Reference no: EM133054255
Personal Effectiveness
Assessment Brief
The required submission for this assignment is a 3500-word Skills and Behaviours Review. Students are required to complete THREE tasks:
- Analyse Sundar Pichai's leadership qualities in comparison to Personal Effectiveness frameworks
- Apply Personal Effectiveness frameworks to identify your key strengths and weaknesses for your employability
- Evaluate different methods of learning new skills to enhance your employability
The Learning Outcomes that you have to meet in order to pass this assessment are:
Learning Outcome 1: Critically evaluate how people learn for professional development.
Learning Outcome 2: Appraise the key skills and behaviours required to be effective in a professional context.
Learning Outcome 3: Demonstrate understanding of a range of methods of supporting personal effectiveness in a professional environment.
Your Skills and Behaviours Review 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 the report, which MUST mention the key points of task b (case study review) c (personal skills review) and d (learning methods discussion) below
b) Case Study Review:
Discuss the impact of Sundar Pichai's skills and behaviours as a leader on Google and its employees
In this section you must review the case studies from this module to:
- Identify Sundar Pichai's leadership skills and behaviours
- Discuss the impact of Sundar Pichai's leadership skills and behaviours on Google as an organisation and on Google employees
For your critical evaluation you must link Sundar Pichai's skills and behaviours, and their impacts, 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) Personal Skills Appraisal:
Critically evaluate your own personal effectiveness
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, highlighting key strengths and weaknesses
- Apply a framework of personal effectiveness (e.g. Gibbs' Reflective Cycle, Ryff's 6 Factor Model, Organisational Citizenship Behaviour) to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses
- Discuss the effect of your weaknesses on your employability prospects
d) Learning Methods Discussion:
Explain different methods for supporting and developing your own personal effectiveness
In this section you must:
- Identify and explain different strategies you can use to improve on your weaknesses as stated in task (c)
- Create an action plan with specific proposals for your personal development based on these strategies
e) A brief conclusion covering:
- Key points of task b (Case Study Review)
- Key point of task c (Personal Skills Appraisal)
- Key points of task d (Learning Methods Discussion)
- A summarising remark which explains the connection between all tasks
Presentation
Your business report should contain the following:
• BPP assignment cover sheet (including SRN and word count)
• Business report title page
• Contents page
• Introduction
• Case Study Review (written in third person narrative)
• Personal Skills Appraisal (written in first person narrative)
• Learning Methods Discussion (written in first person narrative)
• Conclusion
• Reference listing
• Glossary (optional)
• Appendices (if appropriate)
Attachment:- Personal Effectiveness.rar