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Business Fundamentals: Reflective Thinking

Grow your professional development through reflective practice with the Queensland University of Technology.

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Business Fundamentals: Reflective Thinking

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  • Introductory level

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Hone soft skills that drive professional growth and business resilience

What is reflective practice and how can it help your career? Find out on this four-week course from Queensland University of Technology.

Learning alongside industry experts and like-minded peers, you’ll develop essential techniques and strategies to become a reflective practitioner, ultimately improving your effectiveness, resilience, and ethical decision-making in your personal and professional life.

Grasp the fundamentals of reflective practice

You’ll begin this course with an overview of what reflective practice is and why it’s so important in personal and professional growth.

You’ll explore this process of self-examination and critical thinking with practical examples, including the Ladder of Inference, which will help you understand how to interpret your experiences and draw insightful conclusions.

Explore reflective models and the importance of questions

You’ll then consider two key frameworks, Kolb’s Action Learning Cycle and Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle, to guide you in understanding the process of reflection and how to apply it towards your own contexts.

What’s more, you’ll grow into a reflective thinker by grasping the importance of questions in the reflective process. Engaging with these questions will enhance your critical thinking skills and enable you to deepen your insights.

Champion self-improvement with experts at QUT

You’ll also discover the steps involved in becoming a reflective practitioner, focusing on personal awareness and the application of various reflective techniques.

Reflective journaling will be highlighted as a key tool, helping you document your reflections and promote self-discovery. By applying reflective practice, you’ll better understand your actions and decisions, ultimately enhancing your professional effectiveness.

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Syllabus

  • Week 1

    The What and Why of Reflective Practice

    • Let's get started

      In this overview we will answer two questions: what is reflective practice and why is reflective practice important for our personal growth and to be more effective in our professional work?

    • Why is reflective practice so important?

      Put quite simply reflective practice is a way of studying your own experiences to improve the way you work and live your life.

    • The Ladder of Inference

      The Ladder of Inference described by Peter Senge in his best seller The Fifth Discipline.

    • Reflection Activity

      This is your opportunity to reflect on the provided examples and engage in a discussion with your peers.

  • Week 2

    Reflective practice explained

    • How does the process of reflective practice work?

      This week, we will consider two key models to understand how the process of reflective practice works plus explore the important role of questions in reflective practice.

    • The value of questions

      Reflective practice is about curiosity which is a critical attitude of effective professionals and leaders.

  • Week 3

    Becoming a reflective practitioner

    • The process of becoming a reflective practitioner

      In this activity the practices and techniques of reflective practice used by a reflective practitioner will be covered.

    • Reflective Journaling

      A very useful technique that reflective practitioners use to undertake reflection and record their reflections.

    • Reflection Activity

      Putting Cold Reflection into practice

  • Week 4

    Application of reflective practice

    • Building our skills

      This is the first of four sub-topics we will explore how we can apply reflective practice as we build our skills and knowledge to be effective and resilient professionals.

    • Review and Reflect

      As highlighted in the Introduction, reflection is critical to the learning process.

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Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Define and explain the importance of reflective practice for your professional practice.
  • Identify the key techniques to develop yourself as a reflective, reasoned and resilient thinker.
  • Choose strategies to apply reflective practice to improve your professional practice.

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for professionals at all levels seeking to enhance their personal and professional growth through reflective practice. It’s ideal for leaders, team members, and independent workers looking to deepen their understanding of their actions and decisions.

Who will you learn with?

QUT Continuing Professional Education

Who developed the course?

Queensland University of Technology

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a major Australian university with a truly global outlook. Home to over 50,000 students, we’re providing real-world infrastructure, learning and teaching, and graduate skills to the next generation of change-makers.

  • Established

    1989

  • Location

    Brisbane, Australia

  • World ranking

    Top 180Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019

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