Personal development program
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Based upon the required articles that is attached and your experience, reflect on your personal goals and
how they relate to your career development.
Develop a personal development action plan, based on earlier PDP submissions that are provided in the
attachment files.
1)The answer must raise appropriate critical questions.
2)The answer must include examples from aviation experience or the web with references from relevant
examples from real aviation companies
3) Do include all your references, as per the Harvard Referencing System,
4)Please don�t use Wikipedia web site.
5)I need examples from peer reviewed articles or researches.
My personal goals relate and how they relate to my career development in various ways.
My professional development objectives involve treating individuals as prized customers while
contributing positively to the organization. I also intend to offer services that provide an
enthusiastic interest in the lives of other people. My aim in personal development by continuing
to develop my range of skills in my profession and my ability to balance between my
professional and personal life are abilities I possess that are a great asset to me.
My Human Resource competencies that include the knowledge, values and abilities for a
HR professional coupled with the right aptitude and attitudes towards the profession will enable
me perform better than others enabling me to create intangible shareholder value, engage
employees and serve clientele. To achieve my personal development goals in the next five years,
I will need to possess six competency values. Being a credible activist of the profession will
enable to soar to great heights and will make me a credible professional within the profession
(Adams, 2013). In order to be active, I will take leadership and management positions that will
ensure I undergo challenges in the profession on a day-to-day basis. Overcoming such challenges
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and learning to adapt and change strategies depending on the circumstances at hand will make
me one of the best Human Resource practitioners as I establish the right competencies and
experiences over time. The pursuit of such positions will also ensure that I learn to replace my
self-doubt with self-confidence adding value to both myself and the organizations I work with
and for (Alexandria, 2008).
My ability to focus on personal relationships and my understanding that every individual
has something unique to offer will make me develop networks with other related professionals in
my field. Networking with other professionals also ensures that I obtain current and recent
knowledge on changes and advances of the professional making me a better human resource
professional. In relation to my goals and professional development objectives, I intend to draft an
action plan that will help me work with my manager to deliberate on my key competencies and
abilities and design ways to expand my demonstration of them. The action plan will also involve
working as a volunteer or as an intern in various companies and organizations with unique
Human resource programs to attain experience and exposure (Palmer, 2004).
Finally, my professional goal of creating a portfolio of my skills and abilities and what I
have achieved in my work as a human resource professional will enable me market myself
further into the profession to a point where I could be a private consultant providing consultancy
services to individuals and corporations. This goal will spur me to greater heights as I might even
end up with enough experience to be a head in a diverse human resources department in a multi-
billion dollar global organization such as Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, Coca-cola, or Google
(Lawler and Boudreau, 2013).
Personal development action plan
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My first goal will be to develop an attitude of cooperation and quality in our daily
operations and to create working conditions that fosters fun, safety, and challenges. Upsurge the
participation in community and company activities while seeking enthusiasm, an improved
quality of life for everyone. The Second goal is Change and Culture Stewardship. I intend to
articulate, appreciate, and assist in shaping the company’s culture. To achieve this, I must
facilitate change by helping it happen and developing disciplines throughout the organization by
implementation of initiatives, projects, or strategy. My third goal will be the introduction of
talent management in the organization (Miller, 2001). My fourth goal is to be a Strategy
Architect and have the knowledge of how the company can prosper in the marketplace, now and
in the future by recognizing business trends and their influence on it, enabling the process of
achieving strategic clarity, and forecasting potential barriers to success. My final goal is being an
operational Executer by implementing the operational aspects of managing employees and
companies (Mclagan & Bedrick 2012).
Goals and Objectives
- Develop an attitude of cooperation
- Change and Culture Stewardship
- Talent Management
- Strategy Architecture
- Operational Execution
Start Date End Date
- Community and corporation between
members of the organisation are achieved
MM/DD/YY MM/DD/YY
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when people start working together.
- Milestone to achieve in objective two is the
creation and shaping of a new organisational
culture while respecting the structures of the
old. - Introduction of talent management in the
organization. - Having the knowledge of how the company
can prosper in the market place. - Ensuring staff basic needs are met.
Step towards accomplishing milestone - Encourage the participation in community and company activities such as sports
and community service creating joy, enthusiasm, and friendships improving the
work and private life of everybody involved. - Ideally, it starts with transparency around external customer expectations and
then converting them to internal organization and employee behaviors. - To achieve this, I must facilitate change by helping it happen and developing
disciplines throughout the organization. It may have to include implementation of
initiatives, projects, or strategy. - Becoming the Talent manager in the organization in order to create and enforce
policy aligned with customer strategy and requirements. - Involve myself actively in the establishment of the organization overall strategy
by recognizing business trends and their influence enabling the process of
achieving strategic clarity, and forecasting potential barriers to success.
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- Implementing the operational aspects of managing employees and companies
References
Adams, L., & Allred, A. (2013). The first step in proactively managing students’ careers:
teaching self-SWOT analysis. Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, 17(4): 43-
51.
Alexandria. (2008). Society for Human Resource Management: managing your human resource
career.
Community Tool Box. (2013). Section 14 SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, and Threats. Retrieved from: http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of
contents/assessment/assessing-community-needs-and-resources/swot-analysis/main on
20/2/2015.
Lawler & Boudreau. (2013). Achieving strategic excellence: Assessment of Human resource
organizations. Stanford, CA.
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Mclagan, P., & Bedrick. (2012). Models for Excellence: The results of the ASTD training and
development study.
Miller, G. (2001). The career coach: Winning strategies for getting ahead in today’s job market.
New York:
Palmer. (2004). Higher performance. HR Magazine, 51(6), 135-142.
