Reflective Report: Personal and Professional Development at Amazon

This report delves into the realm of personal and professional development, emphasizing its crucial role in achieving organizational objectives. It uses Amazon as a case study, highlighting the significance of reflective journals in cultivating employability and leadership skills. The report extensively examines Kolb's learning styles, including diverging, assimilating, converging, and accommodating, to provide a framework for understanding individual learning preferences and their impact on skill development. It explores how these styles contribute to enhanced research, analytical, and decision-making capabilities, essential for professional success. Furthermore, the report discusses the practical application of these skills within a multi-national e-commerce environment, underscoring the importance of continuous learning and adaptability in fostering career growth and organizational effectiveness. The conclusion stresses the importance of study and employability skills to achieve success in an organization.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Professional and personal development is defined as a constant process that is designed
with in a formal manner. The main aim of this process is to accomplish organisational goals and
objective in decided time period. Personal and professional development process also leads an
individual to enhance and input more efforts to achieve organisation goals. Moreover, it is a
learning prospect through which working efficiency of engaged workforce is boost by
implementing process in their roles (Olsen, 2015). With formulate of right personal and
professional development improvisation is monitored among skills, experience and knowledge of
individuals that help a person to stand different from others. Moreover, this report is based on
Amazon which is a multi-national E-commerce organisation and it highlights on reflective
journal that contribute in employability and leadership skill which is used in organisational
process.
MAIN BODY
Kolb’s learning style- This refers to a learning theory which is developed by David Kolb
and respective style or learning model is published in the year 1939. With the Kolb’s learning
style it is identified that with adequate path which is followed by the terms of increasing skills
and capabilities to improvise on the terms continuous basis. This is also important that according
to the selected learning style an individual learn from its past experience through observing past
as well as present performance. It results that an individual is able to count and evaluate the
changes which are done or required in overall personality of a person. Along with this Kolb
learning style is based on four different stages of learning which is recognised as an internal
cognitive method. It also include the acquisition which is implement by organisation though
flexible process among all situations in order to develop and implement new concept which
improves learning process of organisation (McLeod and Julia, 2014). The term learning process
in which knowledge is generated and developed through the transformation of experience. Along
with this by study and employability skill it is easy to make career with the professional skill and
this requirements helps with working among well organisation. Some of them is defined as
below:

Deviating- The term learning relates with feeling and watching that is used to learn
different things which are looking forward and work according to context of various prospect.
This also refers to a sensitive learning under which there are various things are learned by me. It
also refers while watching and performing with imaginative thinking to solve all problems.
Along with this I viewed among concrete situation for analysing different point of view
(Markham, Gentile and Graham, 2017). This is also known as deviating style in which I have
perform all skill that are required for implementing better ideas with the help of brainstorming
skill. This also enhances the wide interest for gathering information. In context of this I
developed research skill through which I analysed all factors in which better skill is developed
by making effective interpretation. This method is also used for making alternative decision that
is developed it is also based for analysing relevant information, report writing, data-collection
and critical analysis to make relevant information. Therefore, with the adequate information it is
easy to develop, evaluate and extract the information related with a specific topic.
Assimilating- This style is associated with the observing and thinking preference that is
served to the management for working with logical approach (Manca and Ranieri, 2014). Along
with this concise, ideas, concept that is more vital for analysing and collecting knowledge to
implement them in practical manner. I am able to understand the large range of information
which is used to organise and interpret information with logical and transparent format. On the
other side, I am not focused towards less individual that is used to make concern for generating

ideal and abstract concept. It is also used to become more attractive to gather the information
which helps to develop the logical career. This also prefer different lectures, analyse and
exploration of models that is used for reading and develop deep thinking related with selected
topic such as leadership and employability skill. In the context of resolving problem resolving
skill and work with team working skill that help to get over from complex situation with more
easy approach (Grima-Farrell, 2015). This is also used to accept the business style which is wide
and variant. Further, it is also important for the individual to work with business through which
individuals is able to overcome from different issue which is related with managerial aspect. This
is also used by employees as through sharing view better results is attain and it also refers that by
making sufficient changes it is also easy to grow business with more favours. Moreover, the
main context for understanding employability and study skill is to attain better position for
personal growth and also support in professional growth.
Converging- This includes different style and almost all of them relates with the thinking
and performing that help to enhance capability for overcoming from different complex
situations. In this the individual get educated while finding the various arrangements that is
increasingly founded on the commonsense issues. The person that comes in this learning style
are having the use of the reasonable presumptions that is progressively founded on the diverse
hypothesis and thoughts. These individual have tackled the various issues by finding the precise
data at suitable time (Sudria, 2018). The individuals that have the meeting style are more pulled
in as have worked in corresponding to the specialized perspective and have some expertise in the
mechanical capacities and furthermore think about the handy applications. In this I have
investigate the employability aptitudes that is identified with the utilization of IT as data
innovation will consistently get adjusts inside the specific timeframe and with more irregularity
and I have an enthusiasm towards the details. It is progressively viable and proficient procedure
in which the distinctive perspective get obliging as present, evaluate, recover, produce, store and
trade as through the spreadsheets, databases and the web search tools, PowerPoint introduction
and word handling by which increasingly imaginative yield get created.
Obliging: the aptitudes is progressively identified with the doing and feeling as it incorporate the
learning style that get depend on the instinct rather than the consistent plan. The person that get
considered in this gathering will consistently be incline toward the down to earth and experiential

methodologies and have used to oversee and managing the new difficulties and the encounters
that are expected to get do and plan the specific destinations and afterward accomplish it with
more dependence. It is a learning style in which the individual must get goes with the gut
intuition as opposed to proceeding with the coherent examination and translation. In this the
individuals have their own learning capacity and with that get depend on the various
arrangements by which the better investigation will get performed and hence the predominant
result will get accomplished (Agafonova, Bryukhova and Kaigorodov, 2015). In this style the
employability and study aptitudes as like correspondence and the group the board abilities will
get commercial pitched. I am consistently be progressively used to get make the viable
correspondence with the individuals and with this consistently get more guarantee that greater
clearness and straightforwardness get inferred while moving the message to other people. It is
increasingly required while making the specific association with the other colleagues as by
working in group. Consequently the group the board abilities is likewise be increasingly useful to
improve results by putting forth the aggregate attempts and everybody have worked with better
inclination in this way the attainable result get finished. It is increasingly significant while
working with the specific variables and in this the worker get more achievement while working
in the sorted out business and it assists with making progressively created on ordinary premise.
There are various skills learned and emphasised that all are motivated for obtaining better
outcomes on the constant basis. Further, Kolb’s learning style is also vital that is used for making
vital to make better productive result that leads to make result for working with the continuous
basis as it boost in making better results. This also refers that by implementing various style of
learning that work with from to develop employability and study skill of mine. I also present my
skills and capabilities among the business that is suitable for work in multi-national organisation.
This also leads the organisation for attracting and making better choice. This skill also used to
make positive change within my personality for attracting people that helps to reflect on working
performance to gain more success.
CONCLUSION
In the last, with the above information it is concluded that study and employability skill
helps to generate aspects which is used to achieve more success while working in an
organisation. This is also used by management for obtaining certain information and knowledge
which help to develop better position in organisation. Moreover, it is also need by the

organisation for improving abilities and skills that are related with continuous development and
it lead company to gather more knowledge. This is also used by the management for boosting the
career of a person with more perfection. In context of Kolb learning style it is used to analyse
skill to complete work in a constant manner that is focused towards the personal and professional
growth of a person due to which personality of an individual is improved.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Grima-Farrell, C., 2015. Mentoring pathways to enhancing the personal and professional
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