Work-Based Learning: Skills Audit, Personal Development Plan, and Future Career Planning

Work-Based Learning

Table of Contents
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................1
Main body........................................................................................................................................1
Undertake and document a skills audit and from this produce a personal development plan1
Develop a short report that reflects on progress in planning for and undertaking the work role
in the context of any business organisation............................................................................4
Develop a short report that identifies the skills and knowledge required for the work role.. 5
Assess and document your learning and progress with reflective logs and journals.............6
Assess a short report for your planning for a future career role.............................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References ......................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
Work based learning is defined as structured opportunity available to the individual for
enhancing their learning and it is achieved through authentic task and evaluated in the workplace
effectively (Smith and Malloch, 2021). It is one of the essential strategy taken into consideration
by the person that leads to offering them with real life work experience allowing them to use
their academic and technical skills as well as enhance their employability. For this report Premier
Inn is taken as the base hotel. Premier Inn is one of the well established and largest hotel brand,
with more than 72,000 rooms and around 800 hotels. It was founded in 1987 by whitebread,
offering quality service to their customers and maintaining their position around the globe. This
report highlights the detailed description of skills audit and personal development plan for the
job role, also the progress in planning for undertaking the work role in respect to the business
organisation is also highlighted in this report. In addition to this, the skills and knowledge
required for the work role is also highlighted along with the learning and progress document with
reflective logs and journals. Also the planning for a future career role is also highlighted in this
report.
Main body
Undertake and document a skills audit and from this produce a personal development plan
Skills audit is defined as the systematic assessment of a skills and knowledge of an
individual, it offers the proper evidence of existing or developed skills of the individual
(Pokharel,2021). It helps in analysing the requirement for any kind training or personal
development. Skill audit for the hotel manager is mentioned below:
Skills Very good Good Adequate Little or no
experience
Operational
knowledge
*
Detailed oriented * *
Team building
1

Communication
skills
*
Problem solving
skills
*
Interpersonal
skills
*
Skill are the ability of an individual that allows them to perform better and achieve
desired goals and objectives. Behind the growth and development of hotel the proper execution
and planning of the hotel manager plays an essentials role. The skills of the manager plays an
essential role in effectively managing and handling operational and managerial work. From the
above skill audit it is analysed that the hotel manager has strong operational knowledge, detail
oriented and team building knowledge. But, it is also analysed that communication skills,
problem solving skills and interpersonal skills of the hotel manager are not so good and needed
to be improved in order to enhance their performance and achieve desired goals and objectives.
In order to further improve the skills the PDP can be taken into consideration as mentioned
below:
Learning Current
proficiency
Target
proficiency
Development
opportunities
Time scale
Communication
skills
At present I have
scored average in
my
communication
skills and it is
further needed to
be improved by
me. As
communication
skill plays an
essential role in
The target is to
improve my
communication
skills and clearly
and effectively
transfer my ideas
without any
misunderstanding
.
It is very
essentials for the
students to
improve
themselves
through effective
communication
skills. In order to
develop this skill
there are various
opportunities
8 months
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