Personal and Professional Development: Kolb's Learning Styles

This report discusses the concept of personal and professional development and its importance in achieving goals. It focuses on Kolb's Learning Styles and how they contribute to the development of employability and study skills. The report also includes a reflective journal based on the use of Kolb's reflective cycle in the context of Tesco, a multinational retailer in the UK.

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Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The personal and professional development is a continuous process and a formal means
through which an individual set the standardised goals and objectives and starting put more
efforts to get achieve those goals within the stipulated period of time. It is a learning prospect
under which the working efficiency of an employee become vaster by which they get performed
their work with more sufficiency (Boylan, 2018). The development is the process through which
the repetitive improvisation and up gradation in the skills, knowledge, ability, experience, values,
attributes will get enhanced that helps and individual to make themselves different from the other
people and helps to gain the better growth and success in future period of time. This report is
based Tesco that is the largest multinational retailer in UK have dealt with the groceries and
merchandiser. This report is based on the reflective journal in which the contribution of the
employability and study skills with the use of Kolb’s reflective cycle.
MAIN BODY
Kolb's Learning Styles: It is a learning theory that get developed by the David Kolb and he
was published this learning model in the year 1939. It is a style that reflects the adequate path
that must get followed in terms of enhancement of skills and abilities and that get improvised in
terms of continuous basis or in a loop. It is a more important learning style that helps an
individual to get learn more from the past experiences by observing both past and present
performances and that will get recount and evaluate the overall personality of an individual. It is
based on the four stages of learning that is considered as the internal cognitive process and also
involves the acquisition that will be applied flexibly in all the random situations by which new
concepts and development will get processed and learned (Choy, 2019). Learning is actually a
process as from which the knowledge is created and developed by the transformation of the
experiences. In this the employability and study skills that get used while making a career in the
professionalism of while working in some well known organisation and that are as defined below
as:
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(Source: Kolb's Learning Styles, 2019)
Diverging: It is a learning that is more related to watching and feeling and with that the
different things are able to looking forward as per the context of different prospect. It is a
sensitive learning in which I have learned the different things while watching rather than
performing and collect the different information by using the imaginative thinking while solving
the problems (McDonagh, 2019). In this I have viewed the concrete situations as by analysing
the different point of views. It is also called as the diverging style as in this I have performed
better while requiring the ideas generation as like the brainstorming and enhance the broad
interest to gather information. In this I have developed the research skills of mine in which I
analysed all the correspondence factors through which the better skills will get developed by
making the effectual interpretation. In this the alternative decision will get developed and that is
based on the analysis of relevant information, critical thinking, report writing, data collection,
critical analysis, finding relative information. Thus the adequate information will get developed,
extract, evaluate, organise and locate about some defined topic.
Assimilating: It is a style that is more associated with the thinking and watching and the
preference will get served to the logical approach, concise, concepts, ideas that is more vital
while collecting the knowledge about by explaining and gabbing the practical opportunities. I
have the ability to understand and interpret the wide ranging information and then organise that
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in logical and clear format. On the other hand I have less focused towards the people and have
more concern by generating the abstract and ideal concepts (Ragan, 2018). It is also be more
attractive while gaining the information about the logical career and also prefer the lectures,
exploration of analytical models, reading and have the deep thinking as well. In this I have the
employability in terms of problem solving skills and Team work skills that will help to get
over from the entire complex situation with more easiness and smoothness by which the
acceptability within the business is wider. It is more important while working within the business
that the individual must get able to resolve their daily issues related to managerial aspect with
more convenience. It is also be needed that employee get shared their views and possibilities by
which the better result will get attained. It is used to make the sufficient changes that is always
be more favourable for the growth of a business and personal growth as well.
Converging: It will include the different style that is related to doing and thinking in
which the problem solving capability will get developed. In this the individual get learned while
finding the different solutions that is more based on the practical issues. The individual that
comes in this learning style are having the usage of the practical assumptions that is more based
on the different theory and ideas. These individual have solved the different problems by finding
the accurate information at appropriate time (Sudria, 2018). The people that have the converging
style are more attracted as have worked in parallel to the technical aspect and have specialise in
the technological abilities and also consider the practical applications. In this I have analyse the
employability skills that is related to the use of IT as information technology will always get
modifies within the certain period of time and with more randomness and I have an interest
towards the technicalities. It is more effective and efficient process in which the different aspect
get considerate as present, assess, retrieve, produce, store and exchange as through the
spreadsheets, databases and the search engines, PowerPoint presentation and word processing by
which more creative output get developed.
Accommodating: It is the skills that is more related to the doing and feeling as it include
the learning style that get rely on the intuition instead of the logical formulation. The individual
that get considered in this group will always be prefer the practical and experiential approaches
and have used to manage and dealing with the new challenges and the experiences that are
needed to get carry out and plan the certain objectives and then achieve it with more reliance. It
is a learning style in which the individual must get goes with the gut instinct instead of going
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through with the logical analysis and interpretation. In this the people have their own learning
ability and with that get rely on the different formats by which the better analysis will get
performed and thus the prevalent outcome will get attained (Wallace, 2019). In this style the
employability and study skills as like communication and the team management skills will get
improvised. I am always be more used to get make the effective communication with the people
and with this always get more ensure that more clarity and transparency get implied while
transferring the message to others. It is more needed while making the certain connection with
the other team members as by working in team. Thus the team management skills is also be more
helpful to get generate the better outcomes by making the collective efforts and everyone have
worked with better tendency thus the achievable outcome get completed. It is more important
while working with the certain factors and in this the employee get more success while working
in the organised business and it helps to make more developed on regular basis.
These are some of the different skills that get learned and emphasised while gaining the
better outcomes on daily basis and with this Kolb’s learning style is being more vital to make the
certain productive result on continuous basis (Welp, 2018). I have used this style of learning as
from which I have enhance the employability skills of mine and with this I have present myself
in front of the business with more suitability and make the better choice for the companies.
These skills make the positive change in my personality by which easily get attracted the others
with more perfection and that reflect on the working performance by which the productive
outcome get accomplished and the future will also become more secured.
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that the employability skills will help to
make the successful impact while working within the business and in this more of the people will
get concerned about to gain more certain knowledge and information that helps to attain the
better position in the business. It is more needed that to improvise the better skills and abilities
the continuous development and enhancement of learning style is essential that helps to gain the
more knowledge which furthermore helps to gain the higher heights in an individual career with
more perfection. In addition the Kolb’s learning style will get used to analyse the better
improvement of the skills and abilities while completing the learning on continuous basis and it
overall emphasis the personal and professional development. It is a style that is usually used to
make the repetitive changes in the overall personality that helps to make the supreme
improvisation within an individual by which more competitive advantage has been gained and
effective as well as positive transformation will get considered.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Boylan, M., 2018. Enabling adaptive system leadership: Teachers leading professional
development. Educational management administration & leadership, 46(1), pp.86-106.
Choy, W.K. and Chua, P.M., 2019. Professional development. In School Leadership and
Educational Change in Singapore (pp. 69-86). Springer, Cham.
McDonagh, C. and et. al., 2019. Enhancing practice through classroom research: A teacher's
guide to professional development. Routledge.
Ragan, D.D., 2018. A Structured Course for Personal and Professional Development. Honors in
Practice, 14, pp.43-57.
Sudria, I.B.N. and et. al., 2018. Effect of Kolb's Learning Styles under Inductive Guided-Inquiry
Learning on Learning Outcomes. International Journal of Instruction, 11(1), pp.89-102.
Wallace, D., 2019. Parts of the Whole: Theories of Pedagogy and Kolb's Learning Cycle.
Numeracy: Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy, 12(1).
Welp, A. and et. al., 2018. The importance of reflecting on practice: How personal professional
development activities affect perceived teamwork and performance. Journal of clinical
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