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.
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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