Reflective Journal: Application of Gibbs Reflective Cycle for Personal and Professional Development

Reflective Journal
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
Gibb’s reflective Cycle...........................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
References:.......................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Reflection revolves around gaining understanding of one’s thinking process and gaining
awareness about the learning process (Brown, 2021). Personal and professional development can
be attained through reflection as it supports individuals in identifying their strengths and
weaknesses and determining ways to make progress in different aspect of employability. This
report involves completion of a personal reflection by application of Gibb’s reflective cycle to
understand the way in which attending this module of personal and professional development and
university have supported development of various employability skills. In addition to this a
detailed action plan is also provided in this report which ensures immediate action in personal
and professional progress.
Main Body
Gibb’s reflective Cycle
GIBBS Model is use to analyse about self strengths and weaknesses of an individual by
analysing the experience of the individual which he gain from a situation (Chang, Mudry and
Hiseler, 2020). In context of me, Gibbs model help me to analyse how I gained by strong and
weak skills at my academic career. The step in Gibbs model are mentioned below-
Stage 1- Description
This is the first stage where individual analyse their situation and describe the situation well.
Here, the individual explain about situation that what had happened, where it happened, who was
part of the situation and many others (Edwards, 2020).
In context of my situation, I have attended many academic classes and I get to know various
kinds of skills in my academic career. I have assigned a team to manage and asked to complete a
project with the group of 4-5 people. I have been chosen as a group leader for the completion of
project. Here, I face many challenges while controlling my team and helping to achieve group
goal. First off all I analyse about the skills and strengths of my group members and divide work
according to that which means I divide work according to specialization team mates. But the
issue at the end is we are not able to complete out project on time. We had submitted project after
3 days of last dead line. Teacher accepted it but reduced our marks for late submission. The
submission was made late due to improper use of resources and secondly, this group is had faced
many conflicts and issues between members.
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Stage 2- Feelings
Here, an individual have to describe how he feel about the situation. This will help to analyse
what the feeling before and after situation. It will also help to analyse how others feel about the
situation (Elsaadouny and et. al., 2020).
According to the situation, I felt that few skills I have developed by performing this activity but
on the other hand, I am also facing guilt that I am unable to manage my team properly and due to
which our group task have not achieved on time. I felt that I have done my best but due to time
management skill and problem solving skill I am lacking behind to achieve group success. When
teacher was giving us the project and assigned me group leader than I was extremely happy and
excited that I have given a new responsibility. I have self confidence that I will achieve the goal
of easily. But when the project gets over I get to know that few other skills I need to develop to
become effective leader. My team mates felt that I have managed them well but due to their
inconvenience, they are unable to complete their task on time and due to which whole project get
submitted late. Few of the group members are blaming them self about not completing project on
time and few members are blaming me that I am unable to solve their issues due to which they
are unable to complete project on time and have to reduce marks.
Stage 3- Evaluation
This stage will discuss about what went well and what went wrong in the situation.
According to my situation, the positive thing which went well is that I have communicate well
with my team members and convey them proper and complete message to clear their doubts that
what they have to do and what not. This will help me to learn communication skill. Secondly, by
this activity I have also gained team working skill by analysing how to handle a team
appropriately. I have noted my performance so that next time if I have given a team than I will
not repeat the same mistake next time. The bad experience about the situation is that we are not
able to submit out project on time which shows that I am unable to learn time management skill.
On the other hand, I am also lacking behind to solve the problem of my group members
regarding the project. I am not able to solve their conflicts well.
Stage 4-Analysis
This stage of the reflective cycle involves understanding the situation in order to extract
meaning from the past experience (Fowler, 2019). This is an important part of the reflective cycle
because it helps reach a conclusion from the experience and take future steps in personal and
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