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Unit 1 Assignment 3: Professional Development for Strategic Managers
Section 1
Demonstrate how you would assess personal and professional skill sets required to achieve strategic goals:
It is now widely perceived that there are many benefits to organisations and professionals adopting continuous development programmes. The need for continuous education through our working lives has never been more important as it is becoming increasingly rare for an individual to stay on one career path all of their working life. With global competition business direction is constantly changing and the organisations have to continually re-structure to meet this demand and this in turn creates many new and different diverse opportunities.
There are various models based on self-tests that can be used to evaluate personal and professional skills sets that can be tailored to achieve personal and organisational goals. These models are not specific and can be adapted to fit personal as well as business objectives.
It is important to remember that each individual is different and what will work for one person may not necessarily work for another. Also that a test only fingerprints a specific moment in time and that the same test could produce different results at a later date such is the subjective nature of the evaluation process. A single test in isolation can provide an indication of a specific requirement. But what is more helpful is to see the bigger picture and be able to