Unit 3: Professional Identity and Practice

Professional identity and
practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
P1 Determine the key benefits or advantages of professional development for the stakeholders
of the business within the context of the chosen organisation.....................................................3
P2 Determine professional employer expectations of skills and abilities in context of the
chosen organisation.....................................................................................................................4
P3 Determine own skills and competences for a specific job position........................................5
P4 Access different of learning theories and strategies used for personal and professional
development processes................................................................................................................8
P5 Determine a development plan to improve skills and abilities of the chosen job position....9
P6 Conduct a job interview for the chosen organisation...........................................................12
P7 Determine important strengths and weaknesses of the above interview process in the
chosen organisation...................................................................................................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
In the growing era, wherein new industries and companies are being established with the fast
growing pace. The rising competition give rise to globalization, technological development and
other related welfare that bring economic growth. An individual need to develop as per the
growing technical and soft skills in the marketplace to get employment and accomplish personal
and professional development. The skills development involves different set of activities that has
to followed to accomplish the determined set pf career objectives, right from SWOT analysis to
preparing development plan or identifying the set of skills and the skills that must be
accomplished and enhanced for accomplishing the set of personal and professional objectives. In
the context of Marriot International Inc. which is an American multinational organisation that
operates in UK. This public company was coinied by J. Willard Marriot and Alice Marriot in the
year 1927, headquartered in Washington, U.S. This report delivers the advantages of professional
development for stakeholders of the company, employer expectation of skills and abilities of the
chosen organisation, abilities, skills for the determine job role, determinate theories and
strategies for personal and professional development, development plan to improve the skills and
knowledge, job interview, strengths and weaknesses of the interview process (Attenborough and
Abbott, 2018).
MAIN BODY
P1 Determine the key benefits or advantages of professional development for the stakeholders of
the business within the context of the chosen organisation
Professional development is determined by the continuous learning and in order to accomplish
the pre-determined set of proficient accreditations. These learnings improve understudies or
skills in for the desired career objectives. This professional development renders develops an
individual skills set in different manner such as contextual analysis strategy, meeting, training,
and networks of training, exercise study (Best and Williams, 2018). To determine the benefits to
both employees and employers of the professional development at workplace, these are
discussed as below:
Advantages to employees:

 Personal fulfillment: Personal fulfillment wherein an individual is looks for
accomplishing he set of objectives that both develops the personal and professional
development. Continuous learning and advancement develops an individual skill set and
lift to level of range of abilities and knowledge to develop an individual personal
development.
 Increased employability: When an individual is skills set are sufficing for the further
professional development that is he/she possess the particular set of objectives needed to
accomplish the desired set of objectives it benefits an individual to acquire easy
employability in the future career. Proficient improvement is a cycle helps to boost the
qualities and aptitudes of an individual, which helps that representative in more interest to
serve different heads a well.
 Added incentive to resume: Professional advancement is approach that improves abilities
and skills which he/she can add in the resume. The resume determines an individual
abilities and competencies which leaves and good picture with experiencing the
determination cycle at a helpful way (Bimrose and Brown, 2019).
Advantages to employer:
 Skilled labor force: Professional advancement develops the enhances the skills and
abilities of an individual. These will guide an individual to perform better in a workplace
and better results to the boos which boost the productivity in the workplace.
 Updated information: This cycle is helping both business and stakeholders to keep up
with the updated information in about how to conduct different functions in the
workplace. It renders useful information pretty to different business activities of
coordination and guiding efforts of individual into a same direction (Chen and Hubinette,
2017).
 Organizational brand picture: In an enormous association like Marriot International Inc.
where productive working employees delivers the brand image of the organisation in the
marketplace. Wherein the management internal workplace reflects employee satisfaction,
and the competencies to each representative in the workplace by taking different
organizational strategies and challenges in order to build business growth and
accomplishment of the pre-determined business standards.

P2 Determine professional employer expectations of skills and abilities in context of the chosen
organisation
In the context of Marriot International Inc. and the chosen job role of the finance
manager, the required range of skills and capabilities are determined below:
Leadership: The major role of the finance manager is to manage the circulation of the flow of
money in the workplace. Wherein the financial manager has to scrutinize each activity in the
workplace in order to determine the cost incurred and the revenue generated from each activity.
The financial manager has to push each activity into the most productive ways. The financial
manager has to coordinate different individual efforts by implementing the set of financial
targets. Great monetary supervisors hold the responsibilities fir different organizational events
and structure successful answers to support the business function with best financial advices
(Fergusson and et.al.,2020).
Problem solving: Problem solving is the greatest abilities of a financial manager in order to
determine the desirable solution for different business activities to highlight different issues and
solution with proper investigations. With the major responsibility for examining financial plans
or estimation of risk involves to different business venture.
Communication: Communication is the greatest key from a financial manager in order to
deliver the right financial reports in the organisation, wherein she/she have to communicate the
financial decisions and statements to the organisation I order to deliver the financial stability and
positions. Effective communication leads to determine analytic and logical reasoning to different
business issues. He/she should have complex monetary information, solid composed and verbal
relational abilities. Wherein finance manager have deliver desirable remedies with available
business data (Liu and Geertshuis, 2021).
Mathematical proficiency: The financial manager must have the mathematical proficiencies in
order to determine the analytical business solution to different issues. The financial manager
must calculate the amounts of cash generated from different business activities, the cost incurred
in order to determine whether the business activities are profitable or non-profitable to the
business. Finance must evaluate different numerical figures of the business activities in order to
determine the financial reports and statements of the business.

P3 Determine own skills and competences for a specific job position
To the given scenario, I want to become a financial manager for which I need to analyze
my strengths and weaknesses which help to evaluate the skills and abilities to accomplish the
career objectives. SWOT analysis of my skills and abilities are as:
STRENGTH WEAKNESS
Verbal Communication
Financial planning
Lack of time management
Decision making
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
Enhanced skill and knowledge of hospitality
operations
Acquiring higher position in the workplace
Rising Competition
Advancement of technology
Belbin team roles:
Dr Meredith Belbin coined Belbin team role determined that team role in determined by how
each individual contributes their efforts in a team. He named nine such team roles for
accomplishing the team objectives (Moorhead, 2019).
Action Oriented Roles
Shaper
Develops innovative ideas in
order to develop effective team
role.
Implementer Implementation of the objects

into action.
Completer Finisher
Ensures that the team objectives
implemented accomplished are
as per the pre-determined
standards.
People Oriented Roles
Coordinator
Coordinates different role and
activities.
Team Worker Cooperation and coordination.
Resource Investigator
Looks for opportunities to
achieve the group objectives.
Thought Oriented Roles
Plant
Develop the actual team
objectives.
Monitor-Evaluator
Evaluates the progress of the
plan objectives.
Specialist Specialized skills and abilities
The above table reflects, that the financial manager has to implement and coordinate different
efforts into a direction to accomplish group objectives. Wherein the financial manger has to plan
and implement financial and shoulder responsibilities in order to by monitoring the execution of
the financial plans.

P4 Access different of learning theories and strategies used for personal and professional
development processes
There are different learning theories and approaches that can be adopted in order to
accomplish the personal and professional development plan in international organisation like
Marriot International Inc. The two different theories are defined below:
Honey and Mumford learning style: It is defined wherein there are four different learning styles
such as activist, theorist, pragmatist, reflector. These learning styles determines that how people
learns and responds to subjects in order to understand and develops their ow learnings (Nickel
and Zimmer, 2019).
Kolb’s learning style: Kolb learning styles determines different concepts that can be applied o
different learning subjects. Kolb’s theory determines that how an individual need to implements
new approaches that shapes new experiences and deliver both practical and theoretical
knowledge of an individual.

P5 Determine a development plan to improve skills and abilities of the chosen job position
Proficient advancement plan is also known as representative improvement program or individual
improvement program. Proficient advancement plan is important as it helps to keep a record of
all the professional objectives and the applied strategies in order to accomplish the determined
objectives. These helps to determine that how different determine professional goals has to
accomplished which involves the specific skills and knowledge with the determine standards and
the time deadlines that has to accomplished. This cycle supports an individual with pace of
achievements and relate efforts resources required in order to accomplish the personal and
professional development. It is the most suitable tool in order to satisfy the long term
professional objectives. In order to determine effective professional development, plan it is
important to list out the skills and knowledge that needs to improved. The below table determine
the same by keeping Marriot international Inc. as the supported organisation to achieved the set
professional objectives (O’Shea and McGrath, 2019).
Opportunities Current standard Future standard Action for improvement
Time management 3 4
Planning and scheduling
the standards deadline for
each activities and
conducting further
activities as per the
determined time.
Planning 2 5 These involves planning

in advanced the
objectives which has to
be accomplished by the
specified job role.
Communication
(Non-verbal) 2 5
I have to conduct
seminars and group
discussions in order to
improve my verbal
communication skills that
will also boost my
confidence.
Leadership 4 5
Implementing the
appropriate leadership
techniques and
scrutinizing the execution
of the work will helps me
to improve my leadership
skills.
Decision making 3 4
I will improve my
decision making abilities
by comparing how past
decisions have been
effectiveness and adding
on my own ideas to
suitable business
decisions.
Language 2 4 I will interact and
communicate with my
team member which will

not only improve my
language skills but also
helps to build strong
relationship with my team
members.
Development plan for the job role of financial manager in Marriot International Inc.
SKILLS ACTIVITY TO
IMPROVE TIME PERIOD EVIDENCE
Time management
Planning and
coordination of
different activities by
optimum utilization of
different resources.
1month
Completion of
different project and
ventures and
evaluating the time
management abilities
Leadership
I will refer to different
book and internet
sources to evaluate
that how different
leaders have
implemented different
leadership styles to
specific situation
3 months
Scrutinizing the work
of team member and
implementing to need
changes in the project.
Decision making By reviewing the past
records tat how
decision have been
taken to similar
situation and adding
my own conclusion to
2 months Take important
decision and advices
to the top executives
of the financial
statement prepared of
the hotel.

support and make
relevant decisions.
Communication
Interaction with the
team members to
develop strong
relationship and
improve
communication skills.
3 months
Interaction with team
member, international
visitors, executives.
Planning
Researching of how
different leaders
formulated plans in
context of hospitality
industries.
3 months
Planned and advised
the top level
executives about how
to improve financial
stability of the
business.
Team working
Participation in
execution of planning
and other activities
and motivating the
team member with
improved
communication to
accomplish the team
objectives
2 months
Apart from financial
planning, monitoring
the execution of the
planning activities in
the team.
P6 Conduct a job interview for the chosen organisation
Marriot International Inc. must have the employees who rightly serve the needs of the
customers and deliver them desirable solution in order build bar identity of the business in the
international marketplace. The finance department of Marriot International Inc. is supporting to
improve the performances of the employees and implement desirable strategies. Different

interview questions and standards that must be accomplished for the job role of financial
manager, these are as:
1. Determine your qualities required for the job role finance manager in Marriot
International Inc.?
I have knowledge pertaining to the job role of finance manager, of cash flow and accounting
treatment with 4 year of work experience in Hilton Hotels as junior accountant officer. I will put
my best of the efforts in order in order to accomplish the set of objectives assigned to me
(Tsybulsky and Muchnik-Rozanov, 2019).
2. Determine the important elements for finance manager in the hospitality industry?
It is important for finance manager in order to manage the flow of funds in the workplace by
accessing the fund requirement to different activities, the sources of und, utilizing the, evaluating
the revenue generated, cost incurred and lastly prepare the financial statement to reflect the
financial stability of the business.
3. Determine the important financial plans and how they are important for business success?
Laying financial plans are important to the business as it reflects the financial stability of the
business, further financial stability determined that how well the business is doing, what are the
profitability and sales margin, the revenue generated, loses of the business and the marker share
of the business in the international market.
4. Determine cash flows and how can to manage business functions in the workplace?
The flow of fund from the business activities is called as cash flow. Determining cash flow in
any business is important as it helps to determine the profits and losses generated from each
business activities. It determines the working capital, the asset, liabilities and how to manage all
these operating activities in order to accomplish organizational objectives and maintaining the
financial stabilities in the international marketplace.

P7 Determine important strengths and weaknesses of the above interview process in the chosen
organisation
I was framed certain questions which is crucial in order to collect information relevant to
the interview process and employability. Different workers recorded their response to the queries
raised as per their experiences. The representatives of the company must feel satisfied working
with the organisation with the main inquiry the representative welt happy with the responses of
the organisation. The representatives were putting the queries for knowing the financial outputs
delivered by the company to the workers, the personal and professional development
opportunities to the workers. Marriot International Inc. set different criteria pertaining to the
selection criteria of different skillset and experiences required for the job role. With the specified
knowledge pertaining to the job role and the experiences I was able to satisfy the set of standards
determined by the association.
Marriot International Inc. delivers different techniques in order to improve the employee
satisfaction and achieve productivity to the employee. The representatives were posed to utilize
the assets of the organisation, disclosed by the experience of workers (Vokatis and Zhang, 2016).
The representative must implement the right planning strategies for internal management in order
to accomplish business success. The work experience was counted and acceptable that the
candidates needs to expand their learnings. The candidates were raising question that they
wanted to know that what are privilege of the workers and giving experiences that are useful for
Marriot International Inc.
CONCLUSION
The above report delivered the proficient advancement is a approach which is important
for all stakeholders of the business and it involves different set of activities and methodologies in
order to accomplish the set of targeted objectives. Thus, an individual must be aware of all the
working standards of the business for the he/she is looking for the professional career objectives.
An individual must also conduct SWOT analysis in order to determine the set of strengths and
weaknesses in order to develop the skill set as per the pre-determined organizational standards. It
involves conducting different activities for implementing the development plan in order to
determine the abilities and the capacities of an individual in order to accomplish the career
objectives. An individual must scrutinize the professional skills and competencies required, then

must analyze his own skills and competencies and thus apply different theories supported by
development plan in order to accomplish the set of defined skills attributes. The above report
also determine the job interview for the desired job role and the strengths and weakness of the
job interview that how an individual in prepared and able for the specific job profile.

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