PDP week4

Professional Development Plan

Name: Mona Steele

Development Objectives	Development Activities	Outcomes	Learning Points and Further Action	Review Date
1-To develop my Management and Leadership skills 2- Improve Report writing skills 3- Being able to facilitate and solve problems quickly in an effective and efficient manner. 4-Being able to close/ complete deals and agreements with individuals/ business areas/stakeholders (build on negotiation skills) 5-gain a better financial understanding. 6- Improve technical knowledge e.g. about insurance industry & Risk 7- enhance presentation skills	1- To identify what tools/ opportunities available to assist in developing the required skills. 2- To attend various courses available such as A) Report writing course B)Lean/facilitation/problem solving course C)Negotiation Level 2 course D)apply for Certificate of insurance course through Charted insurance institute complete IF1 course to build regulatory/law knowledge/ complete claims processing to gain better technical knowledge & finally Insurance Business E) Attend presentation skills course. F) Attend any relevant courses through Institute of Risk Management (IRM)- looking into completing certificate in risk management. 3. Shadow various areas of business to gain better understanding of what they do. 4- Take on extra task to develop skills further e.g. writing a report or doing presentation or facilitate a meeting. 5- Look after a team or area in manager’s absence. 6- Use various tools and book available to build up on knowledge gained from courses. For e.g. Mind Tools/ various insurance sites/ Charted Management/ IRM website. Government and news sites. 7- Reading books on finance/ spending time with Finance team and looking into any courses and qualifications available.	1-Make best use of opportunities / tools made available and implement knowledge and skills gained. 2-being able to produce presentation to a very good standards and Achieve better results both of business area and oneself. 3- being able to agree a task/action set time scale with team member or different area stakeholder and ensure deadlines are being met.(using negotiation skills) 4-being effective at managing and leading events/ people. 5- being able to solve problems quickly and effectively and come up with solutions that are effective and improve the business/ team. 6- By having better technical knowledge can ensure that reports can link theory to day to day event and achieve better outcome and communicate message better to a wider audience. 7- making sure that I’ know my stuff’ by constantly keeping myself up-to-date by reading relevant papers/journals/websites/ enhance own learning through self study. All in all by building up on necessary skills I will be ready to move on to any other role which requires those knowledge and skills and develop my career further and being an asset to the company.	1-Ensuring course works are completed on time 2-Time put a side to carry out research and self learning/ reading relevant material. 3-Write a small blog before what excepting to achieve from each course/ training and what has been achieved and how these can be implemented. 4-Keeping learning diary/log. 5-Further reading after each course and ensuring opportunities are made available to put into practice what I have learnt (putting forward business case). 5-Preparing for exams for relevant courses. 6-Ensuring I have learnt most from shadowing other areas and give some thing back to the business. 7-After completing a course/ module look into what further study can be done to enhance the current skill and knowledge. 8-Carry out another Skill audit after 6 month and then a year to see if improvement has been made in areas where gaps was previously identified and is there ant new areas that require development. 9-Applying all skills gained to day to day role and implementing to ensure knowledge gained won’t be lost.	Review development every 6 months (bearing in mind some of the courses may take over year or 2 to complete).