Analysis of Professional Development and Practice in Business

This report delves into the significance of professional development and its practical application in various business contexts. It examines the importance of ongoing development, highlighting how it facilitates career advancement and skill enhancement. The report analyzes the skills and competencies required for different roles, specifically using Thomas Cook as a case study. The report emphasizes the importance of personal and professional development, exploring how it contributes to individual career goals and long-term success. The evaluation of importance is done by analyzing the drawbacks and areas where an individual needs to improve, as well as the impact of the development on the individual's job position. The report also analyzes the skills required for specific roles, such as sales, HR, and cabin crew.

Professional identity and practice is necessary to make any person
enriched with long live career in its future. Professional practice is
one of the formal work, through which a single entity would get
enrichment in his/her career or life. Such practice involves
development of skills, ability, exposure as well as enhance the
individual learning with motive to enrich any specific person.
An investigation of the skills and competences expected by Thomas Cook
for different roles
Business
roles
Nature Level of skills/competencies
Sales
consultant
The nature of the role
belongs to practical type,
in which guidance’s,
advises, views, opinions
has to be given to
different peoples. This
requires various bundles
of skills, abilities or
competency.
Communication skills is
required at the bigger level
to convince the potential
customer's. Also, power of
negotiation is required to
handle sales calls or lead to
generate higher profits.
Assistant
manager
In this role, person
generally hired to assist
its senior or help them
into critical work process
along with ability to
taking decision in senior's
absence. That decision
may be consisting of any
unnatural effects to
respective job position.
Time management is mainly
required here, so that person
can manage time in respect
with is assigned to them. As,
HR assistant manager skills
such as training/education is
required to plan the training
induction period in the
profitable manner.
Cabin crew This role has been
considered as most tough
task, because in-flight it
challenging to manage or
fulfil demands of each
and every employee at
the single point of time.
Decision making skills is
required along with critical
situation handling in case of
any urgency. Also,
Resource handling is one of
the major skill, which is
required in case of managing
the existing situation during
the flight.
Personal & professional development is defined as various activities
that improves awareness and identity, develop talents and potential,
build human capital and facilitates employability's, enhance the
quality of life and also contributes to the realization of dreams and
aspiration. It is important for person's career and long term life goals
or targets.
An evaluation of the importance of on-going development
On-going development is process through which enhancement of
skills, abilities or potential is required to be carry on with scope for
developing career path of the person along with ability of a person to
enrich themselves for self-growth and progress. In other words, on-
going development is brief process which consists of identification,
appraisal, financing, implementation, evaluation, programming.
Importance of on-going development reveals that, it has led the
person to get accurate opportunity in his/her life tenure. Also, it has
given wide career scope for every individual in such a way that their
skills, talent must be focused towards building the career. Its
evaluation is required to enhance development of an individual for
future period so that every individual would get suitable results in
their life regarding their own career development. Evaluation of
importance will have done through complete analysis of person
drawback says like where he/she is lacking behind and in what area
of personal development.
Professional Identify and Practice
(Personal and Professional development and its importance)
Introduction
Personal & professional development and
its importance