What is the PPD

        managing our learning  and working on developing ourselves personally and professionally by developing or improving our skills and competencies to deal with the challenges in the market is called self-managed learning. we need to fist do a SWOT Analysis on ourselves to find out our strengths and weaknesses and also to find out the threats and opportunities in the market. then we need to set short term and long term goals and objectives and timelines to achieve these goals. continuous monitoring and evaluation is required and we need  to make change in our development plan depending upon the feedback. self-managed learning involves choosing the skills we want to learn ,way to achieve these skills and competencies and the time and place to learn these skills. I believe that SWOT is the best way to start with the development plan. this is the method which i have identified for my learning and development. i will find out my weaknesses and then i will plan for these weaknesses. training and coaching are some of the other suitable methods to develop  and  identify our needs. 

              

Methods to improve personal and professional skills
Successful jobs and promotions seekers recognize their degrees and work experience are not enough to distinguish them from the crowded field of candidates. Though college degrees, professional certificates and experience help you meet the minimum criteria to apply, once you get the chance to interview your demonstrated communication, self management and behavioral skills combined with your presence is what will distinguish you from the competition. Your level of professionalism will relate directly to the degree to which you will RISE ABOVE THE CROWD! We may be a valued employee but if our skills and contributions don't accelerate over the years, especially in tough time like credit crunch, we may find our self out of a job. It's good that the boss likes you, but when are up against serious challenges to the ongoing success of the company, being a liked, known quantity is not enough. The only way we could find successful carrier by Exploring and evaluate methods to improve personal and professional skills and explore methods to improve them. Moreover, company must visualize our talents and contributions as essential to the company's future success. If we are doing a decent job, our reporting employees like and get along with us, and the job is getting done, we'll likely coast for a little. Change is difficult even when change would be beneficial the organization. 
  
Professional Development

    process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training opportunities in the workplace, through outside organization, or through watching others perform the job. professional development helps build and maintain morale of staff members, and is thought to attract higher quality staff to an organization. also called staff development.

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