Date: December, 19, 2013

ASSIGNMENT

BTEC
LEVEL 7
ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMA
ACCOUNTING (PGD)

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Study Group

Assignment Front Sheet

Qualification

Unit number and title

Unit 2: Professional Development for Strategic Managers

Pearson BTEC Level 7 Advanced Professional
Unit code: F/602/2061
Diploma in Accounting (PGD)
Credit value: 10 credits
Student name

Assessor name
Markus Hagg

Date issued

Completion date

19th December 2013

19th January 2014

Submitted on

Validity
1st OCT 2013 to 31st Jan2014

Assignment Title

Professional Experts Series

Assignment No

02- F/602/2061-07-IND

Hand-in Policy
You must complete this assignment on time. If you experience difficulties, you must inform your tutor
accordingly.
Late Work Policy
Consideration will be given to students who have valid reasons for late submission (eg, illness).
Plagiarism
In cases of plagiarism, Institute regulations will be applied. You must declare that this assessment is your own
work by signing the following statement:

Learner declaration
I certify that the work submitted for this assignment is my own and research sources are fully
acknowledged.
Student signature:

Date:

Learning outcome, Assessment Criteria and Contextualisation of the assignment which gives learners the opportunity to submit evidence in
order to achieve PASS
Learning Outcomes
LO1
Be able to assess personal and
professional skills required
achieve strategic goals

Assessment Criteria
AC 1.1 Use appropriate methods to
evaluate personal skills required to achieve
to strategic goals
AC 1.2 Apply techniques to assess the
professional skills required to support the
strategic direction of the organization

LO2

AC 2.1 Carry out a skills audit to evaluate

Be able to conduct a skills audit to the strategic skills needed to meet current
identify learning style
and future leadership requirements
AC 2.2 Apply appropriate techniques to
identify preferred learning style
LO3
Be able to implement a personal
development plan

AC 3.1 Construct a personal development

plan that meets leadership development
requirements identified in the skills audit
AC 3.2 Use suitable methods to assess
the outcomes of a personal development
plan against personal work objectives
AC 3.3 Evaluate the impact of own
learning against the achievement of
strategic goals

Contextualisation

Task no

To Achieve AC1.1 and 1.2 learners need to use appropriate

methods to evaluate personal skills and assess the
professional skills needed for effective leadership and
management. To meet the strategic goals and direction of
the organisation, learners need to link their evaluation to
leadership requirements for a specific goal.

To Achieve AC2.1, learners will need to demonstrate they

can conduct a skills audit, to evaluate current and future
leadership requirements. Learners need to benchmark
against suitable criteria such as National Occupational
Standards for Management and Leadership. This can help
inform their preferred learning style for AC2.2.

To Achieve AC 3.1 and 3.2, learners will construct a

personal development plan using the information from
their skills audit. They can use a standard template or
construct their own plan, but it must include SMART
objectives and an identification of the resources needed to
achieve the objectives, as well as assessing the outcomes
against personal work objectives. To be of value, the plan
needs to be implemented for at least six months in order
for learners to evaluate the impact of their learning against
the achievement of strategic goals for AC3.3.

Assignment brief
Unit Name number and
title

Unit 1: Professional Development for Strategic Managers

Unit code: F/602/2061
Credit value: 10 credits

Qualification

Pearson BTEC Level 7 Advanced Professional Diploma in Accounting

(PGD)

Start date

19th December 2013

Deadline/hand-in

19th January 2014

Assessor

Markus Hagg

Professional Experts Series

Assignment title
Note

Expert Speaker Series: (all videos attached with the assignment

folder)

Task 1: (LO1: AC1.1 1.2) Personal and Professional Skills (SMART Objectives)
Video 1: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish By Steve Job
You are required to watch the speech by Steve Job stay hungry, stay foolish and Write a summary of
the video.
Describe the concepts of professional and personal skills development that contributed in his life.
How can you relate them with your own professional and personal life and design a plan for your
development.
Do all the exercises along with the assignment.
Video 2: Time Management
You are required to watch a video on time management by and write a summary of the video.
You are to critically analyse and assess your own set of skills to improve procrastination and time
management by making your own time log.
Video 3: SMART Objectives
You are required to watch the videos on SMART Objectives by and design your own SMART Objectives
for personal and professional life.
Task 2: (LO2: AC 2.1, 2.2) Skills audit to identify Learning styles (SWOT Analysis)
Video 1: Personal SWOT Analysis
You are required to make your own personal profile SWOT Analysis and try to identify those skills that
can help you for your career progression.
Video 2: Psychometric Testing: Kolb and MBTI
You are to identify the main points and make Summary of the psychometric videos.
Analyse and define your own skills set of MBTI and produce a report on the analysis.

Task 3: (LO3: AC 3.1, 3.2, 3.3) Personal Development Plan

Video: 1 Career Planning
Describe what the speakers viewpoints are about the career planning and write a detail report on
where do you see yourself five years from now

Evidence
checklist

Summary of evidence required

by student
Video 1: Write a summary of the
video by describe the concepts of
professional and personal skills
development that contributed in
Jobs life and relate them with your
own professional and personal life
and design a plan for your
development

Task 1

Video 2: Write a summary of the

video which critically analyse and
assess your own set of skills to
improve procrastination and time
management by making your own
time log.

Task Title

Evidence
Required

Personal and
Professional Skills
Review

Summary and
Design own SMART
objectives

Video 3: Produce and design your

own SMART Objectives for personal
and professional life

Task 2

Task 3

Video 1: Present personal profile

SWOT Analysis and try to identify
that skills that can help you for your
career progression
Video 2: Summary of the main
points in the Video and produce a
report on the analysis of your own
skills set of MBTI

Video 1: Present a report of speaker

point of view on career planning and
where do you see yourself five
years from now

Present Personal
Skills audit to identify SWOT and report
Learning styles
on own skills set of
MBIT

Personal Development
Plan

Report on career
planning

Check
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Submission guidelines
You must:
Complete all tasks
Present your work in one business report-style document which should include a table of contents,
references list, foot or end notes if any and appendices if any.
Complete, sign and submit the usual statement of authenticity.
Submit your work in a single word processed document of 5000-6000 approx. words. This word limit is
only for guidance and is not applied on grading.
Produce clear specific reasoning and arguments in support of your answers.
Make appropriate reference to the relevant concepts, techniques and theories.
Appropriately cite all information success (in the text and bibliography) as per references guidelines
given to you before.
Due to late submission the maximum grade will be Pass.
Declaration sheet must be signed if not then the assignment will not be accepted
You are required to clearly write down your Edexcel I.D Number, ISG number and you complete name
as per the registration form.