Personal professional development

Personal Professional Development Task Introduction: Self-managed Learning Approaches Self-managed learning approaches refer to managing and using one’s own strategies for increasing learning and understanding. The self-managed learning approaches do not require the support and cooperation of any tutor but learner is required to fully rely on one’s own resources, personal abilities for accessing knowledge and understanding of the related factors.
Gatherings: Seminars and Workshops
The platform of seminars and workshops provides excellent opportunity for self-managed learning. In such type of activities, input from experienced learners, observations of others participants in the gathering are some of those experiences which enable the leaner to explore those things and topics and issues which have not been read and understood previously.
The Internet
Many sources enable students to learn new and important things. For example, journal articles, books, website information and tutorial videos on YouTube are the most important sources for self-managed learning strategies.
Benefits
Self-reliance would be a key advantage. In the traditional learning style, a learner is required to rely on the support and attention of a tutor. And for this purpose, the learner is required to receive time, energy and attention from the tutor whereas the learner does not face such issues but more reliance is put on one’s own learning abilities in the self-managed learning approaches.
Self-confidence is also improved. It has been observed that when a learner receives knowledge from a tutor; he is not only relying but also obtaining support for developing confidence on the learned things. On the other hand, the learner relies on the self-learning and self-managed strategies in which self-confidence is also increased naturally.
Useful within context of SWOT approach
The above mentioned self-managed learning approaches are only useful when the application of SWOT analysis is carried out. The SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats as well.1 These four strategic words enable a learner to pinpoint and understand his/her own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats as well. For example, if the learner is confident about some key words which are mainly used for understanding a topic, he can use and avail the source of the Internet for quickly learning new knowledge and improve self-confidence and experience a reduced reliance on the support of the tutors.
Task 2
Critical Reflection
It is not possible to use all constituent parts of the SWOT simultaneously. The SWOT approach has four parts and each one is totally and markedly different from the other. Under this situation, it would be very difficult to fully avail this approach simultaneously. For example, it is very difficult for me to reduce the impact of my own weaknesses and improve the effect of strengths simultaneously but before going to reduce the effect of my learning weaknesses or other shortcomings, it is highly essential for me to evaluate the presence of such weaknesses and the reasons which provide base to such occurrence.
Sometimes, the Internet is also a way to waste time. The web applications, such as Face book, twitter, and others, are not being used constructively by many instead such applications are being misused.
References
Dutta, S., Business Communication, New Delhi: PHI Learing, 2013. p.45.