5.1 Reflective practice
One major skill a person must improve to get the most from their studies is continuously reflecting on their work activities, as part of actively analysing, reviewing and improving performance, satisfaction and results. Fused with an individual new academic skill this reflection will inspire a person to alter their practices inside a workplace, hence developing an individual personal performance, as well as the overall performance of the organisation. A person will definitely be using critical reflection even if this has been concealed up until this point (Helyer, 2010, 21-22). David Gray stated reflecting continuously and usefully as a process which cause the growth of a dynamic synergy and dialectic between academic
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This inventory uses the learning in one of for styles which are (Helyer, 2010, 67):
• Accommodator which is an individual using the concrete experience and active experimentation (Helyer, 2010, 67).
• Converger which is an individual using the abstract conceptualisation and active experimentation (Helyer, 2010, 67).
• Assimilator which is an individual using the abstract conceptualisation and reflective observation (Helyer, 2010, 67).
• Diverger which is an individual using the concrete experience and reflective observation (Helyer, 2010, 67).
Honey and Mumford’s learning style theory: Another model a manager can use to overcome their issue is Honey and Mumford’s learning style theory. Peter Honey and Alan Mumford established four individual learning styles. These four learning styles are having an experience, reviewing the experience, concluding the experience and planning the next steps. They adapted Kolb’s ideas and further improve their own model for evaluating learning styles. The learning styles are mostly used in the educational field, with the aid of Peter Honey and Alan Mumford learning style questionnaire. The questionnaire is different from Kolb’s inventory due to it asking an individual to consider work related behaviours instead of deciding how to learn (Helyer, 2010,