Personal and Professional Development: A Comprehensive Guide for Travelodge Staff

Personal and Professional Development
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning. Which approach can be more suitable for
you or your staff at Travelodge Hotel?........................................................................................4
1.2 Propose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be
encouraged...................................................................................................................................6
1.3 Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organisation..............8
Task 2.............................................................................................................................................10
2.1 Evaluate own current skills and competencies against professional standards and
organisational objectives............................................................................................................10
2.2 Identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them.........................12
2.3 Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs....................13
2.4 Devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs...............14
Task 3.............................................................................................................................................16
3.1 Discuss the processes and activities required to implement the development plan that you
prepared for yourself in task 2.4................................................................................................16
3.2 Undertake and document development activities as planned. In this task, you should
implement the development plan you prepared for yourself and then write down how you
implemented your plan...............................................................................................................17
3.3 Reflect critically on your own learning against original aims and objectives set in the
development plan. Did you really learn new skills at the level you aim for them?...................19
3.4 Update the development plan that you prepared for yourself (covered in 2.4) based on the
feedback and evaluation.............................................................................................................20
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................22
4.1 Select solutions to work-based problems.............................................................................22
4.2 Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels....................23
4.3 Evaluate and use effective time-management strategies......................................................24
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................25
References......................................................................................................................................26
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Introduction
Personal development is a process in which an individual work on their skills and abilities to
enhance. PD supports a person to sustain in such a competitive environment so that their
professional context would be encouraged. Professional development is identified growth obtain
by a person at their working place to gain a higher position. This project is based on personal
and professional development for Travelodge staff individual and managers so that management
sustain at desire market world. In this project, aspects will be going to define about self-managed
learning in context for lifelong development. It will also define the responsibility of a person in a
personal and professional context. PPD plan will be going to aid in improving skills and abilities
for continue review of skills and abilities to increase potential.
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Task 1
1.1 Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning. Which approach can be more suitable
for you or your staff at Travelodge Hotel?
Topic: Approaches to self-managed learning for staff individuals of Travelodge
Dated: 31st July 2018
Introduction: Own learning is beneficial for a person so that they could gain and determine
growth in the near future. In such an aspect, a major concept gets evaluated which is self-
managed learning. This concept stated that self-managed learning is a process through a person
enhance their working potential and learn various aspects from a diverse range of sources like
communication, seminars etc. Travelodge, staff personnel’s need to utilize this aspect properly
for enhancing their learning. Various approaches will be going to evaluate which facilitate and
support managing self-managed learning properly.
Main Body: Self-management of learning is essential for an individual as this consider as only
way through which lifelong determination get done. Self-managed learning facilitates an option
so that each individual can enhance their ability to sustain at desire world and this learning also
promotes their personal and professional development. At the workplace, self-management of
learning is must through which decision making and analytical skills tend to improvise
(Andryukhina, et. al., 2016). Following are certain approaches of self-managed learning for staff
associates of Travelodge so that their abilities to perform activities improvise:
 Internet: One of an identical source to learn things is the internet which facilitates a
person to learn so many things. This gets done from a diverse range of sources like Bing,
Google etc. All these search engines are helpful for modern world individual to manage
their own learning on concern topic properly. Travelodge staff individuals can use this
technique through which they can learn and get more information regarding task assign
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by their managers.
 Conferences: Another aspect which supports learning is conferences where appropriate
potential and better knowledge individual arrive. Conferences are helpful in sharing an
individual experience with others so that they could learn many new things. Thus,
Travelodge managers need to organize certain conferences with staff personnel like team
meetings etc.
 Research: A person also investigates aspects from various books, journals, articles etc.
All these aspects are helpful in journalizing to differ frame of consents and support an
individual to manage their own learning. Thus, with proper research and study, a person
becomes able to determine various aspects and context which facilitate their self-learning
and enhance potential as well (Andryukhina, et. al., 2016).
Conclusion: All of these approaches are helpful for Travelodge staff individuals to manage their
learning. Each and every approach is helpful to encourage their own learning and increase their
potential to perform a task properly and in define manner as well.
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1.2 Propose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be
encouraged
Topic: Pathways which aid in lifelong learning in the personal and professional context
Date: 31st July 2018
Introduction: A major and essential object for an individual is just to encourage their
determination throughout life. A lesson in life is essential and important through which
individual carried down their activities properly. Personal lessons assist in making better
decisions for life whereas professional learning enables in taking various opportunities.
Travelodge managers have to determine various ways which support in taking lifelong learning
in both contexts: personal and professional.
Main Body: Lifelong learning is important to attribute for a person so that they would sustain at
desire world. It is essential to identify various ways which enable and support in taking lifelong
learning so that a person can manage their both consideration personal and professional one.
Travelodge individuals can use such pathways in managing to learn in a personal and
professional context:
Professional lifelong learning: Meetings, conferences are certain major ways which support in
promoting and encouraging lifelong learning. If a person wants to enhance their professional
lifelong learning, they need to start working in an office. There is various individuals work
together with similar and different thoughts. This assist and aid in managing the lifelong learning
of a person in a professional context.
Personal Lifelong learning: For personal growth and development, an individual need to craft
list for activities which they will be going to perform. Thus, for entire lifespan, this list is helpful
in drawing activities properly and encourages personal lifelong learning. A checklist will be
going to create by an individual for activities with the regular assessment. Thus, it is one of the
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