Using Reflective Practice to Inform Personal and Professional Development

Using Reflective
Practice to Inform
Personal and
Professional
Development

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is also known as continuous professional
development (Adnan, 2017). It is the procedure by which organisation as well as individual get
engage within the procedure of learning for meeting challenges and desire goal. Continuous
professional development is related with development needs of individual and group both. This
report is based on Marks & Spencer which is part of retail industry founded in 1884 by Michael
Marks and Thomas Spencer. They are serving at worldwide level and headquartered at London,
UK. Mark & Spencer is well known and Specialises in selling high quality, home and food
products.
This report will going to discuss importance of continuous personal and professional
development in accomplishing objectives of company. Moreover, model of emotional
intelligence will discuss along with its importance to manager and Gibbs as well as Kolb model
will highlight. In addition to this, own performance will evaluate by using principles of
reflection. Individual working style with its impact on other people in organisation and need for
own development in present as well as future will elaborate. In the end, personal development
plan will prepare.
LEARNING OUTCOME 1
1.1 Importance of continuous personal and professional development in achieving organisational
objectives
Continuous professional development is the procedure which utilise for tracking as well
as documenting skills, knowledge and experience which an individual gain in both manner
formally and informally beyond any initial training (Andersson and Palm, 2018). In simple term,
CPD records what they experience, learn as well as apply. This process provide assistance to
individual in managing their own development on an ongoing basis. Function of continuous
process development aids in recording, review and also give reflection on what individual had
learn.
Personal development is lifelong procedure and it is the way through which people can
assess their skills as well as qualities by keeping their life aims in mind. Along with this, they
also set goals for realising and maximising their potential (Barahona, 2018). In simple terms,

personal development is self-aware pursuance which result in growth of individual at personal
level by expanding self-awareness, knowledge and improving personal skills.
Continuous professional development both play important role in accomplishing
organisational objectives within effective manner. Explanation of these are as follows :-
 Continuous professional development help company in improving their employees
efficiency as well as productivity (Dascalu And et. al., 2017). Through CPD staff
members become highly skilled as well as motivated staff and conduct day to day
operations of business firm in effective manner which result in accomplishing objectives
within effective manner.
 It also result in enhancing reputation of business among customers, clients and potential
customers. If an organisation is providing training session to their staff members for
continuous development then it will result in improve their productivity and they will be
able to serve customers in more effective manner (Eichinger, Hofig and Richter, 2017).
Through this image of company will build and more customers will get attract which help
them in accomplishing their objectives.
 CPD also improve employees retention as they feel valued and become loyal to the
company. If staff of company feel they are valued for company then activities conduct by
them will be in effective manner as well as productivity also get improve which result in
accomplishing objectives in appropriate manner.
Apart from this personal development plan also play important role in achieving organisational
objectives (Guthrie and Jenkins, 2018). As individual should develop their behavioural principles
in relation to understanding organisational goals. Moreover, personal development help
individual in getting aware of their present skills and ability as well as also motivate them to seek
improvement for accomplishing organisational objectives. Some companies don't provide
feedbacks to their staff in which personal development help individual to receive feedbacks in
relation of their skills level and competency.
1.2 Use of reflective practice in personal and professional development
Emotional intelligence is related to the capability of individual to manage & control their
emotion as well as also possess the ability for controlling the emotions of others (Hadi And et.
al., 2019). In simple term, emotional intelligence can influence emotions of other human beings.
Moreover, within leadership skills emotional intelligence is very important and there are five