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Purpose of this assignment This assignment gives a learner the opportunity to become an effective and confident self-directed employee. This helps the learner to become confident in managing own personal and professional skills to achieve personal and career goals. Overall scenario for Task 1, 2 and 3 You have recently been appointed as an assistant manager at Travelodge Hotel in Ilford. A quarter of a mile from Gants Hill tube station and half a mile from the listed mansions and gardens of Valentines Park, the London Ilford Travelodge Hotel is an ideal option for visitors seeking accommodation in this sophisticated town (Travelodge, 2016). You as one of the managers and your staff can perform better by a well-planned Personal and Professional Development programme. This course has practical nature so theoretical answers that only define the relevant concepts but do not give practical examples from your job as the assistant manager or your staff at this hotel will NOT be accepted. In this assignment you should answer every question by making a connection to yourself as the manager or your staff at this hotel. The answers need to be reflected to the personal and professional development at Travelodge Hotel in Ilford. In addition to practical examples from yourself and your workplace, you are required to carry out a research by using supportive materials like books, journals, and Google Scholar to support your discussion. You need to create a personal development portfolio or progress file comprising information and personal records owned by the learner, including the planning and monitoring of progress towards the achievement of personal objectives. When compiling your personal portfolio you to put into consideration how it is organised and how it is presented for assessment. All written evidence should be word processed. Task 1 (LO1, AC1.1, 1.2, 1.3) (write approximately 1000 words) Travel Lodge has embarked on the process of encouraging staff to engage in self-managed learning as part of their personal and professional development. You recently attended a learning event on how self-managed learning can enhance lifelong development. During the learning event the facilitator argued that self-managed learning has proved an invaluable technique for getting individuals to think and learn about their own personal development as well as committing to the development of the organisation. Your organisation has a policy of encouraging staff to share their experiences from each learning event attended. You have been asked by your manager to create an article to be published in Travel lodge in-house staff magazine. You should include this article as evidence in your personal development portfolio or progress file addressing the following: 1.1. Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning. Which approach can be more suitable for you or your staff at Travelodge Hotel? 1.2. Propose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be encouraged at Travelodge. In this question you should say how you as a manager can encourage lifelong learning at Travelodge Hotel. 1.3. Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to you as an assistant manager and the Travel Lodge. Your judgement has to be supported by relevant evidence or examples. Task 2 (LO2, AC2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 (write approximately 1000 words) Scenario You are still working as an assistant manager at Travelodge Hotel. You have realised that to be successful as a hotel manager you need to take responsibility of your own personal development. You have looked at the website of Travelodge and found the following information about the role and objectives of a manager. Our Managers lead the overall running of their hotel, motivating and inspiring their team to be the best they can be. Maximising sales and profits and meeting agreed targets, their role is to be brilliant communicators and always lead by example. Above all, their focus is on our customers, making sure theyre happy, have everything they need and will visit Travelodge again and again. https://www.travelodge.co.uk You should include evidence in your personal development portfolio or progress file addressing the following: 2.1. Evaluate your own current skills and competencies against professional standards for a hotel manager and against organisational objectives of Travelodge Hotel. 2.2. Identify your own development needs and the activities required to meet them. Which of your skills may need to be improved? How are you going to improve or gain these skills? 2.3. Identify development opportunities to meet your current and future defined needs. Which opportunities are available for you inside or outside of the hotel to improve your skill development needs? 2.4. Devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs. In this task, you need to prepare a plan for personal and professional development. In this plan, you need to mention three issues: what are your needed skills; how are you going to develop the skills; and when are you going to develop intended skills? Task 3 (LO3, AC3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 (write approximately 1000 words) You are still working as an assistant manager at Travelodge Hotel. You have done well in creating own personal and professional development plan. The next stage is to implement and review your own personal and development plan. You should include evidence in own personal development portfolio or progress file addressing the following: 3.1. Discuss the processes and activities required to implement the development plan that you prepared for yourself in task 2.4. 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. 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? 3.4. Update the development plan that you prepared for yourself in task 2.4 based on the feedback and evaluation

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