1.2 Analyse potential barrier to professional development.
There are many definitions of professional development but key element is that it must be endorsed by proactive, forward-thinking planned process. “Professional development is a planned process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff”. Professional development can be achieved usually by undertaking training, courses and meetings. In real word unfortunately nothing run smoothly and we always can have some difficulties and barriers to progress in our learning development. Everyone is an individual and have different barrier to develop knowledge and skills. Previous experiences could be a big barrier to some of the people. For example