Personal and Professional Development: Gibbs Reflection Report

This report details a student's application of the Gibbs reflection model to analyze their personal and professional development within a university setting. The report begins with a description of the student's experiences, including attending classes, completing assignments, and participating in group presentations. It then explores the student's feelings during these experiences, including excitement, nervousness, frustration, and satisfaction. The evaluation section assesses the positive and negative aspects of the student's experiences, highlighting the development of skills and challenges encountered. An analysis of the situation delves into the factors that contributed to both successes and failures, such as communication, teamwork, and time management. The conclusion summarizes the key learnings, including the importance of planning, communication, and conflict resolution. Finally, an action plan outlines how the student would approach similar situations in the future, focusing on improved communication, conflict management, and proactive teamwork. The report emphasizes the student's growth in skills like communication, research, problem-solving, and time management, while also incorporating the Belbin team role model for understanding team dynamics. References to relevant academic sources are included to support the analysis.

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Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................1
Gibbs reflection model................................................................................................................1
Description...................................................................................................................................1
Feeling.........................................................................................................................................2
Evaluation....................................................................................................................................2
Analysis.......................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................3
Action plan...................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

TASK 2
Gibbs reflection model
Gibbs model of reflection is given by Graham Gibbs in the year 1988. This reflection cycle
provides a structure to describe learning experience of a situation. This cycle includes
description, feeling, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan (Davies, Curtin and Robson,
2017). Each stage provide opportunity to define situation occur while explaining leaning
experience. This cycle includes various question and their answer helps a person in describing of
situation. This describe where things go well and where planning play important role in make
things right. There are various stages of this model which helps me to describe my learning
experience which are as follows:
Description
To improve my personal as well as professional skills ad also to enhance my learning and
knowledge, I have joined University to continue my education. For improvement of
employability skills, I have attended classes regularly and also complete assignment on time.
There are various activities conducted in university which is important for development of skills
and knowledge of a person (Howard and Eddy‐Imishue, 2020). These activities include power
point presentation which is conducted by teacher to improve our skills. One of my teacher assign
group presentation to me and my friends. For this presentation, teacher make different group of
students. In my group, there are five members who has different knowledge and different
attitude. For this assignment, I have decided to divide our work as per our interest. This will also
help to complete our assignment on time and with effectiveness. We have decided to divide work
as per specialisation of skills and knowledge. As I have good subject knowledge so I decided to
write content with one of my friends as who also has good knowledge. One of our friends know
how to prepare presentation so we gave that work to him and tow members has excellent
communication skills so they have decided to give presentation. Me and my friend who were
decided to writer content for presentation has take helps from teacher This will boost our subject
knowledge. We also take helps from various books of library and other online sources. Also, we
have attended all lecture of university related to that module which helps us to improve our
subject knowledge. Me and y friend has decided to writer content but we have not clear that
which part we are going to writer. So, we both have write on same things (Williams, Rathert and
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Buttigieg, 2020). After knowing this thing, we rewrite our content. This can waste our most of
time but we have completed our assignment before deadline.
Feeling
Before joining university to improve my employability skills and study skills, I was feeling
excited as I have to learn something new. This is truly a new experience for me as it provides me
opportunity to interact with new people and teachers. While teacher gave me assignment, I was
feeling nervous as I do not know how this ca be complete as people of my group are of different
attitude. When we have prepared PPT and also at the time we were presenting or presentation, I
was excited as its is firs time one I have given presentation. But at same time feeling nervous as
we do not know how teacher will respond to this presentation (Körkkö, Kyrö-Ämmälä and
Turunen, 2016). During process of preparation of assignment, I got frustrated as there is conflict
occur in my team. I don’t understand how to solve this situation and also there is pressure to
complete assignment on time. There is also a problem occur related to me and my friend as we
both have write on same topic. At time of conflict in team, I got angry on team members and tell
them to complete their work on time. Later I feel guilty for this but it helps me to complete our
assignment on time. But in the end, I am feeling satisfied as we have completed our presentation
on time and teacher like our work.
Evaluation
My complete experience in University is good as I have made many friends there and also build
network of connection which helps me to identify good employment opportunity. My experience
of developing various employment and study skills was also good as I have complete various
assignment which helps me to develop these skills (Makovec, 2018). My assignment of
presentation worked ell as we have put efforts to complete it successfully. It was complete on
time and teacher appreciate us for our hard work. Bad thing about this assignment is that there is
conflict occur in my team and I was not able to handle it effectively and got any on all members
of team. There is also a miscommunication conduct in our team dues to writing of content which
waste our efforts and time. In last, we all cooperate with each other that work well for our
assignment. Problem occur in completion of assignment as we did not communicate well with
each other. All people put their efforts in completion of this assignment which make this
presentation effective.
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Analysis
Things in universities go well as I’m friendly in nature which helps me to make new friends.
While completion of assignment given to us in university, my leadership styles as well as
communication skills helps us to effective complete our work on time before deadline. This
assignment is complete successfully as we have divided work as per specialisation (Pedersen,
2017). This will improve skills of every people and build team spirit in us. This will help me to
learn new skills as well as enhance my previous skills. I have not given presentation before this
as participation in this assignment helps in matching my skills as well as also allow me to handle
of activity of group. My some of habits like taking classes regularly, not skip any classes, taking
notes from teachers also helps me in completion of this assignment and to develop additional
skills while learning from university. These good habits and right approach to start assignment
like division of work with specialisation contribute in needed up assignment even before
deadline. Our mistakes related to writing content for presentation can create problem for us but
our last-minute efforts help us in this task. I take helps from books and journals in library and
also take helps of our teachers to get more understanding about this topic. Belbin team role helps
to understand about that there is different strength and weakness person possess. This also helps
us to realise that group efforts and dedication helps person to attain their goals with helps of their
strength. There are various skills which helps in completion of this group project include
communication, problem solving, division of work, leadership, motivation.
Conclusion
From this group assignment and studying in university, I have learned various new things. I have
learnt how to divide work into a small piece between different people and also assigning
responsibility to them for that work (Sergeeva, 2019). I also learned that to complete work in a
team, we need roper planning and communication as it may create problem of confusion and
miscommunication. This ca be more positive situation for our team if we have properly
communicated with each other and cooperate with each other. I will handle situation very wisely
in future period of time. I will use Belbin model to realise my strength as well as strength of
group member. I have developed various skills such as communication skills, research skills,
problem solving skills and time management skills in this assignment. I will put my extra efforts
and will communicate with other members while performing any work as it reduces confusion
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between us. I will also use helps of conflict relation skills which helps to reduce conflict between
team and increase team spirit in team members.
Action plan
If same thing happened with me again in future, I will act differently. As I ensure there is smooth
flow of communication between team members. I also handle situation effectively instead of
getting angry on team members (Swain, 2016). Next time, I will talk to my team and ask for
coordination by realising them that how this group project will satisfy our personal goals. Next
time, while dividing work, I will try to communicate with them about expectation of their work
and this will guide them in successfully completion of their work without creating conflict
between us. This assignment helps me to develop various skills which helps me in future period
of time. I will also work on conflict resolution skills which helps me in future in handling
different teams. I have learned various thing by taking initiative of assignment in group. This
make me realise how to deal with responsibility and completion of work in a reteam. Next time
when I feel problem occur in group, I will handle situation calmly instead of getting angry and
also share problem with team members This will allow me to get solution of problem as I will
involve whole team.
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REFERENCES
Books and journal
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Howard, V. and Eddy‐Imishue, G.E.K., 2020. Factors influencing adequate and effective clinical
supervision for inpatient mental health nurses' personal and professional development:
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656.
Körkkö, M., Kyrö-Ämmälä, O. and Turunen, T., 2016. Professional development through
reflection in teacher education. Teaching and teacher education, 55, pp.198-206.
Makovec, D., 2018. The teacher’s role and professional development. International Journal of
Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education, 6(2), p.33.
Pedersen, K.W., 2017. Supporting collaborative and continuing professional development in
education for sustainability through a communities of practice approach. International
Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Sergeeva, M.G., 2019. Formation of economic competence of the head of the educational
organization in terms of professional development. Revista San Gregorio, 1(30).
Swain, J., 2016. The effect of Phase One training on young recruits' personal and professional
development in the British army. Journal of Youth Studies, 19(1), pp.117-132.
Williams, E.S., Rathert, C. and Buttigieg, S.C., 2020. The personal and professional
consequences of physician burnout: a systematic review of the literature. Medical Care
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