Employability Skills & Development: Improving Learning & Performance

This report provides an overview of employability skills and professional development, focusing on improving learning and development plans within organizations. It emphasizes the importance of co-creating programs, cultural trips, co-working projects, and utilizing free resources to enhance ...Read More

Employability Skills and
Professional Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Ways to improve the learning and development plans...............................................................3
Tools and techniques for enhancing interpersonal and transferable skills..................................4
Personal and Professional Development plan.............................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Employability skills are the skills of the employees which are related to there
employment, there communication skills and skills related to their performance. These skills help
the employees to boots-up their performance in the company. Professional development means
to continue the studies and training with the jobs. This helps the person to be more advanced in
the future. This report will outline the knowledge and understanding for improving the learning
and development for work. Further it will outline the tools and techniques for enhancing the
interpersonal and transferable skills. Further it will also outline the own personal and
professional development plan which helps the company for their development.
MAIN BODY
Ways to improve the learning and development plans
Co-create programme: As leader always makes the programme by stating its agenda and
thoughts for that programme. This makes the other members and followers discouraged about
there work (Barbosa and Santos, 2017). If the company wants to improve the growth than they
must indulge there all members while making any decision. The programmes should be co-
created with the employees. This could be done by making teams and every team should show
there new and creative ideas for the growth of the company.
Cultural trips: Continue working in the organization makes the employees tired and bored
with doing there work. To reduce the boredom the company must have some fun activities,
cultural programmes, trips and makes the employees to be part of that activities which makes
them feel refresh and activated for there work. This could also be done by having the trips for the
business like visiting on some places which are useful for that business. This enhances the
knowledge and experiences of the individuals.
Co-working projects: The company should increase there growth by doing team work
because different persons has different mind which helps them to think new and innovative ideas
for the company (Fearon and et.al., 2020). It enhances teamwork skills and communication skills
among them. This makes the employees feel valued and increases the self-confidence. This can
also be done by giving them projects and time period for the completion of that project this
makes them feel valued in the organization.

Use of free resources: As there is a new company they don't need to develop there
budgets rather than they can give there employees free resources like providing them skills
training that how to work and communicate within the organization (Cotronei-Baird, 2020). The
company should provide free courses to their employees which makes them learning of new
things. This encourages the people and help them to make positive towards there work. This
makes the people experience in there work by learning the new and valuable things about the
company.
Give them a budget: This is the most restricted areas where employees are not allowed to
participate. Instead of making them restricted they must give training that how budgets are made
and make them a part of the budget making. This helps them to improve there learning about the
budgets. This also makes them to have a speed in there work without asking everything with the
admins. This develops their skills and responsibility for the business.
Entrepreneur activities: Business are not always made for the success or failures instead
of this the business should realize there wrongs and make that things right. Business should
haves some entrepreneurial activities for the learning and development of employees as well as
for there business. It makes the entrepreneur more creative and attractive towards there work.
Different types of activities should be done in the organization which helps them in the growth of
there business. Company must do the activities related to there workwhich helps in the
professional development of the staff.
Job Swap: Many newcomers start doing jobs without knowing there potential and role for
that work. This makes them do the change of the jobs (Darling-Hammond and et.al., 2020). As
this have some positive impact because it makes that person helps in learning and developing
new and innovative ideas for them. This also makes the people to discovers new ideas where
they are working. As sometimes switching is not good for the person as it makes them confuse
what and where to work.
Let them take the ownership: To increase the learning and development the business
should give some management ownership to the persons which makes them feel motivated for
there work. The company should give autonomy to their employees for managing the work of the
organization which increases their learning and helps them in the development.

Tools and techniques for enhancing interpersonal and transferable skills
Interpersonal and transferable skills are the skills of the person about his ability to
perform and gain knowledge while working in the organization. Is usually helpful when there is
a conflict or solving of problems of the business. Transferable skills helps to transfer the skills by
giving the trainings or coaching to the persons. There are some tools and techniques for
improving these skills are:
Training and development: Training is the most important tools that every company must
give to their employees. Trainers used to give training to the beginners for the enhancement of
there interpersonal and transferable skill (Inti and et.al., 2018). Tools that are required by the
trainer in order to give training are known as the training tools. The company must give personal
or team training. Sometimes the company also takes training for the development of their
business. This helps the company to know where to do investment and increases the ability of
doing work. This helps the company to know that how to respond in the external environment.
Training is not always given about the jobs but also related to the new products or new software.
It increases the capacity of doing work by having good and smart training which helps in the
development of the interpersonal skills.
Mentoring: Mentoring means sharing of knowledge and personal experience among the
people. Mentoring is usually done by the mentors who are expert in giving advice and share the
experience related to the topic. The company should have mentoring programmes which helps
them in the development of less experienced and less trained persons of the organizations
(Matherson and Windle, 2017). It helps to identify the drawbacks of the employees and develops
the skills among them. The best mentor helps the employees to get encourage and makes the
company to achieve their goals. It takes the correct actions to fill the gap where the employ is
lacking in development of the company. Mentoring is the better than coaching as in mentoring
personal guidance is given and experienced are shared.
SWOT: The SWOT is the short form of Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
By analysis all these four factors company can determine its threats and weaknesses that where
they are lacking. Company should analyse its strengths and weakness which helps them to get
more opportunities and reduces threats of the market. The company should be more focused on
their strengths as it helps to reduce the threats (Murphy and et.al., 2019). The company should
have good attitudes towards the employees and company should be more goal focused and must

adapt the changes of the external environment for the smooth flow of the organization. The
company must also check there weaknesses that where they are lacking for achieving
organizational goal. By this, company can have new opportunities to overcome there threats and
weaknesses.
360 Degree feedback: It is a multi-rater feedback through which company takes
confidential feedback from its employees, subordinates or from the supervisors for the evaluation
of the company's structure. 360 degree feedback is taken because it helps the company to know
that where the employees and company itself is lacking. This approach checks the relationships
of their staff towards the company. It helps the company to know about the problems faced by
employees and by this company can solve that problem. As company takes feedback from many,
so they should confirm that the feedback received is valid or not. This approach helps the to
develop there interpersonal skills and transferable skills. As in this method feedbacks are
transferred which helps in the development of company. This helps the company to know what
there employees exactly want by doing some changes in the organization. By this, employees
have better understanding with the company.
Personal and Professional Development plan
Personal Development Plan is the development plan for the employees to identify there
strengths and weaknesses for achieving the goals of the company (Osman and Warner, 2020.).
By having good development plan an individual should achieve great position in the company.
This plan analyses the weaknesses and help the company to overcome from these weaknesses. In
order to make the development I have done the SWOT analysis which helps me to about my
strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats.
SWOT analysis
STRENGTHS
I am dedicated towards my work. As
management is so important in the company I
have good management skills. I always give
new and creative ideas to the company to
achieve goals.
WEAKNESSES
I feel very nervous in public speaking. Due to
this it makes my leadership quality down as I
can't interact with people easily.
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS

As working with the organization I have the
opportunity to work on the new and innovative
projects. Working in the good environment
helps me to improve my work.
As I am very bad to adopt the changes for the
company. So, this plan will help me to
overcome from this threat.
Personal development plan
Sills to be developed Actions required Resources Time frame
Public speaking For having good
public speaking I
should know my
audience with whom I
have to interact with.
Looking for the
opportunities from
which I can improve
my public speaking.
By doing interactions
with the people shortly
I will overcome from
this weakness.
Leadership For improving my
leadership quality I
should have good
interactions with my
colleagues.
Company should
provide me
opportunity to be a
leader of team by
which I can improve
my leadership quality.
By taking training for
a month or or few days
it will help me to
overcome from this
weakness.
Time management For more improvement
in the time
management I should
plan the activities .
The plan should be
properly structured
and managed by
having good co-
partners.
I can improve my this
skill within some
months after doing
some projects related
to time management.
Personal development plan of the company
Sills to be developed Actions required Resources Time frame
Team management Company should
communicate with
there team members
for having the good
Members are required
for having the good
team management in
the company. Without
Company can improve
this skills by giving
them training for some
days or for a month.

team management in
the company.
the employees team
management is not
possible.
Problem solving skills Company should
analyse the problems
related to their
employees and helps
them to solve that
problem.
Company must have
free-line of
communication for
interaction with the
members.
The company must
solve the problems on
time.
Analytical skills Company should make
there employees to
learn everyday new
things which increases
there analytical skills.
Company must
conduct a programme
for there employees
for the developing the
new ideas and to learn
new things.
As soon as required
company can make
there employees learn
new and innovative
things.
CONCLUSION
This report describes the different ways of improving the learning and development plans
by having entrepreneurial activities, having cultural trips with the company, by giving
opportunity to the employees of making the budgets of the company or by giving them training
which helps the organization to work in a better way. Further, it also describes the tools and
techniques for improving the interpersonal and transferable skills like having the mentoring
programme or company can do its SWOT analysis to improve their skills or it can also be done
by giving training and development to the employees of the company. At the end, report
describes the personal experience in order to develop the professional development plan of the
individual as well as of company.

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