Reflective Report on Gibbs Model of Reflection and Personal Development Plan

This reflective report covers Gibbs model of reflection to reflect the experience acquired by doing task 1 and 2. It also covers a PDP to develop and improve key skills or abilities. The report discusses the importance of academic and employability skills, and how they can be developed through group activities. The report also includes a personal development plan with objectives, development activities, evaluation, and target dates.

Reflective Report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Gibbs Reflective Model...............................................................................................................3
Personal Development Plan.........................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals:.....................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In a person’s life, academic skills are regarded as the basic skills, knowledge and habits that
an individual gain in an educational setting. These skills could be time-management,
communication, listening skills which are vital to succeed and mastery in subjects or concepts in
the academy (Galli, 2020). Whereas, employability skills are the skills that are transferable in
nature and a person learns to gain a desirable job or position in an organization. These skills can
be motivation skills, problem-solving skills, leadership skills, creativity and much more. This is a
reflective report which covers Gibbs model of reflection to reflect the experience acquired by
doing task 1 and 2. It will also cover a PDP to develop and improve key skills or abilities.
TASK
Gibbs Reflective Model
In 1988, Gibbs model of reflection was identified by Graham Gibbs to offer structure to
learning from experiences. This model enables a person to examine their learning experiences
while providing its cyclic nature lends itself mainly well to repeated experiences, letting the
individual to plan and learn from things that either went well or not. This model contains six
stages which are discussed below:
 Description: My teachers and mentors provide me and other students a group
assignment. The group involved five members and each member were granted with
certain task and responsibility so that we all could reach the ultimate results in the
classroom. I decided to play the role of mentor as I could understand the task better and
lead other members effectively. The topic which was given by our teachers was role of
digital tools in collaboration at UWTSD. We were needed to analyse the modern tools
that could make collaboration easier in a student’s life. The chosen digital tool was
Microsoft Office 365 (Guangzhi, Liangang and Zhengmao, 2019). Additionally, digital
skills helps me in performing my activities in effective and efficient manner by using
different techniques of digital. It provides fluency, along with comprehension tester in
making collaboration at UWTSD. Therefore, by taking all the above consideration each
member was tasked with certain responsibility such as who will make presentation, who
will speak publically to present the work, who will conduct research on the chosen topic
and much more.

 Feelings: I have realised that attending the project provided me better growth
opportunities that might lead me to get a desirable job in the company. I was happy to
participate in the group work as I got many opportunities to develop random academic
and employability skills which are important as a professional person. In addition to this,
i also feel that that Office Microsoft 365 helps me different way as it appears to be the
most popular digital tool for team collaboration because it's offers a fluency and
comprehension tester, as well as a software package that gives teachers digital teaching
tools to support online classes and aid in remote collaboration with their students.
Dividing the task was a smart choice as it leads better results and marks for all of
members. Leading the task made me frustrated and angry as sometimes members do not
listen my orders and they do according to their way and understanding. I have also
realised that I had little motivation to influence others and to do my work in the
assignment. Sometimes, members in the group reach late at work due to which I got
annoying issues and that affected all members’ working as well. Otherwise, overall
experience of learning and group working was good and I learned several new things that
might support me future.
 Evaluation: It is evaluated that all the members delivered high quality work for the
agreed topic and meet deadlines as well. It helped all of us to earn good grades in the
assignment while doing something interesting in learning. The negative aspect is that
some members were not listening my perspectives and follow my orders that created
issues as well, but with motivation skill I could be able to influence the team members
and made them to work professionally and ethically.
 Analysis: It is analysed that the reason why the overall group task went well was because
each work had been divided between all the members as per their skills, knowledge and
abilities so that they could work accordingly. It created strengths on work and was also
helpful in attaining good grades in assignment (Hu and et.al., 2020). I have also found
that working in a group was quite interesting to me as found different strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats within me. The task aim was achieved as I
effectively lead and direct the team members. It was also effective to use communication
tools so that team members could get to know what they are expecting for the
assignment. We have also conducted a proper research on the use of digital tools in order

to make collaboration among students. Also, it is crucial to develop the digital skills in
order to me the academic activities effectively and efficiently. For it, it is vital to use
Office 365 as this helps organizations improve collaboration by transforming the
corporate intranet into a social network that cuts through hierarchies to improve
executive-employee connections and eliminate barriers created by physical distance, time
zones and workers using multiple devices. Being a team leader, I also used motivation
tools and techniques that could work to influence team members. I used feedback,
appreciation, trophies and much more to motivate people in my team. I also tried to be
frank and transparent with my team members so that could know about their deficiency
and power of doing any task. Moreover, it could also be said that the task could also be
improved by having good team-management skills. I have seen that I am lack at problem
solving skills so it is vital to me to grow in such area as well, as there were many
conflicts increased among team members.
 Conclusion: By seeing all the phases, it is concluded that doing group activity supported
me to grow several skills such as digital skills, abilities and knowledge (Huang and et.al.,
2021). It helped me to grow several academic and employability skills that would help
me to get my desirable job in the organization. Also helpful in obtaining efficient
knowledge about the academic and professional experiences. Through group activity, I
was also able to understand my strong and weak areas, along with opportunities and
threats in the way of success. Both positive and negative experiences of learning have
been attained while doing assignment. Furthermore, I will try my best to involve in such
assignment in future as well. Overall, I understood that we need to challenge and push
ourselves to do something new and exciting so that we can learn and enhance our
capabilities.
 Action Plan: In future, I will try to seek more opportunities to engage in group activities
as I learn several new things from other team members as well. In order to lead my team,
I will also learn new skills and techniques from other leaders. I will make sure to observe
them so that I can understand how they behave with members while influencing diverse
people to attain goals of team (Wu and et.al., 2019). Also, managing time and meet
deadlines is one of the important aspects in learning so I will also try to improve it. Self-
motivation is also important in leading and directing people so this area is also identified

to be enhanced. Hence, I will ask my tutors and teachers to help me in growing such
areas so that I can develop personally and professionally.
Personal Development Plan
A personal development plan refers as an action plan that one can use to understand their
personal goals that are important to achieve. It will help in acknowledging the strengths and
weaknesses of a person.
Development
Objective
Planned
development activity
Evaluation Target Date
Time-management
skills
 Make
schedules for
both personal
and
professional
work.
 Make sure to
complete work
before
deadlines so
that changes
can be made,
if necessary.
Meeting deadlines for
the projects (Shao and
et.al., 2020).
4-5 months
Leadership Skills  Observing
other leaders
using different
styles and
tools to direct
their team.
 I will also
make sure to
listen
employees’
Satisfaction level of
employees, along with
the achievement of
team goals (Nagar and
Raman, 2020).
One to two years

opinions and
provide
feedback on
their
performance.
Motivation skills  I will use
motivation as
a booster tool
to influence
employees to
work harder.
 I will make
sure to
understand
different needs
and wants of
members to
motivate them
(Topping,
2018).
Motivation level will
be shown by the
performance of
employees. If they do
willingly then it
positively affect the
results of task.
1.5 years
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded that reflection helps in gaining knowledge about the experiences and
learning of a particular situation. In this report, Gibbs model of reflection involves six main
stages such as description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan. It helps in
understanding where a person’s performance went well and where they didn’t go well. PDP as an
action plan helps in developing and enhancing certain skills and abilities of a person. This
involves certain time frame at which skills can be attained.

REFERENCES
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Huang, C. and et.al., 2021. Exploring the relationships between achievement goals, community
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Nagar, R. and Raman, S., 2020. 3dsymm: robust and accurate 3d reflection symmetry
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Shao, Z.K. and et.al., 2020. A high-performance topological bulk laser based on band-inversion-
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Topping, K.J., 2018. Using peer assessment to inspire reflection and learning. Routledge.
Wu, R.Y. and et.al., 2019. Digital metasurface with phase code and reflection–transmission
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