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Professional Identity and Practice INTRODUCTION 3 TASK 13 P1 Key Benefits of ongoing professional development for different stakeholders within an organisational context

   

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Professional Identity and Practice INTRODUCTION 3 TASK 13 P1 Key Benefits of ongoing professional development for different stakeholders within an organisational context_1

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3P1 Key benefits of ongoing professional development for different stakeholders within aspecific organisation...............................................................................................................3P2 Investigate professional employer expectations of skills and competencies within a specificorganisational context.............................................................................................................3TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................3P3 Assess own abilities, skills and competences for a specific job role................................3P4 Review a range of learning theories and approaches used for personal and professionaldevelopment processes...........................................................................................................3TASK 3 ..........................................................................................................................................3P5 Construct a development plan to enhance chosen skills and competencies within a specificwork context...........................................................................................................................3TASK 4 ...........................................................................................................................................4P6 Undertake a job interview for a suitable service industry role..........................................4P7 Review key strengths and weaknesses of an applied interview process...........................5CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTIONProfessional identity is defined as concept which helps in describing about what personperceives about himself related to their occupational context and to their way of communication(Barley, S. R. and Kunda, G., 2016). This identity is developed and created through personsbeliefs, values, attitudes, experiences and motives as this further helps in defining themselves insociety whereas, professional practice is known as execution of knowledge, skills by people intheir profession at workplace. This is also related to the way individuals behave at their place ofwork. In order to have deeper understanding and knowledge, Thomas Cook which is BritishGlobal Travel Company has been considered under this report. It was established on 19 June2007 through merger between MyTravel Group plc and Thomas Cook AG. In this present reportit will be discussed about fundamental benefits regarding current professional developmentconcerned to various stakeholders. Also it includes about own competencies, skills consideringapproaches. Lastly, personal development plan with interview process and its positive andnegative aspects has been included. TASK 1P1 Important benefits of ongoing professional development for various stakeholders Company's Overview:Thomas Cook is known to be world's best known company in travel and tourism sectorwhich began its operations on 5 July 1841 based at London. It offers different range of servicesto their customer's concerned with this sector. This travel company renders its services in Europeand United Kingdom operating with help of group of tour operators and airline companies. Theproducts offered by Thomas Cook comprises of holiday packages, hotels, resorts, cruise lines,charter and scheduled passenger airlines. Thomas cook is public limited company with revenueof£ 9548 million (Bruss, K. V. and Kopala, M., 2013). Also, Thomas Cook emphasises onoffering customers with “ pick and mix” approach as per customer's needs and expectations.They focus more on selling best experience along with generating higher returns and maximisedcustomer satisfaction. In order to gain competitive advantage, company is planning to launchexpress check-in, availability of products both at online and offline products and introduction ofHotel shops for customer's so that customer's can easily customize their holidays. So, to gain
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competitive advantage from their rival firms managers of Thomas cook are required to delivercontinuous professional development programmes for their stakeholders. Key benefits for stakeholders:Continuous Professional Development can be defined as an on going learning processwhich could help an individual in maintaining the overall professional competencies and skills inorder to gain competitive advantages at workplace (Bainbridge, 2016). It is essential because thisprocess majorly stays enclosed with past experiences which has been faced by an individual andthen training can be given to overcome different weaknesses or build up effective plans andprocedures. Some of key benefits of development programmes are discussed below:-Build Confidence And Credibility- On-going development programmes in organisationlike Thomas Cook, could assist stakeholders in increasing and building their confidencelevel which allows them to perform their tasks effectively and efficiently. Also, theseprogrammes help individuals of Thomas Cook to build their credibility to enhance theirset of skills, key performance areas ( KPAs) and Key result areas ( KRAs). Enhancedconfidence and credibility level in workers of Thomas Cook helps in increasingproductivity and quality of services at workplace (Chamberlayne, P. and Bornat, J. eds.,2014). Easy Succession Planning- Professional developmental plans helps managers ofThomas cook to prepare and develop succession plans for workers development. Incontext of Thomas Cook, plans can be prepared for enhancing and improving existingskills and capabilities of their staff members. Also, it helps to reduce gaps in knowledgethat are inevitable with hiring and turnover. Managers of Thomas Cook choosedevelopment programmes as this further helps in training and developing leaders forfuture (Crocket, K., 2014).Increases Retention- Professional development programmes are especially developedfor employees and other stakeholders benefits. As these are prepared for employees ofThomas Cook basically emphasising on their development. Furthermore this leads toemployee retention professional development provides them with sense of belongingnessand get to know that Thomas Cook want to retain their stakeholders for long term. Reenergizes Staff- Conducting developmental programmes in Thomas cook helps inbreaking down monotonous nature of day to day operations and helps in reenergising
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