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| Professional development often refers to verbal and tactile
skills required for maintaining a specific career path or to
general skills offered through continuing education, including
the more general skills area of personal development. It can be
seen as training to keep current with changing technology and
practices in a profession or in the concept of lifelong
learning. Developing and implementing a program of professional
development is often a function of the human resources or
organization development department of a large corporation or
institution. In a broad sense professional development may
include formal types of vocational education, typically post-
secondary or polytechnical training leading to qualification or
a credential required to get or retain employment. Informal or
individualized programs of professional development may also
include the concept of personal coaching