Report on Personal Professional Development - Hilton Hotels & Resorts

Personal Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Approaches to self managed learning...................................................................................1
1.2 Ways in which lifelong learning can be encourage..............................................................2
1.3 Benefits of learning to individuals and to organisation......................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Own skills against professional standards and organisational objectives.............................3
2.2 Discover own development needs to meet organisational objectives...................................3
2.3 Develop opportunities to meet current and future defined needs........................................4
2.4 make personal professional development plan based on identified needs............................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
3.1 Processes and activities required to implement development plan.......................................5
3.2 Undertake and document development activities as per planning........................................6
3.3 Reflect own learning against original aims set in the development plan..............................6
3.4 Update development plan on the basis of feedback and evaluation......................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
4.1 Solutions for work based problems.......................................................................................7
4.2 Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various level.......................8
4.3 Effective time management techniques................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is a process in which individual manage his own
acquisition and progress in his career. In other words it can be said that it bridges the gap
between actual position and standard position of a person. People can handle their learning by
various aspects such as participating, social networks, technology based teaching and on job
acquisition. Through pursuing long term learning a company and its employees can accomplish
organisational objectives1. Firm provides many counselling and coaching programs to its
workers so that, employees can manage their own learning for better performance in
organisation. This report is based on ''Hilton Hotels & Resorts'' which is located in UK. Firm is
considered as world’s largest hotel brand. The founder of this hotel was Conrad Hilton. In this
report personal and professional development of its employees has been discussed. Along with
this, approaches, benefits and need of PPD has also been explained.
TASK 1
1.1 Approaches to self-managed learning
If a person wants to learn something new, then he should go for self-managed learning
because there is no better ways then studying from own perception. To learn something new,
first of all we should create an urgency to study, for a particular subject. In organisation, it helps
in enhancing skills and abilities of employees so that they can achieve desired goals. It is come in
realisation that if individuals want to grow themselves, then it is necessary for them to feel need
of self-learning2. Human resources with extra knowledge and self-teaching can assist in
increasing performance of enterprise. There has been many approaches of self-managed learning
and these are following as under:
 Internet: It is known as best way of acquisition because it gives knowledge about various
theories and approaches by which we can learn many things.
1 Moon, J.A. Reflection in learning and professional development: Theory and practice.
Routledge. 2013
2 Kumari, N. Personal therapy as a mandatory requirement for counselling psychologists
in training: A qualitative study of the impact of therapy on trainees’ personal and
professional development. Counselling Psychology Quarterly. 24(3). 2011. pp.211-232.
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