Personal and Professional Development - Travel Lodge
This unit aims to enable learners to assess and develop a range of professional and personal skills in order to promote future personal and career development.
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Personal and Professional Development - Travel Lodge
This unit aims to enable learners to assess and develop a range of professional and personal skills in order to promote future personal and career development.
Added on 2020-07-22
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Approaches to self managed learning and suitable approach for travel lodge:................11.2 Ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional could be encouraged......21.3 The benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organisation......................3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................42.1 Personal skills auditing and evaluation against the professionals standards:...................42.2 Identification of my own developmental needs and activities needed to overcome them:52.3 Identification of my own developmental opportunities to meet current and future goals:62.4 Personal and Professional developmental plan:...............................................................8TASK 3............................................................................................................................................93.1 The process and activities required to implement the developmental plan......................93.2 Undertaking and documenting development activities as planned................................103.3 Evaluating own learning against the set objectives and standards:................................113.4 Updating the developmental plan as per feedback and evaluation:...............................12TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................124.1.........................................................................................................................................12Covered in Poster.................................................................................................................124.2- 4.3..................................................................................................................................12Covered in ppt......................................................................................................................12CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
INTRODUCTIONToday, every organisation is trying to enhance its workforce capabilities for boosting itsown efficiency and abilities. That is why they are focusing on individual's personal andprofessional development. The basic aim behind these activities is to instil the self learningconcept into people which will make sure that they are able to meet future uncertainties whilemaintaining the quality and productivity levels. Personal and professional development alsoenhances the motivation levels of staff which drives them to work in even more productivemanner (Avalos, 2011). There are many methods which are being used by companies to establisha system that enables people to evaluate and enhance their knowledge, skills and abilities. Thisreport is based on one of the biggest individual hotel brands functional in the field of hospitalityin UK, Travel lodge, Ilford. The hotel is currently ensuring that its staff is properly engaged inself managed learning for their personal and professional development. In this report, the impactof self managed learning, lifelong learning concept, developmental plan and evaluation will becoved. There are certain interpersonal and transferable skills which will be addressed too. TASK 11.1 Approaches to self managed learning and suitable approach for travel lodge:Approaches of self managed learningSelf managed learning is a concept which states about how an individual can manage his ownlearning process and developmental plans to ensure a proper career growth. It is a methodwhich mirrors management concept completely. An organisation tries to instil this ability to selfappraisal into employees as to ensure that they are able to derive a path which will ensure aproper growth and development. Travel lodge uses this method to ensure that its employees areable to take right decision at right time in a right situation. There are various benefits of thisconcept such as it enables employees in self motivating, managing, monitoring and modifyingthemself.There are many approaches which can be used by hospitality giant to boost selfmanaged learning:Learning through research: This is a approach which states that a person can learn from doingresearch about different concept and theories.Mentoring/coaching: In this approach manager provides guidance to an employee, about how1
he can improve his work productivity and performance.Seminars and conferences: This is a very common method where employees are put off theirjob and taught about different methods and techniques. Meta strategic approach: This is am approach which states about how a person mentalframework can be changed and a strategic mind can be built. These methods have some benefits and when a company uses them in a proper manner,they are able to change the attitude and behaviour of employees completely. For Travel lodgehotel Meta strategic learning approach with seminars and conferences will be right. It willensure that with training and development the mindset of individual is also changing and theyare able to use the learning in a live environment. 1.2 Ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional could be encouragedEncouraging lifelong learningThere are many ways by which lifelong learning concept can be encouraged within Travellodge hotels (Hamza, 2010). It is very vital for an organisation to have employees who look fornew learning on their own for further growth and development in their personal andprofessional life. There are certain ways by which Travel lodge can encourage learning withinorganisation:Using different learning styles: These styles are used by the managers in the hotels as to ensurethat they are able to develop each and every staff member as per their need. There are differentlearning styles which are mentioned by various researchers. Kolb's learning cycle states aboutfour types of learners according to which style is adopted:Diverging: these are the people who like to look at things from a different perspective.Assimilating: Their preference is for a concise, logical approach towards different situations.Converging: They prefer technical task and use their experience to solve issues.Accommodating: These are the people like to rely on their intuition rather than logic. Doing(ActiveExperimentation)Watching (ReflectiveObservation- RO)Feeling(concrete experience-CE)AccommodatingDivergingThinking(AbstractConvergingAssimilating2
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