Unit 5.9 Personal and Professional Development

Level 5 15 Credits

Sample Assignment

Context

It will have become evident to you from your time as a student, from your experience in employment and indeed from life in general that personal and professional development is on-going. An important aspect of this is making progress, fulfilling your potential and achieving success in life.

In order to take this forward you have decided to produce a learning log which will consider theory and capture your plans and progress in relation to future career progression. You must carry out a number of tasks:

Task 1

In the first section of the log you wish to understand how self-managed learning can enhance lifelong development.

• Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning • Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organisation.

Task 2

Before completing the second section of the log you must carry out some research relating to the role and industry sector, where you are interested in progressing your career. This research will provide information on likely professional standards which you can benchmark yourself against and the organisational objectives of the business. You must state these in the log. Using this information:

• evaluate your own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organisational objectives • identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them • devise a personal and professional development plan with clear aims and objectives and timescales based on identified needs • discuss the processes and activities required to implement the development plan including effective time management strategies.

Task 3

The next section of the log should be produced as a detailed record of progress against