Reference no: EM132946371 , Length: word count:3500

Personal Effectiveness

Assessment Brief

The required submission for this assignment is a 3500-word business report. Students are required to complete TWO tasks:

- Evaluate the personal effectiveness strategies of Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Google, and
- Discuss how you intend to apply personal effectiveness principles your own personal development

The Learning Outcomes that you have to meet in order to pass this assessment are:

(LO1) Critically evaluate how people learn for professional development.
(LO2) Appraise the key skills and behaviours required to be effective in a professional context.
(LO3) Demonstrate understanding of how to be successful in a competitive job market.

Your management report should contain the following:

a) A brief introduction giving:
- a definition of Personal Effectiveness
- an explanation of the importance of Personal Effectiveness to professional development
- an overview of the main body of report, which MUST mention the key points of task b (case study review) and c (reflective statement) below

b) Case Study Review: a critical evaluation of Sundar Pichai's skills and behaviours
In this section you must:

- Present an outline of Sundar Pichai's key skills and behaviours
- Discuss and give examples of Sundar Pichai's positive qualities and the effects they have
- Discuss and give examples of Sundar Pichai's negative qualities and the effects they have

For your critical evaluation you must link the outline, positive qualities and negative qualities to at least TWO theoretical frameworks covered in this module, e.g. Covey's 7 Habits, the CEO Genome Project, the CMI Code of Conduct or others

c) Reflective Statement: an analysis of your personal skills and behaviours, with a plan to improve on your weaknesses
In this section you must conduct a self-assessment test using any self-assessment tool from the Topic Workbooks:

- Summarise the results of your self-assessment test, explaining your key weaknesses as identified by the test
- Discuss the effect these weaknesses have on your employability prospects
- Present a clear and structured plan to improve on these weaknesses
- Critically evaluate the impact of your planned improvements on your professional development

For your critical evaluation you must link your key weaknesses, their effects and the plan to improve on them to at least TWO theoretical frameworks covered in this module, e.g. Covey's 7 Habits, the CEO Genome Project, the CMI Code of Conduct or others

d) A brief conclusion covering:

- Key points of task b (case study review)
- Key point of task c (reflective statement)
- A summarising remark which explains the connection between tasks b and c

Harvard referencing needed.