Travelodge Staff Development: A Personal and Professional Growth Plan

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of personal and professional development strategies for Travelodge staff. It evaluates approaches to self-managed learning, proposes ways to encourage lifelong learning, and assesses the benefits of self-managed learning for both individuals and the organization. The report includes a detailed evaluation of current skills and competencies against professional standards and organizational objectives, identification of development needs, and the creation of a personal and professional development plan. It also discusses the implementation of the development plan, reflection on learning outcomes, and updates to the plan based on feedback. Furthermore, the report addresses problem-solving, communication styles, and time-management strategies within the workplace.

Personal and Professional Development
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning. Which approach can be more suitable for
you or your staff at Travelodge Hotel?........................................................................................4
1.2 Propose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be
encouraged...................................................................................................................................6
1.3 Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organisation..............8
Task 2.............................................................................................................................................10
2.1 Evaluate own current skills and competencies against professional standards and
organisational objectives............................................................................................................10
2.2 Identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them.........................12
2.3 Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs....................13
2.4 Devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs...............14
Task 3.............................................................................................................................................16
3.1 Discuss the processes and activities required to implement the development plan that you
prepared for yourself in task 2.4................................................................................................16
3.2 Undertake and document development activities as planned. In this task, you should
implement the development plan you prepared for yourself and then write down how you
implemented your plan...............................................................................................................17
3.3 Reflect critically on your own learning against original aims and objectives set in the
development plan. Did you really learn new skills at the level you aim for them?...................19
3.4 Update the development plan that you prepared for yourself (covered in 2.4) based on the
feedback and evaluation.............................................................................................................20
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................22
4.1 Select solutions to work-based problems.............................................................................22
4.2 Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels....................23
4.3 Evaluate and use effective time-management strategies......................................................24
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................25
References......................................................................................................................................26
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Introduction
Personal development is a process in which an individual work on their skills and abilities to
enhance. PD supports a person to sustain in such a competitive environment so that their
professional context would be encouraged. Professional development is identified growth obtain
by a person at their working place to gain a higher position. This project is based on personal
and professional development for Travelodge staff individual and managers so that management
sustain at desire market world. In this project, aspects will be going to define about self-managed
learning in context for lifelong development. It will also define the responsibility of a person in a
personal and professional context. PPD plan will be going to aid in improving skills and abilities
for continue review of skills and abilities to increase potential.
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Task 1
1.1 Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning. Which approach can be more suitable
for you or your staff at Travelodge Hotel?
Topic: Approaches to self-managed learning for staff individuals of Travelodge
Dated: 31st July 2018
Introduction: Own learning is beneficial for a person so that they could gain and determine
growth in the near future. In such an aspect, a major concept gets evaluated which is self-
managed learning. This concept stated that self-managed learning is a process through a person
enhance their working potential and learn various aspects from a diverse range of sources like
communication, seminars etc. Travelodge, staff personnel’s need to utilize this aspect properly
for enhancing their learning. Various approaches will be going to evaluate which facilitate and
support managing self-managed learning properly.
Main Body: Self-management of learning is essential for an individual as this consider as only
way through which lifelong determination get done. Self-managed learning facilitates an option
so that each individual can enhance their ability to sustain at desire world and this learning also
promotes their personal and professional development. At the workplace, self-management of
learning is must through which decision making and analytical skills tend to improvise
(Andryukhina, et. al., 2016). Following are certain approaches of self-managed learning for staff
associates of Travelodge so that their abilities to perform activities improvise:
 Internet: One of an identical source to learn things is the internet which facilitates a
person to learn so many things. This gets done from a diverse range of sources like Bing,
Google etc. All these search engines are helpful for modern world individual to manage
their own learning on concern topic properly. Travelodge staff individuals can use this
technique through which they can learn and get more information regarding task assign
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by their managers.
 Conferences: Another aspect which supports learning is conferences where appropriate
potential and better knowledge individual arrive. Conferences are helpful in sharing an
individual experience with others so that they could learn many new things. Thus,
Travelodge managers need to organize certain conferences with staff personnel like team
meetings etc.
 Research: A person also investigates aspects from various books, journals, articles etc.
All these aspects are helpful in journalizing to differ frame of consents and support an
individual to manage their own learning. Thus, with proper research and study, a person
becomes able to determine various aspects and context which facilitate their self-learning
and enhance potential as well (Andryukhina, et. al., 2016).
Conclusion: All of these approaches are helpful for Travelodge staff individuals to manage their
learning. Each and every approach is helpful to encourage their own learning and increase their
potential to perform a task properly and in define manner as well.
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1.2 Propose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be
encouraged
Topic: Pathways which aid in lifelong learning in the personal and professional context
Date: 31st July 2018
Introduction: A major and essential object for an individual is just to encourage their
determination throughout life. A lesson in life is essential and important through which
individual carried down their activities properly. Personal lessons assist in making better
decisions for life whereas professional learning enables in taking various opportunities.
Travelodge managers have to determine various ways which support in taking lifelong learning
in both contexts: personal and professional.
Main Body: Lifelong learning is important to attribute for a person so that they would sustain at
desire world. It is essential to identify various ways which enable and support in taking lifelong
learning so that a person can manage their both consideration personal and professional one.
Travelodge individuals can use such pathways in managing to learn in a personal and
professional context:
Professional lifelong learning: Meetings, conferences are certain major ways which support in
promoting and encouraging lifelong learning. If a person wants to enhance their professional
lifelong learning, they need to start working in an office. There is various individuals work
together with similar and different thoughts. This assist and aid in managing the lifelong learning
of a person in a professional context.
Personal Lifelong learning: For personal growth and development, an individual need to craft
list for activities which they will be going to perform. Thus, for entire lifespan, this list is helpful
in drawing activities properly and encourages personal lifelong learning. A checklist will be
going to create by an individual for activities with the regular assessment. Thus, it is one of the
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best sources to learn many new and creative aspects for growth and development.
Conclusion: There are various ways to identify which support staff associates of Travelodge to
enhance and encourage their lifelong learning. This aspect is helpful for them so that they could
maintain and manage the appropriate and suitable outcome (Becker and Rosemann, 2013).
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1.3 Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organization
Topic: Benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organization
Date: 31st July 2018
Introduction: Self-managed learning is a procedure which encourages a person to become their
own potential and aptitudes. It is extremely fundamental for a man through whom deep-rooted
thought would be overseen. Travelodge and its related people need to comprehend the
advantages of deep-rooted realizing with the goal that it could appropriately execute into
consistent life and in addition in business.
Main Body: Travelodge needs a comprehension of advantages which affiliation can draw
through self-guided learning and individual self-guided claim learning. This outcome in them in
enrolling and choosing such people which can possibly manage any sort of difficulties and
impedance. Following are sure advantages of self-guided learning for staff and association:
Benefits to the individual:
Self-managed learning empowers a person to end up self-dependable to dole out obligations and
errand. This encourages them in overseeing weight with the goal that assents would be overseen
legitimately (Becker and Rosemann, 2013).
Self-managed learning likewise improves a man ready to think innovatively and chip away at
advancements. This factor likewise bolsters in an expert setting with the goal that the association
can dispatch new and imaginative perspectives to showcase for taking influence.
Self-managed people additionally expressed responsibly for allocating obligations and openings.
This not just advantages a person as they wind up ready to deal with different errand
appropriately.
Benefits to the organization:
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Self-managed learning benefits an element as business people wind up ready to discover that
assignment achievement and execution is their essential and critical perspective. This advantage
to business in achieving focuses on time.
Creative thinking helps business to pick up advantages and take use. Numerous new methods
and method of working will go to dispatch in business. This empowers and backings in
characterizing credit appropriately and scopes to targets legitimately.
Conclusion: These are sure advantages of self-guided realizing which a man could pick up by
chipping away at abilities and perspectives. This encourages them in achieving targets created by
the administration. This outcome in them in taking the upper hand with the goal that better return
could be forced (Becker and Rosemann, 2013).
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Task 2
2.1 Evaluate own current skills and competencies against professional standards and
organizational objectives
In order to achieve my desired goals and objectives, I have done my own skills and eligibility
analysis to see the respective changes that might be required I orders to develop my career. I
have made a detailed analysis and skill development force that has helped me in the development
of resources and respective needs of the organization (Bluethmann, et. Al., 2016). Being a
manager in Travelodge I need to grow my skills and teach the same to my subordinates in order
to make sure that this has been used in order to see the effective way in which the same can be
used. I have made targets and standards that have to be fulfilled by the system in order to
develop my career.
Skills 1 2 3 4 Evidence
Communicatio
n skill
development
4 Need to improve my communication skills to explain
the issues and the changing scenario to the people and
make respective changes in order to manage the
workforce and face the situations in the future.
Analytical and
problem-
solving skills
4 The problem-solving skills and the analytical skills
has been used in order to make sure the strategy to
develop new skills and use them in the entire
situation and provide optimum results are required.
Leadership
skills
3 The empathy, understanding, and problem-solving
skills will be helpful in the development and
understanding of the overall structure and
development of the resources.
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Time
management
2 Properly timed and role allocations should be used in
order to allocate the roles and responsibilities to all
the respective subordinates.
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2.2 Identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them
In order to develop myself and have an effective career and clear vision in future in need to work
upon the various factors that have been working upon the overall development needs and lacking
in the work culture of my current working style. This self-analysis has helped me in my personal
development and achievement of future goals. Also, the work has been done in order to make
sure that the weakness is being worked upon effectively.
Strength- My major strength has been my analytical and problem-solving skills that have been
helping me in the understanding and development of the needs in future. This has helped me in
understanding the system issues and giving appropriate results. I thus need to learn to make a
future analysis of emergency situations (Bluethmann, et. Al., 2016).
Weakness- My major weakness can be my stress taking ability which increases the anxiety and
thus the same reflects on the team. Thus I need to learn to manage and take things lightly.
Opportunity- My major opportunity is to learn the market research and problem analysis skills
that will be helpful in the future in order to learn the competition skills and nature of them.
Threat- My major threats are the skills and policies implemented by the competitions and lack of
innovation and creativity delivered by me. Thus I need to be creative and innovative.
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