Personal and Professional Development Assignment - Travelodge Hotel Limited

Personal and
Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning ...............................................................3
1.2 Ways in which lifelong learning learning in personal and professional contexts could be
encouraged..............................................................................................................................4
1.3 Evaluation of benefits of self managed learning to individuals and organisation............5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Evaluation of own current skills and competencies against professional standards and
organisational objectives........................................................................................................6
2.2 Identification of own development needs and activities required to meet them..............8
2.3 Identification of development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs...9
2.4 Devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs ..........9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
3.1 Process and activities required in implementing development plan..............................11
3.2 Undertaking and documenting development activities..................................................12
3.3 Reflect critically on learning against original aims and objectives in development plans13
3.4 Updating development plan based on feedback and evaluation.....................................13
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................14
4.1 Solutions to work-based problems.................................................................................14
4.2 Communication in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels...........15
4.3 Evaluation and usage of effective time management strategies.....................................17
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development defines development of individual in relation to
improve personal skills and knowledge to gain desire position in a workplace or maintain
effective relations in social life. It mainly include various qualities related to understanding of
people, their behaviour and certain social competencies (Grima-Farrell, 2015). Whereas,
professional development generally revolves around knowledge of operations, proper planning
and management of goals in order to achieve objectives effectively. Present study has been
conducted on, Travelodge Hotel Limited which operates their business functions in hotels and
hospitality sector throughout United Kingdom. Company headquartered in Llford, UK. In this
project discussions have been made on, understanding self managed learning and implementation
and review on self personal and professional development plan. Furthermore, inter-personal and
transferable skills with the help of effective time management strategies and solution of work
based problems are also included in this report which will benefit company to achieve their
desire set of goals and objective in effective time frame.
TASK 1
1.1 Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning
Self managed learning is a formative approach in which an individual improves their own
skills and knowledge. It will benefit them to sustain for long duration of time. Business
organisations need to follow this concept as to provide various learning programmes to their staff
members in order to enhance their skills and knowledge to increase their quality of work. In
context with Travelodge company by implementing this concept company can fulfil their goals
and accomplish their targets effectively. Mentioned below there are some key approaches which
will benefit individuals and organisation to attain their targets:
Conferences and Seminars: Conference is mainly a formal meeting in which various
aims are discussed. Whereas, in seminars people get to learn about a specific subject and topic.
In order to learn new things, have better opportunities and resolve issues in effective way
Travelodge can conduct conferences and seminars in which their employees can enhance their
skills and deliver efficient outcomes for betterment of company. This will also aid them in
resolves issues and problem which results in decrease in conflicts in company workplace.

Internet: Internet provide various platform to extract different types of knowledge in any
filed. Individual can gain knowledge and have information from internet websites, articles and
pages. Travelodge can implement advanced networking system in their workplace which will
benefit their employees to increase their base of knowledge and skills (Chipchase, and Long, P.
D., 2012). This will not only helps workers to enhance their personal development but also
benefits company to increase their quality of production.
Social Network: Is is one the most effective approach through which an individual can
increase their level of knowledge and effectively manage their self development. Manager of
Travelodge can adopt this system of using social networking sites in their workplace to enhance
employees knowledge in order to increase productivity of both company and workers.
Use of Bulletin Boards: This is also one the most useful approach in which an individual
can write their scheduled goals, targets and notes in noticeable and attractive manner. Managers
of Travelodge can take advantage of bulletin board to learn new things and modify it by adding
or deducting it.
With the help of taking internet as a source of self managed learning I can enhance and
develop my skills in order to perform my roles and responsibilities in more effective way.
Internet will provide me various modes to acquire knowledge and increase my abilities.
1.2 Ways in which lifelong learning learning in personal and professional contexts could be
encouraged
Life long learning mainly refers to a formative process in which a person continuously
keeps on gathering and approaching various information and knowledge. It is basically a lifelong
ongoing learning process which aim towards improving various skills and competencies in order
to increase opportunities and career growth. In this, an individual learn various kinds of new
things which directly benefits them in developing their personal and professional level of growth.
It is essential for an individual to evaluate their strength and weaknesses and learn effective skills
to overcome their weaknesses and convert it into their strengths. This process will benefit
Travelodge managers to deal with various organisation challenges and assist their employees in
effective direction. It results in increasing confidence and face different types of problems and
accept challenges in more formative way. This process collectively benefits individuals and
organisation in order to gain more effective qualifications which provides greater level of career
advancement opportunities. It also helps in enhancement of employability and promote various

aspects of satisfaction level of motivation. Therefore, continuous learning fiercely leads toward
more competitive advantage and mode of grabbing various potential opportunities. Mentioned
below there are some methods that can be adopted by Travelodge managers for gain more
advantages:
Self-directed learning:
In this learning approach individual is mainly responsible to take necessary initiative to accept
different types of challenges without seeking others help. In this method an individual implement
various strategies and techniques in order to achieve their goals (Elliott, 2012). With help of this
method Travelodge employees can expand their area and level of knowledge and increase their
skill abilities.
Continuous professional development:
Continuous professional development is process of continuous learning of an individual
on continuous basis. With the help of this process one can increase their level of personal and
professional growth. This process benefits Travelodge managers to effectively determine their
overall strength and weaknesses. It will result in enhancing their skills and increase their
knowledge for attaining long term opportunities.
Blended- learning:
It is one the most common and revolving technique which help and individual to
maximise their area of knowledge. In this form of technique there is a mixture of online and
traditional form of learning. With the help of this learning approach Travelodge managers can
learn from the online source in face-to-face mode. This will benefit them to ask their problems
and issues simultaneously. This will help them to acquire knowledge from wide area of
knowledge pool.
1.3 Evaluation of benefits of self managed learning to individuals and organisation
With the help of self managed learning an individual can learn and access their self
assessment. It help individuals to find their area in which they have to develop their skills and
knowledge. It is a structural process in which an individual move towards development and
effective accomplishment of organisation goals and targets. Self managed learning is a technique
which benefits to develop skills and traits which is necessary to conduct various activities in an
organisation workplace. This process will benefit me to become more effective and deliver

flexible outcomes. With the help of this process decision making abilities as an assistant manger
can be increased within workplace.
Benefits of Self-managed learning to Assistant Manager
Assistant manager in order to achieve high amount of success can adopt various
techniques to achieve higher growth. Mentioned below there are some advantages of self
managed learning to assistant managers:
Improved ability range within Personal learning: Manager can effectively enhance their
abilities within organisation. This provide managers to increase their confidence and enhance
their performance while doing activities. Self managed learning helps manger to acquire
knowledge from large area of pool of knowledge. This will aid them to increase their ability of
range and expand their area of functions.
Improving level of Skills: Assistant managers of travelodge, is need to improve their skill
which they acquire from self managed learning. They can increase their level of knowledge by
learning new and innovative skills. For example, assistant manager can learn skills that are
related to networking and then consuct meetings to share the same with others.
Benefits for Travelodge: Self managed learning assist mangers of Travelodge to reduce
their cost of provide learning in organisation. This process will also benefits managers to
increase their skills and knowledge in order to manage company activities in more effective way.
If managers and leader perform their task in effective manner then it will result in completion of
assigned work in desirable way within the effective course to time. This reflects various
opportunities for an organisation to increase formative strategic edge in a marketplace and gain
high competitive advantage.
Job Satisfaction to employees: Travelogue by providing various training programmes
and seminars in their company can maximise level of job satisfaction in their employees. It is a
fact that confident workers are more productive. If employees are effectively motivated and
enthusiastic then they will able to delver more efficient outcomes.
Increase collective Knowledge: If Travelogue provide effective training and seminar in
their organisation then they can collectively increase overall knowledge of organisation. This
will help them to improve their production level.