Benefits Of Reflecting Back

Reflecting on your professional experiences and learning from them can influence your career choices. Perhaps reflecting on a presentation you gave makes you discover you may need to take some public speaking classes, or perhaps you decide to hire an executive coach after you struggle to handle a conversation with your manager.

You may also find a mismatch between what you value and the career path you have chosen, and you must make decisions about what you will do next. Reflection prompts action, so you can use the lessons you learned about yourself to take the next step forward.

When it comes to job performance, people tend to believe that practice always makes perfect. The more often we practise learning a new skill, the more likely we will be to master relevant tasks. However, studies suggest that reflection is a much more powerful learning tool when it comes t...