Employability Skills, CPD and Professional Development Report Analysis

This report details the employability skills and professional development plan of an HR manager, encompassing skills assessment, continuous professional development (CPD), and personal development planning. It identifies areas for improvement, such as team working, leadership, and presentation skills, outlining specific goals, development opportunities, and success criteria. The report explores the importance of CPD, including active and reflective learning, and how it is recorded and implemented. It also reflects on key learning experiences during university and outlines future career goals and strategies for skill enhancement. The report emphasizes the importance of communication, time management, and leadership skills, providing a comprehensive analysis of the HR manager's development journey.

Employability Skills
and Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Aims and objectives of portfolio............................................................................................1
Introduction............................................................................................................................1
CPD........................................................................................................................................1
Reflection...............................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In this report, firstly the skills of the employees are assessed with which it is known that what
more skills are required in person to complete their side of responsibilities in a proper manner.
After that some interpersonal and transferable skills were discussed and some tools and
techniques were also analysed through which these skills will be enhanced (Dixon, and et. al.,
2014). Personal & professional development are two factors which are asset for person because
individuals who are having attractive personalities and well developed profession, everybody
gets impressed (Vangrieken, and et. al., 2017). In the following report, a continuous development
plan of a HR manager of local company is given. There are different ways for developing skills
and enhancing knowledge.
Aims and objectives of portfolio
The present portfolio represents continuous development plan of a HR manager. This
person lacks some abilities and skills on which he is working hard to achieve them.
Introduction
The PDP plan of assessment 1 provides information about the skills and abilities the
person is lacking and what are the ways of improving them. By taking help of this PDP plan,
there is development of CPD plan. This includes continuous evaluation and analysis.
CPD
The full form of CPD is Continuing Professional Development and this is a term which is used
for describing learning activities. The professionals engage in these activities for developing and
enhancing their abilities and skills. It enables learning for becoming conscious and proactive.
CPD is combinations of various methodologies for learning, like training workshops, e-learning
programs, conferences, events, idea sharing and best practise techniques, all are focusing for an
individual for improving and having effective professional development. Growth and acceptance
that qualifications of academics should offer vocational as well as skill based or practical
learning. Employers are helped by practical, structured and methodical approach for keeping
staff and developing skills and knowledge in their companies for maintaining a competitive
advantage and sustainable (Forte, and Flores, 2014). When individuals are involved in
continuing professional development it ensures that both academic and practical qualification are
not out dated and obsolete. Structured CPD or active learning includes interactive and
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participation based study (van Aalderen‐Smeets, and Walma van der Molen, 2015). This is
typically proactive and includes attending or visiting conference, training course, lecture,
seminars, e-learning course. CPD active learning is applied when professionals take career
oriented assessments. Reflective CPD or passive learning includes no participant based
interaction. In this form of CPD there is more passive form and this is one directional. Some of
the examples of this are reading of relevant information case studies and podcasts. There are
various informal meetings of CPD reflective learning. The objectives of these are meetings are
made clear in overall CPD plan. Self-directed learning involves all unaccompanied CPD
activities. It covers the reading of documents, articles and publications; either in print or online.
Reading relevant publications, books by leading experts, industry journals and trade magazines
are all types of self-directed CPD.
Continuing Professional Development supports persons to emphasis on how they can become a
more professional and effective on regular basis (Gamrat, and et. al., 2014). Training and
learning maximise confidence and overall capability and well as compliments career aspirations
also. Continuing Professional Development enables persons to adapt favourably to variation in
work/industry needs. Planning of Continuing Professional Development supports to be more
effective and efficient with time, and recording Continuing Professional Development properly
gives evidence of professional development (this can be useful for supervision and appraisals).
How CPD is recorded
An individual should retain a track of their annual CPD activities on a continuous
professional development record form as well as should check it is correct and meets the needs
of their professional body. The Continuing Professional Development activity will be recorded in
forms of learning outcomes or practical application of the skills obtained. Accredited Continuing
Professional Development gives are capable to give accurate guidance to people as to how many
Continuing Professional Development hours as well as points are accomplishable from the
windup of any certified Continuing Professional Development activity, such as a conference,
seminar, training course and so on (Murdoch-Eaton, and Sandars, 2014). This will support any
person delegate number the right or most proper level of Continuing Professional Development
hours for their professional skills. CPD must be undertaken which is recorded by a Continuing
Professional Development Certificate of Attendance, Continuing Professional Development Self-
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Assessment forms and personal Continuing Professional Development Record Cards. Once a
Continuing Professional Development certified activity has been delivered, the meeter can
update their Continuing Professional Development record sheet as well as attach the associated
certificate. Along with this, it is not essential for the accredited Continuing Professional
Development Provider to retain an ongoing learning record for every delegates. Still, it is better
to give at least a certificate of involvement to single person once an task has been done. Keeping
accurate Continuing Professional Development record sheets supports reflect on individual
progress over time (Olsen, 2015). It is essential that person keep Continuing Professional
Development record sheets up-to-date as they will often require to submit information of annual
CPD activities or tasks to their governing professional bodies or employers.
Allocation of CPD timing
Allocating time for continuous professional development is consider responsibility of an
individual.. They require to realise the needs of CPD for their enterprise to know how their
continuous professional development training as well as learning must be recorded and what in
which hours it is completed. Most of the organisation gives their members with CPD needs
mostly as a minimal annual number of work time (Moss, Gibson, and Dollarhide, 2014). These
types of targets are explained by the accrual of continuous professional development time period
via training, seminars, events, conferences and many other structured forms of continuous
professional development learning. These continuous professional development hours are
sometimes regenerate to points. Large number of organisation allow members to select subjects
of relevance to them as single person, a minority also necessitate their members to seek
continuous professional development on a range of key subjects. Time allocation for continuous
professional development is very essential as it is duty of an individual. It is essential to realize
continuous professional development requirements and demands for an organisation in order to
realize how continuous professional development learning as well as training can be recorded.
The personal development plan is prepared below:
SKILL CURRENT
PROFICIENC
Y
TARGET
PROFICIENC
Y
DEVELOPMEN
T
OPPORTUNITY
CRITERIA
FOR
JUDGING
SUCCESS
TIME
SCALE
Team I am not able Trust my team Organize an The 15 July
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working
skills
to trust my
team members
all the time and
am always
extra involved
in project.
members and
become a
competent
team player.
event in the
company along
with the team
members
success or
failure of
the event
will say
everything.
2019
Leadership
Skills
Lack of
confidence and
are not able to
delegate the
work to
subordinated
Become a
confident
leader who can
delegate tasks
properly.
Motivate the
employees at the
time of need and
lead them about
the new tasks
that are assigned
to them.
The
satisfaction
of
employees,
the work
done by
them will
prove the
leadership
abilities.
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2019
Presentation
Skills
Can only
present within
friends with
confidence
To gain
confidence to
give an official
effective
presentation
To make a
presentation for
out CEO and
present in front
of him.
Achieving
a good
grade for
my
presentatio
n from my
seniors.
2
August
2019
The professional development plan is prepared as follows:
Objectives Current level of
development
Success criteria
(TARGET
DATE)
Actions Completed
Yes/No
Communication Average 02/06/19 Training sessions YES
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should be
arranged for
developing
effective
communication
channels.
Leadership Average 12/06/19 This skill of mine
needs a little
more efficiency
and development
for which I need
to take feedback
from subordinates
and evaluate them
carefully to
remove any
barriers in
leadership
process.
YES
Time
management
Below Average 15/07/19 This skill can be
improved by
practising
effective time
management and
using effective
communication
strategies.
YES
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The professional development plan is one in which individual analyses his weakness and
skills that he lacks and the what he is going to do for developing that skill. A continuous
development plan as the name suggests it development plan which is continuously evaluated.
Key learning experiences during university time
While I was studying in the university, I was grateful to spend my whole time and day by
developing a new skill every day. In college, I was working in teams and friends so I was able to
develop team building skills and know how to work in a collaborative manner. Also I got to
know about various abilities and knowledge necessary for improving an individual’s way of
doing work. Communication is the key of success in business (Prosek, and Hurt, 2014).
According to me, I think the best gift I got from university is the development of my
communication skill. It is very important for everyone to have this skill for talking and
convincing everyone to listen to what I am telling them to do. Communication skills help in
creating a good impact on other person. Also, in university I learned time management skill
which is beneficial for me in future. If a person can manage time, then he can do anything. Time
management skills helps me to arrange my day to day activities and achieving my short as well
as long term goals. In college when I was working with teams, I also learned leadership skill.
This helped me to learn leading people and guiding them to work effectively. As per my opinion,
I was able to do my work in this way by skills and knowledge I have developed I college time.
What you want to achieve next and how you are going to achieve that
As I want to progress my career in human resource filed, so it is important for me to
develop skills and knowledge required for developing my career. In job role of HR manager, I
have to attend various meetings and do presentation for my subordinates. Thus it is necessary for
me to be prepared for formal and informal meetings.
Reflection
The professional development plan of mine reflects that different skills that I have to
develop are time management skills, leadership skills and presentation skills. I have planned to
develop my time leading skill by organising different programs, meetings and events with team
members (Ramia, and et. al., 2016). This will help me to meet my team members more
effectively. When team members and I will be working together, it is better for me to know my
team members more deeply and they can share their problems with me. Another skill which I
have to build is leadership skills. As the HR manager of the company, it is important for me to
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have good leadership skill so that I can control and manage activities related to employees and
subordinates. A good leader can make effective decisions for the company so it is concluded that
I have to develop good leadership skills in order to achieve organisational goals and objectives in
an effective manner. Also it is important for me to become a good leader to guide my employees
and subordinates for working hard to attain organisational goals. Employees are known as asset
and thus it is responsibility of leaders to make them involve in different activities that will help
in increasing motivation level of employees. It is necessary for me as a leader to build effective
teams within the company for increasing performance of individuals as well as whole business.
Other skill which I lack is presentation skill. According to me, I should work upon my
presentation skill. I can improve this skill by giving presentation to executives and CEO of my
company. This will build my confidence in presenting presentations to clients and customers. In
this way, I will be able to give effective presentations and clients will be impressed. In this way,
sales and profits can be increased. As per my analysis, I think I have achieved success in
developing my skills. As a HR manager, I have to be more confident and develop good relation
with mu employees as it will help to provide better outcomes for the company. It is essential for
me to have good personal as well as professional growth as an individual and for the company as
well. When I will be self-developed, then I can work more effectively within the organisation.
This will help me in attaining goals and targets in an appropriate manner. I have to develop my
personal skills and for this I have to do it willingly. On the other hand, professional development
of mine is possible by providing effective and strong trainings and development sessions. I have
developed personal as well as professional skills for working as a HR manager. I have worked
hard for achieving this level and it is essential for me to put more efforts to always grow my
career and profession and not looking back. I have to make effective decisions and involve in
various trainings and career development sessions for have continuous growth of my career.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is seen that each and every organisation must have individuals
or employees who are responsible and they have proper skills to work. When an individual is
considering his skills and abilities continuously, it is easy to know strengths and weakness of
him. Thus it is advised for people to work as a team and know each other’s thoughts and views.
This helps to minimise the conflicts among employees and increases the performance of
employees. A good and positive workplace environment provides employees to put more efforts
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in their work. Organisational goals and objectives are attained more easily when people have
good knowledge and skills.
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