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BSBWOR501 Manage personal work priorities and professional development

Activity 1A
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to serve as a positive role model in the workplace through personal work planning.

What leadership style/s do you believe is the most appropriate? Briefly outline your answer and give examples.
What ethical behaviours should you demonstrate if you want to be a positive role model? Choose four of these behaviours and give examples of how the behvaviour is positive.

Activity 1B
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to ensure personal work goals, plans and activities reflect the organisation's plans, and own responsibilities and accountabilities.

What is a goal that you must meet as part of your job?

Write this goal as a SMARTER goal. Use the table to assist you,

Use the table or write your original goal as a smarter goal.
Do you believe that the SMARTER goal makes the goal clearer?

Using the SMARTER goal and the plans in the table above, explain where you would be able to access this information.

What is the importance of making sure that these plans align? Use the table above to explain your answer.

Activity 1C

Objective To provide you with an opportunity to measure and maintain personal performance in varying work conditions, work contexts and when contingencies occur.

Use the following table to measure your performance.
Establish a performance standard
How would you communicate the standard?
How would you measure your performance?
What could you do with the results?

Activity 2A

Objective To provide you with an opportunity to take initiative to prioritise and facilitate competing demands to achieve personal, team and organisational goals and objectives.

Using your understanding of you job description, complete eight tasks that you believe you can use to improve your productivity and list them below.

List these tasks into the priority matrix.

The aim of this exercise is to improve your productivity. Who would you consult with in regards to your priority matrix? Why?

Did you improve your performance? What documentation could you use to assist you in this answer?

Activity 2B

Objective To provide you with an opportunity to use technology efficiently and effectively to manage work priorities and commitments.

List the technology that you can use to improve your performance?

List what functions that you can use the technology for.

Activity 2C

Objective To provide you with an opportunity to maintain appropriate work-life balance, and ensure stress is effectively managed and health is attended to.

What can happen if you do not handle stress correctly?

What action/s can you take to maintain an appropriate work-life balance to alleviate stress?

Activity 3A

Objective To provide you with an opportunity to assess personal knowledge and skills against competency standards to determine development needs, priorities and plans.

How can you assess your personal knowledge and skills?
What is a competency standard?
How can it be measured?
What should you do if you do not meet the competency standard within your organisation?

Activity 3B

Objective To provide you with an opportunity to seek feedback from employees, clients and colleagues and use this feedback to identify and develop ways to improve competence.

What should you do if you receive negative feedback?
If you receive positive feedback, does it automatically mean that you have
What is 360 Degree Feedback? How should it be used?

Objective To provide you with an opportunity to identify, evaluate, select and use development opportunities suitable to personal learning style/s to develop competence.

What learning style do you have?
Based on the learning style, what method/s would you use to gain competence through the available development opportunities?

Activity 3D
Objective To provide you with an opportunity to participate in networks to enhance personal knowledge, skills and work relationships.

How can a network assist you in enhancing knowledge, skills and working relationships?

The more working relationships that you build, the more opportunities you will have. How can you build working relationships?

Activity 3E

Objective To provide you with an opportunity to identify and develop new skills to achieve and maintain a competitive edge.

What methods can you use to identify and develop a competitive edge in your market?

Skills and Knowledge Activity

Objective To provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the foundation skills, knowledge evidence and performance evidence.

Complete the following individually and attach your completed work to your workbook.

The answers to the following questions will enable you to demonstrate your knowledge of:
• Learning
• Reading
• Writing
• Oral Communication
• Navigate the world of work
• Interact with others
• Get the work done
• Principles and techniques of performance measurement, personal development, personal goal setting and time
• Management development opportunities and options
• Methods for achieving a healthy work-life balance
• Organisational policies, plans and procedures
• Different learning styles
• Types of work methods and practices

Answer this question in as much detail as possible, considering your organisational requirements for each one.

Using your knowledge of performance measurement, personal development and goal setting, produce an example of an employee's work performance. Identify areas for development and explain what criteria must be attained in order for that employee to qualify for a development opportunity. Select an area for improvement, such as time management, and outline the training that your hypothetical employee could take in order to improve their performance, such as by informing them of the effect their lateness or slow pace has on the business and their teammates. Refer to the four main learning styles, as explained in the Learner Guide and adapt your training proposal to suit each learning style, so you have four choices available. Include your recommendations on methods to achieve a healthy work-life balance and for participation in networks.

Major Activity

Objective To provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the entire unit.

This is a major activity - your instructor will let you know whether you will complete it during class or in your own time.

For this work activity, you are required to complete a report on how to manage your personal work priorities and professional development in your workplace.

If you use any documents from your workplace, please ask for permission to do so. If you do not ask permission, you may be in breach of your confidentiality agreement.

You are:

1. To evaluate your position as a role model. Identify ways in which you can improve your skills and knowledge, include your requirements to listen and question those involved
2. Develop personal work goals, plans and activities to reflect your organisations goals
3. Measure your performance against work place contexts and contingencies
4. Prioritise and facilitate competing demands to achieve personal performance levels
5. Use appropriate technology to write this report and use an electronic diary to draw a timeline for the development of your personal goals
6. What steps will you take to ensure that you maintain a work-life balance and minimise stress
7. Assess your personal knowledge and skills against your competency standards to determine your development needs.
8. Obtain feedback about your performance from work associates.
9. What method/s would you use to develop your competence in your weak areas so you can develop your skills?
10. Review your networks and identify ways in which you can improve them. Give examples using the feedback obtained in Point Number 8
11. How can you develop new skills and knowledge to maintain a competitive edge in your industry?

Use the action plan template (Appendices) in developing your professional development.