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Personal and Professional Development Plan for Self-Managed Learning

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PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 TASK 13 1.1 Approaches to self-managed learning 3 1.2 Ways to encourage lifelong learning 4 1.3 Benefits of self-managed learning4 TASK 25 2.1 Evaluation of my skills and competencies:5 2.2 Ways to improve my skills 6 2.3 Development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs 6 2.4 Personal and Professional development plan 7 TASK 39 3.1 Processes and activities required to implement the development plan9 3.2 Undertaking and documenting development activities (2010). Travelo

Personal and Professional Development Plan for Self-Managed Learning

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................31.1 Approaches to self-managed learning...................................................................................31.2 Ways to encourage lifelong learning.....................................................................................41.3 Benefits of self-managed learning........................................................................................4TASK 2............................................................................................................................................52.1 Evaluation of my skills and competencies: ..........................................................................52.2 Ways to improve my skills....................................................................................................62.3 Development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs.................................62.4 Personal and Professional development plan........................................................................7TASK 3 ..........................................................................................................................................93.1 Processes and activities required to implement the development plan.................................93.2 Undertaking and documenting development activities.........................................................93.3 Critical analysis of my own learning against original aims and objective..........................103.4 Updated Personal and Professional Plan.............................................................................11TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................124.1 Solutions to work-based problem of high employee turnover............................................124.2 Different types of communication used at Paramount Hotel..............................................144.3 Effective time-management strategies to reduce employee turnover.................................15CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17
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INTRODUCTIONPersonal and Professional development is the way through which an individual andcompany get indulged in the process of learning to attain desired goals and meet challengeseffectually (Patti and et.al., 2012). This report is based on the case scenario of Travelodge Hotelwhich is the UK’s largest independent hotel brand and Paramount Travel Hotel. This reportproposes the ways to encourage lifelong learning and evaluates the benefits of self-managedlearning. Along with that, it identifies the development opportunities to meet current and futuredefined needs. Also, it discusses about the processes and activities required to implement thedevelopment plan. TASK 11.1 Approaches to self-managed learningSelf - managed learning is the process through which individual discovers ways andmethods of learning new things. There are different approaches to self-managed learning whichare described as below:Seminars and conferences: People can develop their personal and professional skillsthrough seminars and conferences. It is an effective tool as it gives opportunity to peopleto present their ideas and knowledge in front of audience. It will help people to becomeconfident and improve their presentable skills. It will enhance their knowledge andinformation about different topics (Blandford, 2012). They will learn to deal with distinctpeople and answering different questions. However, people may not get instant answersfor every question and it is not necessary that the information shared in seminars isabsolutely correct. Social networks: People are spending high proportion of their time in social networkingsites like Facebook, Tweeter, etc. Through these sites, they meet and interact withdifferent people. It will help them to improve their interpersonal skills (López‐Pastor,Monjas and Manrique, 2011). It depends on the person that he would use this medium.Now days, social networking site is used as a source of information and keep themselvesupdated with the latest news. People learn from the experience and knowledge of lives ofthese people and thus, it acts as a means to succeed in their own careers. However, people
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are using these websites in a negative way as they used to waste their time in chattingwith people. Internet: Internet is considered as an ocean of information and knowledge. Solutions toevery problem is available on internet. It contains knowledge of each field by accessingacademic journals that are available on internet (Little, 2012). Individuals can expandtheir knowledge through internet which helps them to interact with any class of people. Being an assistant manager of Travelodge Hotel, I use internet as an appropriate means ofdeveloping personal and professional skills. It is the way through which employees can enhancetheir knowledge and will learn to interact with different classes and sections of people. In thissector, people need to communicate with different types of people and should try to buildconnection with them (McArdle and Coutts, 2010).1.2 Ways to encourage lifelong learningBeing an assistant manager of Travelodge hotel, I would encourage my lifelong learningthat would assist me to deal with the situation in my personal and professional life. So, differentways are identified which I can use for lifelong learning for having personal and professionalgrowth at Travelodge Hotel. Some of them are:Self-evaluation: I can use self-evaluation technique to evaluate myself for lifelonglearning. I can identify my strengths and weaknesses that will help me to build my careerand improve in the areas where I am lacking (Borders and et.al., 2011). I can attendseminars and conferences to improve my communication skills and build up myconfidence. My major weakness is that I am having knowledge but sometimes, I becomebit nervous to communicate it with my staff members.Feedback: Being an assistant manager, I can encourage lifelong learning by takingfeedback from my colleagues and my friends (Thomas and Beauchamp, 2011). I willcome to know my weaknesses and strengths through this means. It will help me to findthe way to work on my weak areas and learn from my mistakes.1.3 Benefits of self-managed learningI have learnt many things from self-managed learning. Being the assistant manager, Ihave benefited from self-managed learning. I have learnt to get the work done quickly by mystaff in a way it is required. I have gained this learning from the life experience of people by
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