Reflective Journal on Personal and Professional Development

Personal and Professional
Development

Contents
TASK 1 - Individual Presentation Paper.........................................................................................1
Covered in presentation...............................................................................................................1
TASK 2 - Reflective Journal...........................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

TASK 1 - Individual Presentation Paper
Covered in presentation
TASK 2 - Reflective Journal
INTRODUCTION
A reflective journal is referred as the way of thinking in analytical and critical way regarding
the work in progress. It is the personal record of learning experiences of an individual which
provides a means to record personal thoughts, ideas and experiences and integrate them into day
to day experiences as well as future actions (Börjesson, Cedersund, and Bengtsson, 2015). This
will help an individual in improving his or her skills along with enhancing creativity and critical
thinking. This is a reflective report which is based on my personal experience that I gain in the
module and the way it contributed in accomplishment of employability and study skills. By using
Gibbs reflective cycle, I reflect on my own experience in this report which I gained during the
module.
MAIN BODY
Personal reflection is referred as an opportunity to reconsider feelings, thoughts and events from
a very new or fresh perspective. It enables an individual to emphasize on own experiences and
reflect on them. It helps in personal and professional growth of an individual as through this, an
individual is able to identify his or her own strength and weaknesses and provide them with the
opportunity to take future course of action to improve them. In this reflective report, I reflect on
my own experience that I again during attending the module. In this reflection, I make use of
Gibbs reflective cycle in order to perform the reflection in systematic way. Use of Gibbs
reflective cycle enables me to effectively reflect on the occurrences and events and learn from
them. This model enables me to think systematically regarding the experiences all earnings they
had during a particular situation. The model includes 6 stages; description, feelings, evaluation,
analysis, conclusion and action plan (Gibert, Tozer, and Westoby, 2017). By taking these six
stages as a base, I reflect on my own experience below in systematic manner:
I am a student studying in the module 'personal and professional development'. During
studying in the module, my teacher was assigned with the task to prepare an individual
presentation paper on the basis of my analysis of leadership style or skills of Jeff Bezos who is
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