Personal and Professional Development: Gibbs Reflective Model Report

This report delves into personal and professional development, focusing on the application of the Gibbs reflective model to enhance leadership skills. The introduction highlights the significance of employability skills for career advancement and emphasizes the importance of skills like communication, problem-solving, and time management. The main body applies the Gibbs reflective cycle to a presentation on the leadership skills of Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon. The report details each stage of the cycle: description, feelings, evaluation, action plan and conclusion. The description stage involves the research and preparation for the presentation, while the feelings section explores emotions experienced during the process, including tensions and conflicts. The evaluation stage assesses the strengths and weaknesses, and the conclusion summarizes the learning outcomes, particularly in relation to the development of ICT and critical thinking skills. The action plan outlines strategies for continuous improvement, focusing on time management, team building, and effective communication. The report concludes by reinforcing the Gibbs model's effectiveness in facilitating personal and professional growth and emphasizes the importance of continuous skill development for future success.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
It is important for every individual to develop employability skills so that it can easily
improve its working abilities and performance while doing a job or become employable.
Therefore, it can be defined as a set of skills which are required by the individual to achieve
different opportunities within its career and improve its ability to achieve the desired goals
effectively. In relation to a student employability skills are important and claim various rules
in gaining the job as well as joining organisation. This can also see that there are various
individuals and inspirational personalities who develop their employability skills to become a
front line employee and work in higher authorities. There are different kinds of skills which
are required by the individual to be developed. Some of these skills are communication skills
problem solving ability time management skills same working still patience adaptability and
many others which are required to perform a job in an appropriate way (Gregersen and
MacIntyre, 2017). And this current report there is discussion about the Gibbs reflective model
which is used to provide the experience which is gained by performing a presentation.
Include a reflective based learning assessment which also related to development of
knowledge and skills for competency and getting better opportunities in future.
MAIN BODY
It is important for the individual to develop to develop leadership skills so that it can achieve
battery level of satisfaction in its future career as well as maintain good relationships with
other persons so that it can be in corporate sector. India board mentioned presentation there is
discussion about the leadership skills of Jeff Bezos the CEO of Amazon (Mahlanze and
Sibiya, 2017). Making the current presentation there are various tools which are used to
develop as well as acquire different kind of knowledge is related to competency and
achieving the positive outcomes. And this report is discussion about its reflective model
which will be applied to consist of different stages. There is also discussion about different
expression and experience which I used to develop while performing this presentation on
leadership skills and styles of Amazon CEO.
Gibbs reflective cycle: It is that Framework which is used to determine and define the
learning and experience which are directly related to performing some specific task and
activity in an appropriate way. This model was developed by Graham gets in 1998. Under
this model there is Discussion about a particular situation which is faced while working on a
task. There is also a discussion about the different knowledge competencies and skills which
are required to perform the task and activity as well as experience of an individual by using
different stages. This model also helps in gaining the information about what is done within
the task where is the differences what are the skills and requirements to perform the task as
well as how to deal with a particular situation within the task (Valmas, Himrich and Finn,
2020). There are various stages within this model which are discussed below in relation to
the topic of leadership skills.
Description: This stage of model belongs to detail description of activity which is completed
by individual while working in particular situation. In this presentation, I used to develop
leadership function where skills and styles of amazon CEO. In relation to achieve proficiency

in present research report I used to perform different kind of research where I also take help
from the teachers and mentors so that I can achieve the positive outcomes within the report.
All this helped me to identify and end in knowledge and information about concept of
developing a presentation where identify the different skills and responsibilities played by the
CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos. I also undergo with different mantis within the the university so
that I can easily identify the different factors related to making my presentation effective as
well as achieving the maximum output from the presentation so that I can explain the
concepts and findings made by me in Mac presentation (Seif, 2019). Moreover, I also
performed different functions within this presentation where I handle the situation in an
appropriate way and developed my skills related to maintaining good relationships and
working within a team for assisting each and every individual within the team and performing
in collaborative way by coordinating with each and every member.
Feelings: In second stage of Gibbs reflective cycle there is discussion about the feelings
which are individual feel at the time of performing different task in the particular situation. In
the beginning of this presentation, feeling related to this presentation is good where I am
happy as well as excited about the task and roles assigned to me as a team leader. But after
performing different roles and responsibilities identified that there are various kind of
tensions and conflicts which I have to manage and all these impacting on my performance.
Video this directly impacted on my confidence and excitement related to the project as well
as also decrease my moral to perform the project (Holzweiss and Parrott, 2017). To increase
my performance and enthusiasm, my teammates contributed effectively where they helped
me to improve my skills and ability as well as manage different functions so that I can handle
different situations and can minimise the negative impact of conflicts and burden of the work
while performing this task. This helps me in maintaining my presentation as well as
delivering it in an effective and timely manner.
Evaluation: under this stage of case reflection model individual has to evaluate different
aspects of the situation so that it can judge the situation in positive and negative manner. In
relation to the current presentation overall experience is moderate where I evaluated different
kind of factors (Lewin and et al., 2019). This presentation helps me in developing my issues
related to leadership as well as increasing my communication skills by continuous
involvement in different task and situations. It can also be evaluated that this helped me in
building a professional is I'm so that I can deal with in the corporate sectors by solving
problems and increasing my skills related to analysis of different aspects of a particular
situation. This is also help me in developing effective relation as well as achieving the
coordination and cooperation skills within the team for assisting different team members and
using their skills and qualities to achieve the goals and objectives.
Conclusion: It is consider as the fourth phase of Gibbs reflective cycle which feature my
general understanding while at the same time making introduction was acceptable. I found
out about various abilities and increase information about various regions that helped me to
pick up circumstances in future (Johnson and Kohli, 2020). Also, it is controlled by me that
my ICT just as critical thinking ability has improved. Also, it is dissected that there are
different aptitudes and abilities required for playing out a vocation in a powerful way and

these are group building, refereeing, successful correspondence, innovative, administration,
and time the executives, etc. With the assistance of powerful correspondence and group
building abilities, I created food relationship with my colleagues that help in finishing and
giving introduction on schedule. Every such expertise and encounters will help me in both
expert just as close to home create (Sergeeva and et al., 2018). Alongside this, it additionally
helps with increasing a suitable activity job in a successful way.
Activity Plan: It is the last phase of Gibbs reflection cycle and in this necessary exercises
and activities is created and executed for increasing comparative kind of job in future. It is
examined by me that advancement of employability aptitudes helped me to be sufficiently
skilled to perform exercises and oversee groups in an appropriate way. For improving my
ICT and critical thinking aptitudes, I will go to take online classes which help me to learn and
increase best open doors in future. In this 21st century, the aptitudes which are expected to
stay capable are time the board, group building, refereeing, ICT, successful correspondence
and cooperation and some more (Dias and Cadime, 2016). Besides, I will likewise going to
look into course and instructional meetings which will help me to accomplish information in
regards to initiative styles and abilities that thusly help in picking up progress and higher
development also. For increasing such abilities and information, it is critical for me to build
up a period outline and spotlight on dealing with my every day exercises on schedule.
Securing of every single such expertise will help me to build up a degree of certainty and
snatch openings in a fitting way.
CONCLUSION
From the above examination, it is investigated that Gibbs reflective model is a viable
model that help a person to pick up speak to its learning and involvement with a legitimate
way. What's more, it additionally causes an individual to think about its quality and
shortcoming so it can improve ideal. This will legitimately prompts snatching of better open
door in future and accomplish persona just as expert turn of events. Also, it is discover that
advancement of employability aptitudes is fundamental for an individual so as to stay skillful
and gain achievement and development in coming future. Further, there are diverse
arrangement of expertise and information is required for performing work jobs that is
powerful correspondence and collaboration, innovative, critical thinking, time the board,
struggle taking care of, etc.

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