Business Fundamentals: Reflective Thinking

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.

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.

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.

• 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.