Professional Development Plan: Managing Priorities

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MANAGE PERSONAL WORK
PRIORITIES AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT ASS. 2

Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
CAREER OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION........................................................................3
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND WORK PRIORITIES.................................4
PLAN TO MEET WORK PRIORITIES.....................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN.......................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
ESSENTIAL MANAGEMENT SKILLS....................................................................................7
REFERENCE..................................................................................................................................9

TASK 1
CAREER OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION
I aim to establish myself as a CA in the UK. For this I need to learn and improvise the following
skills: for establishing as a successful CA I need to learn accounting and tax return management.
This will help me in proving effective tax-related advice to the individual business units. My
goal is to lean IT tools and other software so that link them effectively with the account
management (Kim and Schmidgall, 2017). As I aim to establish myself as a CA in the UK and
for achieving competence in this field I will pursue this course with great focus and constantly
improve my performance. I will utilize complete course tenure for this.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND WORK PRIORITIES
My goals for professional development as follows:
Learning tax management as it will help in assessing the accounts and providing tax-related
advice to the small and larger size business units. As I aim to establish myself as a CA in the UK
and for achieving competence in this field I will pursue this course with great focus and
constantly improve my performance. I will utilize complete course tenure for this.
Accounting: I will learn the management of accounts and for this, I will join some short-term
course for improving my accounting skills and I will also assess my performance constantly for
effective improvement. This will take time of 2-3 months (Kim and Schmidgall, 2017).
ICT: for improving my ICT skills by learning software MYOB and SAP and other related ICT
tools and it will take the time of 2-3 month and I will constantly appraise my performance by
taking feedback from the experts.

PLAN TO MEET WORK PRIORITIES
For professional development, I will attend seminar and conferences related to tax accounting. I
will continuously assess my knowledge, skills and performance and develop professional
competence. I will join the discussions about tax assessment and create a network for the same. I
will involve with the people of the same field and try to be a participant of several group
discussion for the topic related to taxation. I will pursue my course in CA with concentration and
continuously assess my performance. For meeting my work priority I will prepare a timeline,
optimize time effectively and constantly assess my performance to minimize distraction (Okoye
et al., 2017).

TASK 2
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
It is a list of objective, success appraisal along with the timeline. This plan is crucial for
deciding the time frame in that the goal can be achieved.
Goal
Objective
Description Activities to
develop/ plan
Success criteria Time frame
Accounting I am willing to
learn about
account
management
and its various
aspects so that
I can use it in
my field.
Joining a
short-term
course for
learning to
account and
also doing a
CA course
When I can assess the
accounts effectively and
without any help
(Okoye et al., 2017).
During the course
Tax return I am willing to
learn about
Tax return and
its role in tax
evaluation so
that I can use
it in my field.
By doing as
many as tax
returns for
small firms
and
individuals
Offering tax return
advise to small firms
and individuals
2-3 month
ICT I am willing to
improvise my
ICT skills and
use them
accounting
learning
software
MYOB and
SAP
When I will develop
expertise in using
software tools and
technologies (Okoye et
al., 2017).
2-3 month

TASK 3
ESSENTIAL MANAGEMENT SKILLS
The skills that are needed for the effective management of the organization are the
measurement of performance of the individuals and organization. This is done by
appraising their efficiency and effectiveness. This is done with the application if balance
scorecard and related tools.
Individual conduct measurement, personality traits like openness, self-awareness of
individuals, and contentiousness are needed for assessing the performance of individuals.
For instance, agreeableness is crucial for individuals in accepting challenging situations
and coming up with solutions for them. Self-awareness is significant and it helps the
individuals in growing in their profession and improves their strengths and takes essential
steps to mitigate their weakness (Webb and Chaffer, 2016).
The personal development plan is one of the key tools for assessing the performance of
an individual is also of the group. This describes what are the skills set of the individual,
and the place where they want to reach in the future along with the time lime. The
personal development plan is a list of objective, success appraisal along with the timeline.
This plan is crucial for deciding the time frame in that the goal can be achieved.
Personal goals setting and time: Personal goals and times is management for the growth
and development of the individual. For the effective management in the organization, the
time is decided for each task as per the need of the task and the degree of the
development needed (Webb and Chaffer, 2016).
1. Organization’s policy: Tesco plus is the UK based retailer, it aims to provide a range of
product and financial services to the individuals for creating trust among the consumers.
The policy of the Tesco is that it gives importance to its employees and has faith in
having contained employees. It believes in having an inclusive work culture for a diverse
workforce. It provides equal opportunity to individuals for growth and development. This
organization has very ups and down and had managed to overcome with the equal
participation employees and effective management of the organization. The other policy
of the organization is to ensure trust for the consumers and that is why they have

developed a financial transaction system for improving the level of confidence (Tesco,
2019).
2. Learning style: The individuals have different learning styles. Some individual learns by
reading and writing. Some have auditory and physical learning method. These are the
styles of learning that are differing from individual to individual. This is also assessing
with VARK and like methods. The learner with auditory method learn with auditory style
learn by listening about the subject for them learning with a problem-solving method,
reading and writing is difficult. Some people learn by using analytical skills, it is difficult
for individuals by the use of reading. Their major focus of these individuals is learning by
taking several problems and solving them, for example, solving the puzzles. This
assessment is good for the organizations for proving to skill and reskilling to the
individuals (Martinez, et al., 2019).

REFERENCE
1. Tesco, 2019. About us (Online available https://www.tesco.com/ last seen 11 Sep 2019).
2. Okoye, E.I., Uniamikogbo, E.O. and Sunday, A.A., 2017. Accounting Skills for
Sustainable Entrepreneurial Development: A Study of Selected Small and Medium Scale
Enterprises in Edo State, Nigeria.
3. Webb, J. and Chaffer, C., 2016. The expectation performance gap in accounting
education: A review of generic skills development in UK accounting degrees. Accounting
Education, 25(4), pp.349-367.
4. Kim, M. and Schmidgall, R.S., 2017. Key managerial and financial accounting skills for
private club managers: Comparison to lodging managers. International Journal of
Hospitality & Tourism Administration, pp.1-21.
5. Martinez, E.G. and Tuesca, R., 2019. Learning styles and gross anatomy assessment
outcomes at a Colombian School of Medicine. Educación Médica, 20(2), pp.79-83.
6. O'Mahony, Siobhain M., Amgad Sbayeh, Mary Horgan, Sean O'Flynn, and Colm MP
O'Tuathaigh. "Association between learning style preferences and anatomy assessment
outcomes in graduate‐entry and undergraduate medical students." Anatomical sciences
education 9, no. 4 (2016): 391-399.