Report on Professional Identity and Practice at Casamia Restaurant

This report examines professional identity and practice, using Casamia Restaurant as a case study. It explores the importance of professional development, benefits to employees and employers, and required skills for roles like manager and head chef. The report includes a self-assessment using hard and soft skills audits and SWOT analysis, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It also discusses various learning styles and theories like behaviorist, cognitive, and VAK learning styles, and their application in professional development. The conclusion emphasizes the significance of professional identity in achieving success and the use of self-evaluation methods to identify skills and weaknesses, as well as the importance of aligning skills with job requirements. The report is supported by several references from academic journals and books.

Professional Identity
&
Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK A...........................................................................................................................................1
P1 ...........................................................................................................................................1
P2 ...........................................................................................................................................2
M1 ..........................................................................................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P3 ...........................................................................................................................................3
P4............................................................................................................................................4
M2 ..........................................................................................................................................4
D1 ..........................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Professional identity can be defined by the people which help to understand set target
objective and achieve growth. The main purpose of the report to develop an understanding of the
requirement of the professional identity of an individual (Bauer, 2014). To better understand the
report selected organization Casamia Restaurant which is located in Bristol, United Kingdom.
The restaurant was based by Mario Grimaldi in the year 1967. The assignment focus on several
topics like the value of ongoing professional development, self-directed learning, evaluation of
own skills an competences.
TASK A
P1
Overview of an organisation – Casamia Restaurant was introduced by Mario Grimaldi
in year 1967. In present time, it is operating business successful manner. In the restaurants all
dishes based on the 5 sense that are provided different dishes according to fluctuated season and
show decoration.
Continuous professional development is a procedure that can help to peoples to intensify
their talent and achievements. It can provide support to top executives of Casamia restaurants to
guide their employees regarding to work and spread out their abilities. Benefits to employer Skilled Workforce – Through continuous development staff members can intensify their
skills and capabilities. In Casamia restaurant, highly qualitative employees helps to
achieve their goals for short time as well as long time.
 Employee Engagement – An employee can get chance of ongoing professional
development in Casamia restaurant to connect with restaurant and conduct different
project so as a outcomes it will show good brand image of organisation. The restaurant
can earn more profits with the help of their employees (Demetry, 2017).
Benefits to employee
 Better CV and future Employment – On going development supports to staff members
to get chance of occupation in futures. As a result employees of Casamia restaurants can
add more skills in their CV which can help to get future employment easily.
 Develop Confidence Level – When employees become part of ongoing professional
development so as a result they can get chance to improve their skills in effective manner.
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Due to improve skills automatically their confidence level and they have done all tasks in
confidently manner.
As a result OPD supports to intensify their acquisition of workers which advantageous
for restaurant and employees to achieve set objectives of business.
P2
The owner of the any restaurant expect to few skills as well as competencies regarding to
specific job role like manager, Head chef etc. There are set standards by employers for staff
members to meet expectations in Casamia restaurants (Köpsén, 2014).
Manager – A manager have skills and competencies according to their job role which
can help to to manage everything proper manner. There are mention skills of a manager –
Management skills, decision taking skills as well as communication skills. He is working
responsibly and ethically to achieve all the assigned tasks in successfully manner. In Casamia
Restaurant, manager play their role in effective manner and through ongoing professional
development enhance their skills.
Head Chef – A head chef conduct all activities related to kitchen which is important part
of any restaurant. When Casamia restaurant gives delicious food so automatically people come
for food. A head chef have the skills of cooking skills, soft skills and willing to learn. These
skills can help to get growth into their career and develop growth. A head chef guide to other
chef how to cook for customers and present in effective manner which can attract to customers to
eat in particular restaurant.
So both manager and head chef have skills and competencies according to expectation of
employer. There are identified of personal presentation which is important for employer due to
present their skills in effective manner. As a result it can help to build brand image into market
and get growth easily.
M1
Ongoing professional development strategy define as important components which is
applied by most of the companies to overcome from organisational issues. Therefore,
organization can effectively give chances to workers to learn new stuff with the assistance of
which they can assist their level of service by offering learning processes. In The reference of
Casamia Restaurant time to time provide training to their employees which can help to learn new
skills regrading to sort out problems and leader organisation towards more sustainability.
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TASK 2
P3
I am working as head director in Casamia restaurants (Smith, 2014). To assess of own
skills take two different types of models which is hard and soft skills audit and personal SWOT
analysis. Both of them are as follows -
Hard and soft skills audit – This method applied for analysing personal skills and
abilities that provides support to examine of individual skills. This way utilised to assess my own
ability regarding to work of general manager in Casamia restaurant. There are analysing skills
Personal SWOT – The particular model which is applied by me to assess my skills and
examine self strength, weakness, opportunity and threat. As a head manager of Casamia
Restaurant through this model I an analysing of my own strong and weak points. All of them are
as follows:
Strengths Weaknesses
 I am capable to believe initiative that
can help to me find out different ways
to formulate business activities at
Casamia Restaurant and manage
different things efficient way.
 As a head manager my decision making
quality are enervated that become
barrier to manage tasks of various
departments.
 My weakness of problem solving skills
and communication skills so it will
affect to my abilities from best suitable
decision.
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Opportunities Threats
 I am pickings suggestions from
superior and listed and experience to
develop my skills and knowledge.
 My threat regarding to skills that
present negative effect on my work that
can be affected my career growth.
P4
There are different kind of learning styles as well as methods that supports to Casamia
restaurant. There are defined few theories and approaches
Behaviourist Theory – This theory mainly based on thoughts that behaviour is
accomplished by conditioning. In other terms, the behaviour's theory connected to environmental
conditions because it is hard to adopt a new behaviour. Hence, there is needed to provide training
to employees of Casamia Restaurant in order to understand various types of conditions as well as
situations. This theory used by the company to handle situations and conditions in an effective
manner (Tan, Van der Molen and Schmidt, 2016).
Cognitive Theory - The particular style was introduced by Edward Tolman, which can
base on the beliefs, attitudes, ideas, feeling and strive towards goals. In respect to the Casamia
restaurant, employees can develop a cognitive map in order to simply the imagination of the
external environment, preserves, information collecting and so on.
VAK learning styles – Visual Auditory Kinesthetic is a learning model which can help to
different learning style in an easy way. It is mainly categorized into Vision, auditory and
Kinesthetic for evaluating to individual's dominant and desirable learning style. This style can
help employees of Casamia restaurant follow various ability inside an effective manner as well
as result in achieving goals and objectives.
These theories and approaches can help to personal and professional development. When
Casamia restaurant can apply these theories so it will help to employees as well as employers to
enhance their skills in an effective manner (Vähäsantanen, 2015).
M2
In present time to work any organisation it is required to develop own skills and
competences in effective manner. It can help to develop personal and professional skills as per
job role. Through personal SWOT analysis understand that where is need to improvement and
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what is strength that help in development. My innovative thinkings and management skills help
to effectively arrange activities of Casamia restaurant in order to development approach. These
approaches are helping in personal and professional skills as per the specific job role in the
Restaurant.
D1
In the context of Casamia restaurant there are identifying hard and soft skills which is
defined personal skills such innovative thinking and managing abilities that is good, self
confidence and coordinating skills are average and decision making, problem solving &
communication skills are bad. As per the job role it is required to improve bad skills due to fulfil
the requirement of the employer.
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, it is concluded that professional identity plays a significant
role in all individuals with respect to accomplish success. It is essential for them to adopt specific
skills and characteristics to complete tasks. There are several types of self evaluation method
that can help to know their own skills and weaknesses. These are categorized into hard and soft
skills awaited by employment from their staff members with respect to formulating different
types of business activities.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bauer, T. D., 2014. The effects of client identity strength and professional identity salience on
auditor judgments. The Accounting Review. 90(1). pp.95-114.
Demetry, D., 2017. Pop-up to professional: Emerging entrepreneurial identity and evolving
vocabularies of motive. Academy of Management Discoveries. 3(2). pp.187-207.
Köpsén, S., 2014. How vocational teachers describe their vocational teacher identity. Journal of
Vocational Education & Training. 66(2). pp.194-211.
Smith, R. T., 2014. Fighting for recognition: Identity, masculinity, and the act of violence in
professional wrestling. Duke University Press.
Tan, C. P., Van der Molen, H. T. and Schmidt, H. G., 2016. To what extent does problem-based
learning contribute to students' professional identity development?. Teaching and
Teacher Education. 54. pp.54-64.
Vähäsantanen, K., 2015. Professional agency in the stream of change: Understanding
educational change and teachers' professional identities. Teaching and teacher
education. 47. pp.1-12.
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