Critical Analysis: Personal and Professional Development at Amazon

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of personal and professional development, focusing on reflective learning and leadership skills within the context of Amazon. It explores key concepts such as the Gibbs Reflective Cycle and Kolb's Learning Styles, demonstrating a critical understanding of how these models contribute to individual and organizational growth. The report evaluates the relevance of personal development to the role of a manager, emphasizing its importance for both self and others' development. It further examines how individuals can effectively manage their own development and apply newly acquired skills, including the importance of leadership skills like commencing action, motivation, and building morale. The report also assesses development needs and identifies resources and opportunities to address them. Finally, it explores the development of a personal approach to reflective learning and continuing professional development, providing insights into how individuals can foster continuous improvement and achieve their career goals.

Personal and professional
development

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the concepts of reflective learning and personal
development...........................................................................................................................1
LO2..................................................................................................................................................4
Appraise the relevance of personal development to the role of a manager, for one's own and
others' development................................................................................................................4
LO3..................................................................................................................................................6
Manage one's own development effectively and apply newly acquired skills.......................6
Monitor one's own and others' performance through giving and receiving feedback............7
LO5..................................................................................................................................................8
Assess development needs and identify resources and opportunities to address them..........8
LO6................................................................................................................................................10
Develop your own approach to reflective learning and continuing professional development.
..............................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
The personal and the professional development is the process all the individual and the
company have make their engagement by which more learning will get developed thus to meet
the goals and the objectives are more easier. It is more get associated to the development of the
need and the demand of an individual and of the group as well. It has been identified by
measuring the different skills as like running meetings, time management, stress management,
making of presentation that get used to accomplish the different skills to get prepare the impel
making of the plan of personal development (Anders, 2018). To get improvement in skills will
induced by analysing the current skills to get implement and prepare the personal development.
The professional skills are more related to the coaching and counselling that is provided to the
staff to learn the different learning that are required to make more development. It is the skills
that are relative to the managerial and the leadership that get induce self development by making
continuous efforts. This report is based on the Amazon that is American conglomerate of the
multinational technology and it is based on the Seattle and have work with the 840,000 number
of employee by focusing of the e-commerce, digital streaming, cloud computing and the artificial
intelligence as well. This report includes the critical understanding of concept of the reflective
learning and personal development, relevance of personal development to role of manager,
development needs and an approach towards the reflective learning and continuing of
professional development.
MAIN BODY
LO1
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the concepts of reflective learning and personal
development
The reflective practice is the concept or process to get asses the thoughts and self made
actions and that is done by the purpose to make personal learning and development. It is the
instinctive and natural activity that get used to make sufficient changes in own personality and
behaviour (Boylan, 2018). There are some of the different concepts that get associated with the
learning and the personal development that are as defined below as:
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Gibbs - Reflective Cycle model: It is the model that is more concerned and maintain the
focus about the other and an individual’s own feeling, perception and view that get related to the
stronger idea of the empathy and it is the process that get continuous revolved in a cycle or a
loop and have contain different elements and that is as defined below as:
(Source: Gibbs - Reflective Cycle model, 2019)
Description – It is the process through which an individual must have work forward to get to
know about the changes that are more needed. It defines the different things as like to know
what, where, when and individual get induced the change to get better result in specific time
period.
Feelings – It is the aspects that get encourage an individual to make effective thinking and
feeling by gaining more experience. In this an individual must get try to avoid the emotions. It is
somehow difficult to make more honest about the feeling by using the empathetic listening and
try to make own viewpoint in every context (Cheon, 2018).
Evaluation – In this stage it is important to get encourage the individual while making the
coaching by which objective become clearer by using different approaches to differentiate in
between the positive and negative attribute.
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Analysis – In this level all the individual must have make brief analysis by which clear
interpretation and assessment will get analyzed that help to make improvised result in systematic
manner.
Conclusion – As after making the evaluation it is more vital to make suitable team in which
all the members have worked with more efficiency as in this all the information will get
connected to get appropriate outcomes (Choy, 2019).
Action Plan –In this after making the analyzing all the interpretation and after that the plan
will make to get deal with the situation by which more effective outcome will get achieved.
It is the concept that get induced in between the Amazon by which all the employee have
make suitable changes within the business by which the personal and professional skills will get
more developed and advanced. As it is more beneficial because all the change will get induced
by making systematic changes that helps to get achieve the target by which continuous growth
and development get induced.
Kolb's Learning Styles: It is the concept that get established by the David Kolb in the
tear 1939 and represent the best way to get enhanced the experience and learning in the daily life
and have includes the different stages that is moving in continuous loop that developed the
learning and as explained below as:
(Source: Kolb's Learning Styles, 2019)
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Experience: In this the experience will get gained by an individual by making the
encountered or the reinterpretation of the experience that is gained on recent time by which it is
easy to get relate with the situation and helps to make clear understanding.
Reflection: It is the observation of the recent experience as it is also be more important as
brings more consistency and induce understanding by which the learning will get reflect from the
experience that get gained while completing the particular task and activity (DiPaola, 2018).
Learning/Conclusion: It is relatable to the abstract conceptualization that introduce the risen
of the new idea and thinking ability that bring more motivation by modifying the existing
conceptual and it is earned by the experience of an individual.
Planning/experimentation: It is based on the active experimentation in which all the
individual will get learn about how to get implied different strategy while getting over from any
situation with more easiness.
It has been used by the Amazon while implementing the personal and professional
development of the learners as they are the employee of the company. In this more definite
outcome get achieved that has more suitability within the business as all the employee get learn
more experience from their own activity that get performed by managing the job role.
LO2
Appraise the relevance of personal development to the role of a manager, for one's own and
others' development
Leadership is the process through which all the individuals have influences the other
people to get accomplish the target and objective that get direct the Amazon in a suitable manner
and make there working style more suitable and logical within the business. In this process an
individual is more focused to make achievable goals in timely manner. The good and effective
leader and those that are born not made and they have more desire and willpower to become an
effectual leader. Leadership is the quality that get developed through the newer ending process
that induce more experience, education and self assessment and have learn different knowledge
by gaining more profits (Evers, 2019). The leaders are those that have work to inspire the other
team workers by making stronger communication with them. It will not get developed more
often but get comes naturally and have acquired the higher achievements by inducing continuous
work. The skills of the leadership is more vital function of the management as it helps the
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business to emphasis the efficiency by which business goals get achieved with more perfection.
There are some importances of the leadership skills in the management process of the Amazon
and as defined below as:
Commence action: Leadership is the skills through which the leader makes suitable
communication will the employee and transferred all the policies, plan and strategy to other
ordinates by which all have more clear goals and objective (Fedotova, 2018). It helps the
Amazon to get achieved profit in suitable manner by which the adequate set of action gets
implied within the business.
Motivation: The leader will always be try to prove more concern about the other
employee by which more incentive role and responsibility get provide to the employee by which
their working style get changed. In the Amazon have provide both economic and the non-
economic rewards and recognition by which employee become more motivated.
Provide guidance: It is the skill of the leadership through which the leader not only
supervise the team but also get play the role of the guide as well and provide appropriate
guidance to the employee by which their working standard get more developed. In Amazon the
leader have instruct the other employee by which their performance will get more developed.
Generate confidence: It is the skills of the leader and have develop the confidence to the
employee as it is more vital aspect through which they could achieved their goals and have
express their efforts with more perfection. In this the leader of the Amazon have explain the
employee about their role and according to that provide guidance as well also get listen the
problems of the employee and resolved that as soon as possible.
Build morale: It is more important that the entire employees that are working within the
business will have willing to make suitable coordination with their job roles and work. In this the
leader will try to induce more confidence within the employee by which the trust get build up
that take the overall surround as the winning team (Gabrys-Barker, 2018). As the leader of the
Amazon have try to induce the morale within the employee by which they get boost up and have
performed their work with more confidence and have always perform their best abilities and get
achieve more profit in future.
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LO3
Manage one's own development effectively and apply newly acquired skills
Personal development is the procedure through which more improvements will get
induced by making changes and effective implementation of the conscious habits and the other
activities as well. The personal development plan gets helped to make and pursue the individual
growth and development by which the quality of the life will get enhanced through which they
have achieved their aspiration and the dreams (Morales, 2018). In this all the individual will have
focus on the personal development by which more abilities and skills by get enhanced while
making the collaboration if the education and skills that are more upper from the societal trends.
In this all the individual are working to enhance their experiences that help to make more success
in their own field. There are some of the skills that get focused and considerate on the personal
development and that are as defined below as:
Personal skills: It is the skills in which all the individual were try to grow the
interpersonal skills and it get developed more and more as per the increments of the experiences
while collective definite information. It is the skills that are present in the entire individual and
get developed as per the education and the upbringing that is more deliberate exercise. In this all
the individual of the Amazon have known their areas and with that developed it more by making
it useful in the personal and professional development.
Personal growth: It is the skill in which all the individual try to become better version of
them by getting out of their comfort areas and focus to gain more achievements. As the mindset
of an individual get developed on continuous basis that evolved the never ending process.
Personal power: In this the individual get the support of the money and the contacts by
which the ever-widen doors get opened that enlarges the working areas and become of suitable
outcomes that is advantageous and provide better opportunity as well to make more growth.
Personal improvement: It will define the positive attitude of an individual and with that
the attitude of an individual towards their work will get enhanced that provide better priorities
while considering different consequences (Rubens, 2018). It helps to get perform the work
within timely manner by which the target get achieved in sufficient way.
Personal empowerment: In this the individual personal skills will get promote the better
image that is more positive. In this the individual will get work with more creativenesses while
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operating their daily functions by which it will speed-up the working time that increase the
empowerments in easier mode.
Personal analysis: It is the major aspect of the skill in which it is vital to work more
naturally and all the individual must get analysed that which are is needed to get improvised and
which one is not. It is helpful to provide clearer and truthful outcome by which constant growth
get measured to achieve their ambitions (Salter, 2018).
Personal objectives: The individual have more ambitions but that all get fulfilled if they
have clear goals in their life that might be short or long terms but it is more pivotal. In this all the
individual have the clear plans by which the employee of Amazon have reach to their destination
with successful manner.
LO4
Monitor one's own and others' performance through giving and receiving feedback.
The performance of an individual will get developed more if they have worked with r
elative information, impression, ideas by adding all the different consequences that get induce
more profit. To get achieve the personal and professional development goals the individual have
worked with more effectiveness and efficiency at the last time as well and have gain more
experience while making bigger goals and achievements and there are some important of
personal development plan that are as defined below as:
Personal development goals: In this it is important that goal must get set as it make the
suitable changes in between the failure and the success.
Personal development goal for work: In this the trajectory get developed by an
individual by which have try to fulfil the dreams by getting investing in the initial time by
making tremendous impact to see the positive changes. As in the addition time the employee of
an Amazon have try to work by improvising the efficiency and productivity that helps to take the
promotion.
Personal development goals for employees: As it is more vital for the employee of the
Amazon to work with clear vision and mission and always be more attentive and it get induce by
making schedule, monitoring of the progress and by maintain focus as well (Sergeeva, 2018).
Thus the plans get developed that includes the set of action by which better opportunities get
developed in order to indentify and fulfilling the dreams.
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Personal development skills and objectives: It is more important that the development
get induced by making continuous efforts and with this the major objective towards the personal
development plan helps to make continuous growth in personal life that get enhance the working
potential and capitalize the success and facilities that promotes more development.
Personal development ideas to achieve goals: In the personal development the Amazon
have provide the training programs, courses, coaches that is more helpful to get achieve the goals
by keeping the focus on the inter disciplined that help to always looks and move forwards.
Personal development program and course: It is the skill that will bring transformation in
the life by attending the different courses and programs by which more beneficial learning will
get teaches by which more adequacies get developed that reduced the stress and working
pressure by which the balance will get induced in the life (Verweij, 2018). As from these courses
the powerful and impactful learning get transmitted by which immediate learning will get
reflected. It will help and empowers the personal achievements by which the ideal outcome get
achieved by managing the work with lot more efficiency that reduce the negative outcome and
hinder the development as well. It will induce more approachable aspect by which the effective
utilisation the resources will get intertwined by which personnel goals and mission get
accomplished in timely manner. These skills induce self confidence and also maximise the
productivity as well by which the self confidence will developed that escape the better
productivity thus more achievable outcomes get achieved that improvises the ultimate success.
LO5
Assess development needs and identify resources and opportunities to address them
There is some of the different strength and the weaknesses that are required to get
maintain the personal and professional development with more easiness. It will provide more
adequate information by which they have managed the working conditions and the behaviour of
the employee that are working within the Amazon (Zwozdiak-Myers, 2018). There are some of
the different interpersonal skills that get developed to make sufficient changes within the
business in which all the employee have worked with lot of satisfactoriness by which the
individual strength and weaknesses will get analysed and that get convert into the opportunity by
reducing the threat. There are some of the strength and weakness of the personal skills that get
defined below as:
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Strength Weaknesses
 Good interpersonal skills
 Motivated
 Positive approach and attitude
 Single minded approach
 Getting some uncertainty by which
more difficulty will get raised on
continuous basis.
 Try to do more task at one time.
Opportunities Threat
 Better position at the workplace
 More commitments
 Get support from the higher authority
 Get more support from the training
 Managing and balance in between the
work and home
 To get managing the list of priorities
 Having less potential in the other area
that are not in my potential range
There are some different strength as like the good interpersonal skills that get developed and
inbuilt as from the education, knowledge, experience that get developed by making the suitable
changes within the working style by which more relatedness will get induces. The individual is
more motivate and have show more commitment while working in a team and with that have
manage the need and demand of the surround and get start working as per that conditions (Wang,
2018). They have been worked as the positive approach by which the working belief and attitude
will get improvised by which rate and probability of efficient result will get enhanced more and
more. There are some of the weaknesses as well as the individual have try to perform different
task and with that have forget to achieve the profitable aspect in the limited areas. Thus it is
harder to get more success and development for continuous period. It might be that an individual
have work with the single minded approach by which can’t easy to accept the change with more
appropriateness.
There are some different strategy get used to cover the strength into the opportunity and
changes minimise the threat. In this the time management will get induced by which the
standardised output will get set and adequate time will get assigned to that particular activity by
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which the rate of attractive outcome will get developed more and have induce more satisfactory
outcomes in timely manner.
LO6
Develop your own approach to reflective learning and continuing professional development.
There are some of diverse areas that get needed to develop and analyse to make
professional development and have include some diverse skills that are more valuable and while
improving this the self development and improvement will get induced. Thus some of the
individual area that is needed for professional development and as defined below as:
Goal setting: In this the more of the direction will get set that get developed the
professional goals by setting different goals and it is more important as the first step that get
improvise the performance of an individual. The personal skills will also get developed while
working within the team and work with proximal goals and broad mindset that help to reach to
the milestones as it is more important to get feel more satisfied outcome that reflect the pride
while working (Weller, 2019). It is more useful to get achieve the goals by divide the overall task
into the smaller one that develop the efficiency and easy to achieve smooth success, in this the
spreadsheet will get developed that is useful to make the checklist, it emphasis the vision by
which more clear vision get implement.
Communication: It is also being more important while developing the professionalism
that the employees of Amazon have work to compromise in the teams and these includes
different people that belong from different experiences and background. It is more helpful to
make balance in between the meetings by making the conference, electronic interaction as its
facilitate the routine by which timely target get achieved.
Collaboration: It is the skill that get learn while gaining the information with
experiences and developed with the aging and also called as the sharing and cooperation. In this
Amazon have provide more equal opportunity and accept the people that belongs from different
background and all will work to achieve common target by which the probability of achieving
more productivity get improvises. It will induce the camaraderie in between the individual by
which the brainstorming get induced and in this equal attention will provide to the entire
employee. By making more participation the work get retreat by analysing the strength and the
weakness by which effective culture will get developed and helps to make continuous success.
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Listening: It is always be more beneficial for the individual while developing the better
qualities and it will get developed more while doing more practices in the workplace (Wagner,
2018). In this the individual personality will get more developed and with that have become good
and active listener. In this the affective eye contact will get developed by which the individual
get avoid the distraction as while taking with the supervisors or other higher authority or by
using the computer while getting done the work. It also emphasis the thinking and understanding
ability under which the better silence get maintain and focus get maintained to keep understand
the norms of other employees. It will also reflect the appropriateness with that have shows better
emotion as like happiness, encouragement, congratulation and the empathy as well.
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that the personal and the professional
development have induce more profitable changes within the business by which they get
induced the better change in their interpersonal skills and it get reflect in their overall
personality. The development in an individual will bring a lot of satisfaction and a feeling of
commitment towards the goals and the objective by which the future will get stronger and
brighter and a continuous growth will get measured by an individual.
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