Professional Identity and Practice

Professional identity and
practice

INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
1. Examination of the key benefits of on-going professional development for different stakeholders
within your selected organization............................................................................................................3
2. Investigation and evaluation of professional employer expectations of skills and competencies
within your selected organization in relations to a managerial position...................................................5
3. . Assessment and evaluation of your own abilities, skills, and competences in relations to a
managerial position by using a personal SWOT analysis and identification of team characteristics you
have in line with Belbin team roles..........................................................................................................6
4. Review of a range of learning theories and approaches that you can use for your personal and
professional development........................................................................................................................8
5. Critical evaluation of your own skills and competencies to meet the employer expectation of
professional skills required for employment within your selected organization in relations to a
managerial position...............................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
In today’s environment, there is intense competition in employment opportunities and
career progression as well. This competition forces employees or individual to learn every
knowledge that forms the part of requirements of a employer. This report focuses on making self
assessment in accordance of desired professional field. This report is a blueprint of directions
that an individual can follow so as to achieve desired goals in career path. To prepare this report,
chosen organization is Marriott International. Chosen professional field is financial manager.
This report will attempt to outline different requirements for a prospective financial manger and
also discusses about different sets of skills those must be possessed by an individual playing role
of financial manger in an organization. Furthermore, different learning styles have been applied
to showcase about different requirements and learning that an individual in managerial position
must have. There is also SWOT analysis of own competencies and this will assist further in
formulating an effective professional plan.
MAIN BODY
1. Examination of the key benefits of on-going professional development for different
stakeholders within your selected organization.
Professional development refers to the process of continuous learning and this is done
with a view of earning and maintaining professional credentials. These credentials further helps
in gaining an edge over students or aspirants in the same field. This process is assisting the
completion of academic course or any learning opportunity in an efficient manner. This
professional development can be catered in various ways such as, case study method,
consultation, coaching, and communities of practice, lesson study, mentoring, reflective
supervision and technical assistance. There may be some other methods too. In context of
chosen organization, there are various ongoing professional development programs taken
forward and they are not only beneficial for employees but also provide benefits to employer.
This is explained as below:
Advantages to employees:

 Intrinsic motivation: This is an act of doing something on their own and there is not
expectation of external reward for this task. If an employee getting professional
development, than this may involve learning process of that employee. This whole
process will lead to gaining interests in various fields and employee will also start doing
that task as he or she may find that enjoyable and interesting as well. This will lead to
increased efficiency of that employee and hence, a great factor for improvement in career
path of that employee.
 Personal satisfaction: To make an employee stay in an organization, the most important
factor that impacts this outcome is the degree of satisfaction that employee is receiving
being in employment terms with that organization. Ongoing professional development
can help an individual to gets satisfied as this process is giving boost to level of skill set
and knowledge aptitude of that employee. This reward is enough to satisfy an employee
and he will be able to apply for future better prospects also.
 Increased employability: As discussed above, professional development is a process
which individuals are getting learning about different requirements that are important for
an individual to possess in order to move forward and also upward in the career path.
Professional development is a process which gives addition to values and skills of an
employee, which makes that employee in more demand for other employers as well. This
is better in both aspects, financial and non financial as well.
 Added value to resume: Professional development is a process which adds skills and
aptitudes to an individual which he can write in the resume. As the resume is the very
first impression that goes to an employer, therefore, it will help that individual to leave a
very good image in mind of employer that will help that person to go through the
selection process at a convenient manner.
Advantages to employer:
 Skilled workforce: Professional development program plays the main role of improving
skill set of an employee. This will help those employees to perform better and it will give
the benefit of improved productivity and profitability to employer, this is due to reason
that employees are getting more skilled and knowledgeable person.