Development Plan: Self-Managed Learning, Skills & Communication

This report provides a comprehensive overview of personal and professional development, focusing on self-managed learning approaches and their benefits for both individuals and organizations. It evaluates current skills and competencies against professional objectives, identifies development needs and opportunities, and outlines a personal development plan. The report also discusses the implementation of the development plan, including required processes and activities, and emphasizes critical reflection on learning outcomes. Furthermore, it addresses problem-solving in the workplace, effective communication strategies, and time management techniques, concluding with an updated plan based on feedback and evaluation. Desklib provides students access to similar solved assignments and past papers.

PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Approaches in self managed learning....................................................................................1
P2 Ways in which personal and professional learning could be encouraged.............................2
P3 The benefits of self managed learning to individual and organisational...............................2
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................3
P4 Evaluate own current skill and competencies against professional and firm objectives.......3
P5 Identify own development needs and activities required for to meet those. .........................3
P6 Identifying development opportunity to meet current and future needs................................4
P7 Personal and professional development plan for needs identified.........................................4
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................5
P8 Process and activities required to implement the development plan.....................................5
P9 Undertake and document development activities as planned................................................6
P10 Reflect critically on own learning with original aims and objectives..................................7
P11 Update the plan based on feedback and evaluation.............................................................7
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................8
P12 Solutions to work based problems.......................................................................................8
P13 Communicate in variety of style and in appropriate manner...............................................8
P14 Evaluate the effective time management strategies.............................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is something which helps in bringing the
effectiveness in working style. It is a process in which organisation and individual both gets
involved in learning scenario to meet the challenges and helps in attaining desired goals. In this
development process individual and firm both learns the time management, efficient and
effective working and a class to reduce stress. All such can be learn through training and
development programs. It is required to examine the skills and abilities of individual which can
help in organisational development too (McNiff, 2010). The report will discuss about the
approaches in self managed learning, ways through which learning for both can be encouraged
and their benefits of self-managed learning thus own current skills and competencies. Although
identification of development needs and identifying development opportunities and making a
development plan which helps in implementing plan reflecting own learning in development plan
and receive feedback, providing solution for work based problems and communicating variety of
styles which will make in effective management strategies.
Task 1
P1 Approaches in self managed learning.
Self managed learning is that which provides knowledge in various ways. Thus learning
is that thing which can be done anytime or in any age (Moon, 2013). Self managed learning are
those lessons which affects for the long time. Although this can be done through conferences and
seminars, internet, social networking and books. And these are as follows:
Internet: It is something where a person can find anything to learn. This helps in
learning in a effective way. Just because internet provides human beings a visual study and this
affects the mind of individuals. At basic level general search engine is google where individual
can access the information written by journals and through authors.
Seminar and conferences: People can learn various things through seminars and
conferences. This helps in learning in a great way just because it makes to learn though audio
and visual both. In seminars mainly experienced person are there who manages the stage and
influences many other, this makes a affect in the minds of the individuals which helps in
developing themselves for such thing in proper manner.
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Social networks: This network includes the Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Where
maximum people spend their time and see lot many new things. Through this individuals share
the important information through which people comes to know the things happening in such
place in which manner. They learn through their founders as well how they become successful,
its all about learning and using the skills in effective manner.
P2 Ways in which personal and professional learning could be encouraged.
Personal and professional learning helps the organisation to achieve their targets in
perfect way. Development can be their in many ways in organisation which helps in effective
working by individuals and company as whole (Elliott, 2011). Better trained and developed staff
bring development in the organisation. The ways which help in learning process are as follows:
 Promotion
 Financial support
 Rise in pay etc.
All such helps the employee and individuals to work effectively in great way. Through
this lot more people gets encouraged to learn further as well. There are some points in
organisation where people get demotivated to work efficiently so further through learning about
particular situation helps them to work efficiently and motivates them again which helps them to
manage those situation in effective way. Few employees in industry fail to accept the changes in
environment and thus learning helps them to adapt changes as such thing can help them to
improve their performance in company.
P3 The benefits of self managed learning to individual and organisational.
Self managed learning helps in development of individuals as they can learn so many
things in their own. They can learn skills and abilities to perform certain things through internet,
social networking sites etc. This helps the people to receive new information and such things
influences mind of individual (Zepeda, 2012). Thus self managed learning reduces the cost of
organisation in training and development program. Self managed learning brings effectiveness in
the working scenario of humans and company both. Benefit to individual and organisation are as
follows:
Individual SML: This helps in increasing the progress and improve abilities and skills.
Some of them are (facing challenges, self-awareness, knowing certain skills etc.) somewhere
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they learn new approaches to life ad sharing of new things with colleagues also make them
compatible.
Organisational SML: The affect of such thing in company is (brings effectiveness in
work, creates a better performance, increases motivation and learning more abilities to take
responsibilities etc.) all such helps in making great relationship and makes better understanding
of business and expectation. However all things helps in attaining goals and objectives in proper
manner.
Task 2
P4 Evaluate own current skill and competencies against professional and firm objectives.
It is required by individuals to evaluate their skills and competencies in the organisation
so that they can perform better. Every person has different skills and competencies in which
he/she is expert. Some people has communication skills, leadership skills and time management
skills which makes them unique from other. Companies has to evaluate their skills to achieve
their goals and objectives in proper manner (Desimone, 2011). As firm can also recruit many
other employees or can provide a effective training session for the individuals. Somewhere to
achieve their goals a entity will always choose the SMART theory which stands for (specific,
measurable, achievable, reliable and time) all such measure helps the firm to attain all targets in
proper manner.
Competencies are the abilities of individuals which helps them to satisfy themselves with
their work and keep working hard for the firm, so that they can touch and receive their set
standards. Current skills and competencies both are those which help the firm to achieve its
professional goals with the individual goals in effective way. Organisation do set the standards
for employees which has to attain be the individual in firm. If humans has achieved that in their
working then the entity can easily attain its goals and objectives in perfect way.
Personal skills play a effective role in development of individual and professional in
higher manner.
P5 Identify own development needs and activities required for to meet those.
In organisation it is required by individuals to identify the need for development in
themselves. As this helps in bringing the effectiveness in working style. Even not a single person
is having all the skills everyone needs a training to develop new skills in them. Some of them is
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having expertise in IT skills, some of having time management skill, few of person is having
communication skills as such skills can be developed through learning. To learn new skills the
employees or individuals do participate in training sessions which brings effectiveness in their
personality and learns new skills and there is increment in abilities to work effectively. Such as
if an individual is having lack of communication skills then he/she will do this which is as
follows:
Communication skill: To improve the communication skill a person will try to read
more newspapers, magazines etc. He/she will try to speak in their own. As training session will
also increase the communication level of individuals. This skill is very needed in every
individual to be very effective in working.
Thus identifying development needs for the development of themselves is very much
required this helps organisation to achieve their goals and objectives within the time period
stated.
P6 Identifying development opportunity to meet current and future needs.
The individual also take benefits of developing themselves for current and future needs. It
is in hands of people to take advantage of opportunities to work in perfect manner (Gibson,
Dollarhide and Moss, 2010). The identified current and future needs are as follows:
Current needs: Identification of current needs in individual makes them to adapt those
things which can help them to develop in proper way. Through learning they can learn new
things which is required by individuals. Example- If a person is lack in strategy making or gets
demotivated in certain situation etc.. so to overcome these they can take training sessions to
improve those criteria in which they are lacking from so many years.
Future needs: This is the result of current needs as future needs are those in which
individual thinks to change their few of skills according to time and change in behaviour,
Learning new skills and abilities according to the outer world helps the organisation to achieve
their goals and objectives too. It is needed for every person to be futuristic so that they can
improve themselves in the near future for development in perfect manner.
P7 Personal and professional development plan for needs identified.
If a person needs to be successful in there personal and professional life, then they have
to make a development plan for their development in nice manner. It is necessary for the
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individual to have their own swot analysis which helps in making a plan for the development of
themselves. The swot analysis of personal and professional development is as follows:
Strength:
 Person talents.
 Strong network connection.
 What other see as person strength.
 In which thing a individual is good in
natural ways.
Weaknesses:
 Negative habit of working.
 In which area person has to improve.
 Which is biggest afraid or likely to
ignore.
Opportunities:
 New technology is used in organisation
 Industry in growing in nature.
 What changes are there bringing
change in personal and professional
development.
Threats:
 What are the external danger to goals.
 Weakness is affecting in getting high
performance in firm.
This swot analysis of individual helps in making development of personal and
professional development plan, thus threats and weaknesses has to be done in right manner.
Strength and opportunity helps in making a development plan in effective way this helps in
growing in proper manner (Stenfors-Hayes, et. al., 2010). Organisation develop themselves with
the development of the individual in perfect manner. This helps firm to attain their aims and
objectives.
Task 3
P8 Process and activities required to implement the development plan.
In today's era many other firms adapt different process and activities to implement the
development plan, as executing plan in proper way always gives a positive outcome. Thus
process or activities to implement the development is as follows:
Scope of personal and professional plan: In most of the companies the development
plan is made by individual staff only and in other firms there are policies which as to be followed
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to make a development plan for the individual and professional as both. Personal staff makes
their plan which suits them and they work according to that.
Implementation and support: When the development plan is executed in firm then it
takes lots of hard work and support form every department of the firm in perfect way.
Communication and coordination among all the various level and in between departments helps
in having a perfect implementation of the plan (Avalos, 2011.). Support of every member in
organisation provides a strength that the plan will be going to executed in proper manner.
Impact: The individuals are responsible for their own development in personal and
professional development. Every member has different culture which they follows in proper
manner and firm has to undertake all such things when they execute the plan and impact can be
positive and negative on the development plan of entity.
P9 Undertake and document development activities as planned.
There are few activities that has to be performed in the organisation. There is no specific
activities available for specific problems (Croft, et. al., 2010). All activities are equal for every
circumstances in firm. As there is requirement of few points to prepare the document for the
development such as those are as follows:
Gather initial thoughts: It is needed by the firm to gather the initial thoughts and keep
information in the document for activities. Preparing document helps the firm to work in proper
manner and whenever documents required in any circumstances then they can use as available
information for the work.
Meeting note and decisions: In documents it is needed that firm should include all those
notes which was made in the meetings and decisions should be made in nice manner. Decisions
are required to be mad in such a way that it can help the entity to attain its goals and objectives in
great way. Meeting notes are those which plays a important part in the document as they are
those notes which also helps in making decisions in perfect way.
Review the document: Looking at the document in the end for once makes firm tom feel
that every thing was done in a right manner. Reviewing the document helps in getting the pitfalls
made and by doing this flaws of work can be there in the industry. Document should all the part
which was done at time of meeting in organisation.
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P10 Reflect critically on own learning with original aims and objectives.
Personal and professional development is very much important part to be done in the
organisation as this helps in attaining the goals and objectives of firm in perfect manner. I am
having expertise in few of the skills but not perfect in few skills which is important and
mandatory for the smooth working of the work in entity. Through the self managed learning and
training I can improve my skills and can learn new many things in the development programs.
Through own learning a person can develop himself in proper manner as own learning can be
performed through (social network, internet, books and personal experience) thus such kind of
learning stays for the longer period of time with the individuals. Setting standards by the
organisation helps to improve the performance of us. I managed learning new skills with own
learning. A person can improve his/her skills through such learning style.
Own learning do helps in achieving the firms aims and objectives, thus improving skills
helps in effectiveness in work and increase the performance which directly affects the attainment
of aims and objectives.
P11 Update the plan based on feedback and evaluation.
The plan has to be updated with the time, as change in environment brings a lot changes
in development of personal and professional way. Firms do take feedbacks from employees of
their organisation with efficiency of development plan (Maskit, 2011.). The process to follow foe
the development of the plan area as follows:
Planning: We need to make a perfect development plan which will help in achieving the
goals and objectives of entity. Making a development plan makes to use available resources in
proper manner and have enough time to work over plan. Having goals stated in development
plan helps in working in right direction and employees or individuals do work hard in correct
way. Goals are those which makes a person futuristic as they think where a firm going to reach if
attained the goals and objectives stated. So goals should be planned carefully.
Reviewing: After the plan is made it is required to review plan which helps in
understanding actually for personal and professional developments. Review will provide a clear
scenario about strength and weaknesses and the things required to achieve the goals and
objectives. Expectation are always there with every development plan which can make effective
and efficient working style of individuals.
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Task 4
P12 Solutions to work based problems.
Employees is having a responsibility to solve problems which helps in having a flow of
work. Workers sometimes take this as a challenge and tries their level best to work hard and
attain goals and objectives (Von Haenisch, 2011). The work based problems investigate and
provides solution in organisation which is as follows:
Investigation of work based: Investigation should be there of the work done as because
investigation helps to know the area of problem and this makes to identify the collaboration in
between employees and organisation. Problems are various in firms like inequality in salary,
conflicts among employees etc. investigation should be done in organisation to know the
problem areas.
Solution to problem: After having investigation it becomes responsibility of the senior
department to solve the problem of employees in proper manner. Supervising on regular basis is
the best solution for conflict situation in firm. Entity can develop individuals by creating a group
or team in organisation which solves the issue of collaboration they will work as one. This will
giver a positive result as well and in this self managed learning and self evaluation are promoted
in the firm.
P13 Communicate in variety of style and in appropriate manner.
There are various communication style chose in organisation which helps the personal to
work effectively. Those styles are as follows:
controller style: They are having clear set of goals and objectives and they solves the
problem in proper manner. Senior managers in firm are the main part in controller style.
Promoter style: They are those who loves to talk a lot they are extrovert kind of person
and usually are more social in nature. They do have attractive personality and curious and
expressive style.
Supporter style: They are those who supports every thing in the organisation and ion
very effective manner. Person with this style are of patient and well behaved or good listener.
The communication style do helps the firm to work in effective manner and help in
attaining the organisational goals in efficient manner.
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P14 Evaluate the effective time management strategies.
The person in itself cannot manage the time. For firm who wants to be successful they
need to understand the value of time. Effective management strategies depends on personality
individuals, level of self discipline etc. To evaluate time management strategies effectively it is
required to have as:
Know how to spend time: Knowing the time management in effective way helps
individual to manage time in effective way. Keeping records helps person to identify the use or
consumption of time and knowing which task is very important.
Get organised: A person should organise everything on right place which helps in
reducing the consumption of time I effective manner. Organised things helps in completing task
within time.
Avoid multi tasking: Most of the person cannot complete their work on time just
because they have a habit of completing few task in a single period of time. This dis manages the
time scenario in great manner. So it is required to do a single work at a particular time.
CONCLUSION
Personal and professional development is required by the person as this helps in
completing their task on time and in effective way too. Having a development plan helps them to
develop themselves according to changes in the scenario of market. Learning helps in developing
a personal skills and abilities. Somewhere developing skills and abilities or providing training to
them helps them to increase their productivity and performance in the organisation in perfect
way which directly helps in attainment of the organisational goals and objectives within the time
period stated. The report has discussed about the development plan of individual and their
evaluation and the communication style chose and identifying the current and future needs of the
development of individual.
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