PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Personal Development

Personal Development

Introduction

“Low aim is the crime, so we should have high aims in our life” (Emerson, 2006, pp.56-71)

These words of Emerson (2006, pp. 56-71), truly reflect how a passionate person should live his or her life. Life is not a bed of roses. It presents many challenges to us, but the winner is one who faces these challenges, and proves himself as a remarkable individual. Life has also thrown many challenges to me, and I want to deal with them bravely. Reflective Thinking may be defined as the process of creating and clarifying the meaning of experience (past or present) in terms of self (self in relation to self and self in relation to the world).

Discussion

According to Kolb, (1984, pp. 96), reflective thinking is a part of the critical thinking process referring specifically to the processes of analyzing, evaluating, and making judgments about what has happened. To enhance the ability to make critical decision, one needs to reflect on their past and learn from both failures and successes and catalog mentally for future retrieval what has occurred and why. Team work requires that the team members are at par. They do not necessarily have to think in the same way but each team member has to believe in the goal set by the team. Only then they will be able to work as team. Today's world poses multiple problems to an individual at a given time. These problems are not always as clear as crystal and in some cases are truly mindboggling. For instance, medical professionals face challenging work situations on a daily basis. In certain instances, the patient's condition is so complex that you really need to apply reflective thinking skills. Similarly, marketers have the responsibility to constantly stay in touch with the market happenings and devise strategies to stay ahead of the competition. Hence, there is a need to develop our reflective thinking skills. Reflective thinking is a skill and can be mastered through exercise and practice. Team building skills in a work situation that requires difficult decision making is essential as each member in the team will be contributing towards achieving a particular goal. Hence, there is a need to hold periodic team building exercise sessions for employees of an organization suggested by Jarvis, (1992, pp.174-181).

Reflection is a procedure within which the practitioner can consider about and attain a better knowledge of their practice. It is one key way in which experts can think about and expand their own practice. There are diverse ways to reflect depending on individual practitioner predilection. In this assignment, I will demonstrate that I have achieved all the module learning outcomes. I will highlight my learning and development which I gained through this experience. I will reflect upon this incident and how it made me more effective in my practice. I will discuss my opinion, thinking and approach the incident that occurred. I will also discuss some queries that I asked to my self in first assignment, this assignment ...