Personal Development and Time Management Strategies

This assignment provides a comprehensive overview of personal development techniques and time management strategies. It includes resources from academic journals, books, and online articles that discuss emotional labor in the hotel industry, citizenship pressure on hotels, and knowledge sources for innovation in the hotel industry. The assignment also explores process, relationship, and personal development in supervision and improving psychological well-being through personal development and resilience.

PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Assessing different approaches to self-managed learning.....................................................3
1.2 Encouraging lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts by suggesting
different ways...............................................................................................................................4
1.3 Evaluation of benefits of self-managed learning at individual and organisational level.......7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
3.1 Implementing the development plan through discussing required processes and activities..9
3.2 Undertaking and documenting planned development activities..........................................11
3.3 Critical reflection on own learning against development plan’s aim and objectives..........13
3.4 Updating development plan on the basis of assessment and feedback................................14
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................16
4.1 Resolving a work based problem.........................................................................................16
4.2 Different appropriate styles of communication at various levels........................................17
4.3 Assessing the effective time management strategies with their use....................................18
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................19
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................21

INTRODUCTION
In present era, one of the most important tasks of organisations is to
nurture and retain talent management which is done through providing them
personal development opportunities. These can include anything from
providing leadership training to building a new skill which results in
encouraging an employee to perform in a better and more efficient way
which increases the productivity and so as profits of business (Personal
Development, 2018). Professional development is all about improving an
individual’s or team’s existing skill, knowledge and abilities that are required
to be there to perform current or future goals. The firm chosen for present
study is hospitality industry , UK with reference to which many concepts
related to personal and professional development (PPD) will be discussed.
There will be discussion on understanding the way in which self-managed
learning can lead to increase the lifelong learning of employees. Further, the
way own personal and professional development plan can be implemented
and review on continuous basis will be discussed. Along with that, the way
an employee can acquire the interpersonal and transferrable skills will be
studied here.
TASK 2
1.1 Assessing different approaches to self-managed learning
Self-managed learning can be termed as a way by which individuals or
teams at workplace learn different things in distinct ways. It can also be
referred as setting of goals for learning after assessing the purpose for which
it has to be provided so that set targets can be effectually achieved. Some of
the approaches to self-managed learning which are best suitable for the
employees of hospitality industry are: Attending various seminars and conferences – If hotel will
organise seminars and conferences for improving the personality of
employees in terms of raising their skills and knowledge, this will help
in providing them a great experience which they can further use in
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present and future activities that they are assigned with. People in firm
get opportunity to show their knowledge to others that ends up in
gaining new learning with the help of seminars and conferences
(Tattum and Tattum, 2017). Further, they will become confident
enough to communicate in terms of presenting and speaking skills that
are required being working in hospitality industry. Use of internet sources – Internet now-a-days is the biggest source
of learnings as different published online articles by many authors help
individuals at workplace to learn about various concepts related to
effective management. These learnings gained from internet can be
easily applied by individuals at workplace and so, make them confident
enough to deal with challenges and perform assigned tasks effectually.
Through internet, people working in hospitality industry can gain
unlimited information that enhances their self-learning (Whitehall and
et.al., 2018).
 Active participation on social networking sites – People in today’s
era are highly active on social media like on networking sites such as
Twitter, Facebook, My Year Book, etc. A lot of time every day is spent
by individuals on these sites which enhances