Reflective Report: Gibbs' Model and Personal Skill Development

This report applies the Gibbs Reflective Model to analyze personal skills and experiences, focusing on a visit to Sainsbury's supermarket. The report details the description of the experience, personal feelings, evaluation of the experience, analysis of the situation, conclusions drawn, and an action plan for future development. The student reflects on various skills including communication, research, teamwork, ICT use, problem-solving, and time management, highlighting the importance of these skills in professional and academic settings. The reflection emphasizes the learning process, challenges faced, and strategies for improvement, drawing on the experience at Sainsbury’s to illustrate real-world application and the value of collaboration and effective communication. The report concludes with a plan to enhance skills through seminars and workshops, aiming to improve both academic and professional performance.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
GIBBS' REFLECTIVE MODEL.....................................................................................................1
Description.............................................................................................................................1
Feelings...................................................................................................................................1
Evaluation...............................................................................................................................2
Analysis..................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................2
Action Plan.............................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Reflection can be considered as a practice correlated with assessing and reviewing past
interactions accurately and allowing individuals to understand the unfavorable and positive
aspects connected with them, that return allows them towards establish future progress and
success action planning and Comeau, 2016). In addition, expertise in employability and research
are important to an individual as it allows them support their professional growth along with
potential careers. The study below is therefore focused on personal reflection on a range of skills
in this regard, using the Gibbs Reflective Model, which is a method used to efficiently focus on
past experiences like when a visit done on Sainsbury’s supermarket.
GIBBS' REFLECTIVE MODEL
Description
The whole dimension Gibbs reflective model is based onto an important definition of the
overall growth which gives details of the experience (Zulfikar and Mujiburrahman, 2018). The
curriculum was concerned with various ideas, theories and factors that had never been examined
previously. It needed a variety of skills which I would have to learn and reflect all through the
duration from the above mission, as well as the course. Such skills and capabilities are
communication skills that also included verbal and written skills, research, teamwork, ICT use,
problem solving, and time management skills. All such factors were very important for
enhancing comprehension and ensuring the implementation of various theories and principles on
theoretical underpinnings (Padden-Denmead and et. al., 2016). Basically, it will lead me to start
working with a company like Sainsbury’s supermarket, which is one of the best retailer in all
over United Kingdom.
Feelings
Inside this segment, interpersonal emotions are expressed in an effective manner all
through the experience (Cheng, 2017). Once the curriculum began, I was quite anxious about
learning new and exciting ideas as well as functioning throughout the curriculum in a different
way, which caused me somewhat nervous in the company. In addition, I found it really difficult
to apply such abilities like using Information and Communication Technologies and creative
thinking, as I had not been properly taught about their meanings previously. As I was going
through the module, I turned out to be particularly sure through working with people with
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various and better educated capacities, alongside working with various emotionally supportive
networks that have been embraced by me for achieving the errands gave to us in a fitting and
powerful way. Additionally, I began feeling very hopeful about my aptitudes and capacities after
the module, as there were openings that were given to me to self survey myself through various
periods of this course. What's more, while I was feeling fairly baffled when the module started,
because of new and complex action and work structure, I began getting a charge out of the work
later on as the course expected me to learn through various ideas and speculations.
Evaluation
I was continuously conducting investigation among different substance that were linked
with my particular subject. I did as such by suitably focusing on various sources and choosing
the ones which were validated and important for the issue, and could have added to make the
issue progressively precise, alluring, just as viable. Another positive perspective that was
experienced by me through the module was collaboration. There were a few cases when I must
be a piece of a group of various people with various mentalities and perspectives about
comparable subjects. Therefore, when I visited Sainsbury’s, I found that many of the individuals
were working with each other and that showed the collaboration which is an essential part for
every single person in todays competitive market was working in any company within any
sector.
Analysis
This area is connected towards understanding the general circumstance (Vicary, Young
and Hicks, 2017). Concerning this module, I understood that employability and study abilities
are significant for a person to learn, just as adjust so as to featuring the extent of progress inside
their scholarly, just as expert vocation. I understood that this module has been extremely
significant for me to learn various ideas and abilities, which would be useful for me later on. In
addition to this, while it is necessary to use written communication skills appropriately to
enhance the effectiveness of reports, it is very crucial to manage time, as well as to solve
problems in an appropriate and effective manner. Just when me and my colleague visited
Sainsbury’s, it has been found that every single person was performing there on task without
even disturbing each other through considering both written and verbal skills. Therefore, I
understand that appropriate words and written skills if properly used then it will lead the
individual to gain success in near future.
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Conclusion
Through entire course, I may believe that such skills are quite useful in terms of
improving professional and academic performance expertise. Moreover, there will be various
things that I should have put in place to ensure greater efficiency throughout the entire unit. I
might have had a good and successful preparation throughout the sense of the abilities I slowed
down behind in, for example. In addition, I might have approached my lecturers and co-workers
for input this would have helped to improve the complexity of the overall curriculum and may
have added to my results.
Action Plan
This will be the last portion of the model linked to important plans for enhancing
potential modules ' skills and expertise (Bassot, 2016). In regards to developing my verbal
communication skills, I will also be going to take up seminars that would enable me accurately
form my papers. In turn, it would also make an appropriate contribution to developing my
academic writing abilities. I will equip myself in scope of my interpersonal skills through taking
further time-based operations, along with several suitable workshops that would enable me to
handle time and prioritize and plan my operations appropriately. In addition to my problem-
solving skills, I'd be participating in conferences and workshops where I'd be taking lessons from
former administrators and experts on how effective a person would be to illustrate the potential
of change in resolving various issues that I face in life.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Cheng, G., 2017. The impact of online automated feedback on students' reflective journal writing
in an EFL course. The Internet and Higher Education. 34. pp.18-27.
Padden-Denmead, M.L., and et. al., 2016. Simulation with debriefing and guided reflective
journaling to stimulate critical thinking in prelicensure baccalaureate degree nursing
students. Journal of Nursing Education. 55(11). pp.645-650.
Vicary, S., Young, A. and Hicks, S., 2017. A reflective journal as learning process and
contribution to quality and validity in interpretative phenomenological
analysis. Qualitative Social Work. 16(4). pp.550-565.
Woronchak, M. and Comeau, G., 2016. The value of reflective journaling with advanced piano
students. Reflective Practice. 17(6). pp.792-805.
Zulfikar, T. and Mujiburrahman, 2018. Understanding own teaching: becoming reflective
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