Reflective Practice for Personal and Professional Development

This article discusses the significance of reflective practice in personal and professional development. It explores the benefits of group presentations and highlights areas for further improvement. The article emphasizes the importance of communication, researcher, and presentation skills for academic and career success.

Self development and
responsibility
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CONTENTS
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Reflect on performance of group presentation and module.........................................................3
Area to be develop further...........................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
The reflective practices remain very much helpful to a student in developing their path
way toward success. As the reflective practice help in explaining the experience that a student
has over a particular event through which learning can be develop among them. This help in
identifying the things that went wrong or things that are right, so that they get realisation about
the mistake they performed and manner in which they can be improved for not repeating in
future. The current project involve a reflection of student about the experience they get from
group presentation along with a detailed discussion regarding area of improvement as well as
action plan for working over those area of development for better future.
Reflect on performance of group presentation and module
My experience throughout this module was great as it bring up lots of learning to all of us
as we went through several things as well as task that supported in my personal development. As
a part of this module I was assigned with a group presentation task with the help of which I
become able to learn several new things that are helpful in my personal and professional
development as well. While working over this project I become capable of developing my
personal skills such as researcher skills, presentation skill, team working, writing skills and many
more. In this group we are 4-5 members in a group and we are assigned with a task to create a
presentation which is to be presented in front of class. The team members were assigned by my
tutor and they were actually not known to me. Due to this I was nervous a little bit that whether I
would be able to manage things properly with them or would I able to complete my project
effectively.
While starting this project, we firstly decided to had a meeting all together so that we
become able to understand each other and make discussion about who perform which task. With
the mutual discussion I was assigned with a task to prepare the presentation. Before starting it I
was quite nervous but while meeting all the member assured me that everything will be fine and
we well be able to complete the task on timely manner. after that all the task are scheduled and
assigned to team members as per their skills. Everything was moving good but one of them take
more time then actually assigned to him as while researching the data he found more difficulty in
arranging it in appropriate manner that remain valid as per the assignment.
After realising this that it is taking all of our time that was too late, at that time we were
very much demotivate toward our project as it was not possible for rest of the people to complete
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the project on timely manner by performing their assigned task. So, we decided that instead of
working individually we decided to perform tasks all together. After that we all started analysing
the information and arranging the most useful content as per the presentation.
This saves lots of our time ad we become able to keep all the things on track and also
competed our project on timely manner. After performing this work project I realise the
importance of team work as with the help of team members collaboration things run smoothly
and problems can also be rectified on timely manner. Through this I also become able to aware
about the things like research skills is very much crucial for a student to performing well in
academics and I also become able to develop my writing skills while working over this project.
Mine task was to prepare a presentation as I am good at IT skills but while working with my
team member I came to know about several tools and features that can be used to prepare a
presentation more attractive and I was unaware about it. So from all of this information I can say
that this group work was a learning package for me as I become able to not only learn new things
but also develop my existing skills such as presentation skills, researcher skills etc. But I also get
a realisation that I required to work over personal development over the weaknesses I found
through this group task.
Among them researcher skill is very much essential to get developed for a student so that
they become able to get right set of information from valid sources while performing
assignments. Other than this I found that my communication skills is also required to be
improved so that I can express my thoughts more clearly. In addition to this I found that team
management skills is also required to be get enhanced for personal as well as professional
development. I will use this information in improving my skills and capability by preparing the
action plan where I decide the actions which I required to made for bringing improvement on
myself. Additionally I decided to use this team working skills and relationship building when I
actually join the corporate as there team working skills is a must. But I little bit confused about
how to develop strong dynamics within team and bring coordination among them. Hence, I
decided to improve my team working skills by taking more participation in group projects and
also attending seminars to learn about trick that help in developing strong team dynamics.
Area to be develop further
My participation to this group activity was worth as while performing during this I would
be able to get a chance to improve myself over personal and professional level that remain
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helpful to improving my future performance. Despite of this I also found some of the area for
further development over which I need to work. These are mentioned below:
Communication skills: - The communication is a must thing which every individual
whether for a career or academic performance required. It support in delivering the ideas or plan
in a right manner so that every person can understand the actual meaning which speaker want to
explain. Other than this it also support in building up confidence and make them capable of
speaking in front of many people. With the improvement of this skill of mine I would be able to
speak effectively in front of my classmates and tutors when I again get such kind of task to be
present in front of them and be able to explain my perception behind my words. Rather than that
with the help of communication skill I would also be able to improve my interpersonal skills that
support in cracking my interview in order to get a good job and support me in give an
outstanding performance as per the roles and responsibilities assigned to me such as directing
team, presenting ideas in meeting, keeping people motivated and maintain a good relationship
with team mates.
Researcher skill: - This skill is consider to be very much essential for a student point of
view and performing well within academics. This is so because a good researcher skill helps a
student in exploring huge amount of information effectively that can be further used for
enhancing the knowledge and learning. By improving this skill I would be able to perform well
within my future academic projects. Additionally with the help of this I would be able to
understand the difference between the valid as well as vague content and be able to choose the
right and authenticated sources through which data can be collected for representing within a
particular study to accomplish its objective. Despite of all this I would also be able to get my
professional development where with the help of this skill I’ll be able to utilise the available data
effectively to prepare better business strategy.
Presentation skills: - This skill support an individual to represent the information in
effective manner either by using IT support or within spoken words, all work well in expressing
the view of an individual in effective manner. Being a student the presentation skill holds a
greater importance for me as it support me in performing well and in getting good marks when I
assigned with a task to present something in front of my class. By learning presentation skills I
would be able to create by PPT presentation in more effective manner using different tools which
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in turn further support me in expressing my thoughts and also make it easier to explain when I
talk in front of class about my idea.
CONCLUSION
From the above presented information it can be summarised that the reflective practice
plays a significant role within the development of an individual by making them aware about the
strength and weaknesses they have. This in turn further help them in determining the area of
improvement that they required to consider so that set of activities to be performed in this regard
can be identified. This will support in preparing a future action plan involving detail about action
to be taken for improving a particular skill.
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