Professional Development Plan (PDP) Report: Skills and Objectives

This report presents a comprehensive professional development plan (PDP) designed to enhance career growth. It begins with an introduction to PDP, emphasizing its role in improving performance and expanding professional horizons. Task 1 includes a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, followed by an analysis of Continuous Personal Professional Development (CPPD) activities. The report outlines specific SMART goals for skill development, including time management, leadership, decision-making, numeracy, analytical, and research skills, along with a detailed PDP plan. Task 2 provides a reflective report on employability skills and planned working growth. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, and the report is supported by relevant references.

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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 PDP....................................................................................................................................3
SWOT analysis...........................................................................................................................3
CPPD Activities..........................................................................................................................4
PDP plan.....................................................................................................................................5
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................10
Reflective report........................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Professional development plan can be understood as a development plan which enriches
new performance horizons in individual career growth scenarios on which wide range of
measured growth is focused on. Creating PDP enables professional growth in technical
understanding and wide range of competent scale efficiency, where planning structures future
performances. The report will be discussing PDP plan analysis, focusing on strengths and
weaknesses for establishing aims and objectives for improved functioning on larger performance
metrics. The research will also analyse CPPD, continuous professional personal development for
larger identification of goals and outlining new changes that needs to be focused on for reaching
new competitive performance targets. Further reflective writing will enable analysis of varied
employability skills learned and new programmed synergies aspect for larger employment
horizons and planned effective working growth.
TASK 1 PDP
The personal development plan can be understood as widely crucial aspect where there is
detailed analysis worked on skills to develop vision and clear ideas standards to evolve on
professional growth within competent scale synergies. Professional growth has wide scope to
raise new effective potentialities in performance horizons where advanced employability skills
enhances structured wider goals where I plan to generate specific targets for new strengths.
SWOT analysis
This is a tool which assist the person in evaluating themselves in order to find their key
strength and areas in which they lack. The swot analysis will enable me to analyse my strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats within my professional personal growth on which I plan to
analyse these factors in depth.
 STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
 Communication skills are my strength
where I was confident to communicate
with my teammates and take active part
in all discussions where it made me
perform actively.
 I am weak currently towards analytical
skills and numeracy skills where I was
lacking efficiency in working within
complicated projects.
 I am also weak in decision making
skills, leadership skills where I was less

 I am having good interpersonal skills as
well. The reason underlying this fact is
that this skill assists in interacting with
other people in better manner.
efficient in taking active participation
in teams
 Time management skills are my
strength where I was efficient to
complete my projects at time.
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
 I have opportunity to improve my
Leadership skills and decision-making
skills further for wider effective
performance in projects and new
challenging situations.
 Numeracy skills and analytical skills
are my opportunities within academics
where I have scope to learn new
competencies effectively.
 Team management skills are threat as
currently I have to gain practise on it
for further improved performance
improvement.
 Researching skills are also weak as I
faced challenge to generate best results
in my performance and use reliable
relevant information’s.
CPPD Activities
The Continuous personal professional development activities which I plan to focus on
further within my career will be based on professional specialized goals where maintaining
dynamic new imperative scaled vision oriented goals will enable me to deliver higher confidence
(Drude, Maheu and Hilty, 2019). By focusing on PDP I will be practically heading on functional
varied evolving growth towards new scoped aspects, by which I plan to deliver the best academic
performances within my career.
SMART goals
 To improve time management skill by using prioritising strategy within the time frame of
2 months by 40 %.
 To enhance researching skills at least 60 % aligning with time duration of approx. 1 year.
 To improvise the leadership skill over the tenure of course by 50 %.
PDP plan
OBJECTIVES Actions Resources Success criteria Time target

Time
management
skills
For learning time
management skill, I
plan to continuously
work on timely
submission of my
projects, work on
effective working to
generate efficiency
within my career
growth and learn to
submit my works as
asked by supervisors
(Ragan, 2018). Time
management skills will
potentially enable me
to learn new diverse
scenarios where I plan
to get mentoring from
my supervisors as well.
By learning advanced
time management skill,
I will be able to
generate technical
work growth
dynamically in my
academics and
professional growth.
The major resource
used to improve
time management
skill will be
internet, computer
or laptop. Along
with this a to- do
list will be helpful
as this will assist
me in listing out all
the activities which
need to be
performed.
I will measure my
improvements by
keeping track of my
performances,
which will make
sure I research
smartly and submit
my work on
specific time period
for larger scale
performance
growth (Davies,
Curtin and Robson,
2017). I also plan to
measure my success
by heading on
competent scale
parameters, where
timely submission
of all reports and
projects will
motivate me to take
active initiatives.
In order to improve
the time
management skill
the approximate
time duration with
me is of 2 months
within which I need
to improve my
skills.
Leadership
skills
I plan to learn
leadership skill by
The major
resources required
I plan to measure
my leadership skill
The target time in
which I need to

taking initiatives to
practically generate
new specific
performance
parameters, ideally
learn leadership skill
by taking mentoring
form my supervisors
and mentors (Riggs,
2017). The leadership
skill is highly essential
for me to also
dynamically grow on
new horizons and
generate wider reach
into my career. As
leader, I plan to work
on my accuracy
benchmarks and
enhance my
performance aspects by
taking frequent follow
up within my team
mates.
to improve
leadership skill
within me is to read
different stories of
good leaders. Along
with this seeing the
interviews of
successful leaders
will also be
assistive in
understanding how
successful leader
have used and
implemented
leadership in
effective manner.
by generating
specific work
growth among
teams by leading
them. My
performance as
team leader will
also be measured
based on
competency
developed aspects
on which my
accuracy to take
best decisions will
be enabling me to
enhance my goals
in the future.
work on my
leadership skill is
around 2 months.
Decision
making skills
In order to improve the
decision making skill
the most important
action to be undertaken
is to analyse the
situation for which
decision is to be taken.
For improving the
decision making
skill the major
resource required is
the internet and
computer. The
reason underlying
The success criteria
for decision making
skill will be to ask
the tutor or some
senior member to
evaluate that
whether I was able
For improving the
decision making
skills the estimated
time is
approximately 1.5-
2 months.

This is particularly
because of the reason
that if I will not be
having proper
knowledge of the
situation then this will
affect my decision
making. The reason
underlying this fact is
that when I will not be
familiar with the
situation then decision
making will not be
effective. Along with
this other action to be
taken is to have
effective critical
thinking. This is
particularly because of
the fact that this will
improve the analysis of
a situation in critical
manner that is pros and
cons of the decision
will be undertaken.
this is that this will
assist in proper
researching relating
to the situation in
which decision
need to be taken.
This is particularly
because of the
reason that if in any
situation I am not
able to take
decision in proper
manner then I can
use internet to
understand the
situation in better
manner and take
effective decision.
to take decision in
proper manner.
Also, if the
situation for which
decision was taken
by me is
successfully
managed then it can
be said that I have
improved the
decision making
skills. This is
pertaining to the
fact that I am able
to manage the
working in proper
and effective
manner.
Numeracy
skills
For improvement of
numeracy skill, the
major action to be
undertaken is to
continuously practice
the different numeracy
In improving the
numeracy skills, the
major requirement
of resource will
include a laptop or
computer along
The criteria for
managing success
of numeracy skill
will be that I am in
proper condition to
manage the
The approximate
time taken for
working over the
numeracy skill will
be 2- 3 weeks.

activities. This practice
will improve the ability
of solving the
numerical problems as
this will assist in better
and effective solution.
Along with this
another action to be
undertaken is to
participant in different
games which are based
on numbers. This will
also improve my
efficiency to work with
numbers.
with internet
connectivity. This
is essential for the
reason that when I
will have access to
internet and will be
having a laptop
then I will be able
to manage the
numbers in
effective manner.
With help of
internet I will be in
position to manage
and research
different methods
with which I can
improve numeracy
skills.
numerical problem
within the academic
and professional
life (Fontaine,
2018). Further in
case if I will be able
to manage the
problem of other
people relating to
numbers then I can
say that I have
gathered proper
knowledge relating
to managing
numbers.
Analytical
skills
At time of improving
the analytical skill the
most important action
to be undertaken in to
become good at
observing things. This
is particularly because
of the reason that for
analysing anything the
most important thing is
to first observe the
things. It is necessary
The major
resources required
to improvise
analytical skill is to
read more and for
this books and
articles need to be
read. For this use of
books or use of
internet is required
as on internet every
detail is available
The success criteria
in order to measure
that whether I have
gained knowledge
relating to
analytical skill will
be that whether I
am in position to
solve my problem
in effective manner
or not. This is
particularly because
The time required
to improve
analytical skill in
better manner will
be around 3- 4
weeks.

as it is not possible that
every information will
be told rather there will
time when I had to
gather information on
my own. Another
action to be take is to
practice the skill by
researching over
problem of other and
try to solve it. This is
essential as this will
improve the analytical
skill of me as in
solving problem this is
the most essential skill
required. In addition to
this another action
taken is to play
different brain games
as this will improve the
analytical skill to a
great extent.
and can assist in
improving
analytical skill
(Zapotoczna, 2019).
For this also some
debate activities can
be conducted as this
will assist in
improving the
analytical skill.
of the reason that if
I am in condition to
solve my problem
or problem of
others then I means
that I have gathered
proper analytical
skills.
Researching
skills
In order to improve
researching skills, the
major action to be
taken is to explore and
find out the complete
picture of problem.
Then take accurate and
reliable information
The resource
required to manage
the researching skill
will include access
to error free internet
connectivity and
computer or laptop.
This is essential as
The criteria for
measuring the
success of the
researching skill is
that I am competent
enough to find the
information
required. In
The required time
to improve the
researching skills in
me is around 11- 12
months.

from valid source. For
collection of
information there are
different sources like
journals, newspapers,
library books, internet
any many others. After
that I have to verify
data from several
sources so research
helps in taking
corrective actions.
Along with this same
topic can be researched
for more time as this
will improve the skills
to a great extent.
the research will be
only conducted
with help of
internet and it can
be saved over
laptop or computers
only (Welch and
et.al., 2017). Along
with this stationery
will also be
required in order to
write the notes
relating to the topic
which is being
researched.
addition to this the
success of skill is
also dependent on
taking proper
feedback from tutor
that whether I have
improved the
researching skills or
not.
TASK 2
Reflective report
For the personal development the most important thing is to analyse the current potential
of the person themselves. Hence, in order to manage the working in proper and effective manner
I conducted SWOT analysis. With help of this analysis I was in position to analyse my strength
and weak points (Personal development planning, 2020). Also this analysis provided me with the
threats which are restricting me in improving and the opportunities which can build my
employability skills. With help of this it was analysed that whether we are in university doing
any course or working in professional life the most important thing is to time to time review the
skill which are present in accordance with the external working environment. Hence, this
assisted me in finding out the areas in which I am lacking in accordance to changes taking place
in external environment.

With this I felt that working in a professional world is very tough and hard and also
competition within market is very high and intense. Hence, in order to manage this the most
essential aspect is to have a competitive advantage. This competitive advantage provides a
differentiation with rest of the people and create a better and distinct position in external
environment. I felt that for working as a marketing manager in retail sector the researching skill
needs to be very good. The reason behind this is that consumer trends changes very frequently. If
I will not be in position to research in effective manner, then this will affect the marketing of
product and services. Hence, with help of SWOT I came to know that researching skill are
important but I am lacking in that and need to improve.
On the personal evaluation that is SWOT I concluded that I am good at communication
skill which will be helpful in career as marketing manager. This is pertaining to the fact that in
case of marketing manager the most important thing is communication and in that I am good.
But on the other side I also found that I am lacking in time management skill. There is a great
need for the development of the time management as if I will not be able to complete work on
time then this will affect my working efficiency. The reason underlying this fact is that in
corporate world success depends on the ability of person that how fast the person is able to
manage the work. In addition to this the competition is very high and to have a competitive
position I need to work on improving my time management skill.
Further from the analysis of SWOT and the goals created for personal development it was
analysed that there is need to improve leadership skill. This is particularly because of the reason
that working as a manager means leading a group of people to work in attainment of some
specific goals. Hence, I need to work on improving leadership skills as this will assist me in
managing and stimulating other people to work in same direction of attaining the aim of
business. On the other side it was analysed that there is also a great need to improve the
analytical skills. This is particularly because of the reason that business operates in external
environment and there can come any type of problem anywhere. Hence, it is the duty of the
manager to solve all these issues and problem. If I will not be having appropriate analytical
skills, then this will affect my decision making and problem solving skills. For solving any issue
or to take any sort of decision the most important thing is to have skill of critically evaluating the
situation and then take the decision. Hence, because of this reason there is requirement of the
developing analytical skill to a great extent.

In the end it can be concluded that whether the person is working in corporate world or is
studying both requires a number of skill to be inherited. This is particularly because of the reason
that if person is not having proper skill then this will not provide a better working efficiency to
the person. Hence, it is necessary for me to develop the skills which are low and also need to
grab the opportunity of learning new and advance skills.
In the end it can be stated that there is need of developing the skills which are low in me.
This is particularly essential as this will assist in personal and professional development of the
oneself. From the above evaluation it was clear that there is need to develop time management
skill. Hence, for this the action plan to improve this involve developing prioritising skills in order
to manage which work need to be performed at first. Hence, this will clear that how all the
activities will be managed and the whole work need to be completed on time. Also, from above
personal analysis it was seen that there is need to improve the analytical skill and for this group
discussion is a good activity. This is particularly because of the reason that when I will take part
in group discussion then this will improve my critical thinking as I will have to speak for the
topic in front of people. This will improve the analytical and critical thinking ability of me.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that the personal and professional development
plan is a concept through which an individual set some goals and try to achieve these goals. For
personal growth and development, the use of PDP is very important as this assist a person in
growing themselves. The present report highlighted that with help of SWOT analysis a person
can see at what position they are lying and what are their strength and weakness and where they
can improve. Further with help of the identified weakness a PDP was prepared under which the
skills in which person was lacking were improved like time management, leadership skill and
others. Further in the end the reflective report was written which included the personal feeling
and views of person relating to employability skill which are essential to be inherited.
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