rom the lecture, you learned about the benefits of taking advantage of professional development opportunities.  At the very least, professional development will allow you to gain skills, improve as an employee, and possibly even progress towards a promotion.  You don’t know what the future will bring, so it is best to be as prepared as possible.  Completing professional development will allow you to do just that.

Using what you have learned from the lecture, address the following prompts in your initial discussion post:

·        Identify and describe a soft skill or quality that you wish you had or would like to improve on.

          -Remember, soft skills are not job specific.  They are behaviors and traits you portray across a variety of situations, such as communication, emotional intelligence, and dependability.

·        Then, find and share a professional development opportunity that would help you to improve in your identified soft skill.

         -You might look for online training courses, self-help books, webinars, etc.

·        Explain how professional development in your identified soft skill will help to make you a better employee.

·        Finally, outline your plan for remaining knowledgeable and current in your chosen field. 

       -(Chosen field is Hospitality Management)

      -For instance, if you are pursuing a degree in early childhood education, how will you make sure you stay up to date about best practices in working with children?  If you are earning a degree in human and social services, how will you keep yourself educated on treatment methodologies and techniques for interacting with clients?  If you want to work in the field of law or criminal justice, how will you know when important laws or statutes have changed?