Description:
This unit is designed to enable learners to take responsibility for their learning and development needs to meet personal, professional and organisational goals and objectives. This will be achieved through analysing current skills and preparing and implementing personal development plans. This unit highlights the importance of seeking feedback from others to improve performance continuously reviewing learning needs as these skills will equip the learner for future demanding responsibilities and career progression.
Evidence provided to achieve this unit will be continuous throughout the qualification, thereby enabling learners to take ownership of their future development needs. Learners …show more content…
Methods to improve personal and professional skills
Professional skills: counselling and mentoring to support staff with their own learning and development requirements, coaching skills, multitasking, leadership skills, theories of leadership eg Adair; management styles, leadership styles, continuing self-development to meet requirements for industry sector professional bodies, leading and chairing meetings, delivering effective presentations
Personal skills: time management, what is time management, benefits of good time management, how to use time effectively, analysing time spent over a period, eg day, week, monthly logs; setting objectives, prioritising work tasks, effective delegation of tasks and monitoring, procrastination, comfort zones, dealing with interruptions to planned work, planning aids, stress management (recognising stress, dealing with stress), problem solving
Methods: using conceptual tools, identifying own strengths and limitations, developing personal networks, management development programmes, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes
Personal skills …show more content…
Personal development plan: strategy for developing a plan, importance of having a plan — to provide a systematic or structured approach to decisions about what is needed to learn and how to plan to learn it; setting objectives for life and career planning, identifying resources and support needed and available to meet objectives, identifying obstacles to achieving objectives and how to overcome them, review and monitor plan — the importance of self-review, provide a reflective record of management experience; gaining support from others to achieve goals and work objectives
|Objectives |Assessment |
|Explore methods to improve |Evaluate the personal and professional skills required to meet both organisational |
|personal and professional |and own goals and objectives |
|skills to meet organisational |Evaluate more effective ways to learn in the future |
|and own goals and objectives |