Reflective Report: Enhancing Personal and Professional Development

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of personal and professional development, emphasizing the importance of employability and study skills for career success. It includes a reflective report that assesses the student's strengths and weaknesses in areas such as communication, teamwork, research, and time management. The report utilizes the Gibbs reflective model to evaluate experiences related to a project on Corporate Social Responsibility, detailing the description, feelings, evaluation, conclusion, and action plan phases. The student identifies areas for improvement and outlines strategies to enhance skills through professional development and the application of reflective models. The conclusion underscores the necessity of continuous self-improvement and skill development for achieving professional goals. The report also references various academic sources to support the analysis.

Personal and Professional
Development

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Reflective Report.........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
For every individual it is necessary to enhance their employability skills as that will help
them in conducting their work effectively as well as it will also aid in developing effective as
well as successful career (Bennett-Levy, 2019). Moreover personal and professional
development is also necessary because through that a person able to enhance their skills, abilities
and performance. The main aim of conducting this report is to understand effectiveness of
employability as well as study skills. Topics included in respective report are based on reflection
related to report and it will also include model of reflection for the better understanding.
MAIN BODY
Reflective Report
Personal and professional development is considered as process or strategy by which an
individual enhance their skills, abilities and knowledge that will help them in conducting their
work in effective manner which lead to attainment of goal successful. It is also essential for
every individual to develop strategies for their personal as well as professional develop because
through that they can conduct work proper which helps in building successful career. In the
personal and professional development employability as well as study skills are important
because that help in developing career impressively and successfully. In this there are several
skills are considered which is essential to have as that will help in accomplishing project in
proper manner (Carpenter and et. al., 2019). That will include communication skills - verbal and
written, research skills, use of information technology, team work, time and self-management,
problem solving skills and many others. For every individual it is necessary to develop or
improve these skills as that will help in conducting projects or any work in successful manner.
While conducting this project which is based on corporate social responsibilities me able
to analyze my skills and abilities. I also able to know that some of my skills can be denoted as
strengths whereas some are my weakness and I need to improve them. This is so because through
that I able to conduct my work or project properly in future. From all these skills my strength
skills are communication both verbal as well as written, team work and problem solving skills.
This I get to know when I started conducting work in team I determine that I effectively
communicate or interact with other as well as me properly able to make other understand what I

want to say. Moreover my other teams members also appraise me for my skills that I effectively
communicate with them as well as they also tell me that they like to share their felling with me.
This show that I also have proper team working skills as I properly interact with members as
well as I also take suggestion from them and I also appraise them when I like their perspective on
any topic. Along with this, I also understand problems of my team members as well as I also
provide them appropriate suggestion to overcome issues which they are facing, due to my skill
my team members appreciate me and they like to share their problems with me (Guraya and
Chen, 2019). This is so because they believe that I will provide them effective as well as
appropriate advice for resolving issues effectively.
On the other hand, I have some skills which are my weaknesses such as research skills,
use of information technology and time and self-management. These are my weak point I get to
know when I am gathering information or data related to the project, I analyze that I am not able
to collect most appropriate as well as authenticate information for the project. After that when
me and my team members are develop presentation for project I understand that I am also
lacking in information technology skills because I didn’t know much about how to make
presentation. Due to this I am not properly able to contribute in the development of presentation
work. Along with this, I also identify that I am bad in time as well as self management because I
am not able to accomplish my work in proper manner and at given time due to which sometime
my team not able to complete particular stage in fix time. By analyzing and understanding my
weak points I decide to improve it and for that I will attain classes under some professional
because they will help me in enhancing my skill properly.
In addition to this, I also decide to apply some theories and models in order to analyze my
experiences in whole project such as Gibbs reflective model, Kolb’s learning model and many
more. I used Gibbs reflective model which is developed by Graham Gibbs who is American
Sociologist and Psychologist in year 1988 (McDonagh and et. al., 2019). This model is generally
used by an individual in order to evaluate as well as determine their experiences related to
specific project, event or situations. It consists of several phases which provided assistance to an
individual in enlisting the experiences as well as learning drawn by individuals over the course
of time while carrying out an academic or business activity. Thus, the stages of this model of
reflection are explained as follows:-

Description: This stage is concerned with providing an overview of the overall experience,
whether good or bad, drawn by a person during the execution of an activity. In this regard, I was
once given a task to work in groups to carry out a project over Corporate Social Responsibility. I
was assigned as the team leader for the group as my supervisor recognized my strong leadership
and communication skills. I duly distributed the roles and duties related to the CSR project
within the members as per their interests as well as the expertise.
Feelings: This stage lays down all the feelings that are encountered by a person while executing
a project (Weller, 2019). In relation to the CSR project, it can be said that the responsibility of
serving as the team leader made me conscious at first. However, my strong written and verbal
communication skills provided assistance to me in setting coordination between the members.
Evaluation: This stage enlists the good and bad things related to a project. In this regard, I have
realized that my strong communication and team working skills were quite handy in setting
coordination between the members of the group. Further, ICT was used by me to collect
information from a wide range of valid and reliable sources. Time management skill of mine
helped me as well as the team in duly submitting the project before the deadline.
Conclusion: On the basis of above stages, this phase enlists the inferences. Thus, I can state that
some of the skills of mine were strong and supported the group in duly carrying out the project.
Such skills were time management, researching, use of ICTs, leadership and communication.
Opposed to this, my ineffective problem solving skills at times created issues for the group
during the emergence of conflicts between the members.
Action Plan: This phase of the reflective model stipulates the measures which would be taken
by an individual while carrying out a similar project or activity in future course of time
(Rockman, 2019). I have acknowledged that my problem solving skills were not quite effective
during the group task. Thus, I would seek guidance from my supervisors regarding the ways
through which I can enhance my problem solving skills. With this, I will be able to execute a
group project work in a better manner in future period.
By conducting Gibbs reflective model I able determine that while conducting project I go
through several ups and downs which teach me that for conducting a project several skills are
required such as research skills, use of information technology, team work, time and self-
management, communication skills, team building skills and many more. Moreover, it is

essential for me it is essential to develop as well as polish these skills so that I can develop my
future in effective as well as successful manner.
CONCLUSION
By analyzing above discussed point it can be determined and summarize that for every
individual it is necessary to develop personal and professional as that will help in building as
well as maintaining a successful career. In this employability and study skills plays major role as
through that they can conduct their work properly which lead to attainment of predetermined
goal as well as objective in successful manner. There are several skills which are required in this
such as communication skills-verbal and written, research skills, use of ICTs, team work, time
and self-management, problem solving skills and many more. So for every person it is necessary
to develop these skills as that help in attaining desire goal successfully.

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