Ongoing Professional Development for Different Stakeholders

Professional identity
and
practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1 ................................................................................................................................................3
P 1 Merits of ongoing professional development for different stakeholders.........................3
P 2 Analyze professional leader expectations of skills and competencies in business .........5
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P3 Abilities, skills and competences for job of hospitality manager.....................................6
P4 Range of learning theories and approaches that helps in personal and professional
development processes...........................................................................................................7
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................8
PDP to heighten skills or competencies of work....................................................................8
LO 4 ..............................................................................................................................................10
Job interview for hospitality manager role...........................................................................10
Review strength and weakness of an interview process in reflection..................................11
Presenting the challenges and recommendations during an interview.................................12
Critically analyse own abilities during the interview process..............................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Professional identity is the combination of understanding about the roles of professional
as a result of the particular activity. It considers both professional and personal development. It
can creates through the attitude, motives, experience and values which a person define
themselves. The report will be based on the TUI group, TUI is the UK based firm which deals in
the various hospitality sectors and travel operator firm. This study will provide the various merits
of ongoing professional development for the various stakeholders of TUI group. This report will
provide brief discussion on the professional leader demand of ability and competencies in the
firm. Further the report will be summarised about the abilities and skills for a particular
occupation role and also assessment a learning approaches and theories that are used in the
professional & personal development procedure. The study will describe about the improvement
plan to intensify the skills and undertakes the job interview for the suitable services with its
strengths & weaknesses of an applied interview activity in the administration.
LO 1
P 1 Merits of ongoing professional development for different stakeholders
Ongoing professional development:
Ongoing professional development refers to the operation of tracking & documenting the
knowledge, skills and experiences that the individual can gain both informal and formal manner.
It is the planned and continues process whereby the individuals try to evolve their personal and
professional qualities or skills and to improves their own knowledge and practises to leading to
their empowerment (Girvan, Conneely and Tangney, 2016). Following are the merits of the
continues professional development for the different stakeholders of TUI group:
Personal satisfaction:
Employees are learned something new they may feel motivated in the organisation. It
facilitates to increasing the value in the labour market which creates the high level of personal
satisfaction in the individual who works in the TUI. It makes the individuals more pleasant in the
company.
Improves Performance, productivity and competitiveness:
Ongoing performance development helps the TUI organisation to boost up its
profitability and competitiveness. TUI group encourages their employees to take part in the

professional development which helps the staff to enhances their knowledge and skills. Likewise,
more educated and skilled employees perform better and encases the firm more productive
(Darling-Hammond, Hyler and Gardner, 2017). Thus, the ongoing professional development
provides the better competitiveness and profit in the company.
Increases flexibility and adaptability:
In the current scenario there is a cut throat competition and frequent changes are
dominated, which required the high level of flexibility and adaptability. Continues or ongoing
professional developments in the TUI organisation are enables the firm to keep up changes and
adapts the new realities.
Intrinsic motivation:
Continues professional development creates an intrinsic motivation among the employees
which helps them to performs their work in an efficient & effective manner (Darling-Hammond,
Hyler and Gardner, 2017). Continues learning provides benefit to the worker that they can
germinate their own skills and knowledges which creates the high level of motivation and
confidences to perform a specific task.
Employee Engagement:
Deficiency of growth is one of the reason of high worker turnover in the organisation.
TUI group are providing high level of growth opportunity through continues learning in the firm
which facilitates in employee engagement in the organisation. Workers in the organisation wants
to develop their own skills and knowledge and engaged employees continuously use their mind
and enhances their skills.
Organisational brand images:
It has a one of the benefits for the employer, if the firm will provides an effective training
and employees development program then it facilitates to increase the brand image of the
company the market which leads to attract the top talent in the firm (Girvan, Conneely and
Tangney, 2016). TUI group arrange the continues professional development program for their
employees to retain them in effective manner and boost their brand image in the market.
Added values on employment :
Ongoing professional improvement facilitates the firm to add on the values of future
employment, which means if the firm provides the development opportunities to their employees