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Professional Identity and Practice Assignment - Travelodge

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We will discuss- key benefits of the ongoing professional development for different stakeholders of Travelodge hotel. Expected skills and competencies of employees within the hotel. Personal skills, competencies, and abilities required for the post of the hotel manager.Review key strengths and weaknesses of an applied interview process. Apart from this, you can also check the "case study of Travelodge Hotel" where you will learn "marketing plan of  Travelodge Hotel".

Professional Identity and Practice Assignment - Travelodge

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PROFESSONAL IDENTITYAND PRACTICE
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1P1 Key benefits of the ongoing professional development for different stakeholders ofTravelodge hotel..........................................................................................................................1P2 Expected skills and competencies of employees within the hotel..........................................3P3 Personal skills, competencies and abilities require for the post of hotel manager.................4P4 Application of different theories and approaches for personal and professional learning.....5LO 3.................................................................................................................................................6P5 Development plan to enhance the skills and competencies....................................................6LO 4.................................................................................................................................................6P6 Job interview for hotel manager.............................................................................................6P7 Review key strengths and weaknesses of an applied interview process................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTIONProfessional identification refers to as a type of social identification and the sense ofbelongingness that an individual has with his profession. The professional identity can be createdthrough a person's attitude, experience, beliefs and values on the basis of which the individualdefines themselves and their professional life and careers. The hotel chosen for the study isTravelodge. It was founded in the year 1985 and is private company which operates and works inthe hospitality and the hotel industry throughout the United Kingdom. The report will outline themajor benefits which the person can have by the on going professional development. Also it willlist the skills and competencies which are required to be possessed by the employees (Izadinia,2015). Further, it will outline some more skills which needs to be required for the post of hotelmanager along with the application of the different theories and approaches for personal andprofessional learnings. Also, it will develop a plan to enhance the skills and competencies of theemployees. At last the report will highlight some questions for interview of hotel manager alongwith some strengths and weaknesses of the interview process.P1 Key benefits of the ongoing professional development for different stakeholders ofTravelodge hotelTravelodge hotel UK:It is a private company which is operating in hospitality sector UK. It was originatedfrom united states as Travelodge chain under separate ownership. The firm is currently servingin various locations on which it has over 500 hotels in UK, 11 hotels in Ireland as well as 5Hotels in Spain. However, as per the wider operating aspects of this business on which there arelarge number of staff operating in premises.Skills and competencies expected by employer for specific roles in Travelodge hotel:As per considering the job role of a hotel manager in Travelodge hotel there must berequirement of various skills and competencies which would lead the organisation in controllingand managing the operations accordingly (Bennett-Levy and Finlay-Jones, 2018). There hasbeen influences of various skills and competencies which are required to be considered in a hotelmanager such as:Technical skills: For a hotel manager performing activities in Travelodge hotel on whichthere have been requirement of various technical knowledge such as operating the computerdevices, ERP software, recording the data etc. having the perfect information and knowledge1
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would be adequate in managing the work quickly and properly. Skills must be relevant withoperating the software such as MS word, excel, ERP and MS project to manage the operationalaspects in the organisation.Communication skills: It requires that, a hotel manager must have good communicationskills which would be conveyancing for the consumers as well as for the workforce. Thecommanding attitude as well as humble behaviour would be effective in term of managing theoperations appropriate as well as encouraging the staff to make proper efforts in retaining theorganisational goals. It includes communicating through verbal, oral, written, formal as well asinformal.Decision making skills: During the time of crisis or any situation where the organisationneeds adequate support and motivation where a hotel manager must be capable of makingconcrete decisions (Bai and et.al., 2018). The transparency as well as adequacy of decisionwould be satisfactory for the organisation in meeting the operational goals at the right time.Klob’s learning cycle:This is the model which is comprised of bringing information regarding the learningbehaviour of various personnel.Figure 1 Klob's learning model(Source: The Experiential Learning Cycle, 2019)2
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