Professional Development Reflective Writing

This essay discusses the process of personal reflective analysis and its significance in professional development. It explores different models of reflection and focuses on improving interpersonal skills and decision-making abilities. The essay also includes examples of reflective writing in various situations.

Professional
development
reflective writing
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
REFLECTION.................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
A personal reflective analysis is a process of describing a person experience about a specific
event or situation. It enables in analysing and evaluating all things that occurred during event.
From that it is easy to find out learnings and areas of improvement. Moreover, it is useful in
finding out what went well and not (Arvanitopoulos, NAchanta and Susstrunk, 2017). So, on
basis of that action plan is developed for personal development and skills to be improved. There
are several models used in describing reflection.
This essay will describe about my experience and reflection on various situations that I
faced. Also, it will focus on learning and interpersonal skills with help of Gibbs reflective model.
REFLECTION
Here, there are some situation given on basis of which reflection is to be written. For that
Gibbs model is to be used. The model allows individual to think and analyse in systematic way.
they are able to evaluate things in depth manner.
Description- in this I my personality test was done which gave me insight about my skills and
abilities. In that I was given marks according to my skills. Here, in emotional support my score
was 90. The big 5 theories was used to analyse my personal development.
Feelings – here, I feel that I did not know how to do self assessment thus I took help of expert. I
was not able to apply and use theories of it. I was not having any knowledge carrying out task. In
beginning I did not do things properly but after using one theory I was able to apply other models
as well (Cunliffe and Easterby-Smith, 2017).
Evaluation- I evaluated that my emotional support is good and I need to do some new things.
Also, I did not take proper decision sometimes. Also, I got to know about my strength are
openness, emotional control, etc. and my weakness are lack of organising skills. However, I
worked in team with others. I communicated with others. Also, when there occurred any problem
I solved it in effective way.
Analysis- I analysed that in my self assessment many things went well and not. the score that I
got was good. My personal resilience is average as I am able to know myself to some extent. I
like to accept challenges. I am easily able to cope up with change. I learn and adopt things
quickly. I ca solve problems as well and work in effective way with others. I rely on my support.
The big 5 theories state that I m open to all. I am highly experience in solving complex problem.
But I do not know how to take effective decision.
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Conclusion- I realise that I am not good in some vital areas (Langbehn, Peng and Brouwer,
2017). My weakness is that I do not get agree on easily. Moreover, I am less conscientiousness.
This means I want to change things around. I am not able to take effective decisions most of
times. Thus, I need to improve my decision making skills. However, I am INTP that is I can
easily solve problem but not able to take decision. I know about several theories that is applied.
Action plan – I need to improve certain areas in which I am lacking. This is because it will help
me in my career growth and development. So, I need to enhance my decision making skills. This
will help me in taking effective decision. I will get to know about process of taking decision.
besides, I need to be organised with others. With this I will focus on my target and achieve in
time. Along with it, I should be control my emotions. By this I will handle and manage stress. I
must learn new theories of it and apply them practically (Palmer, 2017).
Description- here, I was given assignment by my professor to write as reflective report. In that I
did not know how to do it. So it was difficult for me to find out where to start and how
assignment is to be done. After that I was given second assignment as well. I took initiative to
communicate with all other members so that I can know what each one is doing. Thus, is started
interacting with all others. So, I was nervous at first but then after communicating with one
person my confidence boosted up.
Feelings- as I was not having any idea of doing assignment so I was very nervous at starting. I
did interacted with others to know about how to do it. But after results I analysed that it was not
up to expectations. However, in second assignment I got an idea of how to do it. This time the
outcomes attained was better and good. I felt happy this time. By completing the above task I
analysed that it enabled me to do assignment. Through that, I enhanced my communication
skills. Besides that, I gained knowledge about many things like my mistakes, research skills.
Evaluation- I evaluated that there were many things which went well and not well in it. I was not
able to do research properly and find out what to write in it. I not communicated with my tutor in
case of any problem. However, I was able to learn a lot from it. I made my second assignment in
more effective way as first (Park, Kang and Brongersma, 2017). As I interacted with other in
oral way I was able to identify and listen them. This benefited me to enhance my communication
skills.
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Analysis- here, I analysed that I did not have any knowledge and idea of doing assignment in
education. I gained experience on what type of assignments are done. Also, I was able to write a
proper report in well structure. Besides that I got to know that what type of referencing is done
and how data and info is collected. Thus, it improved by research skills. Furthermore, I learned I
easily grasp things and overcome mistakes quickly. Thus, it led to obtain positive outcomes. In
addition, my learning skills was enhanced as I gained knowledge about computerised study. But
I made several mistakes as well (Pennycook, Cheyne and Fugelsang, 2016). I was not able to
take a decision and solve problem. I did not communicated to tutor as I was nervous. This
affected my performance and results. My writing skills was not so good. I need to analyse my
own strength and weakness so that I am able to find out areas where I require improvement. I did
not set goals which led to confusion within me.
Conclusion- I conclude that in future if similar situation occurs then I will communicate with
tutor. This will help me to increase my confidence and enhance communication skills. Besides, I
will search on internet about how assignment are done. This will give me insight on
computerised study. I need to communicate with other so that my interpersonal skills are
enhanced. This will build my confidence and remove fear of doubt. I should also improve my
writing skills to get good graded in future.
Action plan – I think that my area of weakness is lack of confidence and fear of doubt. I am not
confident enough that I can do things very well. besides that, I need to overcome my fear of
doubtfulness. It will give me clarity about my goals and objectives that I need to improve. This
will help me in overcoming my mistakes. Thus, it will boost my confidence level (Reynolds and
Vince, 2017).
Description- as I was working in a KFC fast food a problem arise in which most customer were
complaining about negative review. So, my manager gave me an opportunity to become a leader
of team. In this I analyse role of each member. Then, I got to know that problem was due to long
waiting time. Thus, I took several training sessions and implemented suggestion. This enabled in
increasing their efficiency and resulting in positive outcome.
Feelings- At initial level I felt very nervous that what if I was not able to do my task in effective
way, what if results are not achieved, etc. but after leading team I felt motivated. I was able to
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closely monitor my co workers. I effectively communicated with them and shared my
experienced.
Evaluation- I realised that there were many things that went well during event. In that I properly
conducted training sessions. In that I prepared some notes that what I have to train them about.
Besides that, I told them about how they can do their task and shown in it practical way. along
with it, some things that did not go well was I gave training during any time. There was no fix
time of it (Winnicott, 2018). Furthermore, I did not communicated staff about my suggestion
and directly implemented them. So, they faced difficulty to work in different way.
Analysis- by analysing above task I learned a lot of things. First is that I can effectively lead a
team which will help me to become a good leader. Moreover, I know how to manage others and
what can be done to solve critical situation. Other than this, it is necessary to communicate to
each member in effective way so that they are aware about what situation is all about and their
role in it. I am a very good communicator and listener. I am ready to take more opportunities in
future. However, there are some problems I faced as well. I did not evaluated performance of
each staff after training that how much their efficiency has improved. Thus, as a leader I was also
having a role to measure it. Besides, I did not formed goals and objectives of training sessions.
Only I took overall goal of reducing performance. I effectively worked in group and manage 4
people (Langbehn, Peng and Brouwer, 2017).
Conclusion- I came to conclusion that I could have done some things in different way so that the
outcomes was positive. First thing is that I must have decided about time of training and
communicated to each staff. This would be helpful in conducting training session. Moreover, I
should set goals as well and then evaluate performance of each staff. In this way I could
recognise that which employee need more training. In future I need to make some changes in my
leadership style.
Action plan – I think there are certain areas in which I need improvement. This can be done by
developing an action plan. Here, I need to be more disciplined. It will help me in becoming a
good leader. Alongside I need to set some goals of training so that I can find out whether my
team has achieved it or not. Moreover, I need to gain more knowledge and info about leadership.
It will be useful for me to become a good leader. This will improve my interpersonal skills.
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CONCLUSION
From above it can be summarised that Gibbs model is useful in learning it from event by
finding out positive and negative impact. It is stated that there are several areas in which
improvement is required. In order to do, the action plan provide info about what skills needs to
be improved in future. My area of weakness is lack of confidence and fear of doubt. besides that,
I need to overcome my fear of doubtfulness. It will be highly useful for me in my personal
growth and development.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Arvanitopoulos, N., Achanta, R. and Susstrunk, S., 2017. Single image reflection suppression.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (pp. 4498-4506).
Cunliffe, A.L. and Easterby-Smith, M., 2017. From reflection to practical reflexivity:
Experiential learning as lived experience. In Organizing reflection (pp. 44-60).
Routledge.
Langbehn, J., Peng, Y. and Brouwer, P.W., 2017. Reflection-symmetric second-order topological
insulators and superconductors. Physical review letters, 119(24), p.246401.
Palmer, P.J., 2017. The courage to teach guide for reflection and renewal. John Wiley & Sons.
Park, J., Kang, J.H. and Brongersma, M.L., 2017. Dynamic reflection phase and polarization
control in metasurfaces. Nano letters, 17(1), pp.407-413.
Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J.A. and Fugelsang, J.A., 2016. Is the cognitive reflection test a measure
of both reflection and intuition?. Behavior Research Methods, 48(1), pp.341-348.
Reynolds, M. and Vince, R., 2017. Organizing reflection: An introduction. In Organizing
reflection (pp. 15-28). Routledge.
Winnicott, C., 2018. DWW: a reflection. In Psycho-analytic explorations (pp. 1-18). Routledge.
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