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Managing Your Career:
Using reflection for
professional development
Managing Yourself, Managing Others,
Managing Your Career
London
29 May 2014
Jan Shine
Paullus Consultancy
AUA CPD Consultant

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Objectives of the session
At the end of the session participants will:
• have greater understanding of reflection for personal and
professional development and its benefits
• have considered a model of reflection and ways to
incorporate reflection into their everyday professional
practice
• have practised using some relevant tools

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Your thoughts
Discuss in groups:
What is meant by ‘reflection’ in this context?
What are the benefits of using reflection to
enhance professional practice?

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What is reflection?
Biggs, 1999
Resilience,
resourcefulness
and reflection are
the three key
conditions for
lifelong learning
Claxton, 1999
Systematic, critical and
creative thinking about action
with the intention of
understanding its roots and
processes
Fish and Twinn, 1997
Thoughtful deliberation
Tickle, 1994
Learning from experience
Spalding, 1998

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Reflection ....
…. is a purposeful thought activity that

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Exercise
Reflect on the workshop you attended before this one.
Using the development event reflection form note:
 key ideas
 specific insights
 questions raised
 implications for professional practice

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Different types of reflection
Reflection in action
Thinking about what you are
doing whilst you are doing it
•Stimulated by the unexpected
in the moment
•‘Thinking on your feet’
•Redesign what you are doing
whilst you are doing it
Reflection on action
Thinking about what you did
after the event
•Retrospective contemplation
•Clarifying the meanings of
experiences
•Redesign what you do in the
future
Reflection before action
Planning what you are going to do before the event

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during
Doing
after
Reflecting
Reflection cycle
before
Planning
Goal setting Captions/journals
Metacognition: change over time

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The three stages of reflection on actio

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What to reflect on
Meaningful positive or negative experiences,
for example:
•An event that highlighted the value of particular skills,
knowledge and/or behaviour
•An event that had unexpected outcomes
•An event that went particularly well
•An event that frustrated you
•An event where you wanted to improve your knowledge
•An event that made you happy, sad, distressed or created a
moral dilemma
Focus on positives and negatives in every reflection

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Tools to guide and capture your
reflections

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Gibbs model of reflection

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Think of an experience
that led to significant
personal and
professional
development.
Using the Gibbs model
of reflection, briefly
describe this experience
to your partner
Your experiences

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Tips for effective reflection ……

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Putting it into practice!
Personal reflection time:
What has been the value of this workshop for you?
new learning
ideas that resonated
questions
next steps
.... note your thoughts on the reflection sheet

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Thank you
for your contribution
to this session
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