New Zealand Management Academies

Business Diploma Level 6 (BTEC Higher National Diploma in Business)

Student Name: Module Name: Managing Professional Development Module Number: 13 Assignment Title: Personal and Professional Development Assignment Reference: Assignment 1 Issue Date: 17/02/12 Due Date: 19/04/2012 Date submitted: Assessor: Internal Verifier:

Purpose and Aim

The purpose of this assignment is to enable the learner to take a strategic view of their professional and career development. It offers the learner a framework for evidencing and measuring their professional effectiveness and opportunity to: Reflect upon their career so far Raise awareness of career opportunities Enhance skills and professional understanding

The learner will be at an advantage to position themselves for long-term employability in the rapidly changing world of work.

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Evidence for the criteria 1.1 Identify, review and assess own performance of current management skills 1.2 Conduct a selfassessment inventory 1.3 Devise and maintain a current CV and/or portfolio of work 1.4 devise a personal development plan to achieve personal targets and short and long term learning objectives 2.1 Evaluate learning and development with original aims and objectives set in the development plan 2.2 Reset objectives in the light of evaluation and feedback 3.1 Create or identify solutions to a range of workbased problems

LO1 Undertake responsibility for own personal and career development.

LO2 Evaluate progress and achievement of personal development and learning targets

LO3 Develop a range of interpersonal and transferable business skills

3.2 Communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels 3.3 Identify and evaluate a range of effective time management strategies

LO4 Demonstrate self-managed learning in a professional context

4.1 use a range of research methods and sources 4.2 Give a presentation evaluating progress in achieving learning objectives outlined in the personal development plan 5.1 Review, evaluate and make recommendations for a career development plan for another person to achieve personal targets and short and long term learning objectives 5.2 Apply an awareness of how people learn to identify suitable methods for development 5.3 Suggest ways in which lifelong learning could be encouraged

LO5 Explore operational issues associated with training and development to gain an understanding of best practice

M1 Identify and apply strategies to find appropriate solutions M2 select/design and apply appropriate methods/ techniques M3 Present and communicate appropriate findings D1 Use critical reflection to evaluate own work and justify valid conclusions D2 take responsibility for managing and organising activities D3 Demonstrate convergent/lateral/creative thinking

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TASK 1 (LO 1, LO 2) Create a professional development portfolio A Professional Development Portfolio is a confidential and voluntary collection of material that records and reflects your practice. It is a way of using past experiences and present activities to demonstrate and reflect on skills learnt, to identify future learning needs and priorities, and to inform and plan prospective development. It provides a mechanism for thinking about your professional practice in a planned and systematic way. It also provides a starting point for you to recognise the diverse skills that you already have and may need to develop at different stages in your career. A portfolio gives you the opportunity to collect, organise and keep selected information and achievements relating to your career. They also give you the opportunity to reflect on these and to plan for the future. Your portfolio should contain: Personal and Key Skills self-appraisal, identifying your current skills and skills you need to develop. Your updated CV showing your qualifications, skills and SMART career objective Feedback from your peers, friends, mentor, tutors. Include your reflection on the feedback and what you would like to change/do better. A personal development plan (PDP)

Personal journal/Skills log You will need to compile your career development throughout the module through a personal journal/skills log. It should be based on your own personal aims and needs

TASK 2 (LO 4) Self-managed Learning Identify learning targets for a piece of self-managed learning which is relevant to your course or to work. Use a range of research methods and sources to achive this task. Set out the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The aims and requirements of the learning project Your personal preferences; what is it you want to learn and why. The goals that you will need to achieve to succeed in your learning project An outline of what needs to be learned A time schedule for achievement

Think about the learning experience that you are planning to undertake to demonstrate selfmanaged learning in a professional context. 1. How will the learning activity relate to the four stages of Kolbs learning cycle?

2. In carrying out the learning, what styles of learning will you typically concentrate on in terms of Honey and Mumfords activist, pragmatist, theorist, reflector classification?

3. Why do you think that you will operate in this way? 4. What do you see as being the principle advantages and drawbacks of employing your chosen approach? TASK 3 (LO 2 LO 3) Interpersonal-transferable skills In this task you are going to research an area of work or job in order to find out what skills and knowledge are required. You will compare this to your present skills. You will need to make a checklist to record all the information. For example: Job title: Skills required My skills Training Opportunities

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Training opportunities

Part 1 Job research Go to www.seek.co.nz. Select a job that you are interested in. Identify and list the skills and knowledge required in your chosen job. Part 2 Skills gaps Use your own skills profile to match your existing skills to the skills demanded by this job. Part 3 Training opportunities Use the information you have recorded to identify any gaps in your knowledge or skills for this job. List places or people that could help you to identify suitable training opportunities to fill these gaps. Part 4 Reset objectives Evaluate your progress and achievement against your original aims, objectives, and targets. Evaluate learning and development with original aims and objectives set in the development plan Reset objectives in the light of evaluation and feedback

Part 5 Presentation Give a presentation evaluating progress in achieving learning objectives outlined in the personal development plan TASK 4 Review, evaluate and make recommendations for a career development plan for another person to achieve personal targets and short and long term learning objectives. You will need to apply awareness of how people learn to identify suitable methods for development and suggest ways in which lifelong learning could be encouraged.

Notes

Complete the submission sheet and sign the statement of authenticity Avoiding plagiarism Any evidence of plagiarism will be treated very seriously. This means taking another persons work and passing it off as your own. The work must be your own. You should never use other peoples words without making it clear that they belong to someone else. If you wish to use someone elses words, put those words in quotation marks and provide a reference to their source. Remember: Plagiarism puts your qualification at risk. APA Referencing you must use the APA style of referencing. Use 11 point Arial or Verdana script Submit your work by 9 Dec 2011