Personal and Professional Development Assignment Solved - Travelodge
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2TASK 1............................................................................................................................................31.1 Approaches to self-managed learning..............................................................................31.2 Life long learning process in personal and professional.................................................41.3 Benefits of self-managed learning to individual and organisation...................................6TASK 2............................................................................................................................................72.1 Evaluation of own current skills and competencies against professional standards andorganisational objectives........................................................................................................72.2 Identification of own development needs and activities required to meet the organisationalobjectives................................................................................................................................92.3 Identifying development opportunities to meet current and future needs.....................112.4 Personal and professional development plan based on identified needs........................11TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................133.1 Process and activities required in implementing development plan.............................133.2 Undertaking and document development activities......................................................143.3 Reflect critically on learnings against original aims and objectives in development plan143.4 Update development plan based on feedback and evaluation........................................15TASK4...........................................................................................................................................174.1 &4.2: Covered in poster.................................................................................................174.3 Evaluating uses of effective time-management strategies.............................................18CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................20......................................................................................................................................................20REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................21
sINTRODUCTIONPersonal and professional development is systematic means by the help of which anindividual sets goals, strategies and outcomes of learning and training (Hildebr, 2018). It ismainly used in providing large variety of professional and specialised training that assistadministration and other trainers to train employees in effective manner. Moreover, an effectiveprofessional development provides higher growth for a particular individual's career. In thisreport the organisation chosen is Travelodge. It provides various type of benefits to all type ofcustomers such as permanent and temporary both. It provides the opportunities to get amembership clause too. It is basically operated by independent companies who have noconnection with brand in other countries. This report is going to analysis various approacheswhich are useful in managing and self learning as well as understanding self managed learningand development skills of an individual (Calderhead, Denicolo and Day, 2012) . Moreover,respective organisation also measure current abilities and skill of professional development andorganisation standard as well as the process of implement and development of specific plans.The respective report also covers the solution of work based problems and communicate invariety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels. Evaluation is provided for theeffective time management strategies. TASK 11.1 Approaches to self-managed learningSelf managed learning is a continuous and gradual process in which an individual takeeffort to do something to plan effective learning (success plans/ways of reaching goals) toimprove self development. It is also known as learning by desire to do something/reason fordoing something (Elliott, 2012). There are many approaches talked about/said below throughwhich an individual can set their clear goals and figure out the worth, amount, or quality of theirpurpose of planning and learning to complete their/reach their targets.
Seminars and Conferences: It is one of the best way to manage self learning process. Ifan individual attend seminars and conferences then there is a wide chance to share ideas and selfexperience. If he/she will attend meeting and share their opinions with others then there will bemore chances enhance self learning. It will benefit an employee or an individual in theirpersonality development and to improve personal skill. By sharing ideas and self experience,person comes up with different new ideas. This will increase person's ability and confidence tospeak up in public. This will help Travelodge's manager to arranging various meeting andseminar for its employees and it will helps him too in managing self learning activities. Internet:There are wide varieties of social networks that include twitter, Facebook anddifferent other sites by help of which an individual can get diversified range of knowledgeplatform for example, they can take advantage of sites like popular magazines, newspapers,journals etc. (Olsen, 2015). They can acquire knowledge of various writers concerning subjectslike management studies, science sector, engineering area and business management. This willbenefit individual to develop their skills in private and professional area both. It can be used byTravelodge manager for connecting the employees to a specific network, share opinions in groupetc. it will enhance the learning skills of employees as well as manager in management area. Training Programmes:Training programmes are especially designed to trainindividuals and employees in relational to specific skills. This will benefit each and everyindividual to enhance their skills and capabilities.Online learning: online learning will help the employees in enhancing their capabilitiesand knowledge. Now in those days there are wide variety of online courses and programmeswhich can be joined and attended at any time any where. These courses also less time consumingand customized according to individuals time schedule. Self help guides and manuals: self help guides and manuals can be provided toindividual which can be use by him at any where any time. These manual and guides can besepraded over a fix time period or according to knowledge level of prospective employees. The above mention are some of the approaches of self learning that will help managersof Travelodge in providing training to employees in self-managing and growing themselves.Moreover, they are adopting conferences and seminar for self development of their employees.
1.2 Life long learning process in personal and professionalTravelodge are using various ways in encouraging life long learning process for itsemployees so that it is beneficial for both individual and organisation. It is needed for employeeswho are interested in learning and acquiring new ideas and skills for enhancing their growth anddevelopment in personal as well as in professional life. Some of the life long learning processadopted by Travelodge managers are determined below:Continuous professional development: Continuous professional development refers tothe process of tracking and documenting skills, knowledge and experience that help in life longlearning process, as this help in managing and developing an individual knowledge on anongoing process (Zepeda, 2013). Travelodge adopt that for enhancing its employees personal aswell as professional knowledge and experience. Apprenticeship: It is a type of training which provided on the job to employees. It helpsto enhance skills and knowledge of Individual continuously. So it is useful for both employees aswell as organization. That type of training save time for both such as employees and firm. As a manager of Travelodge, individual adopt life long process in enhancing knowledgeof employees in both personal and professional life. The employees are encouraging for enactingtheir knowledge on continuous basis along with their working. Which is beneficial for bothparties like firm and organization. Funding for external courses: The life long learning process can be processed throughproviding extra funding to employees for their external courses because due to lack of financialresources sometime employees ignore requirements of their career. Reviewing career plans: By reviewing career plans time to time it can be show that howlife long learning is important for their career goals. Because importance of everything make itvaluable. When the employees know how the life long learning important for them then theyencourage himself for learning new things. Kolb’s learning cycle: David Kolb published his learning styles model in 1984 fromwhich he developed his learning style (Creemers, Kyriaki des and Antoniou, 2012). That theoryis worked on two levels such as four stage cycle model and four separate learning style. Herein,four kolb learning styles: Diverging: In that style peoples are covered who interested in doing things in variousways. These peoples are very flexible in nature and look things from various perspectives.
Travelodge can be access that style for enhancing individual and its employees skills. Theseconsidered best to solve problems from different viewpoints.Assimilating: It refers to a logical and concise approach. That type of style include thosepeoples who more interested in understanding information in clear and logical way. This type ofstyle is more preferred by science sectors firm. Travelodge can't adopt that style. Converging: This type of style includes those peoples who interested in practical taskssolving by using technical skills. Travelodge may use this style for enhancing the knowledge ofit's employees in professional and personal both area. Accommodating: This type of style refers to those group of peoples who interested inother peoples analysis and experiential approach. Travelodge use that style if it will not want totake risk. 1.3 Benefits of self-managed learning to individual and organisation.Self-managed learning is a process by which an individual takes initiative in formulatingand learning goals that is essential in one life's (Cruess, Cruess and Steinert, 2016). This processof learning is beneficial for both individual and organisation as it is influenced by performanceof employees. The benefits of self learning are as follows:Benefits to individual in Travelodge: self managed learning process is very flexible innature. As it is very beneficial in learning some specific skills through self learning. Sometimesit is not accessible for individuals, moreover it will beneficial for individual to enhance ability todeal in complex problems, expand its working ability. Which is beneficial for both organizationand individual. For example Learning while performing job task and going knowledge fromconferences and seminars.Limitations of self- managed learning: There are various limitation too with the selfmanaged learning to individual, because there is always lack of a professional direction. Somespecific methods and styles can't be learnt by individual himself without a professional director.Benefit for Travelodge: Most benefit of self managed learning process in organisationis that it will help managers of Travelodge in reducing cost of learning process. This processimproves knowledge and skills and ultimately organisation will be benefited in terms of havingefficient and skills employees (Mc Donagh and et.al., 2013). Thus, it will lead to increaseprofitability of their organisation by performing in appropriate manner. If the cost is not occurred
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