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Manage Personal Work Priorities And Professional Development Assignment -

1. Establish personal work goals

1.1 Serve as a positive role model in the workplace through personal work planning.

1.2 Ensure personal work goals, plans and activities reflect the organisation's plans, and own responsibilities and accountabilities.

1.3 Measure and maintain personal performance in varying work conditions, work contexts and when contingencies occur.

2. Set and meet own work priorities

2.1 Take initiative to prioritise and facilitate competing demands to achieve personal, team and organisational goals and objectives.

2.2 Use technology efficiently and effectively to manage work priorities and commitments.

2.3 Maintain appropriate work-life balance, and ensure stress is effectively managed and health is attended to.

3. Develop and maintain professional competence

3.1 Assess personal knowledge and skills against competency standards to determine development needs, priorities and plans.

3.2 Seek feedback from employees, clients and colleagues and use this feedback to identify and develop ways to improve competence.

3.3 Identify, evaluate, select and use development opportunities suitable to personal learning style/s to develop competence.

3.4 Participate in networks to enhance personal knowledge, skills and work relationships.

3.5 Identify and develop new skills to achieve and maintain a competitive edge.

Performance Evidence - Evidence of the ability to:

• Use business technology to create and use systems and processes to organise and prioritise tasks and commitments.
• Measure and maintain personal work performance including assessing competency against competency standards and seeking feedback.
• Maintain an appropriate work-life balance to manage personal health and stress.
• Participate in networks.
• Develop a personal development plan which includes career objectives and an action plan.
• Develop new skills.

Knowledge Evidence - To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

• Explain principles and techniques involved in the management and organisation of:
• Performance measurement
• Personal behaviour, self-awareness and personality traits identification
• A personal development plan
• Personal goal setting
• Time
• Discuss management development opportunities and options for self
• Describe methods for achieving a healthy work-life balance
• Outline organisation's policies, plans and procedures
• Explain types of learning style/s and how they relate to the individual
• Describe types of work methods and practices that can improve personal performance.

ASSESSMENT 1: WRITTEN

You are required to answer the following questions to confirm your knowledge in relation to unit.

Q1. The management and organization of business, team and individual performance measurement systems is an important function of a manager. What is the principle purpose of performance measurement systems?

Q2. How can an understanding of differing personality traits and behaviour preferences help to promote teamwork in the workplace?

Q3. Briefly explain the reason/s for managing and organising a professional development plan?

Q4. The principles in personal goal setting involve SMARTT goals, monitoring and rewards. Why do you think monitoring and rewards are important when setting goals?

Q5. List three barriers to effective time management.

Q6. List 5 professional development opportunities that can assist you in achieving up to date skill levels and skill advancement.

Q7. Describe 4 types of management work methods that can improve personal work performance for yourself and your team.

ASSESSMENT 2 - PROJECTS

Project: Portfolio and Journal

Your assessor will provide you with instructions and complete a checklist on which they will record your satisfactory performance of workplace tasks.

The Project Tasks table below identifies the documents that you are required to prepare and submit in your evidence portfolio. They may be presented in printed format in a folder or as an electronic copy. Ensure both your name and student number is clearly displayed.

Assessment Task 2: Portfolio and journal

Performance objective - The tasks detailed in this document are designed to support learners to demonstrate their competence as they complete Assessment Tasks 3 and 4. The learner is to gather a range of relevant information and evidence into a portfolio.

The learner must also maintain a journal as they compile their portfolio and plan for the other Assessment Tasks. This portfolio and journal must be submitted with this unit of competency.

Assessment description

Gather a range of information from relevant sources into a portfolio to help you complete Assessment Tasks 3 and 4

• Documents, plans, reports, etc.
• feedback from employees, clients and colleagues
• participation in networks
• other sources,

Maintain a comprehensive journal that records your information gathering and justifies your decision making. These may include:

• Resume - With up to date qualifications and competencies
• References from employers and colleagues
• Client feedback forms - Completed
• Employer feedback - May include employee appraisals
• Certificates of learning
• Statements of attainment
• Acknowledgements of seminars, workshops and other learning environments that have been completed
• Any documentation regarding competencies and professional development completed.
• Personal references and feedback

Procedure -

Analyse Assessment Tasks 2, 3 and 4, and Appendix 1: Assessor Checklist, to determine the information gathering and planning you are going to need to show in your portfolio and journal.

Use a folder to keep your portfolio of information and evidence that you source. The portfolio should include relevant copies or originals of:

• organisational documents (whole or extracts)
• personal documents
• evidence/summaries of feedback collected (copies, records, etc.)
• evidence/summaries of networks accessed
• training documents
• other information sources.

During your information gathering and planning, maintain a journal. This should record:

• what information you gathered and from where
• how the information gathered is going to help you complete each part of Assessment Tasks 2 and 3 and every interview question in Assessment Task 4.

Specifications -Classroom-based learners

• You must submit a portfolio folder that contains evidence (copies, originals, transcripts, references, etc.) of information gathering undertaken as you plan to complete Assessment Tasks 3 and 4
• You must submit a journal that clearly demonstrates your information gathering and decision making. and
• Your portfolio must be catalogued in a logical manner, so that your assessor can easily access and understand its contents.
• Your journal can be completed in pen or using a computer and may be laid out in note form. However, it must be submitted so that it can be read and understood by your assessor. It must thoroughly justify your planning towards every element in Assessment Tasks 3 and 4

Assessment Task 3: Report

Performance objective: The learner is to use the information gathered in Assessment Task 2 to complete a needs analysis report.

Assessment description - Review a range of information sources to help you complete a needs analysis that considers:

• your personal goals and needs
• your team's objectives and needs
• your organisation's plans and needs
• priorities
• Professional development opportunities.
• feedback
• Technologies.

Procedure -

Gather a wide range of relevant information and complete a report identifying professional development goals and needs, under the headings below. Refer to the evidence gathered to support your claims.

1. Personal goals and needs:

a. What are your personal work goals?

b. Measure your personal performance: How effective am I? And How efficient am I?

c. What are your strengths and weaknesses in your work role? Use a personal SWOT analysis to identify your strengths and weakness

d. How would you maintain personal work performance standards when faced with differing situations in your workplace? What contingency strategies would you use? May include but not limited to -

• Working to deadlines
• Changes in staff
• Changes to Management
• Relocation
• Heavy workload

e. Explain the differing technologies you could use to effectively manage your work priorities and your work commitments? Include systems and processes to show how your work is organised and prioritised. May include but not limited to -

• Communication
• Networking
• Scheduling
• Word processing
• Data Management
• Payroll
• Banking
• Training
• Accounting

f. What are the mandatory training requirements for your role?

2. Seeking performance feedback

a. Submit written feedback from Colleagues to assist you in identifying areas of required development

b. Submit written feedback from clients to assist you in identifying areas of required development

c. Submit written feedback from employers to assist you in identifying areas of required development

3. Team objectives and needs:

a. What are your team's objectives?

b. What are your team's strengths and weaknesses? Use a SWOT analysis to identify team strengths and weaknesses

4. Organisation's plans and needs:

a. What is your organisation's corporate strategy?

b. What are your organisation's strengths and weaknesses? Use a SWOT analysis to identify team strengths and weaknesses

c. Does your organisation have current schemes or directives that require employees to undertake professional development?

5. Professional development priorities:

a. consider the information gathered and determine your professional development priorities

b. Why have you prioritised these needs?

6. Available professional development opportunities:

a. Identify development opportunities you could access to help you achieve personal skills, goals and objectives

b. Identify development opportunities you could access to help you achieve team skills, goals and objectives

c. Identify development opportunities you could access to help you achieve organisational skills, goals and objectives

7. Networking

a. Explain how you would undertake participation in networking to advance your knowledge and skills and to gain a competitive edge - May include but not limited to -

• Informal networks
• Formal networks
• e-networks

Specifications - Classroom-based learners

• You must complete a report, organised under the headings provided. and
• Your report needs to demonstrate that you have accessed appropriate information sources on which to build your opinions and write your report. Your report needs to refer to information gathered to support your arguments.
• The portfolio and journal you are completing for Assessment Task 2 will need to detail the information sources you access and your decision making as you complete your report.

Assessment Task 4: Personal development plan (PDP)

Performance objective - The learner is to undertake personal development planning in order to develop and maintain professional competence.

Assessment description - You must plan, develop and confirm the suitability of a personal development plan (PDP), following the steps below.

Procedure - Complete the following steps to help you plan, complete and confirm a PDP:

1. Reflect on the training needs analysis report that you completed in Assessment Task 2.

2. Undertake a self assessment of your personal learning styles.

3. Identify a suitable unit/s of competency to meet your personal development needs.

4. Complete a PDP using the 'BSBWOR501 personal development plan.doc' template provided, or, source a suitable equivalent (consult with your trainer/assessor to confirm suitability).

5. Use your networks to confirm the suitability of your PDP.

Specifications - Classroom-based learners

You will need to complete and submit a PDP. and

The portfolio and journal you are completing for Assessment Task 2 will need to comprehensively demonstrate:

• how the priorities you identified in Assessment Task 3 influence your personal development planning
• how you identify your personal learning styles and how your findings influence your personal development planning
• why the unit/s of competency and AQF level chosen are appropriate for your work role, goals and abilities
• how you accessed networks during the development of your PDP to help you develop it and confirm its suitability.

Attachment:- Manage Personal Work Assignment Files.rar