BMM4982: A Reflective Diary on Professional Placement Journey

This reflective diary documents a student's professional placement experience, highlighting their background, preparation, and key moments throughout the placement. The student reflects on their learning experiences, including developing team working skills, enhancing communication, and improving time management. They discuss their initial nervousness and subsequent growth in confidence, emphasizing the impact of the placement on their employability criteria and personal development. The diary also addresses challenges such as language barriers and workload management, outlining action plans for continuous improvement and seeking support when needed. The student aims to enhance their skills, contribute effectively to the team, and gain a deeper understanding of their role as a supervisor. This document is available on Desklib, where students can find more solved assignments and study resources.

PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT
REFLECTIVE DIARY
IMPORTANT
Submit this completed document via the submission Turnitin link on the BMM4982 Moodle page.
Reflective Diary
1) Background and Reflection
Background and reflection: A brief introduction to the context of your placement (200 words)
Placement is important to enhance my overall growth and improve my skills in an effective manner as a supervisor.
Also I am learning regarding the effective management of employees and staff members by develop better
coordination with them. Further, I also tends to feel open and vocal to my suitable opinions and ideas within the

team. I also tends to brought the new ideas regarding the attendance system of the supervisor on the site. I also
collected effective information regarding the proper management on sites in one day. For this, I must have effective
time management skills which is useful for me to manage my workload as it is required for having effective
placement.
2) Preparation Week 1 & 2 (Placement Launch)
Details should be provided about the elements of the placement preparation programme which you engaged
with.
Learning Experience: What did you do? What did you learn from the sessions? How well do you think you
participated? (100 words)
In the first session of placement, I firstly enrolled myself into the specific session by updating my CV according to the
needs of company. From this, I tends to learned that several things that for my CV which should be precise and
structured in an effective manner. I also participated effectively and with passion in this session as I was quite excited
and dedicated for the particular session. In the next week, I attended the next session of placement lauch that I
worked on my group considering the working skills. I also tends to develop the team working and the behaviour to
work towards the team. I also tends to enjoy explicitly and work in the mixed group with diversified cultures and
languages.
What went well? What went not so well? Why? How can you assess this? (100 words)
Here, I realised that all the other in this session tends to be interactive and alsobale to commuciate in an effective
manner with them. I also need to communicate with the instructor for this session that was not much good in the
teaching skills. For this, the instructor does not tends to provide the complete information regarding the job role. I
also tends to assess this thing with the help of session and complete brochure. This session was effective and I learnt
team working skills in an effective manner by working witht the teammates. I also tends to face certain issues of
language as the language was huge in terms of communication barrier which I faced. For this, I felt that I could have
started this placement session in more confident manner.
What did you learn/achieve? Which employability criteria does this event impact upon? Have you changed how you
feel about your placement? If so, how? How do you want to be perceived on placement? (100 words)
Here, I have learnt about the communication skills and CV making skills. For this, the event tends to impact over the
functional skills which will helpful for me in terms of finding and keeping the job in an effective manner. In regard of
this, I have changed my overall thinking about the placements as in early context I used to feel nervous and also get
panic but now I am more confident regarding my placement. I have also learnt about the critical thinking, problem
solving and team working skills in this particular session. I also learnt the way regarding the interaction with the
mixed group. It leads to impact my own employability factor to the work within the tam during the overall
employmet. I have also learned regarding the personality prefrences to the people who have socialised background.
Reflection: How will this experience be used for your personal development? What do you need to do or know before
you start? What practical actions can you take before your placement? (100 words)

The experience of placement launch is useful for me in terms of enhancing my CV and also develop my own
communication skills which is useful for the personal development. I also effectively practice for my own interview by
which I will enhance my driving skills and also get study regarding the company and its concerning operations. This
will tends to enhance my team working skills and capabilities that is helpful for my personal growth and
development. I also expect that the employer will also appreciate and foster my team working skills. I also want to
support my team for their learning activities. I also want to learn regarding my placement sites and efficiency for the
placed and assigned job role.
Reflective Diary
3) Placement Weeks (Placement Completion)
Details should be provided about key moments and experiences throughout the duration
of your placement.
Learning Experience: Tell us a bit about your placement. What is the organisation, what does it do? Where is it based,
with how many staff? Are you clear on your role/project/targets? (100 words)
Currently, I am enjoying the overall working culture of my organistion and I also met the CEO of my respective
company. I as a supervisor, love to work within the organisation. As I worked effectively with my senior and also
assisted in a very well manner to help them. I also loved the overall flexibility, safety of the employees within the
working environment.
What went well? What went not so well? Why? How can you assess this? How did you approach your first week?
What impression do you think you made? What are you excited/confident/nervous/worried about? (100 words)
During the particular week, I was able to understand the overall functioning as the supervisor and also able to work in
an effective manner. I was still not able to understand things in proper manner like the provide effective services and
training in the scheduled time to ther other individuals. I felt that the workload was quite good and yes there is
proper flexibility and transparency within the environment to meet the supervisors regarding their queries, clarify
few things about work and support.
What did you learn/achieve? Which employability criteria does this event impact upon? What might you have done
differently? How confident did you feel? What could help you? Do you know where to go for support? Have you
contacted your Placement Tutor? (100 words)
Here, I learn to manage the overall workload in an effective manner by my time management skills. It leads to impact
my time management skills as the effective part of my employability critieria. I also tends to set the prominent
deadline chart for the better workload planning. I need to enhance my organising, planning and effective time
management skills. I am first time planning my things and overall workload in the direct manner by communicating
with my manager or head. I also notice that I become more responsible and accountable for my assigned task.
Reflection: How will this experience be used for your personal development? What is your action plan? What could
you do to get more out of your placement? (100 words)

This experience is considered as the most learing experience that has helped me to grow as the effective and
responsible person regarding my employability skills for my personal development. I also need to review my 3 weeks
work and then design the action plan for the further week to imprve my weaknesses. I also need to effectively
interact with my surpervisor to understand the deep vision of the placement as the supervisor.
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