Using the Kolb Cycle of Learning to Reflect on Personal Development

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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Using the Kolb cycle of learning reflect upon your learning process. Identify your strength
and qualities and reflect upon your personal development and provide an action plan of how
you will further develop your personal learning skills...........................................................1
Identify two stressors associated with healthcare managers and provide recommendation on
different coping strategies......................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Learning is the ability of an individual to get learn and understand different factors as per
their own learning basis. It is an acquisition of both the skills and the knowledge that has been
tough from the educational background (Morris, 2019). This report includes the Kolb cycle of
learning that reflects the learning process of an individual, action plan that develops the personal
learning skills and abilities, stressors related to the health care managers.
MAIN BODY
Using the Kolb cycle of learning reflect upon your learning process. Identify your strength and
qualities and reflect upon your personal development and provide an action plan of how
you will further develop your personal learning skills.
Kolb cycle of learning: It was a model that was published by the David Kolb in 1984 and from
this he developed his inventory of learning style. It is the learning cycle that consists of mainly
four stages that are as concrete learning, reflective observation, abstract conceptualisation and
active experimentation (McIntyre, 2018). As from this cycle it could be determined that learning
must be gain with lot of efficiency and effectiveness. The learner also might entre at any of the
stage through his or her own learning and logical abilities.
(Source: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/styles/kolb.html)
Learning is a process in which feeling, watching, thinking and doing all the activities
simultaneously takes part in. Learning is a continuous and a never ending process in which the
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repetitive processing and perception of acknowledging something is related to the continuous
growth and development of an individual.
(Source: Kolb’s learning style and experimental learning model, 2017)
Concrete learning (feeling): It is the learners that learn from the specified experiences and get
relate themselves with the other people. They also try to get to connect with the people by
maintain the sensitivity and try to reach to the emotional thinking of the other people. It includes
those people who have received from the practical tools and techniques. They also try to take the
help from the experts order to gain some of the learning aspects (Kanske, 2018). They try to be a
coach of others too and solve the various issues of the others too. It is the different people that
has the going through with the step-by-step and then managing the different situation after then
try to enhance their experiences.
Reflective observation (watching): It includes those people who has deep observation
and comes up with the result or an outcome after taking the complete analysis of the certain
situation. They make their own judgements after viewing the different and unique environment
as from the various prospects or perception. They are those who also get learn from the different
perception of the various people and the different approach of people that they apply while
making the different choices. They have the deep thinking process and always watching each
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