Personal and Professional Development

This article discusses personal and professional development, focusing on the importance of reflection and self-analysis. It explores the Gibbs reflective model and provides steps for creating a personal development plan. The article also highlights the significance of communication and teamwork skills in enhancing overall performance.

Personal and
professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Gibbs reflective model.................................................................................................................1
Personal development plan..........................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Reflection is considered as a practice that is helpful in representing the individual actions
and also involved them towards the continuous learning and their overall development. As it
describes there strength and weaknesses and on that disease individuals find their way of
improvement to develop their skills (Kroll and Dussias, 2017). This reflection is based on the
personal and professional skills that must be present in an individual considering their
employability and study skills. For this reflection employability criteria is considered which
carry many skills such as communication, research, ICT, teamwork, problem solving and time
management. In order to conduct research Gibbs reflective cycle is used which step by step
describe the feelings and perspective of individual and their experience during the specific event.
MAIN BODY
Gibbs reflective model
Gibbs reflective model is helpful in motivating people concerning their self analysis and
reflection of themselves in systematic manner that leads to enhance their performance. Along
with this it is useful in evaluating good and bad side of decisions that are taken by the employer.
This reflection is done on the basis of my skills and performance concerning my employability
skills that are just by other individuals (Markham, Gentile and Graham, 2017). In this context
prominent steps are discussed as:
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Description: It is useful in offering the prominent description of the situation including
what is happening, what the outcomes are and who is involved in the activities (Sangster, 2017).
As this description is based on my performance and skills which I perform in front of my
employees and organisation that is judged by my subordinates. For this is described my current
post as a leader and according to this communication research, teamwork, time management,
problem solving and ICT are the skills which must present in me e to effectively deal with the
organisational conditions changes and employees behaviour. In this context I personally feel that
I am quite good in research, time management, problem solving and ICT skills as I can easily
manage my whole team and Associates and motivate themselves and effective manner to work
collectively towards the achievement of prominent objectives.
Feelings: It describe the feelings and emotions of other people which day experience as a
reaction of my skill. The feelings generate because of my reaction and might positively and
negatively influence my subordinates and their performance (Dressler and et. al., 2018). In
regard with this I as a leader quite weak in communication and team working that lead to this
balance my team and its overall performance and can demotivate them regarding their
performance. Reason behind is that my and clear communication that does not develop
transparency among me and my subordinates which leads to decrease their performance and
moral. Because of this employees feel quite bad as they cannot do anything in this procedure and
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I also feel nervous for my subordinates because of the lack of communication and coordination
among us. In this manner many individuals feel has it and face difficulty to share their feelings in
relation with this my role is to motivate themselves by sharing my experience with them and
asking prominent questions regarding the event.
Evaluation: Here, individual ask regarding their experience of the business situation that
is classified under two sections either good or bad which is just with the help of many questions
including what went well and what did not go well and what was your overall contribution
(Snowdon, 2018). Here I did not feel that every employee is satisfied with my skills and
performance as there are some skills in which I am weak like communication and team working
which directly impacts the overall performance of my subordinates and can create confusion and
conflicts among them that leads to delay in productivity. Meanwhile because of my good skills
including research, time management, problem solving and ICT my team and Associates are
very organised and sorted with their work that leads to decrease conflict among them and it
develop their overall motivation. Lastly conflict can become major risk for the team performance
and it arise because of lack of communication as employees are not clear about their
performance and what is expected from them.
Analysis: This step is considered as the self analysis as it offers suitable chance to make
sense about what is happening in the surroundings and event. It includes suitable questions
concerning my knowledge and skills that makes sense in the activity (Markkanen and et. al.,
2020). In order to get work done with my subordinates at the starting level I need to give them
suitable chance to determine their strength and weaknesses as well. On the grounds of my
viewpoint experience that I am quite good in problem solving, Team Management, Research as
well and lacking in communication and team working which does not cope up with my strength
and I need to work ok on these skills to develop them for the sake of myself and employees too.
As due to my weak skills the productivity of employees and performance get negatively
influenced and tends to develop negativity in the mind. Along with this, to make things and
prominent manner I should opt belbin team rule theory which is useful for me to delegating task
to my subordinates as work classification comes from the prominent strengths of individual.
Conclusion: This step is helpful in providing confusion regarding the things that happen
during the event and also give suitable justification in order to improve the result in future. For
this, I need to summaries my learning and knowledge in order to highlight the prominent changes
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which I want in my personality. Along with this, by analyzing my overall skills it is concluded
that I am good in in time management and problem solving that leads to organized my team in
prominent way. In addition to this to develop other skills including communication and team
working in which I am lack and need proper improvement by taking feedbacks from my top
authority in supervisors and also taking participate in prominent seminars to develop my skills.
Action plan: This step depicts that I need to improve and enhance my skills in unique
manner to survive in future conditions and situations (Harerimana, 2018). For this, it is quite
helpful to differentiate my activities as here I did not develop any plan regarding the
enhancement of my skills but make sure that it gets improved in prominent way by developing
my learning skills. In relation with this, I determined that at the next time when I work in a group
I should develop my communication and team working skills to make things clear and
transparent among team Associates that leads to develop coordination and cooperation in the
behavior of team members and all of them possible because of developing and maintaining good
relations with Team Associates.
Personal development plan
Area of
development
Date I will
have this
completed
by:
I will achieve
this by:
What's
happening
now?
How will I
know I've been
successful?
Progress
Communicatio
n skills
04/08/2019 In order to
develop this I
need to
develop
healthy and
good
communication
with other
individuals and
develop
interaction
with many
Currently, I
cannot
effectively
communicate
with other
individuals
and cannot
maintain
clarity
regarding the
suitable
goals and
For this, I need
to attain many
communication
development
workshops and
seminars that is
useful for me
to enhance my
skills and
beneficial for
upcoming
The overall
progress is
judged by
my instincts
and peers
and also
guides me
regarding the
overall
improvement
of skills and
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people which
tends to
enhance my
prominent
skills that is
useful for
upcoming
business
functions and
activities.
objectives
which
impacts the
overall
performance.
events. knowledge.
Team working
skills
28/10/2019 In order to
develop this
skill I need to
maintain
healthy
communication
with my team
members that
tends to
develop
coordination
and
cooperation
within team.
Because of
the lack of
this skill I
cannot
manage my
team
effectively
which
impacts their
overall
performance
and
productivity
of company.
To achieve
success for this
skill I need to
develop
coordination
and
cooperation
among my
team members
this is
beneficial for
me and team to
enhance
productivity of
team.
Here, the
progress
report is
judged by
other
individuals
and my team
members
that is quite
enough for
me to
enhance my
overall skills
and learning.
CONCLUSION
By considering the above information refraction is helpful in order to determine the self
skills and knowledge that leads to help an individual to enhance their performance. To carry
forward this report various skills are undertaken that should be present within an individual to
perform task in prominent way. Away with this to carry forward this report Gibbs reflective
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model is used as it has six prominent stages which describe each and every action in significant
manner and also describe the feelings of other people full stop along with this it depict Action
Plan that is taken to get expected result in future.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Dressler, R and et. al., 2018. The cross-cultural reflective model for post-sojourn
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Harerimana, B., 2018. Reflective Practice for Professional Development Among Nursing
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Kroll, J.F. and Dussias, P.E., 2017. The benefits of multilingualism to the personal and
professional development of residents of the US. Foreign language annals. 50(2).
pp.248-259.
Markham, M.J., Gentile, D. and Graham, D.L., 2017. Social media for networking, professional
development, and patient engagement. American Society of Clinical Oncology
Educational Book. 37. pp.782-787.
Markkanen, P and et. al., 2020. A reflective cycle: Understanding challenging situations in a
school setting. Educational Research, pp.1-17.
Sangster, C., 2017. Planning and organizing personal and professional development. Taylor &
Francis.
Snowdon, K., 2018. Humour in reflective practice. Journal of Paramedic Practice. 10(4).
pp.144-146.
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