Professional Development
Professional Development for Strategic Managers By: Kanwal Altaf 20232
Contents Abstract: 3 1.1 Personal Skills: 3 1.2 Professional Skills: 3 1.2.1 Leadership Skill: 3 1.2.2 Communication Skill: 4 1.2.3 Time Management Skill: 4 1.2.4 Self Motivation Skills 4 1.2.5 Decision Making Skill: 4 1.3 Methods to develop Personal and Professional skills: 5 1.3.1 Modelling: 5 1.3.2 Training: 5 1.3.3 Counselling: 5 1.4 Methods to Evaluate Personal & Professional Skills: 6 1.4.1 SWOT Analyses: 6 2 The skills audit: 7 2.1 The aim of the Strategic Skill Audit: 8 2.2 Method of Skill Audit: 8 2.2.1 Scaled Questionnaires: 8 2.2.2 Psychometrics: 9 3 Professional Development Plan: 9 3.1What is needed? 10 3.2 Define Strategy: 10 3.3 Plan Development: 10 3.4 Learning Styles: 11 3.4.1Visual: 11 3.4.2 Auditory 11 3.4.3 Kinesthetic/Tactile: 11 3.5 Sample Professional Development Plan for 2012: 12 3.5.1 Scale: 13 References: 13
Abstract:
Professional development is an old concept with new vigour. These days when everything has changed, work environment and way of doing business is also changed. Today employees are seen as valuable asset of company, where their development is considered as base of organizational development. The importance of strategic human resource management reveals that human capital are the most important and less vulnerable source that can provide long lasting unsurpassable competitive edge to companies. The purpose of this paper is to explore the professional development of strategic managers, by shedding light on the personal and professional skills which are needed for the professional development. It will also take into account, the methods to develop and evaluate professional development skills. Later it will look into skill audit techniques and finally present skill development plan and steps in devising plan.
1.1 Personal Skills:
Personal skills mean
Contents Abstract: 3 1.1 Personal Skills: 3 1.2 Professional Skills: 3 1.2.1 Leadership Skill: 3 1.2.2 Communication Skill: 4 1.2.3 Time Management Skill: 4 1.2.4 Self Motivation Skills 4 1.2.5 Decision Making Skill: 4 1.3 Methods to develop Personal and Professional skills: 5 1.3.1 Modelling: 5 1.3.2 Training: 5 1.3.3 Counselling: 5 1.4 Methods to Evaluate Personal & Professional Skills: 6 1.4.1 SWOT Analyses: 6 2 The skills audit: 7 2.1 The aim of the Strategic Skill Audit: 8 2.2 Method of Skill Audit: 8 2.2.1 Scaled Questionnaires: 8 2.2.2 Psychometrics: 9 3 Professional Development Plan: 9 3.1What is needed? 10 3.2 Define Strategy: 10 3.3 Plan Development: 10 3.4 Learning Styles: 11 3.4.1Visual: 11 3.4.2 Auditory 11 3.4.3 Kinesthetic/Tactile: 11 3.5 Sample Professional Development Plan for 2012: 12 3.5.1 Scale: 13 References: 13
Abstract:
Professional development is an old concept with new vigour. These days when everything has changed, work environment and way of doing business is also changed. Today employees are seen as valuable asset of company, where their development is considered as base of organizational development. The importance of strategic human resource management reveals that human capital are the most important and less vulnerable source that can provide long lasting unsurpassable competitive edge to companies. The purpose of this paper is to explore the professional development of strategic managers, by shedding light on the personal and professional skills which are needed for the professional development. It will also take into account, the methods to develop and evaluate professional development skills. Later it will look into skill audit techniques and finally present skill development plan and steps in devising plan.
1.1 Personal Skills:
Personal skills mean
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