Personal and Professional Development - Assignment Sample
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Personal and Professional Development - Assignment Sample
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PERSONAL ANDPROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1Approaches to self managed learning ...................................................................................11.3 Analyse the benefits of self-managed learning to the organisation and individual..............3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................42.1 Evaluate current skills and competencies against professional standards and organisationalobjectives.....................................................................................................................................42.2 Own development needs and activities required to meet them.............................................52.3 Identification of development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs.......62.4 Prepare a personal and professional development plan based on identified skills................7TASK 3............................................................................................................................................83.1 Processes and activities required to implement the development plan.................................83.2 Undertake and document development activities as planned...............................................93.3 Reflect on own learning against aims and objectives of organisation set in developmentplan .............................................................................................................................................93.4 Update development plan as per feedback and evaluation................................................10TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................114.1 Select solutions to work based problems............................................................................114.2 Communicate in variety of styles and appropriate manner at different levels....................114.3 Identify and use different time-management strategies......................................................12CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
INTRODUCTIONPersonal and professional development is defined as a formal manner in which a personsets out strategies, targets, outcomes of training and learning, goals. This will benefits the personto grow both at professional and personal level due to which a good living standard can beearned. It is also called as continuous professional development (Cooke, 2012). This assignmentis written in context with London Bromley Central Travelodge which is a UK based hotel,situated in Bromley Town Centre. This report will cover approaches and learning to selfmanaged training along with their benefits to organisation and company. Current skills andcompetencies for the role of managers along with current and future needs is discussed. Besidethis, processes and activities needed to implement development plan are discussed. Reflection onown learning against original aims and objectives are discussed. Solutions for work basedproblems, different kind of communication styles and effective time management strategies arediscussed in context with organisation. TASK 11.1Approaches to self managed learning Self-managed learning refers to the process of acquiring knowledge by a individualthrough various ways for personal or professional development. These learnings helps theemployees of Travelodge hotel in increase their knowledge about external and internal factorsthrough various ways such as: Conferences and seminars: The individuals can hear about the emerging issues by Experiencedpersons speech through attending conferences and seminars conducted all across. Here peoplegets the chance to interact with knowledgeable personalities in order to enhance their abilities.Travelodge employees can attend the conferences and seminars to increase communication skills(Floyd, 2012). Social networks: There are many ways which help an individual to learn new ideas. Socialmedia is a platform with various popular sources like Facebook, twitter, Instagram these sourcesare updated with new ideas and knowledge. The staff of Travelodge can accumulate the basicinformation from these networking sites. Maintaining good social networking with others canhelp to get the positive and negative reviews about the company. 1
Internet:Thismentionsample knowledge regarding each and every information. Internet can besaid as a home from where people access important information of required context. Thisplatform is accessible from every corner of the world, this is very easy for the employees ofTravelodge to use internet services and it is an effective tool in order to provide knowledgeableinformation.The self managed learning helps the manager and staff to gain the knowledge and informationthrough various sources according to the sources internet is the most suitable and best way toenhance the knowledge. Because the seminars and conferences are conducted in different areasand cities that is not possible for the individuals to attend all the conferences. Social networkingsometimes distract the individuals mind by inappropriate information. So the employees andmanager should go with the internet approach for self managed learning (King, 2014). 1.2 ways to encourage life long learnings. Life long learning define continuous knowledge which determines the growth of theindividual and organizations. Travelodge encourages its staff for life long learnings by SWOTanalysis of the hotel. This analysis helps the company in evaluating the strengths, weakness,opportunities and threat to assess the changes required to sustain in the competitive world this isvery useful for the company and staff. There are many ways by which life long learning can beimproved such as:Personal strategy: This strategy helps to set the specific ideas to develop the skills of managersby reading news paper and books through this the individuals can enhance and improve theirbasic skills such as knowledge about new current affairs, competitive rivals, investment policiesand communication skills. this strategy can be used by the managers to increase personal growthto undertake organizations goals.Current needs: The current need focuses on the current growth necessity of the manager andorganizations. It includes the targets which are to be completed in the given time. It sets a cleargoal for manager which benefits the Travelodge's to execute the activities (Moon, 2013). Future needs: It is seen as a perspective to gain something. The future needs are very essentialfor every firm and manager, if they find growth opportunities in future then only they furthercontribute in the activities. The future needs determines weather to work or not, the managers ofTravelodge provides training skills to the staff to full-fill the future needs of the company andemployees itself. 2
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