Report on Personal and Professional Development: Skills and Trends

This report delves into the realm of personal and professional development, highlighting its importance in fostering individual and organizational growth. It explores various sources of information for understanding professional development trends, such as professional bodies, networks, and online resources. The report examines how market changes, technological advancements, competition, and legislation influence the need for continuous professional development. It outlines the significant benefits of personal and professional growth, including enhanced skills, increased job satisfaction, and improved networking opportunities. Furthermore, the report discusses different development actions, including training courses, coaching, and mentoring, and explains how skill gap analysis can identify future skill, knowledge, and experience requirements. Finally, it provides insights into setting specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound objectives for effective personal and professional development planning. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the strategies and benefits associated with personal and professional growth.

Manage Personal and
Professional Development

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
AC 1.1 Source of Information for Professional Development Trends and Their Validity..........3
AC 1.2 Trends and Development that can Influence Need for Professional Development........5
AC 2.1 Benefits of Personal and Professional Development......................................................6
AC 2.2 On Which Basis Type of Development Actions are Selected.........................................7
AC 2.3 Identification of Future Skill, Knowledge and Experience Needs Using Skill Gap
Analysis.......................................................................................................................................8
AC 3.1 Process to Set Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time Bound Objectives
.....................................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
This is important for individual to perform persona and professional development in
order to maintain growth and development in personal and professional life. Professional
development can be explained as learning which is performed to maintain professional
credentials like academic degrees, informal learning opportunities and earn knowledge about
various things this also can be considered as intensive along with ideally incorporating and
collaborative evaluation stage. Personal development can be explained as a lifelong process. It is
a way for people to access their skills and qualities, consider their objectives and goals in order
to maximise and empower their potential (Darling-Hammond, Hyler and Gardner, 2017). This
report will be explaining various sources of professional development related to trends and
validity of these trends. Influence of these trends for need of professional development also will
be explained in study. Various benefits of personal and professional development will be
explained in report. There are different actions are taken by organisation that can help individual
person develop themselves effectively. The future skills, knowledge and experience will be
identified in the report. The specific process used in setting measurable and achievable, realistic
and time bounded objective for the personal development.
AC 1.1 Source of Information for Professional Development Trends and Their Validity
There are different sources can be used by the individual person or an organisation to
collect information for the professional development process. These are main sources of
information that can be used by the people to perform professional development. Some of the
main sources of information which can be used in professional development are- professional
bodies, professional network, trade associations, Employee development department in business
organisation, training organisations and internet (Kennedy, 2016). These are main sources of
information which are effective to gather knowledge about the professional development of
individual person or employee in organisation.
Professional Bodies
Professional bodies are available in the business who are working on professional
occupation for a long time and have good experience in professional carrier. These people or

bodies can provide effective information regarding professional development to the people who
want to develop in professional life.
Professional Network
Professional network can be considered as networking that is based on the focused
professional interactions and relationships with in a business nature. This is how professional
communication between people can provide opportunities to the people to get information for
professional development.
Trade Associations
Trade associations are the group of people or professional and industrial organisations
that have huge information about the professional skills and knowledge that is required by
individual person. These organisations used to collect professional information regarding
industrial statistics, published white papers, research reports and maintain directories which can
be considered as source of information for professional development.
Employee Development Department in business organisation
The main goal of the employee development department is to ensure the implementation
of various practices and policies in the organisation in order to ensure the development of the
employees professionally in organisation (Korthagen, 2017). This type of information source are
most efficient to develop the individual professionals in organisation.
Training Organisations
There are different organisations are available in the market place that can help the
people to get developed professionally in career. These organisations follows specific processes
that are designed by these organisation to provide better professional training to people who need
to be developed professionally.
Internet
Internet is one of the most important source of information for the professional
development of people in professional manner. On internet there is different type of information

is available which can be used by the individual person to develop themselves as professional
person in organisation.
This is how there are various sources of information are there which can be used by the
organisation for professional development of individual person. From sources that are mentioned
above some of sources are most efficient to use for professional development. For example
employee development department, training organisation and internet can be used for
professional development individual person.
AC 1.2 Trends and Development that can Influence Need for Professional Development
There are different trends in the market place that can influence the development process
of individual person. Some of the main trends in the market place that can influence the need of
professional development (DiPaola and Wagner, 2018). There are different trends are there that
can affect or influence the need of development in professional career. Mostly these trends are
related to the system of technologies, market changes, competition and legislation. These factors
can influence the need of professional development in individual person.
System or Technologies
There are different technologies and systems are used by the business organisation. These
systems are used by the business organisation to improve their operational efficiency in target
market. This is important for the employees to know the core details of these system to improve
their accountability and efficiency for particular job role in organisation. This thing increase the
need of professional development in individual person. This is how professional development is
get influenced by these factor.
Market Changes
Market changes are crucial and important for the organisation because their further
functions and operations of organisation. Market changes force the organisation to make relevant
changes in their organisational functions and operation in order to maintain effective practices in
organisation to get better result in market performance (Macià and García, 2016). To get
opportunity in business organisation employees must have knowledge or experience of these
changes. This is how market change force the individual person to get developed professionally.

Competition
There is huge competition between the employees in business organisation these
competition force them to get developed professionally to get better opportunities in the business
organisation. This is how competition between employees force them to follow professional
development plan to improve the own capability to grow and developed in organisation.
Legislation
There are some fixed criteria are defined and fixed by the business organisation and legal
authorities that can help the business organisation to select people for a position within
organisation. These legislation force the individual person to equip with specific degrees to get
selected for particular opening in organisation (Keller, 2018). This is how legislation force the
organisation to effectively get involved in professional development program to get better result
with their job in organisation.
AC 2.1 Benefits of Personal and Professional Development
There are different benefits of professional development for individual person in
organisation. These benefits are related to their personal growth and development in the business
organisation. Some of the main benefits of professional development are-
 Professional development can help the employees in business organisation to improve
their knowledge and information regarding the technologies and systems that are used in
the business organisation. This is how they can improve their capacity get fast growth in
business in organisation.
 Professional help the individual employee to improve their skills and knowledge that can
help them to perform over all development to improve career in business organisation.
This is how it is major benefit of the professional development (Avidov-Ungar, 2016).
 Professional development also help individual person to feel professionally satisfied with
their growth and career in business organisation.
 This process keep them updated with current market scenario and improve their
knowledge about the current market trends in market place which are related to their
personal and professional skills.

 This process help the organisation to improve their credibility with in the international
business environment.
 Professional development can help individual person to improve their network in the
business scenario. By this process they can get enough opportunities to improve their
business in target market.
 This process help the organisation to improve the skills and capabilities of the
organisation to improve the innovative ideas of organisation and improve the strategies
making capability of individual person in organisation.
There are some major benefits of professional development for individual person in target
market. These benefits can help the organisation to get better result in target market.
AC 2.2 On Which Basis Type of Development Actions are Selected
There are different process and methods are used by people to develop professional skills
that can help them to improve their skills and professional capabilities in business organisation.
For professional development different actions are performed by the business organisation to get
better benefits with growth and development in the professional career. Some of the most
common processes that are used by the business organisation are – Training courses, coaching
and mentoring. These processes can be classified in internal professional development and
external professional development. All these types of actions can be perform from internal and
external sources of organisation.
Training and Development- This is the most common processes that is used by the people or
organisation for the professional development of people who need it. In this process specific
processes are used by the trainers and Human Resource department of the organisation to train
individual employee in business organisation. In training process different tangible and
intangible sources are used for better development of people.
Coaching- This second most famous process that is used by the organisation for effective
development of people in professional way. These process is based on the class room program
where people are provided with enough knowledge and information which is required for the
personal development of people in target market (Golombek and Johnson, K.E., 2017). This
process is consists of processes which are designed to provide information to employees and
develop their core skills that are required for professional growth in business organisation.

Mentoring- This is process is commonly used in the business organisation where people are
provided with specific mentors who can guide these people in professional manner, in difficult
situation these people can be guide by mentors to develop their core and professional skills.
AC 2.3 Identification of Future Skill, Knowledge and Experience Needs Using Skill Gap
Analysis
Skill gap analysis can be considered as process or tool that can be used to assess
difference between actual state and future target state. This tool is used by the business
organisation to analyse and identify skills which an individual employees require to perform
specific operation in organisation. The skills that are analysed in this process could be based on
specific job in organisation. Mainly this tool is used by the Human Resource department of the
organisation to identify skills that are required in their employees to perform various operation in
organisation.
Current State Desired Future
State
Gaps Solution
Technical Skills Moderate Effective
knowledge of
technology used
in organisation
Minor gap in
current and
future skills.
Provide core
training of
technology to
these people
Core Technical
Skill
Excellent skills Need awareness
of new updates
regarding
technology.
Less knowledge
of current
development in
technology.
Provide
coaching
Technical
Experience
Optimum
experience of
limited
technology.
Core knowledge
of organisational
technology.
Major gap in
technology.
Core technical
coaching is
required to
achieve
Communication
Skill
Moderate level Excellent
communication
skills
Need more
training for
achieving
excellent
This skill can be
achieved by
continuous
practices and

communication
skills.
external classes.
AC 3.1 Process to Set Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time Bound Objectives
Personal and professional develop plan are used by the people to develop their personality as per
the requirement and their personal aims. Some of major aims for the professional development
plan are-
 To improve technical skills in order to get priority in selection process in organisation.
 To improve the knowledge of various technical process in organisation to develop
technical and professional knowledge in organisation.
 To critically develop communication skills to make positive impact in interaction
process.
This are main aims of the professional development plan to improve the professional skills of
individual person.
Name of Skill Requirement Strategy Time line
Technical Skills To achieve
productivity in
technical operations.
By taking practical
training in
organisation
2 months.
Communication skill Effective for
communication with
in organisation
By taking classes and
continuous practice
2-4 months
Core Knowledge Supervise actions in
organisation.
By learning and
practical learning
process.
4-6 months.
CONCLUSION
This report is providing brief of professional development for individual person in
corporate culture. Various sources of information for professional development has been
communicated in report. Different actions that are performed by people for professional
development also has been explained in study. Various benefits of professional development has

been evaluated in report. Professional development plan for individual person has been
developed in report.

REFERENCES
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