Continuous Professional Development is the process where an individual keeps up to date with their work in a particular industry. They continue to update their knowledge and skills not only in their relevant industry but also their personal skills such as team work.
A personal development plan is a way of keeping track of progress. This may mean that you use it to determine what skills you have learnt on a training course for example, or as a way to determining your plans for the future and what you need to develop next. The plan itself can go into details of when the skill needs to be developed, how it will be used and the purpose of actually learning it. By filling out a plan similar to the one above it gives perspective on whether it was a cost effective use of time or simply just to evaluate what you have learnt.
After filling out your plan you can consider what opportunities there are to develop any skills and partake in more training. The relevance of training should be decided by existing knowledge and skills and those that will be required for future jobs.
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