Professional Development Plan

Professional Development Plan

Introduction

The purpose of this assignment is to build a professional development plan and to evaluate my skills, capabilities and knowledge. The prime goal of this plan is to plan the strategy through which I can achieve my desired goals. It helps me in creating a strategic fit between my educational background and my career ambitions. The overall plan is classified into three parts, in the first part my weaknesses, my strengths, my personal development plan and my dream job is identified. In the second part, time management, effective communication and workplace problems are discussed. In the end my overall learning approach is identified with respect to its implication in the achievement of my long-term goals. Thus, the final objective of this plan is to find how my personal effort helps me in improving my career growth.

Explaining the Professional Development Plan

Quality Assurance Academy (QAA) of Higher Education in UK defines Professional Development plan as

A plan developed by an individual to evaluate its achievements, performance's, learning's and career development in a sophisticated and structures manner is formally known as Professional Development Plan (PDP). It provides guidance to students in their professional and career related life. Most prominently helping individuals:

Become more independent, more effective, initiators and self motivated learners

Provide guidance to relate their performance with their benchmarks

Enhancing their capabilities and skill for their career growth.

Assess and recognize own strengths and weaknesses.

And persuade to think positive and constructive about their career planning all through their life

How PDP is beneficial for me?

For me the personal development plan is an option to know myself clear and better. It helps me in understanding my short term and long term goals and provides me basis to achieve those goals. I can clearly see in black and white what I want to achieve. It also gives me insights about my strengths and weaknesses which help me in mitigating the risk of expected threats with my strengths and also provide me grounds to convert my weaknesses into my strengths.

After achieving my degree in Arts, I started counseling and teaching at a community college. The experience of teaching and being teacher developed my presentation and leadership skills; this helped me in becoming more responsible and dedicated person. 3 years later I focused on changing my career direction from arts and teaching side to business management area in order to improve my skills in other areas such as team management, communication and time management.

I believed the combination of skills which I have developed from my diverse and integrated educational background will always help me in achieving my short term and long term goals.

My SWOT Analysis

SWOT analysis is a strategic planning and managerial tool which helps in the identification of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of an individual or an organization. This managerial tool helps in evaluating a situation from internal and external aspects. Therefore, I am also using SWOT analysis technique to develop my professional development plan.

Strength

I think I possess following ...