Professional Identity and Practice

PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY
AND PRACTICE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
PART 2............................................................................................................................................5
PART 3............................................................................................................................................7
CONLCUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Professional identify and practice means to understand the requirement of and includes
those in general practices and to comply with them while delivering the services under a
particular profession. The professional development of the employee not help in their personal
grooming but also guide their behaviour in the professional conduct to enhance their carrier
opportunities within an organisation with developing their skills and roles. In the present report a
discussion related with professional development and is requirement done. This starts with
making a poster over the induction of the staff with raising the awareness related with personal
and professional development with depicting tis importance within Thomas Cook. In this a
reflective report is includes where training and development require for the manager is
explained with outlining the opportunities available to a the mangers within present skills set. In
the second part of the report a personal development plan is prepared where them angers have
identifies the skills that are required to developed under professional conduct and how the
same will be achieved with allotting each skill development a time frame. The last part of the
report is related with developing an application and interview of the assistance manager for
Thomas Cook. In the present report all the requirements are duly met and are presented in the
following report.
PART 1
A) Individual Poster
Personal development
Personal development is a process which asses skills and qualities of people and consider
aim of their life. Also, by personal development goals of individuals set in order to maximise
their potential (Luft and Roughley, 2016). Personal development enables individual to satisfy
their self actualisation needs. The personal development enhances quality of life of an individual
and assist them in attain their aspiration and dream.
Professional development
The professional development is associated with aim to learn and maintain credentials
which includes academic degrees, conferences and opportunities of informal learning.
Professional development adopts special training, knowledge, expertise, effectiveness and skills.
This development provides aid to maintain and build morale of employees and to attract higher
staff quality to a business entity.
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The Importance of Ongoing professional development for both employees and Thomas Cook.
Importance of professional development for employees
 The professional development enables capabilities of employees working in Thomas
cook by develop their current standards within same field. This enable employees to
satisfy their individual as well as professional goals.
 Professional development ensure employees to maintain their knowledge, expertise and
skills which they need to render to professional services to client and the community. The
skills and knowledge is helpful for them to develop individual skills as well as
professional skills.
 Thomas cooks by enabling professional development able to build public confidence
among employees which help them to improve their professional life. By ongoing professional development employees able to improve their quality of life,
property and sustainability.
Importance of professional development for Thomas cook
 The job satisfaction as well as morale of employees increases with helps the company to
decline employee turnover ratio.
 Also, the employees capabilities to adopt new technologies enhances with professional
development which assist the company to maintain and accomplish goals in efficient
manner.
 The company by ongoing professional development able to attain financial gain along
with it, the employees efforts help the company to attain competitive advantage. The image of company also enhances by professional development which helps the
company to attain and attract huge customer base. This learning includes ethical training
in which employees train in work place about ethical doing which not only enhances their
professional image but also assists company to develop their image among rest of the
world.
Skills and competences expected by Thomas cook for different levels and roles
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