Professional Practice

Part 7: Comfort Zone

Learning Outcome 1: To identify what the comfort zone is and how it can affect personal and workplace performance

Learning Outcome 2: To identify your comfort zone and how to to broaden it

1. Describe a time when you stepped out of your comfort zone.
2. What were the effects of this experience?
3. What are some things that are currently outside your comfort zone?
4. What is one way you could step outside your comfort zone in the near future?
5. What would be the benefit to stepping out of your comfort zone in this particular way?

Review

1. What new piece of information will you never forget?
2. What is the most useful skill / technique you have developed?
3. What have you discovered about yourself?
4. What is a strength you didn't know you had?
5. What are your developmental priorities now?

Reflect on how this module helped you develop your professional, personal and academic skills during the semester.

Use your reflective learning logs, PDP development episodes, class materials and your own research to support your ideas.

1. Professional development
How has this module helped to develop your professional capabilities? Choose from:

• Assessment of skills (week 1)
• Occupational choices and planning (week 2)
• CV writing and interview skills (weeks 5 and 6)
• Negotiation skills (week 7)
• Coaching skills (week 8)
• Problem solving (week 9)
• Expanding your comfort zone (week 11)

2. Personal development
How has this module helped in your personal development?

• Assessment of skills (week 1)
• Emotional intelligence (week 4)
• Problem solving (week 9)
• Self-leadership (week 10)
• Comfort zone (week 11)

Choose a maximum of two topics to discuss. Do not discuss all the topics. Choose different topics than the first section.

3. Academic Development
How this module has helped you in your academic development?
• Assessment of skills (week 1)
• Academic writing (week 3)
• Problem solving (week 9)
• Expanding your comfort zone (week 11)

Choose a maximum of two topics to discuss. Choose different topics than the other sections.

Introduction

Give a hook, background and outline, telling the reader what this assignment contains.

Body Paragraphs

You should use your reflective learning logs, PDP development episodes, class materials and your own research to support your ideas.

Reflect on specific situations that helped you to develop your professional, personal and academic skills.

Explain why these skills are important and how you have used them / can use them to develop further.

Support your ideas with examples, theories, models and academic research.

Conclusion
Summarise your main points, then identify outline 2 or 3 ideas for continued skills development.