Reflective Journal: Enhancing Skills for Professional Development

This reflective journal explores the importance of knowledge and skill development in a professional setting. The author emphasizes the significance of self-assessment in identifying areas for improvement, particularly in communication skills. The journal discusses various methods for enhancing these skills, including attending seminars, utilizing online platforms, and engaging in self-reflection. It also touches upon the relevance of lifelong learning and the impact of both personal and professional skills on individual and organizational success, referencing relevant literature on reflective journal writing and leadership approaches. The author aims to improve their communication skills through practice and self-learning techniques to foster better relationships within the organization.

REFLECTION
The reflective learning is a key to get success because I personally believe that
knowledge is the main thing to do any thing in this world. If I am working is a business
organization and I will pick knowledge as the one thing which can be more helpful to work in
that workplace of the organization. Knowledge is so important to execute any compilation. If I
have proper knowledge about the field in which I an working as an employee, then I will put
more effort to get the knowledge about each and every thing which is relates to my job(Lai and
Calandra, 2010). It is so essential for the various economies, organizations and also the
individuals to increase the relative knowledge in their structure. After this self assessment have
seen that the knowledge and personal or professional skills should be so proper in any kind of
workplace.
In have learnt about my self that I have less potential in my communication skills and I
have to improve that to be a strong element of the organization for that I am working for. To
develop my communication skills there are so many way that can help me. I can attend more and
more seminars in which I can interact with the other people. This is the approach that can be
make me confident. On the other side I can access the internet, the social networking sites are the
platform on which I can interact with more people, we can share our things on that(Cowan,
2014). To get the fluency and decency in my communicative manner I have to inspect my own
growth. In the organization I have so many other employees. Some of them are working on the
same designation and others are on different. I have to respect the every employment of
organization.
There are so many theoretical concepts which helps me to develop my understanding
about this assessment. For self learning, I have so many options like seminar, conferences,
internet, social media and so on. From the leadership approaches it is easy to understand that
personal and professional skills do play the key role in the success of an individual or an
organization(Slotnick, and Janesick, 2011). For lifelong learning I can try the communication
practice to get the improvement in my skills. I believe by practising the the self-learning and
lifelong learning approaches I can improve my personal and professional skills and which can
help me to make better relation with other employees and organization.

REFERENCES
Lai, G. and Calandra, B., 2010. Examining the effects of computer-based scaffolds on novice
teachers’ reflective journal writing. Educational Technology Research and Development.
58(4). pp. 421-437.
Cowan, J., 2014. Noteworthy matters for attention in reflective journal writing. Active Learning
in Higher Education. 15(1). pp. 53-64.
Slotnick, R.C. and Janesick, V.J., 2011. Conversations on method: Deconstructing policy
through the researcher reflective journal. The Qualitative Report. 16(5). p. 1352.