Personal and Professional Development Assignment Travelodge Hotel
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PERSONAL ANDPROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Various approaches to self-managed learning..................................................................11.2 Ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional context could be encouraged................................................................................................................................................21.3 Evaluation of the benefits of self-managed learning........................................................3Task 2...............................................................................................................................................32.2 Identifying my own development needs and activities required to meet them................32.3 Development opportunities to meet current and future needs..........................................42.4 Creating personal and professional development plan according to needs......................5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................63.1 Process and activities required for implementing the development plan.........................63.2 Undertake and document activities as planned................................................................63.3 Reflecting own learning against aims and objectives ......................................................73.4 Update the development plan that you prepared based on the feedback and evaluation.8TASK 4............................................................................................................................................94.1 Solution to work-based problems ....................................................................................94.2 Communicating solutions to work-based problems in different ways ............................94.3 Evaluate and use effective time-management strategies..................................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11ANNEXURE .................................................................................................................................132.1 Evaluation of own current skills and competencies against professional standard........13
INTRODUCTIONPersonal and professional development refers to the gaining of knowledge and skills forpersonal development and career advancement. It is an essential process that give anunderstanding about the skills that is required for an individual in personal and professional life.The report is based on personal and professional development of individuals and staff ofTravelodge Hotel, the second largest in the budget hotel sector and the third biggest hotel chainin UK.The assessment will evaluate various approaches to self-managed learning and differentways to encourage lifelong learning in the context of personal and professionals. Along with that,the report will evaluate the benefits of self managed learning to individual as assistant managerand to the organisation. On the basis of the position as an assistant manager, report will evaluatecurrent skills, competencies for the position of Hotel Manager, with the objective it will identifyown need of development, development opportunities and various activities required to meetthem. The report will devise personal and professional development plan that is based onidentified need. The assessment will also discuss the process and activities required to implementthe development plan and will demonstrate acquired interpersonal and transferable skills.TASK 11.1 Various approaches to self-managed learningSelf managing learning is an approach, in which management of Travelodge Hoteldevelop for individuals to learn various things from surrounding. The effective learning include;skills of personal appraisal including planning, organising and evaluation. Generally self-managed learning is related to goal setting for learning, identify the purpose of learning, selfreflection, etc (Bolden, 2016). The learning give opportunity to individuals to develop or maketheir own strategy in learning process. There are various approaches of self-managed learningthat seems effective in the Hotel that are:Social networks- The most common way of self-learning is get socialize including; localcommunity or virtual community (Bouman, 2018). There are a range of various social networkssuch as; Facebook, Twitter and many more internet based community that help people to learnmany new ideas and things and it provides various thoughts and knowledge to the learners.1
Conference and Seminars- Conferences and seminars are the best way to self-managedlearning. Individuals can learn various things on their own by attending conferences andseminars where experienced person as well as new ideas and thoughts are shared that help themto improve their personal skills and that help them to develop their personality. Seminars andconferences are helpful for individuals to become more confident in public speaking and it candevelop their presentation skill (Cullingford, 2017).Use of the internet- Individuals can develop their knowledge as well as learn many newthings by seating at home through internet. People can gain knowledge by surfing variouswebsites that help them to increasing their understanding and enhance their personality.From the above approaches of self-managed learning, Being as a manager I probablythink that internet is more useful and suitable for me and for the staff at Travelodge Hotel.Internet is ocean of information of every type and the staff and I can personally gain a variety ofknowledge and skills through the internet and mostly I learn things from internet, from seminarsand conferences.1.2 Ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional context could be encouragedLife long learning refers to a process whereby throughout the life, an individualconsistently gathers information and learning. This kind of learning person can pursuethroughout life and is very important for the development of both professional and personal skills(Cunningham and Bennett, 2017). Being as a manager at Travelodge Hotel, lifelong learning canbe encouraged by many ways such as; self-reflective learning that can be done on periodic basisso that there should a continuous development for lifelong.Apprenticeship- Being as a manager at Travelodge, This is the most effective tool forlifelong learning. Apprenticeship is a system of training that focuses on on-job training thatmeans most of the training is done while working. With the help of this approach individual cangrow their personal and professional abilities and skills further it inspires gather moreinformation and knowledge. Continuous professional development- Development of professional skills andknowledge on the regular basis will drive employee towards acquiring efficiency at work. Asbeing a manager at the hotel, I build the system for individuals that provide them continuouslearning programs. The development programs are implemented and give the employees on thebasis of their existing knowledge and skills and in which field they need. 2
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