Professional Identity and Practice

Professional Identity and Practice

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
LO1 & LO2......................................................................................................................................1
1. Overview of the organization..................................................................................................1
2. Evaluate the key benefits or importance of on-going professional development....................1
3. Investigate the expected skills which required by the employer for specific role...................2
4. Assessment of current skills, ability or competencies for specific job role.............................3
5. Critical evaluation their abilities, skills and competences to meet the employer’s expectation
.....................................................................................................................................................4
6. Review the range of different learning theories......................................................................5
7. Consider the most appropriate developmental approaches to improve their professional or
personal skills..............................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Professional identity and practices is one's personality as viewed in relation to and
participation in a group. Professional identity is formed in their actual or expected personal life
by one's views and behaviours, ideals, motivations and interactions from which people identify
them (Androusou and Tsafos, 2018). Professional practices help the individual to assess their
skills and improve to get better future opportunities. For the better understanding of this concept,
Premier Inn is selected which is a largest UK hotel brand. It has more than 72,000 rooms in
around 800 hotels and Premier Inn established in 1987. This report covers the several topics such
as benefits of ongoing professional development, expected skills for employer point of view,
assess the skills for specific job role and review the range of learning theories.
MAIN BODY
LO1 & LO2
1. Overview of the organization
Premier Inn is a UK hotel chain and the biggest brand of hotels along with over 72,000
rooms and 800 hotels. This runs hotels in a number of areas from town centres, cities, and
airports along with Travelodge and Ibis hotel. Many other Premier Inn hotels are newly
constructed, while many of the chain’s downtown sites across the UK are housed inside of
redeveloped office towers that would've been demolished otherwise. Few hotels in historic
homes like "Bristol Airport" in Sidcot are located in.
2. Evaluate the key benefits or importance of on-going professional development
It is very essential for the organization to provide on-going professional development
training which is beneficial in respect of employer as well as employees of Premier Inn. Further
discussions are as follow:
 Skilled workforce: On-going professional development is the training which helps the
organization to improve their employee’s skills, ability and companies (Best and Williams,
2018). It helps to make hotel staff skilled which further beneficial for Premier Inn’s
managers to perform their daily basis operational activities. Skilled workforce helps in
achieving business goals & objective through offering quality services to the customers.
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