Assessment

For an optimum outcome, a reflective journal should be started. Keeping a daily ‘reflective diary' will help enormously but try to make contributions to your critical reflective essay on a weekly or fortnightly basis if possible.

Becoming an effective professional manager involves reflection and critical reflection. ‘Refection' requires you to closely observe, describe and make meaning of your experiences. ‘Critical reflection' requires you to take this one step further; to analyse, reconsider and question your experiences (in this case, your GB500 learning experiences) and relate these experiences to your previous knowledge, skills and experiences to gain deeper and broader understandings and from there to make changes (improvements) in your future behaviour.

For instance how have your learning experiences and the major knowledge and skills you have developed during this subject affected you? What impact have these had on your current job and your attitude to work? How will this impact on your practice as a manager and future business leader?

Critical reflections from Business Perspectives

You should consider the following points:

1. Your view of business.

2. Your goal in relation to the subject matter.

3. Your reflection what you have learnt about business.

4. Areas that have interested you the most and why.

5. Make proposals on how you will develop yourself further in your professional career.

Further information and guidance:

You are urged to study On Reflection and other readings about reflection that are available on the GB500 portal page.

Beyond this, there are many models of reflective practice and, following this assessment, you might want to conduct your own literature review in order to find ones that suit your learning and development style (and which may well change over time due to 'accommodation').

1000 -1500 words