Personal and Professional Development Plan: Skills Enhancement

This report presents a personal and professional development plan focused on enhancing skills and competencies to achieve career objectives, specifically within the context of becoming a finance manager at Thomas Cook Group. The plan emphasizes the development of professional knowledge, leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. It includes a SWOT analysis to identify areas for improvement and opportunities for growth, such as presentation, technological, and management skills. The plan also details strategies for meeting current and future needs through open communication and a structured approach to personal and professional development. Learning objectives, current and target proficiency levels, development criteria, opportunities, success metrics, and timelines are defined for personal skills like problem-solving and time management, as well as professional skills like teamwork and academic skills like vocabulary. The report concludes with references to relevant literature on personal and professional development.

Personal And Professional
Development

A. Personal skills and competencies with skills needed to develop
work professionally
In Thomas Cook Group, I look towards finance manager. Therefore, my
objectives is to make creative plan that assists to focus on financial plan in
systematic manner. In this aspect, optimum use of resources also consider
attaining desired tasks and profitability. For finance manager, analytical
and critical thinking need to include. Plan consider in following manner:

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Professional knowledge: This ability help me to deal with different issues in
financial problems. I have appropriate knowledge in account and finance
department. As results, it assists to solve problems in systematic manner.
Leadership skills: Leadership skills also influence me to determines
capabilities to undertake effective results. In this way, I bring coordination
among several people to maintain more significant advantages. These skills
help to develop productivity.

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Communication skills: I possess this ability to communicate things
in proper way so that learning will be enhances. In this aspect,
carefully listening activities in financial plan. As results, it assists to
accomplish organisational objectives as per set standards.
Problem solving: Problem solving skills also assists me to determine
effective results at workplace. In this way, work related problem will
be consider in different situations in Thomas Cook Group.

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Evaluate each solution- Each solution must be evaluated so that the
best one can be selected. In this certain factors are considered such as
time, cost, etc. This is done to solve problem in more effective
manner.

In respect to consider SWOT analysis, there are several activities assists
to develop more significant advantages at workplace. In this way, I
need to focus on different skills which reduce my effectiveness.
Therefore, it is important to implement presentation skills,
technological skills, management skills, etc. All these tools consider
essential role in business

2.3 Identifying opportunities to meet current and future
needs
Open – In this a person can easily share information and feelings with another. It is an open
communication in which there is no restrictions. Also, it is one to one process. It is also known
as informal communication.

2.4 Personal and professional development planont
Developing a personal and professional plan will help me in improving
my current skills. It will also help me in career development and growth .

Learning objective Current proficiency Target proficiency Development
opportunities
Criteria for judging
success
Time scale Evidence
Personal Skills:-
Problem solving skills I am not able to provide
effective solution to
customer regarding their
problems.
I need to improve this
skills so that I can easily
handle and manager
customer problems.
For this I need to
interact with customers
so that I can solve their
problems.
By taking feedback form
customers and
managers.
7 -8 weeks Taking feedback
Time management
skills
I am not able to
complete task in proper
time.
I need to improve this
so that I can attain my
goals in specific time
and compete with other
employees
This can be done by
preparing schedule and
time tables.
Completing task in
given time period that is
mentioned in schedule.
5-6 weeks Preparing daily
schedule
Professional skills:-
Team working skills I am able to work in a
team easily. This helps
me to coordinate with
other and attaining my
targets.
I want to work with
manager and leader so
that I can enhance my
current skills.
I want to lead a team so
that I can become a
good manager.
Taking feedback from
manager and also
asking colleagues about
my performance
2-3 weeks Taking feedback from
manager
Academic skills
Vocabulary skills I am very poor in using
vocabulary. I am not
able to do effective
interaction with
customers.
I must improve this so
that I can communicate
with foreign people
easily.
I need to learn different
languages or read
books.
By taking reviews from
friends and colleagues.
1 month By communicating
with foreign people.

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