Article [5] Professional Development - Key for Successful Employee and Organization

 

Introduction

 

To be a successful and leader in the organization an employee needs to undergo certain professional development program. The employee who go through the professional development will be having a great advancement both in their professional state as well as the personal development skill.

On the accords of Logistics industry, it is a must and a requirement that certain professional and on the job knowledge and skills being developed. Most of the time the leaders and the exceptional talented one those who are being showcasing their talents and show outstanding performance in this industry must have gone thru professional development program. Meyers et al. (2020) claim that, empirically investigating the existence and handling of talent management related approaches and debates from different country and industry contexts is a necessary step in understanding the concept as a practical phenomenon more thoroughly.

 

 

What is professional development?

 

The Major question in the real world is that what makes professional development effective? Many scholars had done studies on professional development focused mainly on teacher satisfaction, attitude change, or commitment to innovation, rather than professional development’s results or the processes that make it work. Moreover, the range of experiences that count as professional development make measuring its effectiveness a challenge (Desimone, L.M., 2011).

 

Importance of Professional Development

 

Professional Development itself is a skill much more important to the employee. By undergoing the professional development this can lead to career development, job related promotions and skills improvement.

Having yourself the necessary skills that needs to be having the enrichment of your employment, will give the forgo in terms of the career advancement as well. Giving yourself a positive mind and a new boost that might encourage them to grow more in their career path (Guskey, T.R., 2000).

 

Sections under Professional Development

 

1. Critical thinking

 

Issues and crisis is a common thing in any organization. But in logistics industry it is a very usual thing. But if the employee had been trained to have the necessary knowledge then he can be able to find solutions to the crisis situation. To think out of the box then we need to have the full intention of the situation and should be having a forward thinking mind (Orrill, C.H., 2001).

 

2. Effective method on time management.

 

Employees in an organization should be managing their time spend on work and life. Work/life balance is considered as an art. Everyone must be working according to the time they have been given.

 

3. Mentor Relationship.

 

Getting a mentor to have your professional guidance is a rare thing. It is a professional development skills that they will be encouraging you and giving all the necessary guidance and boost to your professional growth. Having a long term professional relationship will help to grow on the professional life (Hudson, P., 2013).

 

4. Change in Workplace

 

Change is the only thing that does not change. Hence it is very important and essential to accept the change on yourself and to implement the same in the work environment. It is not an easy task to get all on board to accept and change. But slow and steady move towards the change that needs to be brought in can help to mastering in the change at your workplace.

5. Understanding Employee Ability and performance.

 

Being a leader of a team or a manager, you must have a self assessment of your staff members and understand their team members, understanding their skills and experience and placing them at the right position suitable for them based on their experience and talent.

 

6. Communication skills.

 

Effective communication skill is a very important factor and most important one. It is more important that one must be having a very good communicative talent so that they can be able to have the communication barrier between the staff members, top manager, middle managers, director board and other parties connecting with the organization both internal and external (Gruba, P. and Al-Mahmood, R., 2004).

 

Benefits of Personal and Professional Development

 

·         Professional Career Opportunities

 

If an employee has more professional skills being developed and if the employee is having a high level of skills required for an organization, that employee is a potential employee for any organization. Having a strong CV in your hand with professional exposure and experience is like a visa valid for an eternal life that can help you go around the world.

 

·         Reduce Work Pressure / Stress

 

It is something common that work related stress and pressure is a common factor for any staff in any level of an organization. Regardless what work him or she does yet the pressure is a common factor. But if you have the ability and skills to overcome this matter can help you to control your stress level in a lower level and overcome the mental pressure and health issues related work stress (Bell, A.S., Rajendran, D. and Theiler, S., 2012).

 

·         Improve Work-Life Balance 

 

Due to the fasting moving world many of us including I myself also are more into utilizing our time that needs to be used for other productive work into official matters. Later we always argue and fight for not having the time to enjoy our time with the family and social life. Better professional who can have the work being balanced can have the life and work being balanced and manage their work and stress at their lower levels. Also they will not utilize their pleasure time for their work. Even though for logistics, industry which is a 24x7 / 365 non-stop work the same scenario is still valid (Lazar, I., Osoian, C. and Ratiu, P.I., 2010)

 

Professional the term itself is by the word itself holds that the person who is named as professional means that they are being more organized and well trained when compared with others. Whether he or she is having a professional training and professional qualification means that they are more potential and essential asset to an organization. It can also help both the employee and employer to progress in their professional field on their own accords. For an individual it can be skill development and that means that they can have the high hand and showcase their talents more when compared to other more efficiently and more productively. Organizations should be more into invest of having their staff training program for professional development so that they can be having a more of a session that will have a positive attitude towards their moving ahead in the organization itself.

 

Reference

 

Bell, A.S., Rajendran, D. and Theiler, S., 2012. Job stress, wellbeing, work-life balance and work-life conflict among Australian academics. E-journal of Applied Psychology, 8(1).

 

Desimone, L.M., 2011. A primer on effective professional development. Phi delta kappan, 92(6), pp.68-71.

 

Gruba, P. and Al-Mahmood, R., 2004, January. Strategies for communication skills development. In Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Conference on Computing Education-Volume 30 (pp. 101-107).

Guskey, T.R., 2000. Evaluating professional development. Corwin press.

 

Hudson, P., 2013. Mentoring as professional development:‘growth for both’mentor and mentee. Professional development in education, 39(5), pp.771-783.

 

Lazar, I., Osoian, C. and Ratiu, P.I., 2010. The role of work-life balance practices in order to improve organizational performance.

 

Meyers, M.C., van Woerkom, M., Paauwe, J. and Dries, N., 2020. HR managers’ talent philosophies: prevalence and relationships with perceived talent management practices. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(4), pp.562-588.

 

Orrill, C.H., 2001. Building learner-centered classrooms: A professional development framework for supporting critical thinking. Educational Technology Research and Development, 49(1), pp.15-34.