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Business Communication for IT Professionals
Assessment Item 1:
Introduction
Inspired by renowned Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs devised a questionnaire that would help identify a person's psychological type. Learning these psychological types are very helpful in understanding yourself, how you deal with others, ideal careers, and your strengths and weaknesses. Goleman, D. (1995) found along with traditional qualities such as intelligence, toughness, determination and vision, true effective leaders also should have a high degree of emotional intelligence.
These self-assessment questionnaires are designed to get you thinking about the various competencies of emotional intelligence and understand various human psychological types. The objective is to understand and relate different personality types for successful communication within community and workplace. To better understand personality types, it is best if we understand our own personality type.
Requirements
Complete the following tasks and prepare a short report. Use the given respective documents to complete each of these tasks.
For Tutorial part A, an essential document has been uploaded to the Learning Management System (LMS) under the Assessment Tab. This document contains the MBTI Personality Type assessment that you are required to complete as per template.
Task 1: You are required to download and complete the personality type assessment profile and upload it.
Task 2: Reflect on your personality type and use the questions below to share your findings.
Explain top 3 key strengths of your personality type and how it has played a role in your school/work/personal relationships.
Discuss top 3 areas to develop based on your personality type and the impact these qualities have had in your school/work/personal relationships.
Identify top 3 action items that you identify to strengthen your personal/professional communication skills.
Share your plan of action on how and where you intend to incorporate the above-mentioned action items.
Introduction
An emotional intelligence self-assessment questionnaire is designed to get you thinking about the various competencies of emotional intelligence and understand various human psychological types. The objective is to understand and relate different personality types for successful communication within community and workplace. To better understand personality types, it is best if we understand our own personality type.
Requirements
Complete the following tasks and prepare a short report. Use the given respective documents to complete each of these tasks.
For Tutorial part B, 2 essential documents have been uploaded to the Learning Management System (LMS) under the Assessment Tab. These documents contain the social style and emotional intelligence assessments that you are required to complete as per template.
Task 1: You are required to download and complete the social styles profile and upload it.
Task 2: You are required to download and complete the emotional intelligence profile and upload it.
Task 3: Reflect on your scores and use the questions below to share your findings.
Discuss your strength identified using the emotional intelligence questionnaire. Explain how it has played a role in your school/work/personal relationships.
Discuss top 3 areas to develop based on your emotional intelligence questionnaire and the impact these qualities have had in your school/work/personal relationships.
Identify top 3 action items that you identify to strengthen the areas that you need work on.
Share your plan of action on how and where you intend to incorporate the above-mentioned action items.
Introduction
The purpose of this assignment is to create a carefully produced, professional resume that you may use to apply for employment in the future. You will develop a strong understanding of what is involved in creating a flawless resume. If you already have a resume, you are still required to produce a new one using the template provided below. You are free to use the information from your existing resume, but you cannot submit your "old" version for marking.
Requirements
You will have to have your resume peer edited and evaluated during the scheduled tutorial time. You MUST have a draft copy of your resume prepared to share in tutorial hour. Use the chronological resume template or skills-based resume template.
You may only use 10 or 12pt Times New Roman or Arial fonts for this assignment (except for your name - should be larger font size and bold to stand out). Your resume MUST fit properly on one or two pages (not including reference sheet). If your resume is only slightly longer than one page,
you will need to work on formatting to try and make it fit on a single sheet. Include a separate reference sheet with at least THREE (3) references - must ask permission prior to using names (can't be immediate family members) and at least ONE reference should be able to speak to your character. Use bold or italic styles for headings, etc. as needed. Use bullets for point form information. Make sure line spacing and indents are consistent throughout your documents.
Assessment Item 2
Introduction
There are two different tasks in this Assignment.
Students are required to form a group of a maximum of three people.
Based on your tutorial tasks a and b, you will have identified your personality type and emotional intelligence scores. For this task, you are required to form a group of individuals with differing personality types to build a business mode.
You are also required to include a report with deep insights of your collaborative experience, conflicts experienced and resolved and constructive feedback for each other. Task 2 of individual team members need to be added as an annexure to the end of the report.
Task 1 - Weightage 15 % - Business Model
Design a Conceptual Business Model for a chosen Australian Organization using a suitable visual tool. (PowerPoint poster, business model canvas etc.)
Refer to the APPENDIX section at the end of this document for more information.
Choose an Australian organization Business model and get approval from the lecturer.
The Business model report submission should contain the following:
Title page
Introduction
background of chosen organization
Business Model
Conclusion
Reference
Appropriate graphics, images, and graphs.
Appropriate design techniques i.e., font type and size, and color.
Task 2 - Insights and Feedback (Individual)
You are required to write a brief summary of your collaborative experience with your team members, sharing deep insights and at least 3 deep insights critically analyzed and 3 constructive feedback items for each of your peers in your group. Effective group collaboration can also be supported through team building practices.
Assessment Item 3
Overview
As an aspiring IT professional in Australia your career success journey requires ability to present your ideas with clarity and assertively. Presentation must include the following aspects in a face-to-face presentation and must demonstrate a deeper understanding of the research and work carried out by the team effectively.
Business model prepared for assignment 2
Workplace culture that you want to inculcate for your proposed business organization
Measures to enhance cross-cultural communication in your organization
Conflict resolution, negotiation and mediation strategies
Leadership approach recommended for the organisation
Group Presentation
Each team's presentation is expected to take between 15 to 20 minutes. All team members must contribute almost equally to the presentation, and each team member's contribution must be clearly indicated in the presentation plan that is submitted to the lecturer For this assessment task you are required to prepare the PowerPoint slides (max 10 slides) and present in the class. The recommended structure for the project presentation is as follows:
Introduce your team members.
Introduction - Provide a general overview of the chosen topic.
Significance - Illustrate the importance of the chosen topic in Australian and or global market.
Discussion - In depth discussion of the topic using evidence of research from literature. Use suitable examples and visuals.
Major findings and recommendations - Present major findings of your research and provide some recommendations to your classmates.
Conclude your presentation by summing up and giving time for questions.
Reference list - IEEE style
Assessment Item 4
Overview
A journal is a reflective document that provides personal, thoughtful analysis of your individual experience on learning this unit and participation/progress on the group activities, and your assessment of the group interactions that may have occurred weekly.
Requirements
You will keep a weekly reflective journal on your learning experience of this unit. At the end of the semester, you will submit your full, aggregated collection of journal entries so that your "final" journal covers the entire semester. This is an Individual Assignment. Remember that the more connections you make between what is going on in this class, the better your entries will be and the easier they will be to write.
The following are some ideas that you might use as you engage in reflective journaling. In considering your interactions with your classmates as you proceed with your group activities, you could and should address:
What did you learn during these weekly sessions?
Describe a topic or concept that you find interesting each week.
Your contribution to the group activities each week?
Your individual feelings about these group activities
What skill set did I offer the group? Do I have skills that I "kept to myself?"
New technological skills that you have developed during this unit study.
Have you achieved the course's student learning outcomes?
It is very important that you be honest in your journal entries. If you have not spent any time or given any thought to this course, then that is what you should record.