Personal and Professional Development

Personal and Professional
Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Evaluating the approaches of self-managed learning............................................................1
1.2 Different ways in which life-long learning can be encouraged in Travelodge Hotel...........3
1.3 Evaluating the benefit of self-managed learning..................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Evaluating self-assessment of skills required for manager in Travelodge Hotel..................5
2.2 Identifying own development needs and the activities requires and ways to improve them 6
2.3 Identifying development opportunities to meet the needs and skills....................................7
2.4 Personal and professional development plan........................................................................8
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
3.1 Discussing the process and activities required to implement development plan................10
3.2 Implementing the development plan by undertaking activities as planned........................10
3.3 Reflecting the learning process as per aims and objectives set in development plan.........11
3.4 Updating the development plan based on feedback and evaluation...................................11
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
4.1. Effective solution to employee turnover and customer-care problem at Travelodge Hotel.
...................................................................................................................................................12
4.2. How to communicate this solution to variety of styles at different organizational level...12
4.3 Evaluating and using effective time-management strategies to improve employee desire to
continue their work...................................................................................................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development refers to the activities which help in contributing
to improve a person's talent, potential, employability, skills and abilities. It is essential to
continue enhancing the skills and abilities of a person which will assist him in developing in his
personal as well as in professional career. Personal development will assist a person to have a
clear vision and set a future goal and target that needs to be achieved. Self-managed learning is a
technique in which a person learns in order to enhance his skills and knowledge. It is very
important to become self-managed and self-directed person that will assist him efficiently in
managing his skills in order to achieve personal and professional goals.
Present report will help in understanding the importance of self-managed learning in
personal and professional development. The report is based on Travelodge Hotel as per the given
scenario. Different approaches of self-managed learning will be discussed with their benefits for
employees and for Travelodge. Further, self-assessment on the skills will be done which will
assist in identifying own development needs. Report will also include personal development
plan. Furthermore, importance of continuous review of personal and professional development
will be discussed. Different interpersonal and transferable skills will be discussed here as well.
TASK 1
Personal development portfolio
By, Assistant Manager
Travelodge Hotel
1.1 Evaluating the approaches of self-managed learning
In process of personal and professional development, it is essential for a person to take
initiatives in the learning process. Self-managed learning is referred as a process of initiating by
a personal in some new learning by himself. It is achieved when a person has determined his
goals, objectives and target which gives them motivation of learning. As a manager of
Travelodge Hotel, through self-learning I will able to apply my new acquire skills in daily
operations which assist me, my staffs in order to grow and also Travelodge Hotel for its growth.
There are different approaches that are very effective for self-learning process. Some of the
methods that I have used for self-learning are:
Internet: With the increasing in technology, different learning tools and application are
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available on internet (Hildebrand, 2018). I always use internet and social media and found many
interesting software multimedia tools which helped in acquiring different knowledge. Online
videos, word processor, search engines are different sources which I regularly follow that
helped me in gaining more knowledge. Online channels and videos helped me in improving and
enhancing my communication skills. As a hotel manager, communication skills are foremost
important that will assist me in my professional growth.
Strength:
 I can use internet anywhere, whenever I'm free. It can be used at any place. Through internet, I can get lecture from various known professors of various university.
Weakness:
 It requires effective accessibility skills. It has limitation of hand on learning.
Seminars: It is a kind of lecture or presentation that are delivered to the audience on a particular
topic (Cunningham, 2017). I regularly attend different seminars that are on some educational
topics. These seminars help in acquiring new educational knowledge.
Strength:
 It assist me in getting wealth of knowledge that is presented by many people at one time
in one place. It is an effective tool for the one who doesn't like reading books much.
Weaknesses:
 The entry fee of Seminar could not be affordable for me. As assistant manager, it would not be possible to take leave or break in order to attain
seminars.
Conference: It is also a presentation, it is very useful as it helped me to learn from others.
Conferences are held for a variety of reasons, including resolving problems, making decisions,
developing cooperation, and publicising ideas, products, and services. As a professional,
conference helped me a lot to improve my knowledge.
I can say that this approach is very effective to manage our self-learning. For my staff,
our organisation should conduct different seminars as this would be very suitable for staffs to
attend it. Online presentation is also a suitable approach for the staff in order to manage their
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