Reflective Journal: Skills for Personal & Professional Development

This reflective journal documents a student's learning experiences in a course focused on personal and professional development. The journal utilizes the Gibbs reflective cycle to analyze the student's experiences, including descriptions of learned skills such as self-analysis, communication, leadership, teamwork, and time management. The student evaluates the course, highlighting both positive aspects and areas for improvement, such as time constraints. The analysis section reflects on the practical application of skills, particularly emphasizing the importance of flexibility and self-awareness. The conclusion summarizes the overall positive impact of the course, leading to the identification of personal potential and skills. The journal concludes with an action plan, outlining how the student will apply the learned skills and knowledge in future endeavors, including leveraging technology, enhancing communication, and maintaining a balanced approach to personal and professional growth. The student references various books and journals to support the reflective writing.

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Gibbs reflective cycle......................................................................................................................4
Description...................................................................................................................................4
Evaluation....................................................................................................................................5
Analysis.......................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................6
Action plan...................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Reflective journals are the records of individuals learning experiences. It is an area where
persons can think upon their reactions and experiences to situations. These are utilized to explore
circumstances from personal perspective. Personal studying and professional growths are vital
units in everyone’s life. Learning is the activity or process of obtaining the latest knowledge,
recognizing worth’s and etiquettes. Professional development is a magnitude or ability achieved
via organized, conscious and sustained attempts to flexibly accomplish multiplex job tasks and
responsibilties.
MAIN BODY
Gibbs reflective cycle
Description
In this path of achieving study and employability skills, the course of developing
personally and professionally supported me a lot to learn several many things like personal
improvement, self-analysing, constant self-development, utilization of ICT’s, communication
skills, problem solving skills, networking, team work and time management. I have studied that
how can I be capable of analysing my personality and find my strengths and weaknesses. By
studying this course, now I am able to improving and developing in terms of personal and
professional by coping up with my own potentials (Mathew, Mathew and Peechattu, 2017). I
learned that making constant developments in my personality can build up a positive platform for
me to gain positive outcomes and manage myself effectively. My prime aim of growing skills is
to strengthen opportunities for developing my talent and enhance my complete scope of living a
desirable life and to detain a high position in the company to evolve professionally (Bruno and
Dell’Aversana, 2017).
In this course, I get to learn that how leadership contributes in achieving cusses in the business.
This learning is helping me in my present designation that is leader in Amazon. Skills of Leader
are to show belief, agony, aspiration and endurance amid the team. This skill makes me pliable
orderly to compel compound decisions. Ascendancy is the factor that escorts me to victorious
leadership and supports my colleagues to execute well for rising productivity of the company
(Bassot, 2016). This supports me to superbly determine the civilization, worth’s, alter tolerance,
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along with motivating my team and improve plans as well as new implementations. I have
learned how to utilize ICT’s for various purposes and how can I be able to use it to get proper
access to actual approaches. I have learned that I can develop my team-work skills by
coordinating with my mates in my workplace.
Evaluation
Many things that I have learned from this module are best and worthy for me. I have
grown my skills of communication that helped me to notice inquiries of my colleagues, support
them by communicating with them and minimize the quarrels between all. Interacting every time
helps in creating genuine relations, set up proposals and defeat powerful challenges that which
affects working environment. Improving communications skill helps me to feel inspired and
delegated. I come across to develop my research abilities which are absolutely essential in each
and every association since research skills reinforces me to grasp more about the on-going issues
at the abode. It is important for me because by developing analytical and research skills I can
review spread sheets in detail, research online, collect data and know the competitor information.
It is also an investigation skill that is important for me as it allows me to discover solutions of
twain censorious and general problems and prepare detailed decisions of the steps which will be
pulled freshly for the advancement of effectiveness in the firm.
Some bad things were also associated with these studies. Short time was allotted to understand
everything that was explained by my tutor. If I would get more time to learn at that moment then
I could better explore each and every segment properly according the teachings of my tutor.
Problem solving was also one skill that I have learned in this course which taught me to lead
different kinds of issues and find their suitable solutions. A conflict was raised in between class
that was really disturbing us and that conflict demands coordination from us to solve the issue
and accomplish the project (Attard, 2017). It was very tough for us to allocate task between us. I
have evaluated how distant I came up with my absolute resolutions and value myself and the
whole experiences associated with me. Self-reliance is the character of capabilities and skills. I
begin to believe in own and possess a sense of sway in my existence. At present I envisage
myself as I desire to be, assert myself, I carry out one condemnatory thing that terrify me to a
great extent and interrogate my internal critic, grasp several noteworthy challenges to refusal for
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smatter days and assist myself to escape from fears. At this moment in time I also have an ability
to conclude own and social discernment regarding the environment and able to procure
satisfaction away from the morale (Sekarwinahyu and et.al, 2019). I experienced and affected by
some elements such as amount of commitment, fostering and operating environment in relation
to follow a source.
Analysis
As per my analysis, my whole experience of learning was notable. Tutor used to focus very
greatly on my practical learning that was based on class sessions and workshops. I have
performed various actions for being capable to utilize self-analysis in our sessions. It was best
thing for me to learn about research skills efficiently to become able to make appropriate control
on my learning about my own personality. This curse was actually teaching us to make
improvements and positive modifications in my personality. These skills supported me to
identify my potential aspects and gain favourable results in developing myself to resist in this
leading generation (Hildebrand, 2018).
I got to realize that to drive a establishment, much of austere is required and lucidity is self-
awareness that means I need to be very bright alike glass and reproduce my all the methods of
behaviours and intendments. I have expertise in overcoming with convinced distractions and
block intending. . When I expertise and improved my flexibility I was capable of dealing with all
the unforeseen challenges quickly and peacefully by bringing out hidden potential. Skills of
flexibility are necessary in offices as it enable a person to boost confidence and reduce level of
stress that creates balance and believe within employees and maximizes productivity of the
organization.
Decisively, i learned to follow my agony and intimate perception to build a procedure plan and
believe in own fortitude (Ramia and et.al, 2016).
Conclusion
Overall, this was the finest experience of mine to attend the classes of this course which
supported me to read, learn, write and live in this hi-fi generation. I came to know my missing
potentials after learning all these things from my tutor and those helped me to fill the gaps
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between my negativities and positivity’s. I have learned skills of time and self-management. It
has given me knowledge to develop teamwork skills that can help in obtaining business goals of
my company effectively with the efficiency of all individuals in my team.
Action plan
 I will utilize my coherent flexibility in the upgraded technologies straight to control the
plethora of provocations and scopes.
 I aim to take advantage of my computational reasoning and digital proficiency to acquire
high worth of my operations.
 I will be fair and clear in composing judgements and decision measurements orderly to
make improvements in my performance as well as organizations in which I will
endeavour.
 I will utilize enthusiastic and communal intelligence to enfold the nuances of human
empathies in the business environment which can accept pragmatic benefits like cheerful
and delighted working environment and sharpened participation.
 I will always study tough but will never obliterate to concentrate on my soft capabilities.
 I will transmit my expertise in mass fields and relevance my abilities of communicating
effectively to remain ambitious in the successful ambience and boost achievements
interaction.
 I will consistently balance responsive and proper relations with my surrounded peoples to
constitute willingness and consent in the work ambiance.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Attard, K., 2017. Personally driven professional development: Reflective self-study as a way for
teachers to take control of their own professional development. Teacher
Development. 21(1). pp.40-56.
Bassot, B., 2016. The reflective journal. Macmillan International Higher Education.
Bruno, A. and Dell’Aversana, G., 2017. Reflective practice for psychology students: the use of
reflective journal feedback in higher education. Psychology Learning & Teaching. 16(2).
pp.248-260.
Hildebrand, J., 2018. Bridging the gap: A training module in personal and professional
development. Routledge.
Mathew, P., Mathew, P. and Peechattu, P.J., 2017. Reflective practices: A means to teacher
development. Asia Pacific Journal of Contemporary Education and Communication
Technology. 3(1). pp.126-131.
Ramia, E., and et.al., 2016. Mapping and assessment of personal and professional development
skills in a pharmacy curriculum. BMC medical education. 16(1). p.19.
Sekarwinahyu, and et.al., 2019, February. Development of problem based learning for online
tutorial program in plant development using Gibbs’ reflective cycle and e-portfolio to
enhance reflective thinking skills. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1157,
No. 2, p. 022099). IOP Publishing.
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