Personal and Professional Development

Aim

This unit aims to help the learner become an effective and confident self-directed employee. This helps the learner become confident in managing their own personal and professional skills to achieve personal and career goals.

Learning outcomes

LO1 Understand how self-managed learning can enhance lifelong development

1.1 Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning

1.2 Propose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be encouraged

1.3 Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organisation

LO2 Be able to take responsibility for own personal and professional development

2.1 Evaluate own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organisational objectives

2.2 Identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them

2.3 Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs

2.4 Devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs

LO3 Be able to implement and continually review own personal and professional development plan

3.1 Discuss the processes and activities required to implement the development plan

3.2 Undertake and document development activities as planned

3.3 Reflect critically on own learning against original aims and objectives set in the development plan

3.4 Update the development plan based on feedback and evaluation

LO4

Be able to demonstrate acquired interpersonal and transferable skills

4.1 Select solutions to work-based problems

4.2 Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels

4.3 Evaluate and use effective time management strategies.