1. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & COMPETENCIES
Professional development and competencies is something that goes hand at hand. This is because professional one is always required to develop their competencies in order to achieve their career goals.
Example: for me to succeed in this course I have to focus in developing professionally and sharpening my competencies.

2. This presentation will focus on highlighting the key importance of professional development and ones competencies.
Ideally so many careers based persons are always confident about their skills but employees seem to be less impressed.
This has led to the awareness that indeed through our studies we also need to focus on developing ourselves professionally and sharpening our competencies.

3. DEFINITION OF TERMS
Professional development can be defined as the process of learning to earn or to maintain and achieve qualifications and credentials that helps one in their career. This majorly entails things such as conference attendance that helps in capacity building. Professional development is majorly achieved by doing extra things in line with ones career field in preparation of their future jobs.

4. Competencies:
This is described as the ability one possesses of doing something efficiently without any difficulties. This is achieved by an individual through professional development. Professional development is a way of ensuring one develops and sharpen their competencies that are required in their profession.

5. Professional development is very essential in anyone's career’s life
Professional development is very essential in anyone's career’s life. Some of the professional competencies I have been able to now not only from books but also that which we are taught during our lectures are as follows.
Proper communication skills
Leadership skills
Teamwork
Creativity
Problem solving skills

6. LESSONS ABOUT MYSELF
As an individual all these competencies is what I have incorporated in my journey of developing my profession.
For example when it comes to communication skills, I have the ability of articulating my ideas and express them properly be it verbal, non-verbal, visual or even written.
I am convinced at this stage I cannot fail in my profession but there's a need of sharpening what I already have.

7. Professional development and competencies is very important to all individual who are preparing in being active in their career fields. We have seen individuals who complete school and land jobs but they can not deliver properly.
This is never a problem of not going through but the lack of focusing on developing ones competencies, as it is always said the practicability of something is always different with the theoretical aspect of it.

8. Benefits of professional development and competencies
Improves the productivity of an individual
Improves employee performance
Increases the potential of an employee satisfaction at work
Sets clear expectation to an individual in their profession
It fully equips an individual with essential skills

9. Professional development and competencies is done through various programs and what we call professional development programs. Not everyone gets an opportunity to go through these programs for various reasons.

10. DISADVANTAGES OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.
Accessibility
Time frame
Desirability: taking thorugh people through these programs sharpens them and makes them more desirable to competitors.
Problem solving: a career development program does not solve all the problems in ones career