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With the spotlight on the VBMs personal capital in the virtuous leader domain, think of a relationship within your workplace or one with an organizations stakeholder that needs improving based on recent experience: Personal, Respectful, Relational, Reconciling.
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With the spotlight on the VBMs personal capital in the virtuous leader domain, think of a relationship within your workplace or one with an organizations stakeholder that needs improving based on recent experience: Personal, Respectful, Relational, Reconciling.
Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle was developed by Graham Gibbs in 1988 to give structure to learning from experiences. It offers a framework for examining experiences, and given its cyclic nature lends itself particularly well to repeated experiences, allowing you to learn and plan from things that either went well or didnt go well. It covers 6 stages:
- Description of the experience
- Feelings and thoughts about the experience
- Evaluation of the experience, both good and bad
- Analysis to make sense of the situation
- Conclusion about what you learned and what you could have done differently
- Action plan for how you would deal with similar situations in the future, or general changes you might find appropriate.
Below is further information on:
- The model each stage is given a fuller description, guiding questions to ask yourself and an example of how this might look in a reflection
- Different depths of reflection an example of reflecting more briefly using this model
This is just one model of reflection. Test it out and see how it works for you. If you find that only a few of the questions are helpful for you, focus on those. However, by thinking about each stage you are more likely to engage critically with your learning experience.
