Professional Development and Practice

PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT AND
PRACTICE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND....................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
1. Critical learning events according to Gibb's reflective model............................................2
2. Linked to learning and graduate job description................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
Appendix........................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
Professional development is a kind of learning in order to earn or hold over occupational
group written documents such as academic degrees to ceremonial coursework, ministering
association and casual learning possibilities situated in exercise. The major purpose of
professional development is to provide professionals the opportunities in order to learn and
apply advanced skills that can enables them to use it in their job profile and further in their
career as well (González and Skultety, 2018). Professional development plan is highly useful in
identifying lacking areas which can be helpful in improving the performance. It provides
opportunities to make modification via identifying weakness which are are required to eliminate
in order to cope up with changing external circumstances of industry. Employability skills are a
part of skill that has been developed with the professional development of an individual. The
employability skills are termed as the conveyable ability required by an individual to make them
employable within an organization. These kinds of skills will help an individual to reduce errors
and enables an individual to handle the business activities in most efficient manner. Moreover,
the academic practices are defined as the process of completing the work independently,
honestly and in appropriate academic ways (Mohamad and et.al., 2018). Achievement of best
practices involves the development of own independent evaluation and identification of
challenges in skills improvement.
This study will describe the analysis of learning events through placement and identify the
developments that are required in various employability skills. Learning events will be taken
from my personal experiences when I was placed through professional development plan team
in Pizza Hut. It is one of the international organization that has large target segment toe ran
higher profitability & sustainability. This is part of American multinational restaurant chainnad
internation franchise that has found success on global platform. Pizza Hut is concerned with
offering different taste of products as compared to similar organizations in industry. The reason
behind success of company is effective marketing and advertising strategy that is based on
developing interactive methodology. I had been placed over there as staff manager in which my
major responsibilities are identify potential markets, create plan accordingly, supervise and
coordinate business activities with top management as well as my subordinate people. This is
one of the best opportunity that has been achieved by me and given chance to conduct the
professional development plan. I have been delegated certain authorities as well which can help
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in accomplishing my roles & responsibilities in effective manner. It has helped me to certain
extent to effectively manage my work to match with standards that can contribute in
accomplishing organizational objectives. The report will highlight the concept of critical
analysis on the various kinds of professional learning events which means enhancement of
professional development opportunities. With the help of Gibbs reflective cycle the study will
describe the specific professional skills that have been developed during the course of action
(Bridgstock, 2019). Gibbs model will provide assistance in making proper evaluation via
focusing on steps like description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, and action plan.
Ways to improve the lacking areas will be involved for providing deeper insights regarding
making modifications. The main reason behind providing this particular model is to give proper
knowledge regarding functioning . this provides asssitance in deriving significant knowledge
which can share in having deeper information of particular program. Moreover, it will expound
the critical evaluation of employability skills as consider as learning events on the basis of
discussion.
MAIN BODY
1. Critical learning events according to Gibb's reflective model
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Description
What happened?
Feelings
What were you thinking?
Evaluation
What was good and bad?
Conclusion
What else could you
have done?
Action Plan
If it rose again what

Gibbs Reflective Cycle
Emotional intelligence
Description: The entire experience could favor me to develop certain skills that could allow me
to enhance my overall growth and development at an individual level. I have undertaken the
experience which could direct me in a right direction. The whole experience was very valuable
for me as it could precisely support me to identify different positive and negative skill set being
a professional I should own. It is described that different activities could favor me to understand
my areas belong to strength. The activities like motivation session, playing games could favor
me to know about all my key strengths that could improve my overall personality.
Feeling: I have a strong feeling that all this activities attended by me would support me in
enhancing the overall growth and development possibilities in my career. I have noticed that this
is a key part of the description that the experience could certainly empowered me in developing
the skill set along with certain strengths. I have a strong feeling over the fact that skill is an
important part of the personality development practice and with support of the right practices I
could certainly work over my emotional intelligence ability as an individual.
Evaluation: I have evaluated the fact that overall growth of the individual and professional is
highly influenced with the skill set that needed to develop by the individual. IT is notice that this
is an important parameter which require to grow as a professional that it become necessary for
me to approach the career in the more professional manner. The role of the different personality
development tactic is effectively empower me to approach the overall growth in professional life
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Analysis
What else can you make?

in the best way possible. This is a fundamental part of the overall skill development activity
entertained by me as a professional.
Analysis: I have analyses that my different skill set such as communication skill, interaction
skill, social abilities could favor m at the grass hood level to grow and develop my various skill
and abilities. This is an important part of the overall growth and development opportunities I can
entertain in future is to upgrade my abilities to perform various responsibilities. I have precisely
analyses that the emotional intelligence skill that I have developed could favor me precisely to
enhance the overall career growth opportunities possibly I would entertain in future.
Conclusion: This is concluded that I have developed the emotional intelligence skill that would
possibly support me in my future operations and functions. I have identified that different career
growth opportunities would be attracted in against to this ability I have grown up. I have been
concluded that the skill development would be the best possible approach to support the overall
career growth and professional development.
Action Plan
Skill Strategies Resources TIME FRAME
Emotional intelligence Playing mind games,
reading books,
analysis and such like
strategies.
Books, journals,
internet sources will
utilise.
4 months
Communication skill Regular interaction,
inter personal ability
and such like
strategies.
Internet sources and
books.
3 months
1. Team Work
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