What are the benefits of planning in the workplace

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ASSESSMENT TASK 1: GANTT CHART

Create a Gantt chart documenting a work day in your personal life in full.

You are to commence and start the Gantt chart from the time you wake up until you turn in to bed documenting and recording all daily Activities and Tasks.

A suggested sample of a completed Gantt chart is provided below. You can use spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel to prepare tables or you can use Open Office software that is free. You may also wish to prepare on free hand drawing.

TASK/ACTIVITY	STARTS	LENGTH (DAYS)	ENDS
A.	11 Jan	1	11 Jan
B.	12 Jan	2	13 Jan
C.	14 Jan	2	15 Jan
D.	14 Jan also	3	18 Jan (incl. weekend)
E.	19 Jan	1	19 Jan
F.	20 Jan	0	20 Jan

ASSESSMENT TASK 2: QUESTION & ANSWERS

1. Think of a personal or business goal you set yourself in the last six (6) to twelve (12) months that you were successful in achieving. What did you do that helped you to achieve you goal?

2. Think about your objectives, targets, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) or goals. Brainstorm all the activities you can think of that you can do to achieve your goal. Priorities these activities by plotting them against your own Prioritization Matrix.

QUADRANT 1 - URGENT AND IMPORTANT TASKS

QUADRANT 2 - NOT URGENT, BUT IMPORTANT TASKS

QUADRANT 3 - URGENT, BUT NO IMPORTANT TASKS

QUADRANT 4 - NOT URGENT BUT IMPORTANT TASKS

3. Think about the tasks you complete in your workplace or when studying. What resources do you use on a regular basis?

4. Provide five (5) reasons why people may not achieve their goals.

5. What do we understand by planning? What are the benefits of planning in the workplace?

6. What should you take into account when prioritizing tasks?

ASSESSMENT TASK 3: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Assessment brief and instructions:

Using your current role and workplace or a management role you have had in a previous workplace, prepare a written report addressing the following issues. If you have not worked before, conduct research on the first management role that you think you will get, and based your paper on this role.

Your report paper is intended to provide an overview of yourself as an individual in your personal and work life and to give you the opportunity to reflect on how your strengths and weaknesses impact aspects if your life. It is also an opportunity for you to show how well you have understood the learning in this unit and gives you the opportunity to apply it to your own experiences and life in a holistic way. Finally the report is further opportunity to reflect on where you would like to go and your goals for the future.

Use a different colour font for your responses to the tasks.

The assessment criteria are stated at the end of this paper. Students will have to achieve competency in all the factors listed in the assessment criteria. For marking purposes, each task carries weight of 5 marks which equates to a total of 40 marks.

1. Your time management skills: discuss how you have been managing your time and what the impacts have been. Are you intending to change the way you work? How and why?

2. How do you set and meet expectations as a manager? What expectations do you have for yourself and others and are they realistic and achievable?

3. How do you personally measure success in the workplace and in your personal life? What have you done in the past and what will you do in the future? Why and how is measuring success important to you?

4. What responsibilities do you have in both your work and personal life? How well do you feel you meet these responsibilities?

5. What goals do you have for the future? Discuss them in terms of SMART principles.

6. What type of person are you in the different facets of your life and how well do you think you know yourself? Discuss your personal strengths and weaknesses in response to the tools in your learning material. How accurate do you think they are?'

7. How do you intend to address any weaknesses and foster any strength you feel you have? This discussion should link to the goals you have indicated already in this report.

8. Where do you think your work goals sit within any of the motivational models offered in the learning material?

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