Employability and Professional Development
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Outcomes
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Assessment criteria for pass
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LO1: Be able to take responsibility for own personal and professional development
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1.1 reflect on own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organisational objectives
1.2 evaluate own development needs and the activities required to meet them
1.3 devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs
1.4 reflect on own development against original aims and objectives set in the personal and professional development plan
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LO2: Be able to demonstrate acquired interpersonal and
transferable skills
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2.1 communicate in a vanety of styles and appropriate manner
at various levels
2.2 demonstrate effective time management Strategies
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LO3: Understand the dynamics of working with others
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3.1 analyse team dynamics. discussing workles people play in a team and how they can together to achieve shared goals
3.2 discuss alternative ways to complete tasks and achieve team goals
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LO4: Be able to develop strategies for problem solving
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4.1 review tools and methods for developing solutions to problems
4.2 develop an appropriate strategy for resolving particularproblem
4.3 evaluate the potential impact on the business of implementing the strategy.
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Scenario
You are a new employee in the company and you have been provided with an induction and on-boarding training. After a period of six months and after working on different projects your line manager asked you to write a report addressing the tasks below:
LO1: Be able to take responsibility for own personal and professional development
Prepare a Curriculum Vitae in an appropriate format including your current skills and competencies. Reflecton your own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organisational objectives such as the BCS or ACM professional standards using management tools (SWOT). You should show some of your skills in your CV.
Evaluate your own developmental needs and the outline the activities required to fulfil them. You need to consider the SWOT analysis of sub task 1.1 in your evaluation
Considering your answer in task 1.2 devise a personal and professional development plan (PPDP) for raising your competencies in these skills where your current standard is low. Decide on the best way to develop those skills and a time frame for each development
Using the personal and professional developmental plan devised in task 1.3, reflecton your own development against the set aims and objectives. (You may like to compare your own development against the organisational aims and objectives of any IT company.)
LO2: Be able to demonstrate acquired interpersonal and transferable skills
Your company has undertaken a project to develop and implement a Data Management System (DMS) for the local hospital. You are appointed as the Project Manager.
Prepare a communication policy document explaining how you would communicatewith the different parties involved regarding?? the progress of the project (i.e. the Director of your company, the Director of the hospital, the manager at the hospital, your project team, main users of the DMS and suppliers)
The project has to? be completed within 06 months. The team members including you are working part time on the project (i.e. 15 hours a week). Draw a time management plan to demonstratehow for the next 06 months you would manage your work and list some of the effective time management strategies you will use.
LO3: Understand the dynamics of working with others
Discuss and analyse different roles people play in the project team and how they manage to work together to achieve shared goals. Explain what kind of personalities you would choose for each task / designation using a suitable metrics system (e.g. : Myres Briggs' Personality types and Belbin roles).
Discuss the techniques you would use to guide your project team to achieve the project goal.
LO4: Be able to develop strategies for problem solving
You have reached the end of the 3rd month of the project (refer Task 2). Throughout this time, the IT manager at the hospital had been requesting for many changes and additions in the system. This has triggered lots of adverse effects on the project and the project team.
Due to the constant requests for changes and additions, the project's scope has increased to a level that could not be handled by your team.
You? and the team spend more time on the project which has affected negatively to the day today office work. Your company director has warned you about this.
The cost of the project has reached its maximum level and the Managing Director is demanding you to decide whether? to continue the project or not.
Your project team is highly demotivated and exhausted about the current work situation.
Review models for problem solving and select a suitable model to adopt in solving the above problems. You must justify your selection.
Develop a strategy to solve the above-mentioned issues for a win-win situation. Clearly explain the 3rd parties, tools, documentation you are going to use.
Critically evaluatethe impact your suggested solution will have on :
- the business (your company)
- the client (the hospital)
- the project team (P4.4, M3, D3)