Personal and Professional Development: Reflective Essay

PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
REFLECTIVE ESSAY....................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
APPENDICES.................................................................................................................................8
Appendix 1..................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personal and Professional Development refers to an area of study and practice which is
associated with enhancing the skills and competencies within an individual through different
activities and scenarios (Haarhoff, Thwaites and Bennett‐Levy, 2015). Furthermore, it is quite
important for people to reflect on this development to gain a better insight onto the events that
have been favourable and the ones which have a scope of improvement. Hence, in this context,
below is a personal reflection based on identification and evaluation of a significant quality that
has been emerged from module experiences as well as workshop exercises. Moreover, the
reflection would also be focussing upon several theories which have supported this key personal
quality, as well as enhanced its strength till accomplishment of the module.
REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Working on this module has been quite an enriching experience for me as I got ample
opportunities towards enhancing my competence and skills that have been very much supportive
for me to accomplish desired results. There have been various qualities that has been explored, as
well as implemented in a way, which has contributed to a greater extent in context of making me
skilled in terms of completing my tasks in an effective and efficient manner. Out of all the
qualities, Management is one key quality that I consider to be my key strength. This element
refers to an effective planning, organising, directing and controlling of all the functions and
resources surrounding a task or activity, to meet the end goals in an effective and efficient
manner. Moreover, this quality also requires to coordinate the resources available with an
individual in order to ensure a proper structure and direction provided to the set plans and
objectives. (Barkhuizen, 2017)
To better analyse and evaluate the organisation, theories of reflection and reflexivity has
been used by me throughout the module. As for the former, it was used by me certain times
during the workshop activity, where I reflected on the past experiences associated with this skill,
which allowed me to apply the skill of management in a way that did not posses the scope of
errors. Hence, in this instance, reflection was used by me to evaluate my past mistakes and
overcome the same in my current application of the quality of management. Furthermore, as for
reflexivity, there are several instances where this concept was used by me. As an example, within
the overall value added element, I happened to continuously observe the management that has
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