Individual Reflection on Personal and Professional Development

Individual Reflection
Personal and
Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Skills learnt by attending this programme.......................................................................................1
Gibbs reflective cycle......................................................................................................................3
Action plan to achieve transferable skills through teamwork experience.......................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development can be related to the combination of various
approaches, techniques, methods, ideologies and models that are helpful to manage and enhance
the personal and professional growth activities of an individual through continuous learning.
Personal professional development is very important for improving the academic skills to
achieve success in studies as well as to enhance the career/professional growth for achieving the
results effectively. This individual reflection will discuss the skills that I have developed by
attending the programme and how it will be helpful to achieve academic and career growth. It
will utilise Gibbs reflective cycle for reflecting over the learnings and skills that I obtain from the
programme.
Skills learnt by attending this programme
The professional development and personal development are all pervasive that requires
continuous learning and experimentation (Alt, 2018). I understood that personal and professional
development can be explained as the activity of managing the learning and growth process
professional and academic career with the help of various approaches, frameworks, ideologies
and methods. I was uninformed of many skills and abilities but various activities during the
session taught me the following skills. The skills that I gained by attending this programme are
as follows:
 Communication skills: It refers to the ability of an individual to interact with others with
definite and precise actions or words that drive meaning (Cosenza and Buchanan eds.,
2018). Communication is a transferable skill and with the help of this program I was able
to interact with the people more effectively to improve my influence on them. Initially I
was not good at talking with the people around me but I followed other people who were
good at talking to others. I understood that listening is very essential for communicating
properly with others and there must be open mindedness, adequate attention and proper
body language for improving the communication activities.
 Critical thinking: I learnt that critical thinking is the ability of an individual to think of
new ideas, methods, procedures etc. that can be helpful in identifying solutions to the
problems or developing new things. The critical thinking ability was developed by me
1