What is self-reflection and why is it important?

Self-reflection is like looking in a mirror, helping you assess your strengths, behaviors, and skills. It's crucial for making informed career choices by identifying opportunities for growth and improvement. Reflecting allows you to develop and refine your skills, constantly seeking better ways of doing things. It creates a positive learning cycle for personal growth. And for making the right choices for your career.

In other words, reflecting helps you to develop your skills and review their effectiveness, rather than just carrying on doing things as you have always done them. It is about questioning, positively, what you do and why you do it and then deciding whether there is a better, or more efficient, way of doing it in the future. By reflecting over and over again at certain points, you can create a positive learning spiral for yourself.

The Korthagen methodology (2002) is often used for reflective purposes.