Professional Development Plan, Goals, and Johari Window Analysis

This assignment outlines a student's professional development plan, detailing their past background, current standings, and future aspirations. The student identifies short-term and long-term professional goals, emphasizing industry readiness, skill development, and knowledge expansion. Financial and personal goals are also defined, focusing on achieving professional skills, financial stability, and personal growth. The plan includes a desired work-life balance, incorporating hobbies and family time. Feedback from a Johari Window analysis is incorporated to assess personality traits and identify areas for improvement, such as social interaction and leveraging potential. The student's professional development plan encompasses strategies for skill enhancement, networking, and staying informed about industry trends, including the use of online resources and relevant readings. Methods for monitoring competency standards, such as the Johari Window and other online tools, are also discussed.

Past background and current standings
I am an aspirant of knowledge seeking to complete a diploma course for increasing my job
readiness for the job markets. In the term of health and other aspects, I am just like any other
individual following the set standards of being fit and healthy at my age. My educational records
establish the fact that I am an above-average student with good grasping abilities and knack for
scientific temper while addressing new subjects.
Short term and long term professional goals
In my views education is an attempt to systematically develop an insight into the various
phenomenon that is prevailing in the world. These insights collected during the phase of
education allows us to develop a world view and help us in selecting an interesting area, where
we can learn the skills, contribute our services and learn a livelihood to sustain the life. This
objective allowed me to ascertain a few well-defined goals that are mentioned below.
 To pursue certain systematical streams of knowledge in accordance with my personal
interests.
 To develop myself as an industry-ready individual with a versatile job profile and
technical know-how of the related subjects
 To expand my knowledge base when I will face real-world situations with the help of
various stints in different departments of any given organization.
Financial and personal Goals

The money they say is the outcome of the efforts that a person spends with an intention to serve
the society or the individuals.
Financial goals
 To develop certain capacities that can convert me into a professional and help me in
sustaining life.
 To achieve a certain standard of the skills, market forces put a price tag while taking my
services.
 To practice and master certain skills after which I can set my financial goals more
practically.
 To pursue the right set of skills with an intention to get the best deals from the market
Personal goals
 My personal goals are inclined towards becoming a better human being in a mechanical
world.
 To explore the various shades of life to their very core
 Selection of the eight core values that can help me in sustaining in life
 To start a mission where I can transfer my wisdom and core values to the next generation
 To develop a set of human qualities that can sustain well in this world where a transition
in the technology is changing the face of humanity on a regular basis

 Development of the human qualities of affection and compassion in me and abide by the
moral teachings as they are mentioned in the religious books.
My desired work-life balance
I am a family person and love to travel with the intention to explore new places. Apart from it, I
have a keen interest in historical fiction books; recently I also felt an inclination towards football
and Tennis. Apart from my daily work and routine choirs, I want to dedicate my time to these
hobbies.
 To spend enough time with football and tennis to keep myself fit
 To spend more time with the family
 To work upon the philosophy that says “working routine is an interval between two
junctures of your real life, whereas the time of recreation is a short break between your
working lives.
 To establish more inclination towards the “working life” because of the current phase of
my career where I am learning certain tricks of the trade.
Feedback of the peers
Recently I logged in to this website https://kevan.org/johari.cgi, this website is an internet tool that
connects you to all your friends and colleagues and allows you to create a quiz about yourself. After
receiving the feedback from the friend, this website presents the analysis of a personality on the merits
of a Johari Window. Johari Window is a management tool that is useful for a person to explore his own
personality from the point of view of the others. It is an ongoing process where a person can quantify his
growth on the desired outcomes. I am a member of this organization and the exercise is on for me.

Image 1: Four quadrants of the Johari window that supports an analysis of a human being for
professional and personal traits. Image retrieved from
http://www.ceffect.com/2016/07/19/strategic-insight-of-the-johari-window/
The feedback given by the Johari window gave me an idea about the following points.
 Right now I am in a blind spot area of this window where my friends and colleagues are
not aware of my real potential.
 I need to develop my social interactions with others and try to be a little more extrovert.
 My competency standards are good, most of my seniors feel that I am a quick learner and
they can rely upon me while giving away responsibilities.
Professional Development Plan
Under its present status, I am looking at the demands of the future market, my primary research
in this field is giving me an idea that in the coming future employers will seek for employees that
have technical knowhow along with an analytical brain. Keeping this fact in mind I came up with

a “job-ready personality development program” for me. The main goal of this program goes as
under.
 To establish me as a skilled and job-ready professional for the industry
 To establish me as a team player along with an organization savvy personality
 To ensure constant up-gradation of my skills in the tangential areas of the mainstream
work.
 To add polished soft skills and necessary management related traits in my “working
personality”
 To keep myself informed with the latest activities that are taking place in the
 To learn skills with a perspective of the real-world application of the skills.
The accumulation of the resources to implement my action plans
 I have already become a member of various forums related to my future career field
and stream of knowledge that I am pursuing. I am searching for and identifying
certain job websites where they are publishing regular blogs related to the job
requirements of the companies.
 I am learning the ropes of the trades from the industry insiders prior to making an
entry in any given industry sector.
 Recently purchased the book “The industries of the future” written by Alec Ross.
This book is guiding me a lot in visualizing the job markets of the future, how
technology will rule and how humans will find a space in the future industries.
Methods to keep a check on the competency standards

 Johari Window calculator is a consistent method to keep a check on the personal and
professional growth of a person.
 I am also searching for certain other websites where I can calculate my competencies
related to the work. Many websites are available in various domains where we can
check the competencies levels under the light of various topics.
 Right now I am also working upon my skills to develop a cross-cultural outlook
related to teamwork and organizational management.