Topic № 16
Professional & Personal Development

What is personal and professional development?

“Personal and Professional development is the process through which the organization and individual engage in the process of learning to meet the challenges and desire goal. ... Such activities of mentoring have both individual and organizational goals.

What is the difference between personal development and professional development?

Professional development involves developing yourself in your role to entirely understand the job you do and how you can improve. ... In simple terms, professional development is focused on the workplace and the skills needed to do your job. Personal development is more focused on communications and time management.

What are benefits of professional development?

Offering professional development training programs allows employees to perform better and prepares them for positions of greater responsibility. But it can also help employers attract top job candidates, retain their best workers and identify future leaders.

What are areas of personal development?

Among other things, personal development may include the following activities:

1) Improving self-awareness.
2) Improving self-knowledge.
3) Improving skills and/or learning new ones.
4) Building or renewing identity/self-esteem.
5) Developing strengths or talents.
6) Improving a career.
7) Identifying or improving potential.