A Comprehensive Personal and Professional Development Plan

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Personal and Professional Development
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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
LO1.............................................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning..................................................................................4
1.2 Propose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be encouraged.
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1.3 Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the Individual and organization...........................6
LO2.............................................................................................................................................................7
2.1 Evaluate own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organizational
objectives.................................................................................................................................................7
2.2 Identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them......................................10
2.3 Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs.................................11
2.4 Devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs...........................12
LO3...........................................................................................................................................................14
3.1 Discuss the processes and activities required to implement the development plan prepared...........14
3.2 Undertake and document development activities as planned...........................................................16
3.3 Reflect critically on learning against original aims and objectives set in the development plan......17
3.4 Update the development plan based on feedback and evaluation.....................................................18
LO4...........................................................................................................................................................19
4.1 Select solutions to work-based problems........................................................................................19
4.2 Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels.................................21
4.3 Evaluate and use effective time-management strategies..................................................................23
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................24
References.................................................................................................................................................25
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Introduction
In the introduction self-management learning means, persons learn with their own learning
whereas every people learn with their own self. So the organization development programs which
include learning of the new skills, knowledge, and attitude which support the organization. The
whole report shows how the organization built and develops self-management learning. Peoples
will learn new things by using different techniques for example behavior, personality, culture.
The main aim of this report is to know the self-managing learning concept and to become an
active and confident employee. This research helps to become a confident in handling their own
personal and professional skills and to achieve individual and profession goals. The concept
shows to understand how self-managed learning can enhance lifelong development which
includes Self-managed learning, learning lifestyles, and approaches. As a manager introduce that
various approaches to self –managed to learn, whereas professional learning will be an increase
for a long time period and advantage of the individual and the association.
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LO1
1.1 Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning.
Introduction
It stated that Travelodge hotel helps to conduct the policies so that individuals can easily perform
their work. With this they can easily gain the information and knowledge.
Self-managed learning enhance lifelong development as an assistant manager at Travelodge Hotel
in ILford define self-managed learning means organization make learn with their own by
providing self-learning programs, structure, and encourage their staff to take a decision and
complete the responsibilities with the help of decisions in a certain direction. The motive behind
in this concept is to make their employees individual effective confident and self-directed.
This concept helps to the organization to their employees what they acquire, how they study when
and where they learn. Methods to self-managed learning methods are 2 types. When a manager
identifies the methods they find that person can research learn self-managed learning by
individuals and the other is by persons who are studying in college/university. There are various
types of methods that persons enhance their self-managing learning it includes internet, seminars,
conferences, and social networking sites. All these factors built to the persons to learn self-
managed learning techniques.
1) Social sites method: It helps to the persons to get the knowledge by the help of various
networking sites they are as follows: twitter, Facebook, Instagram, my space, other self-learning
sites. So the persons use these tools and enhance their knowledge, learn new things, and forward
their knowledge to other persons. Peoples can search the successful person journey and learn with
them and apply in their own life. Persons use this site and chatting with their friends, mentors,
teachers, and their guide to discuss new things and gain knowledge.
2) Seminars and conferences: Individuals use these tools and built their knowledge through
those persons who end up learning new things. This tool is a powerful method so the persons
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understand the new things information; persons become confident so the scarceness will reduce.
3) Internet: Helps to gain new things, ideas, develop self-making decisions.it covers the huge
data in the home so the persons use this tool and gain information, knowledge , according to their
topics, new things.
1.2 Propose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be
encouraged.
Lifetime learning can be defined as the learning activity in which peoples will learn not only a
short term base but also to learn for a lifetime. In this concept, the aim is to build knowledge,
enhance skills, improve knowledge, and capacity of personal, social, and civic that all are related
to employment perception. The purpose in which all-time learning in particular and qualified can
be elaborated through SWOT analysis.
In this analysis, persons know their strengths, weakness, opportunities and what are their threats.
An individual can apply this tool and develop the lifelong learning, they know there strength and
make it to convert into opportunities. Identify their weakness and reduce their mistakes correct it,
they convert their opportunities into action.
SWOT analysis helps the individuals to identify all their strong ability, how they use them
without the help of others. This tool helps the individuals to know there weak points in self-
learning, so this key helps to reduce the risk of the mistakes, bias, and difficulties and correct
them on time, This leads to the confidence, encouragement towards learning and developing.
When persons learn with their self-examination it will help to them by their internal peace,
motivation, encourage. When persons focus on their routine and careful analysis it shows to them
there are lots of positive thoughts, things which were done in their life, so this incidence gives the
persons to motivate and drive by their own. By the use of learning with their self-reflection, it will
help to Persons become built their own self-respect, self-encourage, confident, positive, do work
with an effective way and helps to the other peoples. This SWOT tool helps the individuals to
remain active and more effective, confident, energetic. By the use of this tool, persons develop
lifelong learning skills internally. It gives benefits to the persons to bit the competitor’s persons
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and grow with their advanced skills.
1.3 Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the Individual and organization.
The benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organization as a manager evaluate
that there are two types of benefits in learning the first benefit is to the individuals own leaning
and the other benefits are to the organization.
 By the help of self-managed learning the individual can improve the communication
skills, encourage speaking in front of the public, the person built more confident when
they develop the self-managed to learn. The person will not depend on the others so it will
give to the person become confident do their work with effective, correct, they provide
accurate information according to their knowledge.
 Individuals gain information, Facts, figures, factors, they will find out the solutions for
their problems. They built the key skills to work with the other persons in a team so they
create teamwork. It gives to the organization to increase productivity by their teamwork.
 Another aids are to improve personal statement skills, means how they communicate with
other peoples, how they provide their knowledge, views in front of other peoples. It
improves their communication power, how they speak, how they pass the information
clear, easily to other persons.
 Another benefit of self-managed knowledge to the organization are many welfares are
arising when their team members will work together because it gives growth of the
organization, they built their image as well as maintain their reputation in the market
place. The organization can reduce the risk of complexity.
 They remove the bias, hurdles that are arising by the previous mistakes. Organization
reduces their cost management system by hiring advanced skilled financial managers,
consultants, advisors. Organization improves their image by providing the motivational
seminars, conferences to their employees. Self-managed learning helps to the employees
to learn values, skills, culture, and do their work with more effective so the organization
gains profit.
Conclusion
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From the above article, it can be determined that persons can progress their skilled and personal
with the help of self-managed learning. With this learning they can easily attain the goals and
objectives.
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LO2
2.1 Evaluate own current skills and competencies against professional standards and
organizational objectives.
As an associate executive at Travelodge Hotel in IIford there are certain factors that cover own
personal and professional development. Organization every year analysis their skills,
competencies then built new goals, objectives for the organization growth. Every organization
aims to make goals and achieve success in the future, so as a manager I found own skills and
competencies that show the scenario to the organization which exists then set the benchmarks
towards their goals. The organization evaluates in their employees how they effectively work,
what profit they give to the organization.
So in that case as a manager, I found my own current skills, qualities, about my friendly behavior,
nature towards employees, writing skills, listening factor, as well as the researching skills will be
added and make a chart which shows how my skills and competencies will effect to the
organization objectives. The chart is below: this chart shows that what are the key skills the
manager provides towards their employees, and what their ability gives results towards the
organization. This chart shows the current skills of the manager and these skills shows which
skills can improve in the future so the organization achieves success.
The table show’s that some positive points and some negative aspects towards the organization
they are as follows:
In this the manager has capability to evaluate the performance of individuals and talk with them
comfortably. The other ability is the listening power of the manager which is good when the point
of this ability it shows the manger respect other values, beliefs, conditions then work with their
intelligence.
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S.no. Manager ability Score Score given by
others
Dissimilarities
1 Ability to talk with the
strangers
6 7 1
2 Listening power 8 7 1
3 Communication 7 6 1
4 Eye-contact 5 3 2
5 Respect to the other values 7 6 1
6 Adjust with changing needs ,
values.
5 5 0
7 Leadership skill 7 7 0
8 Action on planning 8 7 1
9 Patience level 5 4 1
10 Admit power when I was
wrong
7 7 0
11 Motivate the employees 6 6 0
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2.2 Identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them.
The manager is responsible to recognize their own progress needs and the actions which are
required to happen and that consists the learning skills which enhance either by the others or own
self. Manager evaluate own needs that development is essential and necessary they are in an
organization manager is responsible for arranging the organization departments, it is a big duty
for them. The manager works are a decision process, give their guidelines to employees. They can
develop these needs to build their image and reputation they are problem-solving skills, strong
communication power, relationship building skills, time management skills, and research process
skills.
These skills can be developed in a manager own self. The main purpose of evaluating needs,
activities is to reduce the time and moves to the next level programs. This evaluation helps to me
to build and make better professional, personal development. When identifying development
needs it will give to the manager inspiration, enhance their skills, it also gives benefits, not only
the manager but also to make the organization goals effective.
The best method which is applied by the manager is strength, weakness, opportunities and threats
factors. So I believe in this tool and analysis my own developing needs which are shown by
SWOT analysis. Apart from this, I also analyses the strengths that helps to convert in
opportunities which is beneficial, gives profits. As a manager I enhance own self-development
with the help search and get information’s towards new things, trends, and improve strengths and
reduce the weakness, it all done by some searching tools newspapers, magazines, internet, cyber
news and other official information who built my knowledge. On the other side, I focus on my
weakness that is to improve listening skills whereas listening carefully what other peoples say
their problems in front of me. The other focusing point is whereas I notice is teamwork which
wants to improvement and enhancing the skills by knowing what key factors are important to
build teamwork effectively, provide productivity to the organization.
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2.3 Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs.
As a manager identifies development chances to meet existing and future well-defined
requirements that can be based on own desires, when organization built opportunities it will
increase employee retention. Running Development is present to workers that lead to increase in
the satisfaction of employees’ and also encourage them and built win strategy among employees
as well as the whole organization. Through this there will be increase in the motivation and give
them job satisfaction and also helps to the workers more effectively, it reduces the job stress.
Apart from this, the manager has to develop and identify the opportunities by applying effective,
beneficial strategy to the organization. Make new plans which help to company growth and fulfill
their goals. The personal as well as professional plans help to build organization image and
maintain their reputation. The professional expansion and individual growth helps to inspire
training programs and progress needs documents in their assessment. It also helps to identify the
person's requirements means what they want then fulfill the individual's needs according to
priorities. It can be recognized that different factors can be evaluated shows positive aspects and
negative aspects towards motivation so this is the best technique to simplify the commitment to
professional and personal development. By providing opportunities for growth and development
organization will improve the level of employees, there working experience. After that analysis
what are their benefits of developing workers with their complete potential, power, All evaluation
and identification cover the employees’ basic needs, psychological, safety, belongings esteem and
self-actualization needs and wants.
These factors help to fulfill not only a particular person’s needs and wants but also whole
organization. As a manager when I found to identify the developing opportunities I use this theory
the Maslow hierarchical theory in this concept.
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2.4 Devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs.
Manager possess certain skills and that describes it below and creates how these skills are
developed and also discuss when these skills are developed. The skills are communication skills,
self-management skills, teamwork, time management, presentation skills, and management skills.
Personal development plan means a person develop their own plans means what are there aims
and objectives how they managed it and where they managed it in his life.
The below chart specify the skills that are essential for the development of manager and
individual and for the professional development plan. The chart shows how it’s developing and
when it is developed by me who is beneficial to not only the manager but also the Travelodge
Hotel.
S.no Needed skills How they develop
skills
When they develop
skills
1. Team-work skills Manager perceive and
supporting each
employee.
Manager prefer to work
with each and in a
group
2. Time-management skills Is managed by the
works priorities so it
reduces the time-
consuming and work is
done on time.
The works, tasks that
can be completed by an
individual.
3. Communication skills I can clear, accurate,
easy language use so
the employees will
understand analysis
easily.
With teamwork, in a
group, meetings, and
seminar’s
communication skills
will be developed.
4. Leadership skills I use to develop these When a big project is
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