Employability Skills and Professional Growth Plan for TESCO

This report discusses the importance of employability skills and professional development, focusing on how these concepts contribute to individual and organizational success, particularly within the context of TESCO. It explores methods for improving learning and development in the workplace, including training and development sessions, personal development plans (PDPs), and self-observation. The report also analyzes tools and techniques for enhancing interpersonal and transferable skills, such as teamwork, case study analysis, and active experimentation. Finally, it includes an assessment of a personal and professional development plan, incorporating a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, with specific development areas, methods, success criteria, and timeframes outlined for improvement. The report concludes that effective learning and development techniques are crucial for building skilled teams and achieving organizational goals.

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS AND
PROFESSIOANL DEVELOPMENT

INTRODUCTION
Employability competencies and professional development play vital role to make a
person successful and progressive. These two concepts also provide benefits to a company where
talented, skilled and knowledgeable individuals work to make their firm successful, productive
and profitable more than other companies that run & operate business function in same market or
sector. The current assignment will be based on TESCO, which falls under the category of
leading supermarkets, and who efforts to gain competitive edges. The report will explain
methods of improving learning and development for work. It will also define techniques and
effective tools to enhance interpersonal and transferable competencies as well as own personal
and professional development plan assessment.
ASSESSMENT 2
Question 1- Demonstrating understanding and knowledge about ways of improving own learning
& development for work.
Learning and development is considered as continuous improvement process, through
which individual person in their life develop themselves at personal and professional level. These
two terms enable workers within an organization to achieve strategic goals and objectives in
affective manner without making any major mistake that may put negative impact on their
professional career. In the recent time, organizations whether it is small or large give tough
competition to their rivals which create a competitive situation and during this situation
management effort to develop team of skilled employees. They efforts to use the best and most
effective methods to improve candidates learning and develop them for purpose of gaining
competitive advantages. These ways are;
Training and development sessions-
There are several Ways and methods utilized in this world for purpose of learning and
development. The current one is most affective as it used and considered by many people which
give them opportunity to develop themselves and learn specific skill or activity in which
individual person take interest to do so (Kraiger and Ford, 2021). Training and development in
the recent time play vital role in the business world because it provides key chance to a candidate
about developing set of important skills and learning new things which they use to work in

productive manner. Training or learning is the method of self-development (Beltran-Hernandez
and et.al., 2020). The best part of this method is that an experience Holder me give people the
best opportunity to grow and gain said AIIMS which is not that easy to obtain on decided time
schedule. Instead of using other methods the best way to develop themselves is training because
it gives time and a lot of resources that anyone can use.
PDP-
Along with above, personal development plan is another way that many people in the
recent time has been utilized to improve own learning and improvement for work. It may
encompass key approaches, techniques, success criteria and strategic timeframe (Kesharz Shal
and et.al., 2021). It considered as an official record of competencies and abilities that individuals
may have and develop to do so in effective manner. Personal development plan is one of the best
strategic frameworks that helps to reflect on what candidates seek to accomplish and how to go
about it. This PDP approach may give learners chance to improve skills and learn new things or
activities, which drive their attention towards becoming a productive employee in TESCO, who
may drive the sales of company higher than its rivals. It is important for everyone to take part in
personal development planning, for purpose of developing themselves. There are several
elements included in PDP such as clear vision, good comprehending of skills, effective
techniques and time limits.
Self-observation (Concrete experience)-
When selection of strategic method is appropriate, individuals in TESCO may enhance
their learning and development for becoming more productive employees. For example, self-
observation is the best and excellent way through which a person may develop themselves and
learn new activity, which they utilize or conduct at workplace, in order to gain desire outcomes.
Some candidates prefer to learn and develop independently by doing specific task and getting
useful experience throughout that (Johnson, 2020). The best way to develop own understanding
about specific situation or task is to conduct practical activities. By doing or having an
experience, a person may reach desire outcomes and drive their focus towards aim achievement.
It may provide them chance to identify own mistakes and weaknesses, which is important for
them to overcome by applying effective techniques. This approach may include in Kolb’s

learning cycle, that in return provide several advantages to individual person or learner. Self-
observation is the key technique that most of the people utilized in a bulk.
Question 2- Analyzing tools & techniques to enhance transferable and interpersonal skills.
There are different forms of techniques and methods exist in the corporate world, that
many learners and individuals utilized. The main reason to utilize each technique is to improve
interpersonal and transferable competencies.
Team work-
The best technique to develop or improve set of transferable as well as interpersonal
competencies such as critical thinking, etc. is team work. During procedure of team working,
individual person may get chance to learn and develop new skills and better understanding about
specific activity, which benefit they may get in the future (Gaunt and Treacy, 2020). Team work
may also provide several chances to a person or learner about developing new competence such
as effective communication, coordination, decision-making and the most important creativity,
which most of the employers may expect to have among those candidates that they tend to hire.
Problem solving, leading and adaptability are also included in list of interpersonal & transferable
abilities that people may develop or learn by working in a team of skilled individuals, who are
capable to achieve set aim and accomplish given task on daily basis.
Case study analysis-
Along with above common technique, in today’s developing and progressive world case
study analysis is the best and effective tool to enhance each type of skill that a learner tends to
improve or develop. The overall process may provide individuals chance to read few cases,
where a leader or manager effort to deal with varied situations in effective manner and during
that process they develop set of interpersonal as well as transferable skills (Anjum, 2020).
Analytical, problem, decision making and public speaking are the most common skills, which
candidates in a company such as TESCO may enhance by using method of case study analysis.
Through consideration and utilize of case study analysis, learners may take approach to actively
engage in implementation of learning and development efforts which make them capable to
work. This approach in return provide several edges such as skills development and personal as
well as professional growth.

Active experimentation-
The more technique that learners may utilize is active experimentation, according to that
they may develop effective plan and attempt to conduct practices which drive their focus and
overall attention toward, skills development. Active experimentation is the quite effective
technique that used for purpose of improving interpersonal and transferable skills (Rahmat,
Abdullah and Kashiwazaki, 2020). For example, a learner may develop and take part in any
situation during which they may learn or develop excellent skills. This kind of experimental
learning may give them chance to enhance transferable skills along with interpersonal, which is
quite essential for learners to do so. Most of the individual may take any action or decision after
making effective plan, which may give them appropriate or clear direction. They may try out to
apply their overall learning and find out new ways to develop more that they may do not have so.
Learning and development-
This technique is quite useful and supportive, because it is related to management
development program and provide benefits to knowledge provider and obtainer such as TESCO
employees. Training and development technique may give individual chance to enhance skills
and develop key competencies that they tend to improve or learn so. With the help of this
approach, learners may take benefit of skills development in multiple manner. It may make them
capable to achieve long, short and medium term goals that is not that easy to reach so. As it
required a lot of hard work and efforts as well, that person may conduct into appropriate and
systematic manner. All above techniques may provide benefits in a bulk to everyone, who may
take each approach into consideration.
Question 3- Assessing own personal & professional development plan.
In order to assess own personal and professional development plan, I need to conduct a
SWOT analysis, through which I have determined my key strengths, & weaknesses, which I
need to develop by using key opportunities that are available in the world.
Strength-
My effective communication, decision making and problem solving skills are my key
strength or power, which made me capable to interact with others in effective manner and also
enable to take right decision regarding or related to any situation.

Weakness-
Lack of ICTs, management and interpersonal skills as well as knowledge may lead to
decrease my performance and productivity as all these are my weaknesses which I attempt to
overcome or improve, with the help of personal & professional development plan.
Opportunity-
Technology advancement may provide me excellent chance to achieve set long, short or
medium term goals. With the help of this opportunity, I will grow and succeed in any field by
accepting critical challenges after develop employment skills.
Threat-
Intense competition in job market possess biggest threat for me as it leads to increase
work stress and put a lot of pressure to grow rapidly along with improvement and development
required skills by the employers currently or in the future.
Personal and professional development plan-
This kind of plan may pay vital role in success and unpredicted growth individual person
who may utilize it in appropriate manner. It encompasses key elements such as development
areas, key methods, success criteria and finally a time framework, according to that a person may
effort to achieve or develop mention competencies excellently as well as successfully. For
example;
Developing skill Approaches Success criteria Time frame
ICTs Training and
development sessions
By analyzing my
capability to use
advance technologies.
6 months
Management skills Case study analysis,
use learning
approaches.
By analyzing my
effectiveness of
manage key roles and
accountabilities of
employees.
2 months
Interpersonal Coaching, learning By taking right 3 months

competencies and experience
holders suggestion.
decision and analyze
the critical situation.
The best thing about above personal and professional development plan is that it may
help to increase retention rate, build confidence level, credibility and make succession planning
much easier than ever. It may help individuals to achieve their set aims and objectives in
effective manner, whether it related to personal or professional career. In the recent time, to grow
and developed own self, people are conducting several activities, but still unable to obtain desire
outcomes. With the help of developing own personal & professional plan, they may focus on
improvement or development areas. On the other hand, this plan may lead to consume time and
efforts, which is not acceptable in any situation. It is the worst thing about overall plan, which
may put direct impact on my further performance and productivity, which I tend to improve even
better than last few weeks or months. It does not stated to give final outcome within decided time
duration, because it may goes above decided time limitation. It is important to develop this plan
with full of concentration.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion, it has been concluded that by using effective and
beneficial learning as well as development techniques, manager and leader have builds skilled
teams of employees. By using appropriate and useful approaches at the workplace management
has developed strong team among which each candidate is capable to achieve set goals and make
achievable commitments. Furthermore, from above analysis, it has been identified that
transferable and interpersonal skills development have provided benefits to company in retail
industry. With the help of effective skills development plan, individual candidate at workplace
have developed and make their personal as well as professional career successful.

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