Personal and Professional Development | Assignment PDF

PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Approaches of Self managed learning..............................................................................3
1.2 Ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional context could be encourage.
................................................................................................................................................4
1.3 Benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and the organisation.......................4
TASK2.............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organisational
objectives................................................................................................................................5
2.2 Identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them.....................6
2.3 Identify development opportunities to meet current and futures defined need................6
2.4 Create the personality development plan........................................................................7
TASK3.............................................................................................................................................9
3.1 Process and activities required for implementing development plan...............................9
3.2 Undertake and document development activities as planned.........................................10
3.3 Critical analysis on own learning against original aims and objectives set in the
development plan..................................................................................................................11
3.4 Updated development plan based on feedback and evaluation......................................11
TASK4...........................................................................................................................................12
Covered in Poster.................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development helps the manager to grow learning and growth in
the career. Personal development is related to the personal ability and skills required to be
accomplished the result in own role as well as at workplace. It’s all about improving the personal
talent and potential in both the workplaces (Personality and professional development. 2018).
Professional development means to develop the qualities which is related to role a person is
performing in the organisation. Travelodge hotel have several hotel chain around the world. The
hotel is incorporated in Thames, UK. This report is all about the ways used in developing the
personal and professional abilities due to which career will enhance and approaches related to
self-management learnings. Identification of development need and the activities are required to
be performed. After that personality development will be implemented after that effective
strategies will be formed.
TASK 1
1.1 Approaches of Self managed learning
Self-managed learning is the process through which people develop different ways of
learning new things for the development in the organization (Agnetti and Barbato 2013). The
Travelodge assistance manager should use these approaches to form the plan for the
development of staff in the company. The approaches of self-managed learning are outlined
below:
 Learning through research:- It is very important learning in modern world. The tools
which are used is web logs, wikis and other internet sources. If learning is continuously
happening then goals and objectives will be achieved quickly by the manager.
 Learning through conferences and seminars – Through conferences and seminars, an
individual can develop their skills and can present their knowledge for the development
of organization. Individuals can develop their confidence level of speaking in public and
develop their presentation skills by attending the seminars of experienced persons.
 Learning through social networks – Now a day’s individuals are spending their more
time on social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and many more. They can
learn new things about other people's and can enhance their knowledge or talent on these
sites.

Therefore, self-managed learning is the process to observe different ways to learn new
ideas and thoughts. An individual can follow the approaches of self-managed learning discussed
above. The approach which Travelodge hotel manager adopt is learning through research. By
this approach manager learn the system by internal and external research.
1.2 Ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional context could be encourage.
Lifelong learning is very important for a person to improve the overall growth of an
employee in a chosen area of skill and profession. These lifelong learning helps the employee to
achieve the long term as well as short term goal which are set by them. These goals encourage
them to be in the path of lifelong learning (Alqarni, 2016). The Travelodge hotel comes under
travel and tourism industry is a very fascinating industry due to which people get encourage to
stick towards the lifelong learning. Here are the so many ways by which lifelong learning will be
encourage:-
 Self-directed learning:- It’s an initiative and responsibilities which is taken by the
individuals to gain the knowledge by themselves. Its involves the personal activities and
to develop the personal qualities to be on path of success.
 Continuing professional development:- It’s a continuous process of developing the
lifelong learning, maintaining and documenting the managers professional skills. By this
process manger is able to enhance the knowledge and skills which are required to be
developed as manager of a Hotel.
 Linking Higher education with industry:- It’s very important for the manger to be
highly qualified to manage the organisation effectively (Beddoe and Howard, 2012). If
the person is not well educated, then it is not possible for them to learn new skills and
acquire new knowledge.
1.3 Benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and the organisation.
Individual follows the self-managed learning to develop the personal and professional
qualities and the skills. Skills which are developed will be self-evaluated by them. By this person
can achieves the personal oriented goals in their life. By this personality will be reflected.
 Benefits for the individual: - If an employee have self-manage learning attitude then the
competitiveness will increase and the person can claim for higher position in the
organisation. Being an assistant manager of the Travelodge hotel the individual should
manage the self-learning by which effective team can be managed. With the help of this

communication will be improved and the person will also learn the effective use of
projectors, power-point, and other modern tools which are used in the organisation.
 Benefits for the organisation: - The benefits that organisation get by self-managed
learning is to have highly responsible and dedicated employee who are capable to
handling the authorities and essential duties in the company (Diekema and Olsen, 2014).
With the well-developed communication skill in employee will help the organisation to
grow better. The decision-making comes with the leadership style will be effective as
they are self-reflective and self-directed. If an employee is ready to learn will be suited
towards the goals of the organisation.
TASK2
2.1 Own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organisational
objectives.
Main objectives of Travelodge hotels are to upgrade their hotels rooms to attract more
customers, the rooms are design according to the customer preferences. They also want to attract
more and more customers to stay in their hotel. They were about to launch the super rooms
which add more comfort to the customer (Fee 2017). Company wants to launch the career
development program for the employee.
The professional skills and standards should hotel manager have:-
 Communication:- The manager is consider the public face of the hotel. So,
communication skill is necessary in them to handle the job responsibilities. Managers
have address themselves in a respectful, empathetic and professional manner.
 Leadership:- The Travelodge hotel manager should have the leadership qualities by
which employees will boost up, listen to them, decisively solve the issue and assigning
responsibilities have to be accurate.
 Operational knowledge:- The manger should have flourished knowledge about the
operational work.
 Team building:- Hotel staff are continuously interact with guest, a stressful environment
will build. To control the negative behaviour of them towards the co-workers, guest. The
manager has to build the cooperative team building in the company.

Strength Weakness
 I can effectively manage the team and
build a strong team for the company.
 I am flexible with the time duration and
very adaptive towards the environment.
 My communication skill is not that
good which effects my work as a
leader.
 I am not that much experienced so its
very difficult for me to perform
operational work effectively.
2.2 Identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them.
If skill is not developed appropriately then it will definitely effect activities in the
company. The activities which Travelodge manger address will get effected due to which
company’s objectives and goals are not achieved. Skills need to be developed by which
organisational activities will not get effected: -
 Communication skill:- Being a hotel manager communication skills should be strong. If
my communication skills are excellent then I can manage the guest and employee
properly otherwise my business will get effected (Fokkens-Bruinsma and
Canrinus,2012). If guest are not address appropriately then they will never come back
due to which business get effected. To have strong communication skill is very
important to be a hotel manager. To improve my communication skill I will take part in
debates and group discussion along with this read newspapers, journals and books.
 Leadership skill: - If my leadership skills are developed properly then it’s very difficult
for me to lead the company by which organisational activates get effected. Being a
manger leadership quality have to be strong. To improve my leadership skill I will attend
the personality development program and work in teams to enhance the leadership
quality.
2.3 Identify development opportunities to meet current and futures defined need.
Being a manger of Travelodge hotel it’s very important for me to develop the qualities
and do the activities which help me to develop those skills. Here are the skills that are required
to be developed:-

 To improve the leadership style:-Being a hotel manager sometimes it’s very difficult
for me to manage team effectively. Due to which organisational objectives are not
achieved. To improve leadership skill, I have to attend the personality development
programmes and try to learn new skills from my seniors.
 To improve the communication skills: - My communication skill is also required to be
developed, as a hotel manager my communication have to be influential and attractive to
my employees. To improve my communication skill, I can take part in debate, group
discussion and seminars as well.
 To improve the operational knowledge: - My operational knowledge are as strong as
they have to be as I have less experience in industry (Guzmán, Oliveros and Mendoza,
2017). But hotel manager should have all the knowledge related to finance, HRM etc. as
these are come under the operational activities of an organisation. To improve these, I
have learn operational activities and have to attend the seminars.
2.4 Create the personality development plan
Personality development plan is created to understand weak skills and what types of
actions are required to take to overcome those skills.
(Source: Development plan, 2018)
From the above given image, it can be understand that the ways to create the personal
development plan. First we need to identifies the core problem, then decide the target area to go,
after that person will properly plan the actions to develop those undeveloped skills. At last
reviews are taken from the senior authority or from the co-workers. This image is clearly
understand through the development plan and the development plan are:-
Illustration 1: Development plan

S.no What to develop Current
proficiency
Target
proficiency
How to
develop
Judgement
criteria
When
1 Communication I can
communicate
with my team
people only but
in public I am
not being able to
communicate
with anyone.
Writing skills are
perfect, but
when it comes to
verbal
communication
it is very
difficult for me
to communicate.
I want my
communicatio
n should be
influential and
attractive to
my employee.
By which
organisational
objectives will
be achieved.
To
develop
the
communic
ation skill,
I will
attend the
debate
sessions,
seminars,
and try to
communic
ate with
new
people.
Top
management
, co-workers
and
subordinates
can judge
me.
To
improve
this skill, I
have
required 3
months.
2 Leadership skill I can manage
small work and
lead less number
of people but
when it comes to
lead the
organisation. It’s
very difficult for
me to lead the
company.
I want to lead
the
organisation
efficiently.
To
improve
this skill, I
have to
attend the
personalit
y
developme
nt sessions
and
observe
the senior
Top
management
, so-workers
have the
authority to
judge my
performance
.
To
develop
this skill
60 days
are
required
by me.

level
manager
leadership
style.
3 Operational
knowledge
I have not that
much knowledge
about the
operational
activities.
Knowledge I
have is related
how to manage
the hotel.
To have gain
immense
knowledge
related to
finance,
marketing and
HRM as these
are the part of
operational
activities in
the business.
I am going
to learn
everything
about
these
departmen
t and
attend the
seminars
related
these
factors.
Top
management
, co-workers
are going to
judge.
The time
durations
which I
have
required is
around 5
months to
develop
this skill
effectively
.
TASK3
3.1 Process and activities required for implementing development plan.
Every organisation needs variety of processes and activities for effective implementation
of developed plan and policies. Travelodge will have various process and activities and they are
discussed as follows:-
 Strategy:- I will use such strategy which will help me accomplish not only my short
term goals but also long term goals of the Travelodge.
 Methods of learning:- I will improve my learning styles which are necessary for
accomplishing Travelodge goals and objectives (Loewenberger, 2016). There are various
methods of learning style like visual, auditory, etc. I will use visual method to increase
my vocabulary and communication skills and it includes reading newspapers, magazine,
journals, etc. Auditory involves hearing and I will use these methods to improve my
listening skills which includes attending conferences, seminars, debates in organisation

related to particular issues, etc. These skills will help me in developing my strength and
learning abilities.
 Feedback and evaluation:- Feedback is given after properly evaluating the work done
by me. Strength includes my communication and leadership skills, motivational skills,
etc. Weakness includes time management, team work, etc. My executives and colleagues,
subordinates will give me feedback and on the basis on those feedback I will take
necessary action.
 Action plan:- This is the plan which helps in overcoming the weaknesses and short
comings to reach the organisation on attainment of goals and objectives (Mahoney and
Morris, 2012). It can be done by attending proper training sessions related to time and
team management, etc.
3.2 Undertake and document development activities as planned.
To undertake and document development there are numerous activities to do but there is
no particular action for specific requirement. As a manager of Travelodge, I am responsible for
evaluating and prepare document for development is given below :-
 I will improve my personal skills which will help me in maintaining team efforts and
goals. It will also help me in building friendly relations with my other people at the
workplace.
 I will improve my listening skills as this will help me in clear understanding of
organisational plans and programs and I will easily coordinate those plans to my
subordinates and colleagues.
 As I am weak in managing time I will divide my schedule according to the work so that it
will be completed on time.
 Gathering initial thoughts, capturing information and include in theses in the document.
 My research and thinking skills will help me in giving imaginative judgements for
bringing the change of state in the organisation.
3.3 Critical analysis on own learning against original aims and objectives set in the development
plan.
Learning is something that impacts every aspect of beginner. As I am constantly learning
new things or interpreting the existence knowledge. For instance, being the manager of
Travelodge, I am analysing my own learning and skills in the following points:-

 Communication skills:- I have planned to improve my communication skills which
includes sound listening, giving appropriate solutions , helpful in resolving conflicts
(Mpofu, 2016). I have achieved this skill with regular reading and gaining knowledge.
 Operational knowledge:- This includes the operational and technical work within the
work place. As Travelodge needs to be updated with various innovative techniques which
includes advanced technology. I lack this skill and after many attempts and training, I
have not yet achieved it fully.
 Leadership skill :- These skills are required to have in every manager and I also poses
theses skills which are necessary for making work done by people in an organisation,
building effective team, managing time, etc. But I am not able to fully achieve this skill
and this creates a hurdle in my effective leadership skill which finally exhibit my inability
of becoming a good leader.
3.4 Updated development plan based on feedback and evaluation.
Motives Reasons for not
accomplishing
goals
Remedies
needed
Judgement Time period
Operational
knowledge
Lack of required
knowledge and
resources.
I will attend
training sessions
and coaching for
learning
operational
functions.
Availability of
resources needed
like computers,
guides, etc.
My executives
will judge me and
give feedback.
I will require 5
months to fulfil
this objective.
Leadership skills Lack of power
and knowledge.
Inability to
manage time.
I will attend
sessions
regarding time
management,
Colleagues and
subordinates will
give me feedback.
2 months

build team such
that they will treat
me as a friend
rather than
leader .

TASK 4
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that development is very necessary in
personal and professional life for accomplishment of goals and objectives. It has been elaborated
that learning is very crucial element in personal and professional development of individual, it
can be through various sources like seminars, conferences, etc. It not only increases the
development of individual but also helps individual to work effectively in organisation and
increase the growth and development of organisation as well. Identifying individuals skills and
competencies will help in analysing the strength and weakness and also helped in knowing how

they can overcome the weakness to increase the growth. This helped in identifying the current
and future needs and through this effective development plan has been created. Various methods
are discussed for effective implementation of development plan and updated plan has been
created for meeting those skills which were not earlier met.

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