Personal SWOT and Development Plan for Hotel Management Report

This report presents a comprehensive personal SWOT analysis and development plan, specifically tailored for individuals aspiring to or currently working as hotel managers. The introduction underscores the importance of personal skills and competencies in the hospitality industry, emphasizing the role of SWOT analysis and personal development plans in achieving both professional and personal goals. The SWOT analysis section identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to employability and academic skills, with a focus on leadership and technical skills. The personal development plan outlines short, medium, and long-term goals, including strategies for improving leadership, language skills, and technical proficiency. It details the resources needed and the expected timeframes for achieving these objectives. The conclusion summarizes the value of these tools for enhancing career prospects and providing excellent guest services. The report also includes a detailed list of references.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................4
PERSONAL SWOT...................................................................................................................4
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN.....................................................................................6
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal skills and competencies are very essential for each and every job roles and
position in each and every organization like hotels and hospitality. An individual can develop
all skills and competencies which are related to their job roles. Also, managers of their
company will create the development plan for developing skills and abilities of their
employees within the workplace (Rangkuti, 2015). This can aid to accomplishing the goals of
personal and professional work life. Report will explain the personal swot analysis and
personal development plan for developing employability and academic skills in the hotels and
hospitality.
PERSONAL SWOT
SWOT analyse is the assessment of situation of individual looking at strengths,
weakness, opportunities and threats. It has been utilized by companies for many years as
technique of strategic planning because it aids to provide individual overall aspects of the
firm like hotels and hospitality (Issayev, Masalimova and Magzumova, 2018). Still, SWOT
analysis is similarly helpful on personal level as mode to determine areas for growth and as
portion of career conversation. It is sample format and easy to implement structure refers
which can be utilized very easily without support.
I will work as hotel managers in particular hotel, so that I can identify the skills and
abilities which are weak as job role. Thus, I can follow SWOT analysis as tool for improving
my skills and abilities which is required to be hotel manager hotel manager. I can find that
hotel manager is responsible for controlling and maintaining all the activities of hotel like
housekeeping, front office and food & beverage functions.
Through SWOT analysis, I will identify my weak skills and competencies which are
related to employability and academic as working in the hotel and hospitality business. This
can aid to accomplishing the goals of personal and professional work life (Rubens and et.al.,
2018). With the help of it, an individual is planning their success and developing their career
in the particular areas. Effective skills and abilities of hotel manager those are very necessary
in terms of providing appropriate services to guests who are coming in hotel (Kivimäki and
Meriluoto, 2018).
Employability Skills:
Employers are looking for general job abilities and skills particular to the job they are
going for. These are known employability or soft skills (Lejeune, Beausaert and Raemdonck,
2018). These abilities involve communication, problem solving, planning and organising,

team work, self-management, learning, technology, initiative as well as enterprise. Therefore,
I will develop my all employability skills and competencies for my job role in the hotels and
hospitality.
Academic Skills:
It is also called as study skills are concepts implemented to learning. They are
normally important to success. These abilities are areas of skills that handle the procedure of
organizing and taking in new data and dealing with assessments (Tasker, 2015). These skills
include reading, listening, visual imagery, exam approaches, time management, concept
mapping and so on. Therefore, I will develop my all academic skills and competencies for my
job role in the hotels and hospitality which is hotel manager.
Strengths
 I have ability to ask key issues for
correct choice.
 I have effective communication skills
while interact with my guests and
team which is required for hotel
manager.
 I am very innovative and wholly
seriousness to the success of the
guests in the hotel.
Weakness
 I have strong obsessive want to do
things quickly and remove them from
to do list and any time the quality of
my activities.
 This same need to get things done
also cause me stress when I have
many things.
 I am unable to understand with my
group relating to job and any person
asks for help.
Opportunities
 I want to meet the new people in the
hotel.
 I want to learn about the innovation
and technology development which
can be utilized in the hotel.
 I want to give presentation with large
audiences at the workplace relation to
particular topic.
Threats
 I am threatened from people who are
younger than me and already better
than me.
 I am unable to understand about the
different language within the hotel
and hospitality which is required for
hotel manager.
 My technical skills are very weak
while solving any kind of issue
related to technical in the hotel and
hospitality.

Through SWOT analysis, I have found that my leadership, technical skills are very
weak and threats which can highly influenced on my job role which is hotel manager. Also, I
have to find out that many opportunities can be made that are necessary to my job role. With
the help of it, I will develop my career in this field and also achieve my personal and
professional goals.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Personal development planning is procedure of making activity plan based on values,
reflection, awareness, goal setting and preparation for personalised development within
context of career education, relationship or self-development (Rubens and et.al., 2018). PDP
(Personal development plan) normally involves document of ambition, strengths or
competencies, education and training, as well as steps to point out the ways of realized the
plan. It can also involve document of career skills and priorities of lifestyle, career
positioning and examine the chances as well as risks and secondary plan. Single person can
frequently five year personal development plan to conduct individual objective and to create
them attainable within certain time period (Kivimäki and Meriluoto, 2018).
I will work as hotel managers in particular hotel, so that I can identify the skills and
abilities which are weak as job role. Thus, I will create personal development plan for
improving weak skills and abilities which is required to be hotel manager. Through personal
development plan, I will develop my weakness and threats which are which are related to
employability and academic as working in the hotel and hospitality business. With the help of
it, an individual is planning their success and developing their career in the particular areas.
Effective skills and abilities of hotel manager those are very necessary in terms of providing
appropriate services to guests who are coming in hotel.
Goals, skills and
knowledge
Short term time frame Medium term time
frame
Long term time frame
My objective My objective is to be the
leader within hotel which
is required for hotel
manager.
My goal is learned about
different language to
communicate with people
in the hotel.
My objective is to
develop my technical
skills which are utilized
in the hotels.
Skills and knowledge to
be learned
I am unable to understand
with my group relating to
job and any person asks
for help. Therefore, I will
follow different activities
like coaching, training
I am unable to
communicate with people
because every people
have different language,
so that I will develop my
knowledge about the
I am unable to solve the
complex situation relating
to information
technology, so that I will
develop my technology
within the hotel and

and development for
raising the leadership
skills in terms of leading
the team in the hotel and
hospitality.
various languages to
communicate every kind
of people who have
different cultures and
languages in the hotel and
hospitality.
hospitality which is
required for hotel
manager.
Next steps I will take step while lead
the small group of people
within the hotel which is
required for hotel
manager.
I will build relations with
guests while talking to
people who have different
languages in the hotels.
I will develop my
technical skills while
solving the problems
relating to it.
Resources I will learn about
leadership on online
resources which can aid
to develop the leadership
skills within the hotel and
hospitality which is
required for hotel
manager.
I will develop my
knowledge about the
different languages
through online resources
which are very essential
for each and every job
role in the hotel and
hospitality.
I will develop my
Information technology
knowledge through
online resources which
are very essential for each
and every job role in the
hotel and hospitality
which is required for
hotel manager.
Timeframe I will develop my
leadership skills and
competencies within the 3
month.
I will develop my
knowledge about
different languages
within the 1 year in terms
of working in the hotel
and hospitality.
I will develop my
knowledge about
information technology
within the 3 years in
terms of working in the
hotel and hospitality.
CONCLUSION
From the above study, it has been summarised that SWOT analysis tools for
determining employability and academic skills which is required for managers of hotel and
hospitality. It can be concluded that preparing personal development plan for developing
employability and academic skills in the hotels and hospitality in terms of future time period.
This can aid to accomplishing the goals of personal and professional work life. With the help
of it, an individual is planning their success and developing their career in the particular
areas. Effective skills and abilities of hotel manager those are very necessary in terms of
providing appropriate services to guests who are coming in hotel.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Issayev, T., Masalimova, A. and Magzumova, R., 2018. SWOT-ANALYSIS OF
PROFESSIONAL-PERSONAL COMPETENCE OF ECONOMISTS IN MEDICAL
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Kivimäki, V. and Meriluoto, S., 2018. Holistic Perspective to Individual Study Plan: Personal
Development Project Plan. Studies in health technology and informatics, 256, pp.514-
526.
Lejeune, C., Beausaert, S. and Raemdonck, I., 2018. The impact on employees’ job
performance of exercising self-directed learning within personal development plan
practice. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, pp.1-27.
Rangkuti, F., 2015. Personal SWOT analysis. Gramedia Pustaka Utama.
Rubens, A. and et.al., 2018. Self-awareness and leadership: Developing an individual
strategic professional development plan in an MBA leadership course. The
International Journal of Management Education, 16(1), pp.1-13.
Tasker, F., 2015. How to prepare a personal development plan. BMJ, 351, p.h4603.