Personal and Professional Development Analysis

The assignment requires a detailed analysis of personal and professional development, including the identification of strengths and weaknesses, setting goals, and evaluating outcomes. It also involves understanding the impact of professional development on companies and the role of librarians as teachers. The analysis is supported by references from books and journals, covering topics such as international workplace learning placements, therapist professional development, and student voice in professional programme design.

Professional Identity and Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART A...........................................................................................................................................4
Introduction of Hilton hotel.........................................................................................................4
Role and its skills and competence .............................................................................................4
Benefits and importance of ongoing professional and personal development ...........................4
Theories and approaches of personal and professional development..........................................6
Evaluation of own abilities, skills and competence for the job roles ..........................................6
Approaches of professional development....................................................................................8
PART B............................................................................................................................................8
Project development plan ............................................................................................................8
PART C............................................................................................................................................9
Interview questions for manager .................................................................................................9
Reflection of interview .............................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Professional development is the process of learning new things by gaining experience
from the corporate world. There are different ways that helps in development includes coaching,
mentoring, lesson study etc (Hildebrand, 2018). Personal development helps in improving
awareness and identity, develop talent and potential in person that helps in living a quality life. It
also contribute into development of person in its entire life.
Travel and tourism provide pleasure to the people who are interested in traveling from
one place to another. It provides various facilities like accommodation, entertaining tourists and
operate business tours in various countries. It can be domestic as well as international level. As it
is the largest growing sector in the world.
Present study will be based on Hilton Hotel. It is an international brand that provide full
facilities of hotels and resorts to customers. It was founded by Conrad Hilton in 1919. Its
headquarter is located at McLean, Virginia. It is the largest hotel brand in the world that provides
luxury services to its customers.
Report will include importance of on-going development and self directed learning that
enhance professional identity and career opportunities. It will also include personal skill audit
and Swot analysis. Further more it will include professional development plan and job
description and video recorded job interview.
PART A
Introduction of Hilton hotel
Hilton hotel and resorts is a global brand of hotel that provides luxury services to its
customers and has a flagship brand of American multinational hospitality industry. It was
founded on 31 May, 1919 by Conrad Hilton. There were more than 570 Hilton Hotel & Resorts
in 85 countries across different continents. It is the largest hotel brand in the world. The target
customers of this industry is both business and liesure travelers in many countries (Olsen, 2015).
It also provides services like free WiFi, digital check-in, key less entry etc.
Role and its skills and competence
The role chosen in this study is HR manager of Hilton Hotel. The skills and competencies
that is required by Hr manager is that it is responsible for bringing creative ideas into the
business. It is necessary for the Hr manager in getting more information as compared to before.
They must be prepared for the future to meet the expectation of Hilton Hotel. As Hr is the field

that require regular learning and updated itself from latest news and information that can help
Hilton hotel in achieve growth in future. Hr manager must have good communication skill that
provide interaction between employees and employer. They are capable in handling the complex
situation that occurred in the company. Building relation in the company enhances collaborative
work so as to achieve goals of the department that helps in developing competent workforce for
future. Hr manager must have leadership skill for handling all the activities in the company and
provide strategic plan to team. Manager have to coordinate all functional elements within
company. As maintaining ethics of the company is a core competency of Hr manager that helps
in protecting personal information of Hilton Hotel (Kroll and Dussias, 2017). Hr manager must
have all organizational skills that helps in growth and success for future course of action. Hr
manager has to focus on the teamwork that helps in creating the best workplace and increases
employee engagement in the company.
Benefits and importance of ongoing professional and personal development
Benefits of professional development
Increased retention:- Retention plays an important part in the company. As where more and
more employees are working there is growth opportunities in the business. If there is less
retention in company that will lead to slow growth. Employee can be retain by providing it
proper training, offering good salary and other benefits and promoting development options for it
Build confidence and credibility:-Every employee must have confidence in it that helps in
performing task effectively. Providing professional development training to employees helps in
building confidence in their work. It also helps in developing credibility that will enhance new
skills in them.
Improved efficiency:- As in professional development new skills must be set in the employees
so that there efficiency of doing work is increased. They are also able to complete their work on
time and may get opportunities in performing better in future.
Benefits of personal development
Self-awareness:-Personal development of an employee is started with self awareness. It is
important to note that who we are and our values, beliefs and the purpose of it in life. A person
must be aware of its strength and weakness that helps in handling complex problems in future.
A sense of direction:- After raising self awareness it must be clear about that what it want in life
in which direction it has go to improve its life and achieve success in future. Making decision

helps in getting more success and deciding way where to go (Corrall, Delaney and Cleary,
2019).
Motivation:- As motivation plays an important role for employees in performing a task in the
company. If employees are motivated then they will be done their effectively and efficiently.
Employees can be motivated by offering good salary with extra benefits to them so that they are
more involved in the workplace.
Importance of professional development
Continuous professional development helps in achieving success for the company. It is
important as it helps in improving capabilities of doing work of others that is related to the same
field. Enhancing and maintaining knowledge helps in delivering the best professional service to
customers. It ensures that knowledge is going to be updated on regular basis so for that
professional development is important. As professional development helps in getting more
knowledge about the corporate life that helps in achieving success in future.
Importance of personal development
It helps in creating motivation among oneself aware about strengths and weakness of an
individual. It helps in development of the skills that are needed for the particular job role.
Develop a positive attitude towards work that helps in growth and learning of a person (Ahmed
and Ward, 2016). Personal development enhances growth that will help in knowing the position
that where we are now and where we want to go in future.
The above importance and benefits of personal and professional development helps in
enhancing career as building relation with new people and helps in getting knowledge of
corporate world.
Theories and approaches of personal and professional development
Theories of personal and professional development
Freud's structural model of personality development
According to Freud this theory consist of three components of personality such as the id,
the ego and the superego. Id is the personality trait that comes from birth. It is most primarily
part of personality that helps in fulfilling basic needs. Ego is the concept that has control of Id on
it that has power to control the ego of the person. Superego is the last stage of personality that
consist of ideals, morals and values that is inbuilt by parents and culture into them. These ideals

is governed according to ego of a person (Davies, Curtin and Robson, 2017).These are three
elements of personality that work together to create human behavior.
Erikson's stages of psychological development
This theory consist of eight stages of human development. It mainly focuses on impact of
social relationships on personality development of a person. It also depends on the entire lifespan
of a person from its childhood to its old age to emphasize on its development process from first
to last stage of life. At each stage of psychological development in this theory person face a
problem in completing the stages of life. Those people who are successfully completed all the
stages of life is become master and well being (Ruddy, Thomas-Hemak and Meade,
2016).Lastly if those who are not able to resolve the crisis at each stage have to do more struggle
with their lives.
Evaluation of own abilities, skills and competence for the job roles
Two self evaluation models for undertaking an audit and soft skills are as follows:
 Personal Skill Audit
 Self Swot analysis
Personal skill audit of marketing manager
Good Have Have not
Abilities
 Teamwork
 Adaptability
Yes
Yes
Skills
 Communication
 Creativity Yes
No
Competencies
 Decision making
 Leadership Yes
No
SWOT analysis
Swot analysis is doing to identify the strength, weakness, opportunity and threat of an
individual.

Strength
As a marketing manager I am having good technical skills that helps in increasing the
sales of the company. I have creative ideas in my mind that helps me in doing something creative
that also benefit company in increasing its brand image in the market (Patton, Parker and
Tannehill, 2015). As the market is customer centric and company have to produce that satisfy the
needs and wants of customers.
Weakness
My weakness is that I get stressed very easily that will impact on my work as marketing
manager it provides a bad impact on sales of the company. As I am not able to cope with the
problem that is occurred in between my work that will lead to disturb in work and sometimes
may create loss for the company.
Opportunities
As there are many online channels available through which I can promote my brand into
the market. If I think creatively then it would help in achieving success for the company (Duffy,
and Cole, 2018).
Threats
As I don't have leadership skill so I am not able to cope up with the problems that came
in the company easily. I am not good in communicating with people that will be threat as other
people are achieving more success as compared to me.
Approaches of professional development
There are four approaches of professional development such as workshop presentation,
observation, research and product development. It is important to consider all these approaches
to professional development. As Workshop/ presentation is the first approach of professional
development and its purpose is to bring awareness among the people related to ideas and
strategies that is being used in the company. The second approach of professional development is
observation/ feedback it provides feedback regarding the performance and third approach is
inquiry /research that indicate that research will be conducted on time and systematically (Núñez
Pardo and Téllez Téllez, 2015). The last approach of professional development is product
development as companies find needs of customers and then produce action plan to develop a
strategy that help in achieving the business goal. As all these approaches helps in building
professional development in an individual.

PART B
Project development plan
Skills Target Strategies Outcome Time period
Communication Improve between
1-2 months
I take training
from different
sources that helps
in improving my
communication
skill efficiently
and effectively.
By interacting
with other people
also help in
improving this
skill (Macià and
García, 2016).
After taking
proper training
from different
sources I am able
to improve my
communication
skill. Earlier I was
not able to
communicate
with people easily
but after doing
hard work I am
able to talk with
anyone and don't
feel hesitate in
interacting with
others.
2-3 months
Decision making 4-5 months Getting involved
in the company's
decision and
providing them
creative ideas that
can help company
in implement in
its company.
After 4 months I
have seen
changes in me
that I am able to
take decision for
myself as well as
for company
(Dawson, 2018).
6 months
Adaptability 1-2 months As I am not able
to accept the
As my
adaptability skill
3-4 months

changes easily
that will create
problem for me
so I am trying to
adapt the changes
that is occurred in
the company.
is not much good
earlier but I am
able to adapt the
changes that is
done by
companies for
enhancing its
growth (Theory
and Practice in
Professional
Learning, 2019)
PART C
Interview questions for manager
Q.1. How do you motivate your employees in the company?
Q.2. How you build up trust and loyalty in your customers?
Q.3. What is you strength and weakness?
Q.4. Why did you choose in working at hotel industry as your career?
Reflection of interview
As while giving an interview I was feeling nervous in front of the interviewer and in
nervousness I am not able answer the question properly. I know the answer of each question but
then also I was unable to present my answer in front of interviewer. My weakness is that I was
not able to give answers of some questions I have not done preparation before going. At some
extent my strength is that I was able to give good answers to interviewer so I also get
appreciation of it. Challenges that is faced by me is that I have to wait for interview so for that I
have to sit their for longer period of time and wait for my chance to come. As in starting the
management is cooperating as arranging proper place to sit and organizing a good interview
process but after interview is completed they are not cooperating properly as there is no response
regarding interview that is being taken by them.

CONCLUSION
From the above study it can be concluded that professional and personal development
plays an important role in the corporate life. An individual must have abilities and skills to
perform its task effectively and efficiently. As it is important for the company to retain
employees so that it will help in growth of the companies. Building confidence among the
employees helps in achieving growth for the company. As project development plan helps in
overcoming from the weakness that an individual is bearing in it. Through project development
plan an individual can set target to overcome from these weakness and then evaluate the outcome
from it in a certain period of time. For building personal development an individual have to
aware about its surrounding that what is happening and have to decide where it want go through
that can help in achieving its goal. As in interview person have to come up with many problems
as feeling nervous in answering the questions or may get stress while hearing the questions of
interviewer. From the above study it can be concluded that professional as well as personal
development plays a crucial in the company.

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