Assignment Brief: Managing Personal Development
Unit Overview: This unit is designed to assist candidates in taking ownership of their personal development in the workplace with guidance from others. It covers essential personal self-assessment techniques such as SWOT analysis and 360-degree feedback. Learning styles (e.g., VARK, Kolbs learning cycle) are explored to help learners understand the importance of applying learned material. The unit also emphasizes the significance of goal setting using the SMART model and incorporates both formal and informal learning methods.
Task Overview:
The purpose of this unit is to enable candidates to take responsibility for managing own personal work-related development, with guidance and support from others.
Assignment Structure:
You should plan to spend approximately 95 hours researching your workplace context, preparing for and writing or presenting the outcomes of this assignment for assessment.
The nominal word count for this assignment is 3000 words: The suggested range is between 2500 and 3500 words, however individuals have different writing styles, and there is no penalty if the word-count range is exceeded.
Assessment Criteria:
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Understand how to identify and prioritise work-related development requirements
The first part of this task is to provide evidence that own work-related development needs have been prioritised with employment supervisor and/or learning supervisor and that available development support and resources and their constraints have been correctly and appropriately evaluated to provide a solution and/or recommendations.
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Be able to implement and evaluate planned development activities and apply learning in the workplace
The second part of the task requires development activities to be both planned and agreed with the employment supervisor and/or learning supervisor. The development activities based on the agreed planning must then be undertaken, and evidence is to be provided that the effectiveness of development activities in meeting objectives and needs has been reviewed at regular intervals to make a judgement based on a combination of evidence and practice. You are then required to determine with the employment supervisor and/or learning supervisor how learning and development can be used to improve workplace performance.
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Understand the impact of development on workplace performance The final part of the task requires you to correctly and appropriately evaluate the achievement of short-term goals and progress towards achieving medium and long-term goals with the employment supervisor and/or learning supervisor to provide a conclusion or recommendations, and then to use this evaluation to appropriately revise your development plans. How development activities have affected work performance must then be evaluated with the supervisor and/or learning supervisor to provide a conclusion or recommendations.
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Declaration: By submitting this assignment, you confirm that the work is your own.
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