Personal & Professional Development - Travelodge Hotel
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Personal & Professional Development - Travelodge Hotel
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Approaches to self-managed learning....................................................................................11.2 Purpose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional context could beencouraged...................................................................................................................................21.3 Benefits of self-managed learnings to assistant manager and organisation...........................4TASK 2............................................................................................................................................52.1 Evaluation of current skills and competencies against professional standards......................52.2 Identification of development needs and activities required to meet them..........................62.3 Identification of development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs........72.4 Tailoring a personal and professional development plan......................................................8TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................103.1 Important process and activities required to implement development plan........................103.2 Documenting development activities as planned................................................................113.3 Critical Reflection against original aims and objectives defined in the development plan.113.4 Necessary changes made based on feedback and evaluation...............................................12TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................124.1 Covered in poster.................................................................................................................124.2 Communicate in variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels......................124.3 Evaluate and use of effective time-management strategies.................................................13CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
INTRODUCTIONProfessional development refers to an array of specialized training, formal education oradvanced professional learning that enhances skills, professional knowledge, competency andoverall effectiveness in professional world. Development of individual at professional levelprovides different types of learning opportunities. Personal development is a lifelong process thathelps to assess skills and qualities to consider aims and goals set to achieved in order tomaximise potential (Kearney-Nunnery, 2015). For this project report Travelodge organisation isselected which is a private company operating in hotels and possess headquarters in Thame,United Kingdom. This organisation is founded in the year 1985 and employ approx 12000employees. This project is based on personal and professional development and analyseimportance of self-managed learning in enhancing lifelong development. Responsibility of ownpersonal and professional development and review own personal development plan. Togetherwith this interpersonal and transferable skills are critically analysed in this report. TASK 1As assistant manager at Travelodge hotel importance is provided to self managedlearning as part of personal and professional development. For this a learning event is organisedthat provides information regarding how self-managed learning can enhance lifelongdevelopment. 1.1 Approaches to self-managed learningSelf-managed learning refers to a process of initiating the learning process by oneself.This is determined by way of clear goals, aims, objectives and targets for learning are set by anindividual. This learning process helps managers of Travelodge to control the content, producerand pace of their personal learning. Initiation of learning processes provides clear goal settingsuch as aims and requirements of an individual. Personal orientation achievement goals and self-reflection that brings managers foot forward for achievement of set objectives. There are variousapproaches that provides learning through research. Individuals in an organisation learn throughthe research conducted during performing their part of work (McMillan, McConnell andO’Sullivan, 2016). These self-managed learning approaches are as follows:Learning through research: Research is defined as the creation of new knowledge.Over the period of time development takes place and these developed methods are used for1
research. Through this approach staff members of Travelodge starts their learning process ofliterature review and market condition. Organisations should provide opportunity to their staff inorder to learn through research. Learning from others: Self-managed learning can be initiated through various differentsources that are described as follows- Mentoring/coaching: Assistant manager of Travelodge provides training to staff who aresubordinate to the appointed managers. This is termed as coaching to new staff membersand experienced persons guides less experienced staff while performing their duties.Small sessions and training programmes are introduced to train staff and enhance theirself-managed learning (Moon, 2014). Seminars: Organisations like Travelodge organise seminars in which experiencedspeakers related to specific field are invited. These persons share their skills andexperience with employees of the organisation and helps in enhancing self-managedlearning. Use of internet: Solution of variety of problems are available on internet. When staffmembers of Travelodge is lacking in any personal skills then they are trained throughprocesses that are available online for self-managed learnings. These solutions are triedand tested and increases chances of success. There are various other ways such as conferences, secondments, interviews, socialnetworks and newsgroups that helps in gaining self-managed learning. All these methodsprovides variety of information to staff members of Travelodge in order to improve their skillsfor management and development. Most appropriate approach for self-managed learning in Travelodge will beMentoring/coaching. As this approach involves enhancement of skills through personal touch.Providing personal coaching to staff members creates communication channel that makeseffective communication channel. It is the most convenient way of enhancing learning regardingorganisation, target consumers, products and services offered and competitors. 1.2 Purpose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional context could beencouragedLifelong learning is a ongoing, voluntary and self motivated process that helps inacquiring knowledge and skills either in personal manner or in professional way. This keeps an2
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