MN4W50QA: Learning Through Organisations - Personal Development Plan

This project presents a comprehensive personal development plan, reflecting on professional, personal, and academic growth. It details the importance of skills in personal and professional life, focusing on skills such as communication, leadership, and active listening. The reflection on professional development covers the acquisition of skills like CV writing, interviewing, coaching, and negotiation, highlighting their impact on career progression, specifically in the role of a security officer. The personal development section emphasizes the importance of self-leadership, communication, problem-solving, and emotional intelligence. The academic reflection focuses on time management, reflective writing using Gibbs model, and referencing skills, which are essential for academic and professional success. The project concludes by highlighting the interconnectedness of these skills in achieving personal and career goals.

MN4W50QA
Professional Practice –
Learning Through Organisations
Resit Project: Personal Development Plan
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Introduction …………………………………………………...…………………...…... p
Reflection on Professional Development ……………………………..……….…. p
Reflection on Personal Development ……………………………..……...…….…. p
Reflection on Academic Development …………………………………...…….…..p
Conclusion …………………………………….……………………………………….. p
References …………………………………….……………………………………….. p
Appendix 1 – PDP Development Episodes ……………………………..………... p
Appendix 2 – Copies of weekly Learning Logs ………………………………..... p

Introduction
Skills play an important and crucial role in an individual life from which they
can be able to develop and grow in the future. Skills are the ability which a
person have from which they can be able to deliver the effectiveness and
can get the profitable results, academic session and career life become
effective when learner try to focus on adopting new skills, they can
become effective and achieve new things accordingly. These different
types of skills help the person in their academics and professional life as
well and supports them to achieve their goals (Tursunovna, 2022), skills of
individual does matter when it comes to career development process, it is
very clear that both academic and personal skills are important in the
process of career and life development. Individual can achieve goals in
their life if they have ability to analyse these skills and make certain
improvement accordingly, common and basic skills may include
communication skills, leadership skills, active listening skills and many
other skills which make an individual effective. The report will illustrate the
professional development plan from which an individual should have
required to adopt for the better professional growth.
Reflection on Professional Development
An individual person is required to adopt the different types of skills so that
they can be able to improve their own skills and abilities and can grow
definitely. In my opinion, when I identify that skills play an important role in
my life as it will help me to increase my knowledge and capability and can
strengthen me at personal and professional life. During the module, I had
learned many types of skills which make me believe and ensure me to
learn and adopt the numerous skills which will be very beneficial for me at
my professional development. Recently, I am working as a security officer
at the company named SECURTY SERVICES where for achieving this
position and role I met to different areas of development of my own from
which today I am able to get the opportunity to work as this position
(Karnieli‐Miller and Neufeld‐Kroszynski, 2020).
Being a security officer I met to many difficulties at first to achieve
the position and job role. For achieving this job role firstly I had assessed
and identify the different occupational choices and identify that which job
role and position is suitable for me to apply. Researching ability and skill is
required to be adopted and enhanced by me so that I was able to
recognize and examine the suitable job role and position. Throughout the
researching I find out many occupational choices such as government
contract security guards, in-house security, contract security, patrol guards
and such more where I had chosen to adopt and apply for corporate

security officer job role at the Security Services company. As, I was able to
identify my suitable job role I learn and adopt the CV writing skill and
interview skill which is the next step for me to cover up. Applying for a job,
I am required to write a CV or resume of my own for the selection in the
interview process (Lawson, Gill, and et.al., 2019). For learning the CV
writing skills it includes the basic grammar, vocabulary and spellings which
helps me to write an appropriate CV for applying for a job. After the CV
writing skill, now I required to learn the interview skill which help me to get
selected for my chosen job role. The interview skill includes the
preparation, confidence or motivation and most importantly listening skill
which helped me to achieve the opportunity to get my suitable job position.
I learned and adopted the coaching skill as it will be very beneficial
and useful for me to coach and guide the security guards under my
position. For being a security officer I am required to understand and adopt
the guiding and coaching skills where I learned this skill for giving the
appropriate instructions to the guards (Kim, 2019). After the selection in
the interview, I learned the coaching skills which helps me to guide my
colleagues. Negotiation skills are used to maintain the positive interaction
and minimize the aggressive behaviour of the people. Adopting and
learning this skill help me a lot to perform and conduct my job
responsibilities effectively. I learned so many skills which helped me a lot
to improve myself at professional level and can earn the profitability
accordingly. Learning the skills helps and supports me to grow and
develop myself as a professional and made me to grow in my career.
Reflection on Personal Development
Personal development plan is the activities where an individual person
focuses on their own strength and development areas. There are different
types of skills which I need and required to be obtained and improved by
myself which helps me to a lot in growing myself accurately. In my
personal growth and development, I analysed that I am required to learn
self-leadership skill which helps me to develop myself appropriately. Self-
leadership skill is an ability and act which helps me to lead myself to
achieve the set goals and targets and can deliver the effective result at
professional level as well (Jensen, Beaulieu, and et.al., 2018). By
evaluating myself, I understand that I am required increasing or improving
my self-leadership skill or ability which helps me conduct myself
appropriately from which I can be able to grow in personal and
professional life. Adopting this self-leadership skill generates a feeling of
willingness to achieve my set goals and targets so that I can grow at my
organizational level.
Adopting the self-leadership skill helps me to focus and be in
discipline which is the most important area to encourage me to become a
security officer at the mentioned company. Along with this, I am also
required to improve my communication skill which is one of the important
factor as communication is first thing an individual person adopts to

convey their speech and sayings. I learned that there are mainly two types
of communication skill which are verbal and written. These both skills are
useful and essential to be adopted by me as it helps me to convey my
speech and information to another person. Communication ability helps
me at every area either personal or professional where I can be able to
give my opinions, concerns and suggestions to the people or management
at workplace (Dwyer, 2019). Learning and adopting the communication
skill by taking part in social public speaking helps me to enhance my
communication skill verbally and for written skill I used to do practise on
regular basis and utilized the dictionary which helps me to understand the
meaning of different kinds of words.
By learning this ability, it helps me to perform well at my job role of
security officer where I am able to communicate with the people in
effective manner. Also, problem-solving skill is also important for me to
develop as it will help me to grow individually and can be able to obtain
fruitful result at organizational level. Problem-solving skill is defined as an
individual person can be able to solve their issues by understanding the
problem effectively and can take the action according to the situation. This
skill can help me in effective manner at my job and provides the solution
definitely. For improving my problem-solving skill, I had required to
enhance my researching and analysis skill which can help me a lot in
understanding the issue accurately and can take the actions (Hill, Overton,
and et.al., 2019). By learning the problem solving skill it helps and
supports me to achieve my target of getting the job role of security officer
and can manage the situation easily.
At personal level, understanding the problem-solving skill can help
me identify the solutions of my own experience and situation where it also
will be very beneficial for me in my future career where at professional
level from this skill I will be able to deliver the effective and appropriate
solution of the issue and obstacle. At last, I had understood and learned
the emotional intelligence skill which defines as an ability to manage own
emotions and feelings from which an individual can overcome their issues
and challenges positively. Having the emotional intelligence skill helps me
to communicate and interact with the clients and people more effectively
from which an adequate manner of security check activity can occur. This
skill help me to grow definitely and can improve myself at professional
level.
Reflection on Academic Development
The academic development of person can be done when an individual
person has adopted academic skills. Academic skill is the ability to learn,
research, report writing and presentations in the academic level which
increases the knowledge of a person and helps to perform well. For
growing in professional level, academic skill helps me a lot in making my
career at successful level. Time management skill is very beneficial for me
to adopt and improve as it will help me to work effectively from where I

also can manage my time for personal and professional areas. Working at
professional level, requires to have a brief understanding about the time
management skill which is important to be considered by me as it will help
to complete my project on time. Time management is very useful and
effective skill each and individual person should carry out and can obtain
the beneficial results (Nisha and et.al., 2018).
The time management skill motivates and encourages me to handle
the organizational work and activity and can deliver the effectiveness. In
academic, I improved my time management skill by creating a definite plan
and schedule of my working with a definite deadline which helps me to
manage my work and time accordingly. I prioritize my work which helps
me to complete on time and can submit my project before the deadlines.
Also, I had learned about the reflection skill which refers as an individual
person can be able to express their experience and can adopt the
knowledge and can learn from the experience definitely. Writing a
reflection is one of the most important academic skill which can help me to
express my feelings and experience at effective level (Dillahunt, Lam, and
et.al., 2018). For reflective my experience I used the Gibbs model of
reflection at my academic where I learned the reflective writing which
helps and supports me a lot in learning from my experience.
This reflective skill helps me at professional level where I can be
able to show and express my experience in definite manner from which my
colleagues and staff members can understand the situation correctly and
can learn from my experience in definite way which also helps to stay
aware of such things according to my experience. This reflective writing is
quite difficult at first but when I learned this skill I enjoy writing the
reflective areas and reflective myself which also helps other people and
increase their learnings and knowledge. Along with this, I also learned
reference skill which helps me to avoid the copyright works and plagiarism
by making it clear that the written format has been written by me and not
copied from any other sources. Referencing skill ensures that the content
and information I gather and collect is not copied and it also expresses the
academic structure.
At professional level, referencing skill is important to be utilized at
organizational level where it helps to interact and acknowledge the
working of the people effectively (Newman, Black, and et.al., 2021).
Academic skills help me a lot in making my career and job at appropriate
track from which I am able to obtain the fruitful results at professional level.
Learning and implementation of the academic skills helps me to conduct
an academic structural area from which I can create a good image and
reputation in front of the entire organization and can earn the maximum
profit.
Conclusion

The report has concluded the importance of skill in personal and
professional level as well. The report has mentioned the different types of
skills which helps and supports the individual person to grow at definite
position. It has performed one specific job role which requires different
types of skills to be adopted by self so that an individual can acquire the
benefits by getting the effective results from the skills. This included the
three sections personal development, professional development and
academic development skill which contains different types of skills which
an individual can adopt and implement according to their situation and can
grow and develop.

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Appendix 1 – Personal Development Plan
Write your 3 Professional Development Episodes as SMART goals
Use as many pages as you need
SMART goal 1
Outline To develop CV writing skill
Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time
limited
For improving my
CV writing skill I
am required to
keep my focus on
grammar and have
to join the literature
classes.
This goal is
measurable in
terms of
improvement
This goal is
achievable in terms
of time provided
This goal is
relevant in terms to
skills
SMART goal 2
Outline To enhance Emotional Intelligence
Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time
limited
For improving this
skill, I am required
to meditate which
will increase my
focus and helps
me to improve my
skill.
This goal is
measurable in
terms of
management
This goal is
achievable in terms
of time provided
This goal is
relevant in terms to
skills

SMART goal 3
Outline To increase Communication
Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time
limited
I will improve my
communication
skill by taking part
in public speaking
which helps me to
increase my
communication
skill.
This goal is
measurable in
terms of
improvement in
communication
This goal is
achievable in terms
of time provided
This goal is
relevant in terms to
skills

Appendix 2 – Learning Logs
Copy and paste each of your Learning Log reflective commentaries (Task 2) into the
space below. Include the title for each.
Use as many pages as you need.
Week 1
Which aspect of today’s session did I find most interesting? Why?
In the t today's session, the one of the significant aspect which is found by me is
to possess the reliable evaluation of the skills and attribute has become possible.
This is one of the crucial factor that has helped me to get the precise
understanding about the prevailing strengths and weaknesses of mine so that the
proper action for meeting specific requirements can become possible. The main
reason behind liking this assessment part is that it is highly helpful in gaining the
data regarding in the accurate pattern so that personal evaluation for
accomplishing objectives is done. This has allowed me to learn the significance of
the skills, attributes and styles for having relevant practices for accomplishing
productive results via having good motivation. On the basis of this, information I
came to know how I can give emphasis on attaining the ability to use the good
skills which can help in completing the tasks in accurate format. The one thing is I
am not sure about is that which is the crucial element that can promote the
motivation and clarity regarding the session learnings so that using in future can
become possible.
I might have learnt more if major focus on the crucial aspects such as
understanding reason for studying this session. Concentrating on tutor given
guidelines so that accomplishing the goals to possess higher skills that can help in
having effective results. These would have e permitted me to eliminate the lacking
areas such as ineffective negotiations, time management, etc. Things I want to do
now is to make the action plan in respect to obtain reliable functioning for
overcoming the weakening parts in turn good ability to perform my tasks can
become possible. This can lead me towards effective performance to derive
productive results.
Week 2
This week’s session which was related to Career Planning – taking action which
explained the importance of development opportunities and grabbing such
opportunities and finally taking action. The most interesting aspect of today’s
session was about the SMART goals i.e., our goals shall be smart, measurable,
attainable, relevant and time based. These are the smaller goals we need to
achieve to our ultimate larger objective. Such SMART goals shall be very clear,
particular achievement for accomplishment of the ultimate goal, whether the goals
and objectives are feasible to be achieved, whether the goals will be contributing
toward the long term plans and devising both short as well as long term goals to
maintain the motivation to achieve the final objective.
One important thing that I learnt is that the skills are very necessary to achieve the
desired goals because we get the jobs according to our skills and experience, our
sense of responsibility which again comes from the skills and experience and our