Gibbs Reflective Model Report: Personal and Professional Development

This report delves into the realm of personal and professional development, utilizing the Gibbs reflective cycle to analyze experiences and learnings. The report begins by defining employability skills and their significance in securing job opportunities, especially for students. It then explores leadership skills, focusing on the leadership of Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, and how these skills were developed and applied during a presentation. The core of the report applies the Gibbs reflective model, detailing the stages of description, feelings, evaluation, conclusion, and action plan to assess the experience of developing and delivering the presentation. Key skills such as problem-solving, communication, and team building are highlighted, along with strategies for future improvement and professional growth. The report concludes with an emphasis on the Gibbs model's value in identifying strengths, weaknesses, and fostering both personal and professional advancement. The references include books and journals that support the analysis.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Employability skills is defined as set of skills which is highly needed in an individual to
attain best opportunities and attain desired goals in an appropriate manner. In relation to a
student, employability skills plays a significant role for getting job in a renowned organisation
and performing roles as well as responsibilities in an effective manner. It is analyzed that
employability skills assist an individual to perform task properly that develop positive mind set
of managers towards a person in an appropriate manner. The report involves Gibbs reflective
model that consist of experiences which is gained at the time of giving presentation on a
particular topic. It is analyzed that reflective based learning assist an individual to attain
knowledge about skills as well as competencies required to be learnt in the coming future.
TASK 2
Main body
Leadership skill is defined as the ability of a person to motivate, encourage and inspire an
individual to attain objectives and desired goals in an effective manner. In addition to this, it is
determined that having an effective leadership skills help individuals to maintain effective
relationship with people that is required in order to deal with corporate sector in a proper
manner. The report is reflection that is based on the first part of report which is a presentation of
leadership skills of CEO of General Motors that is Mary Barra. In order to develop a
presentation, there are various skills, knowledge and competencies is required to attain positive
outcomes. In addition to this, by developing and giving presentation, I have learnt many skills
and gain knowledge on the particular topic that will help me in future to gain positive results. For
express my learning and overall experience, Gibbs reflective model will be adopt which involves
various stages. Along with this such stages will assist me to showcase my experience and
learning which I gain at the time developing presentation on leadership skills/ styles of Mary
Barra.
Gibbs reflective cycle: This model was formulated in year 1998 by Graham Gibbs which
shows experience and learning outcomes that is gaining by performing task in a proper manner.
with the help of Gibbs reflective cycle, it is analysed that a person can gain insight about its
skills as well as experience attain by working on particular topic. Along with this, Gibbs model
also help in getting knowledge about wat skills they put, what they have done and where they

lack along with this how they solve particular situation. In order to showcase my overall
experience associated with presentation developed by me on specific topic, the stages of Gibbs
model is given below:
Description: This is said to be the primal phase of Gibbs Model, that delivers information
like description of a particular situation or activity that is required to be carried out by an
individual. As I have developed an effective presentation on the different range of leadership
skills and attributes followed by Mary Barra, I thought it will be really very easy for me to pull
out information about the first female CEO of General Motors. But in the starting of my
presentation and in order to you fill it with detailed information about Mary Barra, I have
performed a lot of investigation on various platforms like online websites where I have found
some of the articles written by Mary Barra also took help from teachers along with my mentors
and colleagues. This has helped me in in formulating the detailed information based presentation.
On the other side, I also took help from my teachers like considering the skills and attributes of
every single individual they have decided the team members and including this they also
instructed each and everyone about their roles and responsibilities which ultimately helped in in
reducing the conflict related chances. This particular scenario has helped me and my team
members to put specific information about Mary Barra along with the leadership styles and
attributes followed by her while running the company in successful manner. I have also gained
knowledge about path goal theory and how it was applied by Mary Barra in order to keep up the
company's position in the competitive market and so on.
Feelings: Gibbs reflective model's second phase that specifically focuses on feelings of an
individual at the time of performing a number of tasks for an individual job. Just when I started
executing the presentation, I was pretty much happy about the overall scenario that I got the
chance of leading a team but it was also considered as a negative point as well because mostly
every single team member started raising questions about each others job roles and
responsibilities as they were not clear about them. This was considered as the situation where I
might go through different range of problems because considering every single individuals
information and taking one common decisions for all of them is not that easy and this made me
feel anxious about hitting the desired goal which was to complete the presentation in rightful
manner with detailed information. Away with this, I have found that my team building skills got

improved due to continuously I was handling the overall conflict related chances that may
majorly takes place.
Evaluation: This stages show the general experience achieved by an individual while
creating introduction was acceptable or not. For me, the understanding of introduction was
acceptable as I got chance to perform functions by leaders of General Motors . On opposite, I
confronted issues as I am not ready to understand clashes of colleagues and for this, it is require
for me to find out about critical thinking abilities that will help for increasing individual just as
expert turn of events. It is decide by me that to play out work part in a compelling, an individual
is need to have critical thinking abilities so as to manage corporate area in a viable way.
Conclusion: It is consider as fourth stage of Gibbs reflective model that is involved in
gaining overall experience of presentation was good as I observed that my level of knowledge in
some areas. In addition to this, I learnt about various skills in a proper manner. In addition to
this, it is determined by me that my ICT and problem-solving skills is improved at the time of
presentation that will assist me in gaining best job opportunity in the future. Along with this, it is
analyzed by me that to gain a job role according to our competencies, different skills is needed
which is conflict management, problem-solving, time management, leadership skills, team
building and so on. With the help of effective communication skills and team building skills, I
am able to maintain effective relation with team members because of which the overall
presentation is finished within a time frame. It is analysed that overall learning and experience
will assist in both professional and personal growth as well. Moreover, it will assist in attaining
best opportunity and performing job roles in an effective and proper manner.
Action Plan: The last stage of Gibbs reflective cycle, wherein required activities and actions
need to be created and executed to attain similar sort of role in the coming future. In addition to
this, it is analyzed by me that in coming future when I will get chances, I am competent enough
to perform task in an effective manner and managing groups in an appropriate manner. For
improving my problem-solving skills as well as technical skills, I will going to attend online
session which will assist me to learn and achieve good opportunities in coming future. In the
present world, the skills which is required in order to be competent and deal with such business
environment are effective communication, problem solving, time management, team handling
and many more. In addition to this, I will also going to attend training sessions as well as
seminars to learn leadership skills and styles which is important in order to implement activities

and gain success in an effective manner. For executing such activities, it is significant for me to
develop a time chart & manage my daily activities effectively. Gaining of all such skills will help
me to grab best opportunity in the coming future.
CONCLUSION
From the above study, it has been analyzed that Gibbs reflective cycle model is a feasible
and appropriate tool that assist an individual to gain knowledge about strength and weaknesses
that leads to attainment of better opportunity in coming future. In addition to this, it also help a
person to gain both personal and professional growth as well. Gibbs model allow an individual to
showcase overall learnings and experiences that is gained by performing a particular activity.
Furthermore, it assist in gaining knowledge about skills which is needed for working in a
renowned company and performing activities which leads to higher growth as well as success in
an appropriate manner.

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