Personal and Professional Development: Using Gibbs Model for Self-Reflection

This report covers personal and professional development using Gibbs model for self-reflection. It includes the importance of analyzing the professional field, identifying available strengths, and linking them with possible career paths. It also covers the learning of skills like communication, time management, team management, problem-solving, and ICT skills. The report concludes with an action plan to enhance the required skills.

Personal and
Professional
Development

Table of Contents
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................4
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................5
Gibbs model.................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

Task 1
It is essential for an individual to analyze the professional field appropriately so that they will
further identify the skills which they need to develop to achieve their aim in their targeted
professional field. The following PPT covers description of professional field, analyzing career
paths, graphs to illustrate career paths, identification of available strength and linking them with
possible career path Andy challenges and the description about how to overcome these
challenges with available strengths.
• I have also decided to choose internship option as an HR employee within various kinds
of companies. This will help me to gain the experience that how an employee should
work within corporate sector.
• Gaining experience through internship will help me to develop more opportunities for me
to get selected for the interview. Hence I should focus on developing my resume and
make it attractive by the working experience as an intern or as part time employee within
HR department.
• I will also apply for various kinds of jobs within HR department of various companies in
different industries wherever I see the advertisement on different promotional channels.
• My other strength is my leadership skill which will help me to influence others toward
my ideas and concepts. I have effective skill to manage a team and make them understand
the goal of whole team
• Effective team working skill is also my one of the best strength which will help me in
mitigating various challenges in my life. I know how to manage a team and how to
delegate the task and work according to the skills and talents of team members.
• Problem solving skill is also one of my best strength which will help me to analyze the
root of every issue which I have faced in my academic career and make a effective
solution to mitigate that issue effectively so that it will not raise again.

• Another challenge for achieving my career path is that I am a fresher and I have a lack of
experience in corporate sector. Hence most of the company’s especially high reputed
company asks for experience. I can mitigate this challenge effectively through my
internships. Internship will act as a effective experience gaining technique for me to
achieve my career path. Secondly through my effective knowledge and effective
communication skill I can make them influence that I will be capable for performing the
vacant job role in her department of their company.
• Another issue for my career path is managing employees effectively within an
organization because it is the one of the most important possibility of an HR manager to
manage the employees of their organization. Hence it is a big challenge for me to manage
a big crowd of employees within a high reputed company. Therefore this challenge can
be mitigated through my effective leadership and team management skill. I can make sure
that I will communicate effectively to the employees and make them feel better and
analyze their issue let it to available resources within the company and their requirement
and make a effective solution to my employees to mitigate the issues.

Task 2
Introduction
It is an essential for an individual to focus on their skills so that they will achieve their
personal and professional goal of life. There are some of these skills like communication skill,
ICT skill, time management skill, problem solving skill and many others which are essential for
an individual to gain for Successful future. Gibbs model is one of the most popular models for
self reflection where there are six stages which will describe a situation and the learning out of
that situation (Adeani, Febriani and Syafryadin, 2020). The following report will cover Gibbs
model which will further reflect the learning of some skills for achieving professional growth.
Main Body
Gibbs model
Stages of
Gibbs model
Description of stage Brief reflective explanation of the stage
Stage 1-
Description
stage
This is the stage
which will describe
the situation that what
had happened, who
were there, when and
where it happened
and many others.
Basically this stage
will describe the
situation as it occurs.
One day my teacher asks me and my group
members to represent a presentation on the topic
personal professional skills in the class. She gave
us time of two weeks and asks her to prepare for
the presentation within the given period of time. I
have been chosen as the leader of the group due to
my effective leadership and management skills.
After next day me and my four other group
members are working to collect data and start
working to prepare this project then we notice that
we are facing a technical issue in our PC. All of us
tried to solve the issue but we are unable to solve
this issue due to our lack of ICT knowledge and
skill. One of us suggested taking the help of ICT
expert and paying him for his services. While

completing the project me and my group faced
many issues in collecting data, manage them
effectively and then prepare presentations of useful
data and many others but at the end we had
finished our project on time and gave a good
presentation in class which is appreciated by our
teacher.
Stage 2-
Feelings
This stage will
explain how an
individual feel during
and after this
situation. It will
further explain
whether the feelings
before and after the
situation are same or
different
(Sekarwinahyu and et.
al., 2019). It will also
explain the feelings
felt by other people
during this situation.
According to my situation, I feel very nervous
when teacher asked me to manage and lead group
because this is one of the biggest responsibility for
me to manage whole group and perform the
presentation effectively. Secondly at the time of
facing technical issue I felt very low and negative
and I thought that we are unable to complete our
project on time due to this issue but when the
technical issue get mitigated by expert then I feel
positive and good and my full focus is to complete
the project on time. When we submit our project
and the teacher appreciate us for our good
presentation and the data we used are effective and
I appropriate then I feel very happy and I asked my
teacher to appreciate all group members because
the presentation is not yet done alone by me.
Hence I feel different before and after the situation
and as well as during the situation.
Stage 3-
Evaluation
This stage will
explain the good and
bad things about the
experience that what
things went well and
According to my situation most of the things went
well except one and that is the technical issue. On
the other hand, there are various things which went
well like I get to know about team working skill
that how to behave and act within a team to

what did not went
well during the
situation (Blemker
and et. al., 2020).
support team members and make them influence to
work effectively to achieve common goal. I also
communicate all ideas and concepts openly to my
team members and allow them to share their ideas
to me so that we can come to and common
decision.
Stage 4-
Analysis
This is the stage
where the individual
described why things
went well and why
things went bad (Bass
and et. al., 2020).
This stage will help to
analyze the actual fact
which helped an
individual to know
about this situation
and to know the main
reason behind the
outcome of this
situation.
According to my situation, the one thing which
went bad is about technical issue and this
happened due to lack of ICT skill in any member
of the team. If we had appropriate ICT skill then
one of us will tackled the issue and we will not
wait for the expert to come and give us a solution
to the given problem. Another issue is problem
solving skill I get to know that I’m unable to gain
effective problem solving school because if I gain
it well then I will make a good solution to the
problem of technical issue. On the other hand, few
of the good things happen during this situation and
that is we achieve the goal on time. I and my team
become successful to represent our presentation
successfully on time due to our effective
communication skills and effective team
management skill. I make sure that I will distribute
the task according to the skills and talent of team
members and convey them the main goal of team
appropriately.
Stage 5-
Conclusion
This is the stage
where I get to know
about my learning
styles and what other
According to my situation, I get to know various
kinds of skills like communication skill, team
management skill, research skill, time management
skill and many others. I haven’t enhanced my

skills is required by
me to learn to handle
the same situation
better if it arrives next
time (Al-Jubouri and
Al-Jubouri, 2019).
The strength will also
analyze my learning
from this situation.
communication skill because while completing this
project given by teacher I have to communicate
effectively with my team members and listen what
they are suggesting to me. I have also learned
research skill during the experience because I have
taken the responsibility to research about the
information related to the project requirement. On
the other hand I also get to know that I’m lagging
behind to learn few of the skills like ICT skill,
problem solving skill and few other skills.
Last stage of Gibbs model (Stage 6- Action Plan) is used in preparing CPD for enhancing
few required skills for the development of professional career-
Skills need to
improve
Actions to improve skills Time required
to learn skills
Problem
solving skill
To develop problem solving skills I decide to case
studies related to corporate sector. business case studies
will include a situation and the problem in this situation
and at the end of every case study there are few
questions which are individual need to answer and if
I’m supposed to choose to solve at least two to three
case studies every day then I can enhance my
understanding power about the problem and the depth
of problem and then make solutions to mitigate that
issue. Hence this will help me to enhance my problem
solving skill.
6 Months
ICT skill For enhancing ICT skill I need to adopt coach method
where I need to understand various ICT techniques
through my coach and try practically to learn this skill.
I need six to eight months for both skills to learn
8 months

effectively. Secondly I will also make sure that I will
act differently if I face same situation next time. First of
all I will make sure that I will not get nervous well
taking responsibilities secondly I will check all
computers and laptops before starting any project or
assignment that whether they are working properly or
not.
Conclusion
From the above formation it is concluded that Gibbs model is one of the most popular
model for self reflection where an individual will analyse the situation and his or her learning out
of that situation. There are six stages in this model starting from description which include
describing the situation and ends at action plan which include analysing the actions taken to
enhance the required skills. It is also concluded that there are various employee skills which are
essential for an individual to develop their personal and professional life and these skills are
communication skill, time management skill, team management skill, problem solving skill, ICT
skill and many others.

References
Books and Journals
Adeani, I.S., Febriani, R.B. and Syafryadin, S., 2020. USING GIBBS’REFLECTIVE CYCLE IN
MAKING REFLECTIONS OF LITERARY ANALYSIS. Indonesian EFL
Journal, 6(2), pp.139-148.
Blemker, M.A. and et. al., 2020. Modulation of the visible absorption and reflection profiles of
ITO nanocrystal thin films by plasmon excitation. ACS Photonics, 7(5), pp.1188-1196.
Bass, J. and et. al., 2020. Midwifery students’ experiences and expectations of using a model of
holistic reflection. Women and Birth, 33(4), pp.383-392.
Al-Jubouri, A.H.H. and Al-Jubouri, M.H.M., 2019. The Effectiveness of Teaching in the Gibbs
Model in the Decision-Making to Solve the Environmental Problems among Students of
College of Education. SCOPUS IJPHRD CITATION SCORE, 10(01), p.732.
Akella, D. and et. al., 2021. Critical Reflection and Communities of Practice as Professional
Development Strategies for Educators. International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary
Subjects in Education (IJCDSE), 12(1).
Fathelrahman, A., 2019. Using reflection to improve distance learning course delivery: a case
study of teaching a management information systems course. Open Learning: The
Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 34(2), pp.176-186.
Sekarwinahyu, M. and et. al., 2019, February. Development of problem based learning for online
tutorial program in plant development using Gibbs’ reflective cycle and e-portfolio to
enhance reflective thinking skills. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1157,
No. 2, p. 022099). IOP Publishing.