help of SWOT analysis which are
described below:
Strength Weakness
 I have good administration skills
which help me in performing
business activities and fulfil my
roles and responsibility towards
completing the task.
 I have good confidence level and a
positive attitude toward working
which make me e ready to work into
pressurise situation also. This
confidence make other inspire from
me.
 I have my major strength is to cope
up with Complex situations and have
good technical knowledge to provide
solutions in easiest way. This helps
me in making the complex work into
simpler manner by using computer
and software tools.
 Communication is the biggest weak
criteria in me. As I am not able to
communicate in front of number of
people which make me out of
decision making process and guiding
team.
 Another weakness is time
management as I am not capable in
managing time appropriately for
every work. This leads to make work
burden and create chaos for not
completing the task on time (Szplit,
2017).
 I am not capable of making
decisions and solve business
problems effectively. This affects
me to give any guidance and stop
my career growth.

 I have a learning attitude which
makes my inner self more dedicated
towards work.
 My decision making criteria is also
not so good , I could not take
decisions where prompt action are
required as it made me scare of
losing the objective.
Opportunity Threat
 The Biggest opportunity for me is
my overall confidence and positive
attitude which make me a better
human (Frey, L.M. and Ratliff,
2018) Organisations required
positive individuals who could
regulate their positivity among
others. This would be beneficial in
my professional life.
 My learning attitude create lot of
opportunities for me learn from
every way and get knowledge into
every field make me a versatile
personality that help in building my
career.
 My technical skills provide me
opportunities to work in different
manner which others cannot
perform.
 As my communication skills are not
good this become a major threat for
me which will affect my
professional development and create
many hurdle to achieve my career
objective.
 My fear of taking decisions out of
scarcity is also a threat which makes
me apart from meeting and
presentation sessions that impact on
my career growth as I will not be
eligible to take promotions and extra
benefits.
 My time management skills are also
work as a threat for me. Due to
which, I am not able to attain my
objective and goals in a stipulated
time period which eradicate early
opportunities also.
From the skills audit, I analyzed that it is required to achieve more in my skills
development. I need to take advantages of the opportunities and strength in me to better cope up
with professional and career objectives. By getting catch on the skills, I will eliminate all my
weakness by converting them into opportunities and threats will become my strength. Therefore,

the personal audit shows me the significance of my strength which must be maintained career
and professional development.
Continuous development Plan
The continuous development plan is a basic of personal development plan that are
interrelated and consist those skills which are required to develop for career growth. This career
oriented plan is basically divided into three aspects short term medium term and long term. It is
basically a process of checking and analyzing self interpretation of the skills and knowledge that
require effective training and learning aspect (Gutierez, and Kimb, 2017). It shows continuity in
learning knowledge which help me in taking growth into my profession. This plan is basically
link with personal audit and assures to include all the necessary skills in the three development
aspect. These are discussed below:
Short term goals: in an organization, employees need to set their short term goals to achieve a
step by step procedure in making development. Short term goals create a path for future to
achieve something more from what they have today. Short term goals are for Limited period of
time. My short term goal is to complete business operation activities so that it will positively
affect in my long term growth. The short term goals are a track to the long-term development is
it play in important role which gives motivation from short wins. The short term goals provide
achievements in step procedure so that the individual could analyses the mistake during it
implementation and come up with real problems which would not influence on the employability
skills while working into an organization.
Medium term goal: the goal set for medium term purpose is a mixture of short term as well as
long term objective. Once an individual become able to achieve with its short term goal, they
move onto medium term objective. These goals last for many five years and not exceed then 25
years. My medium term goal is to fulfill my responsibilities by being a good leader in managing
operational task and my team members fruitfully (McCarthy, Maor,. and McConney, 2019). This
will help me in overcoming with the challenges and difficulties into problem solving. There is a
good fact about medium term goals that they are not fixed into time manner as it depends on how
much effort I will put in making the gold successful.

Long term goals: the organization that works for long term objective to expand and improve
their overall performance, They seeks for the employees who could be a part by making their
contribution in taking the business to the next level of success. So that these goals could be in
terms of creating large sales, generating more profit and enable expansion. My long term goal is
to boost sales by undertaking innovations into product and it require all the girls are sitting in
two medium and short term level (Ranieri, Bruni, and Xivry, 2017). However, these goals could
be accomplish in under six months or take 20 years. My Action Plan for achieving long term
goals is to take support of senior managers and build my own team to achieve promotions and
higher positions together.
TASK 2
Reflection on issues and challenges
From the above personal development plan, I analyses the issue and challenges in
achieving some of the skills and capabilities in a short period of time. By developing the PDP
plan there comes numerous challenges and issues in front of me which require proper and quick
solution. I found the issue in achieving my goals for communication skill as I have only three
months to prepare and learn to communicate with people. It makes me quite nervous and
challenging that how wills my communication impact on other. The Other challenge I found in
PDP is that the decision making and problem solving criteria will get successful or not. As the
real business practices are much complex than the theoretical, so that it could only be analyzed
by working on practical level which is the most risky task (Mohamed Osama, and Gallagher,
2018). Therefore, I need to be more dedicated and enthusiastic about my career to achieve all
these goals in the set period of time. By looking through a positive mindset, the challenges and
issues will make me stronger and eliminate my mistake from the bottom of the root. I need to get
stick to my personal and professional development plan which will help me in achieving my
career growth as an operational manager. I was kind of person who to neglect the issues and
problem and being neutral about them. But now I found all the essential criteria on which I need
to work which will be effective in developing my skills. So that, the issues and challenges give a
motivation to a person to achieve something big and work with full potential. However, this will
undertake the efforts and time in preparing me for better understanding and more employability

skills. Which also work as a challenge for me. I also need to overcome my inpatient level witch
create a negative impact while working into groups. Therefore, these entire task are challenging
but yet necessary to fulfill.
TASK 3
Reflection
As a part of my continuous personal and professional development plan, I feel quite
nervous at an initial level of practice of my employability task. To face a practical business
situation and be a responsible individual into an organization is quite challenging but it give an
unexpected motivation. Therefore, I made successful attempt in developing my communication
skills to engage with my team members and provide effective guidance which I did into right
manner. I found difficulty in performing decision making task as it require a lot of attention and
creative mind set to take effective decisions which will be fruitful for the organization goals and
objectives. I put myself in team meetings and going through with the business problem came out
to be helpful making business decisions (Osman, and Warner, 2020). It requires a lot of effort in
making building a strong team by way of coordination, but I manage to do so with my positive
attitude and learning aspects that inspire others to work more enthusiastically in their job role.
Short term goals are much more effective which gave me motivation to achieve higher
objectives. Moreover, I feel privileged to work on this project which enhance my skills and give
me a powerful inside about my future development. I was really in need to analyses my personal
skills but have not make time for it but this project has give me opportunity to analyses my inner
strength and capability so that I could take decisions in my future life activities. Therefore, I
initially would not thought of working on my future skills but this project work as an eye opener
to utilize my time into effective working rather than just wasting it.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has concluded that personal and professional development is a
continuous process for an individual life. Without learning, there is no opportunity for
development as learning goes continuously till the lifespan of an individual. So that, the goals
regarding career must be developed at initial level of time so that the future will be more secure.

In this report, personal development plan helps in carry out all the essential skills and capabilities
that needs to be accomplished to get the dream job. For that instance , personal skills audit
perform an important role in analysing appropriate skill set in an individual by showing relevant
strength, weakness, opportunities and threats. This has helped in identifying major weak areas
which needs to be cover up by taking advantage over opportunities. Moreover, the report also
showed short term medium term and long term goals as a part of CPD plan. At last, the reflective
summary shows that they should we focus more on communication skills and decision making
criteria in order to make daily routine conversation and provide relevant information to the team
members. Also the questionnaires shows personal assessment to analyse the effective of PDP and
CPD and Belbin shows the test of credibility from the employees of organization.

References
Books and journals:
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teacher professional development (TPD) course in a resource constraint environment
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Butina, M., 2018. Professional and Personal Development: Professionalism, Leadership, and
Effective Communication Skills. American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.
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Bilingualism Within the Context of Professional Development. How, 25(1), pp.115-
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Frey, L.M. and Ratliff, J.L., 2018. The Personal and Professional Experiences of Integrative
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professional development between in-service teachers and university
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McCarthy, A., Maor, D. and McConney, A., 2019. Transforming mobile learning and digital
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Mohamed Osama, O. and Gallagher, J.E., 2018. Role models and professional development in
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Appendix A
Personal skills audit
Skills 1 2 3 4 5
Confidentiality *
Administration skills *
Time management skills *
Technical skills *
Communication skills *
Problem solving skills *
Positive attitude *
Appendix B
Results of VARK questionnaire
Which plan is suitable to make career objective
a) PDP
b) CPD
c) Both *
Does it help in fulfilling career goals effectively?
A) Yes *
B) No

Appendix C
Results of Belbin Questionnaire
The questionnaire conducted among the team members of organisation to check the creditability.
Do you able to understand the instruction of your senior manager?
a) Yes *
b) No
Does he able to take proper decisions regarding business?
a) Yes *
b) No
Which is the best quality of you senior manager?
a) Positive attitude
b) Inspirational personality *
c) Confident