1.1 Explain the purpose and benefits of continuously improving performance at work
By continuously improving your performance at work, you are exceeding your own limitations/performance, learning new skills and producing quality work that meets the high standards of your organisation. You are achieving your targets and goals because you are putting more effort into your work. Not only does this impress your employer and colleagues and gives you more chance of increasing your income or getting a promotion, it also gives you the motivation you need to proceed with your work. Your efficiency and effectiveness in producing work will give you a sense of satisfaction, as well as receiving positive feedback from the people around you.
1.2 Explain the purpose and benefits of encouraging and accepting feedback from others
People that ask for feedback do this for the reason of hearing someone else's opinion. As corny as it might sound, the work you make will only be seen from your side if you don't ask for feedback. If you let people look at your work, they will see it from another perspective. That's a good thing, because that person does not have a personal attachment to the work, thus it is much more honest (usually). The reason why you're probably asking this is that you're probably afraid of criticism. While it is true that people can be hard on you, they are being honest. However, the biggest reason of feedback is giving an idea of how it could be better. It's only a suggestion, so you don't have to change everything a person says.
1.3 Explain how learning and development can improve own work benefit organisations and identify career options
Learning and development can prove your own work as it brings new skills to light and should give the employee a better understanding of the job they are doing. Through picking up new skills, an employee could realise that they are now able to do a job they previously felt