Reflective Essay on Organizational Learning and Development

Running Head: LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT 0
Reflective Essay
Organizational Learning and Development
(Student Details :)
1/23/2019

Learning and Development 1
Contents
Reflection: Organization Learning and Development...........................................................2
Key Learning Areas...................................................................................................................2
Contribution to the modules.......................................................................................................2
Prior beliefs and Lessons learnt.................................................................................................3
Strength and area of improvement.............................................................................................3
Action plan.................................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................5

Learning and Development 2
Reflection: Organization Learning and Development
Key Learning Areas
The Organizational Learning and Development (OLD) Module comprising workshops,
individual tasks and assignments provided life-long learning for my future personal as well as
professional life. Moreover, research conducted by me such as (Cooren et al., 2011) for
various individual assignments gave me an experience of leadership, work in pressure and
hence importance of OLD module could realized by me for the both professional and
personal practice. The major learning was acquired from the very first lecture which was
focused on introduction about OLD. The introduction about OLD provided an overview
about the total two years module comprising l 12 and 13 weeks lecture and learning schedule
for the first and second year respectively. Basically I got an idea about my whole OLD
schedule and what lessons will be taught during the whole OLD module.
Besides, learning theories and their roles, L&D needs and activities, team work and team
harmony were the major learning from the OLD module (Beevers & Rea, 2013).
Additionally, I learnt an effective team work practice and supportive as well as collective
learning from my surroundings and work environment. I learnt that collective learning
teaches collaboration, cooperativeness, team learning and action learning, and hence I have
become a strong supporter of supportive and collective learning after completing OLD
module.
Contribution to the modules
During OLD module, while I was working on group assessments and presentations then I
contributed a lot to my team and the whole module as I applied my past learning from
experiences at prior workplaces into the group assessments. Moreover, I always have been
leveraged from the opportunity of working as a team leader throughout my schooling and
graduation period. Hence leadership practices at school and college allowed me to
demonstrate a good leadership practice while working with a group of people during my
OLD group assessments.
Moreover, as I was already aware about some of the famous learning theories (Schunk,
2012), from the perspective of organization learning, hence I suggested to introduce all of