Personal & Professional Development : Assignment

PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Evaluation of approaches to self-managed learning and understanding which approach
would be the best....................................................................................................................1
1.2 In what ways lifelong learning can be encouraged at Travelodge hotel..........................2
1.3 The benefits of self-managed learning as an assistant manager to me and Travelodge...3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Evaluation of my own current skills and competencies against professional standards and
organisational objectives........................................................................................................4
2.2 Identification of own development needs and the skills required to meet them..............5
2.3 Development opportunities to meet my current and future defined needs.......................5
2.4 Personal and Professional development plan based on identified needs..........................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
3.1 Process and activities required to implement the prepared development plan.................8
3.2 Documenting development planned activities..................................................................9
3.3 Reflection.......................................................................................................................10
3.4 Updated development plan ............................................................................................11
Task 4 ............................................................................................................................................13
4.3 The use of effective time management strategies used within Travelodge....................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
It is important today for an individual to have good interpersonal skills in order to
achieve desired goals and results. The below report explores the importance of personal and
professional skills of an individual in context of Travelodge hotel, London. The report evaluates
the approaches of self-managed learning and proposes ways in which lifelong learning in
personal and professional contexts could be encouraged at Travelodge. Also, the benefits of self-
managed learning as an assistant manager at the Travelodge have been explored. The evaluation
of own current skills and competencies against professional standards for a hotel manager and
against organisational objectives of Travelodge hotel have been explained. Along with it,
solutions to work based problems have been made later in the report. These all evaluation and
identification is going to help one in determining the importance of interpersonal skills within an
organisational environment, and would make it easy to understand what can be done in order to
make or develop improvements (Hildebrand, 2018).
TASK 1
1.1 Evaluation of approaches to self-managed learning and understanding which approach would
be the best
Below mentioned are the approaches used in self managed learning:
1. Clear goal setting: Clear goal setting is one of the best approaches that is used in
self-managed learning. This approach allows one to easily set goals and achieve
required goals and objectives. For example, an individual while learning a new
language can set goals such as learning two new words daily, watching videos of
that particular language daily etc. This type of clear goal setting will help one to
determine the needs and wants of the goals and track the achievements as well.
2. Usage of the internet: Internet usage is another approach where an individual can
ensure better learning and understanding of anything desired. Internet provides a
vast variety of available resources that helps an individual in learning. Along with
it, internet is cost-effective and a very easy approach that can be used to learn
anything (Derrick and Wighting, 2019).
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3. Learning from others: Learning from other is another approach that can be used
by one in order to learn the desired skills. For example, in order to learn to type an
individual can learn it from the one who already knows typing or can join the
typing classes and learn it from a teacher. Learning from others ensure one to
learn the skills better and have someone around who has already mastered the
skill which the individual desires to learn (Maloney, 2016).
The approach of learning from internet would be the best one for me and my staff at
Travelodge hotel. It is because internet is cheap and cost-effective.
1.2 In what ways lifelong learning can be encouraged at Travelodge hotel
Below mentioned are the ways in which I as a manager will encourage lifelong learning
at Travelodge hotel:
1. Connecting employees with inspirational mentors: As a manager of Travelodge I
can connect my employees with inspirational mentors. These mentors can
motivate the employees of Travelodge in lifelong learning (Dawson, 2018). Good
mentors can make the organisation's employees learn and develop required skills
and make sure that they are regularly moving towards their own and
organisational growth as well.
2. Linking higher education with industry: Linking higher education with
Travelodge is another approach that I would use as a manager to encourage my
employees in lifelong learning. This can make the organisational environment
inclined towards learning and development. Employees would find more
opportunities in growth and this would make the organisation earn new
employees which are seeking industrial growth.
3. Apprenticeships: Apprenticeships allows employees to grow and develop their
own skills while working with the organisation. Also, it provides them with an
opportunity to develop and change themselves completely. This would make the
employees earn while they are learning and is going to encourage lifelong
learning as well (Ford, Eshbaugh and Branson, 2017).
4. Further education: I would provide my employees with further education
opportunities to encouraged them towards lifelong learning. Further education is
going to make sure that the employees are learning and developing new skills and
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