Professional Identity and Practice

Professional
Identity and
Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1) Evaluate the key benefits of on-going professional development for various stakeholders
in an organisation........................................................................................................................1
P2) Identify professional employer expectation of skills and competencies in TUI Group.......3
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4
P3) Study self skill, abilities and competencies for assistant manger in TUI Group..................4
P4) Range of learning theories and approaches .........................................................................5
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................6
P5) Prepare development plan....................................................................................................6
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................8
P6) Conduct a job interview........................................................................................................8
P7) Strength and weakness of applied interview process...........................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Professional identity is formulated on individuals attitude, motives, beliefs and
experience through which particular people can present themselves in the existing professional
life (Attenborough and Abbott, 2018). In order to grow the career graph over the years it is
essential to make improvements in professional skills, knowledge and competencies. By taking
proper training and closely observing other co-workers skills associated with professionally can
be groomed accordingly with the phase of time. For the completion of this report TUI Group is
undertaken. It is a successful travel and tourism business in Germany. This came into working in
the year 1923 and the CEO of this leading company is Friedrich Joussen. This assignment
covers benefits on on-going professional development. Necessary skills and competencies
expected by employer from employee are highlighted. Self abilities and skill are assessed for
specific job role. Brief explanation of various learning theories and approaches adopted by
professional development processes are done respectively. Development plan is illustrated for
improvements for skills and competencies. Additionally, interview is undertaken and their
strengths and weaknesses are reviewed.
LO 1
P1) Evaluate the key benefits of on-going professional development for various stakeholders in
an organisation.
TUI Group is a international travel and tourism firm located in Hannover, Germany.
Across the globe this is the leading leisure, travel and tourism organization which is successfully
meeting the emerging needs of the customers on priority level. This successful organization
owns five European airlines as well as numerous tour operators based in Europe. It is listed in
Frankfurt Stock exchange (Broadhead, 2017). The area served by this travel and Tourism
company is North America and Europe. In order to bind targeted customers over the years TUI
Group provide distinguish products services such as, Hotels, cruise lines, package holidays,
passenger airlines, resort and many more.
Some of the subsidiary airlines provided by TUI Group are, corsair, TUlfly, TUlfly
Nordic AB, TUI Airways LTD and so on. Organization is training their staff members to work
effectively in order to achieve the emerging needs of the customers (About TUI Group, 2020).
On the other stakeholders (employees, suppliers, creditors, directors, shareholders, government,
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unions etc.) are invited in their decision making process so that most suitable decision can be
made. In the global market this is the world's largest tourism group that includes whole tourism
value chain under one roof. 27 million customers are build by travel and tourism industry as well
as provide unmatched holiday experience in 180 region.
On-going professional development is showcased as procedure of documenting,
developing and maintaining professional skills. TUI Group workers skills can be enhanced
through training or by observing other teammates working in the premises. On the other hand
TUI Group keep record regarding what staff members experience, gained and applied in their
day to day working style. Continuous professional development is important to conduct at the
workplace so as to ensure co-workers to be competent in own profession. Additionally, this aid
in uplifting carrier graph of the TUI Group employees in positive way which will benefit the
employees in the coming years (Connolly and Snook, 2018). In some condition it assist in raising
salary packages of the workers. In the open market place there are various positive side of on-
going development from the perception of distinguish stakeholders. Below are the brief
explanation of these :
 TUI Group conduct on-going professional development in order to raise the skills,
competencies and knowledge in such a manner so that professional services can be given
to customers and employees. By this consumers can be made satisfied and can be bind
for longer time duration.
 Stakeholders plays a vital role in making the TUI Group successful in the international
market. On-going professional development helps employees to make meaningful
contribution in working of team in order to meet emerging needs of the customers.
Through this huge monetary value can be gathered by full-filling their expectation level.
 The confidence level of stakeholders (suppliers, employees, customers and many more)
are raised gradually. By this issues can be tackled by them easily. The confidence level
upgraded in employees will assist them to manage and handle problems associated with
investors, co-workers, suppliers and so on.
From the above discussion it is cleared that how on-going professional development are
beneficial to various stakeholders. Moreover, it directly or indirectly helps TUI Group to
maximize huge revenue by full-filling their expectation level up-to their standards (Cruess and
Steinert, 2018).
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