Personal and Professional Development Assignment Solution - Travelodge Hotel

Personal and Professional
Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Approaches to self-managed learning and any kind of approach suitable for manager, staff
and organization .........................................................................................................................3
1.2 Propose way in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts ..................4
1.3 Benefits of self-managed learning to manager and organization by relevant example........5
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organizational
objectives ....................................................................................................................................6
2.2 Own development needs and activities required to meet them ............................................6
2.3 Development opportunities to meet current and future needs .............................................7
2.4 Devise personal and professional development plan............................................................8
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................9
3.1 Processes and activities required to implement development plan ......................................9
3.2 Write down implement development plan .........................................................................10
3.3 Reflect on learning against original aims and objectives set in development plan ............11
3.4 Update professional development plan ..............................................................................11
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................12
4.1 Select solution to work-based problems ............................................................................12
4.2 Variety of styles of communication at various levels ........................................................13
4.3 Time management strategies ..............................................................................................14
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Professional and personal development is the procedure through which company and
single person engage in the procedure of learning to meet the challenges and desire goals. The
purpose is to aid manage self learning and growth throughout career. It is essential that continue
to learn and develop to keep abilities and knowledge up to date and ensure continue to work
safely, legally and effectively (Olsen, 2015). This study is based on Travelodge Hotel in Ilford. It
is an ideal option for visitor seeking accommodation in this well-informed town. A quarter of
mile from Gants Hill tube station and half mile from listed mansions and gardens of Valentines
Park.
This report will evaluate approaches to self learning and different ways of lifelong
learning in personal and professional contexts. It will evaluate the benefits of self-managed
learning by relevant examples. It will assess own current skills and competencies against
professional standards and organizational objectives. Furthermore, study will identify own
development needs and activities required to meet them. It will determine opportunities to meet
current and future needs. Also, prepare the professional and personal development plan.
Moreover, assignment will discuss process and activities needed to implement development plan.
It will reflect critically on own learning against actual aim and objectives set in the plan.
TASK 1
1.1 Approaches to self-managed learning and any kind of approach suitable for manager, staff
and organization
Self-managed learning is also known as self education, self teaching, autodidactism. It is
education without guidance of masters or institutions (Forte and Flores, 2014). Self-managed
learning means companies have self managed learning programmes that fit within structure and
ensure staff is developing in certain direction.
Approaches to Self-managed Learning:
It is necessary to self-managed learning not only personal life but also professional life.
Therefore, it is important to manager, staff at Travelodge hotel. There are mainly three
approaches to self-managed learning such as seminars or conferences, social network, internet.
Seminars and Conferences:
It is group meeting where number of employees participate at least as actively as teacher.
In the workplace. It is major approach in which manager try to increase self-managed learning to

staff in the workplace (Moss, Gibson and Dollarhide, 2014). In seminars, managers are
responsible for design of group experience such as selecting the topics and assigning tasks to
individual workers in the Travelodge. With the help of this, managers developing self learning to
employees about business activities.
Social Networks:
It is also major approach to self-managed learning in which manager and employees
utilise different platforms. There are many social networks such as YouTube, Twitter etc.
Through this, employees and managers are developing self-managed learning about different
activities of Travelodge.
Therefore, learning through social networks is very suitable of employees and managers
at the Travelodge. Through it, workers and managers are developed self-learning skills which is
increasing knowledge and competencies for working effectively in the workplace (Dixon and
eta.l., 2014). Self-managed learning helps to improve performance and increasing productivity in
work at the firm.
1.2 Propose way in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts
Lifelong learning is advantageous for overall development of workers where in
individual can select to further develop skills in personal and professional learning areas.
Therefore, it also confines inaction in the professional life (Núñez Pardo and Téllez Téllez,
2015). There are many modes in which learning in terms of personal or professional knowledge
improvement can be encouraged at the Travelodge.
 Self-reflective learning is tool to increase learning skill of individual in the workplace.
This assist in connection of work based learning chances with constant development
programs which is aimed at continuous learning of staff in the Travelodge.
 Self-analysis is another way of life learning in which to start with identify the need to
learn further and various areas in which need further development. It is also known as
SWOT analysis that means to recognition of strengths and weakness of the single person
in the workplace (Avidov-Ungar, 2016).
 After that, analysis also lends clarity to chances which can be capitalised to create growth
curve disposed upwards. Then, identify and assessed threats to individual as well applied
continuous plans for developing threats.