HND Business L5: Personal & Professional Skills Development Plan

This report evaluates an individual's current skills and competencies against professional standards, identifying strengths in communication, presentation, and listening skills, while noting weaknesses in planning, organizing, and leadership. It proposes a personal and professional development plan to address these needs, including pursuing a Diploma in Labour Law and Operations Management to enhance HRM capabilities. The plan involves academic study and practical experience through internships, aiming to equip the individual with the necessary skills to become a proficient human resource manager capable of contributing to cost reduction and strategic decision-making within a business environment. The report references academic sources to support its analysis and recommendations.

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

2.1 Evaluation of present skills and competencies with professional
standards

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From the above table, it is clear that the individual has good
communication skills, presentation skills, listening skills but there are some
weak points of individual such as planning and organizing skills and
leadership skills. In order to improve the skills the individual will follow
some directions such as reading the books and articles, improve its
management skills.
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2.4 Personal and professional development plan on the basis of needs
In order to become a professional human resource manager, I need to do a
operation management and diploma in labour law. In this, importance of these
courses are mentioned below:
 Diploma in labour law: There are many institutions in UK that provides the
knowledge of this course and provides the practical training on the application
of this course in the field. I will take admission in a college or institution. I
will gather knowledge about various laws that are to be followed in the HRM.

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 Operations management: For building the career, I will do an
internship in a manufacturing industry and achieve the practical
knowledge about employees are managed in the organization. It can be
said that in business environment human resource managers have a
responsibility to reduce the cost of company by introducing various
strategies.

REFERENCES
Lago, C., 2010. On developing our empathic capacities to work inter‐
culturally and inter‐ethnically: attempting a map for personal and
professional development. Psychotherapy and politics international.
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Gibson, D.M., Dollarhide, C.T. and Moss, J.M., 2010. Professional identity
development: A grounded theory of transformational tasks of new
counselors. Counselor Education and Supervision. 50(1). pp.21-38.
Desimone, L.M., 2011. A primer on effective professional development.
Phi delta kappan. 92(6). pp.68-71.

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