Reflective Practice

The Power of Self-Development.

What could personal development do for you?

Published 31st March 2025

Estimated Read Time: 15 minutes

Reflective & Reflexive Practice?

Let's get familiar with the terms first 🧠

"Reflexive practice enhances our understanding of the learning cycle in CPD by focusing inward to the subjective processes of perception and judgment rather than the physical experience.

It enables practitioners to adapt their thinking and act with greater integrity. "

Hartog (2002, p233)

Career Development

Start with the basics, you will peak in your continuous personal development when you are able to analyse and evaluate your every experience in order to create a better output every single time.

Blog 003:

My Journey

I have SO much to talk about here, but I will try and keep this sharp. Over the past 4 years I have worked towards my bachelor’s degree in human resource management and my associate level CIPD qualification. If you don’t know the CIPD profession map yet, let me introduce you and show you how I used this to support my development…

Here she is:

(photo of map)

Okay so there are 3 core values that surround this map and let me break them down for you in terms of my own development:

principles-led – going beyond policy and process to do what’s right

For me: (challenge and push back, develop diversity, uni helped me develop emotional intelligence and ability to develop meaningful relationships i.e. interpersonal skills, volunteering to get started aka lifelong learning)

evidence-based – using a range of evidence and expertise to make decisions

For me: (being consistent and fair, using course feedback to drive improvements based off professional critique on my work, identifying change for next tasks)

outcomes-driven – focusing on work which creates value for people and organisations.

For me: ("so you can see why continuous improvement and reflection on what else can be done to improve is key", understanding employment law to make sure I can fully inform the company I work for on relevant changes and improvement for the people)

My Linked-In Journey:

This is important, building apersonal brand not pnly supports networking and building relationships with work colleagues amd recruiters, but its a professional diary and a way to stay connected with other professionals in your field of work. I began my journey in 2024 when i started my placement year.

Try a @TheHREdit Template :

💌 I made this template inspired by my own experience using Gibb's Reflective Cycle, with an element of Atkin and Murphy's Cyclical model to support a deeper level of personal reflection that Gibbs model arguably cannot offer. Try this yourself, be brave and challenge your own assumptions!