Assignment Brief
As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit a Managing Self and Others report and reflective blog. Please refer to your Student Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on preparing and submitting assignments.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing the module, you should be able to:
1. Evaluate concepts associated with career development strategies.
2. Assess the development of a lifelong learning approach and skills development taken by yourself and others.
3. Evaluate and apply a range of strategies that lead to ‘high performance’ people.
4. Apply such strategies to working as an individual or as part of a team.
5. Reflect on your personal performance to demonstrate learning and self- improvement.
Lifelong Learning: Manage employability, utilising the skills of personal development and planning in different contexts to contribute to society and the workplace.
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Guidance
Your assignment should include: a title page containing your student number, the module name, the submission deadline and the exact word count of your submitted document; the appendices if relevant; and a reference list in AU Harvard system(s). You should address all the elements of the assignment task listed below. Please note that tutors will use the assessment criteria set out below in assessing your work.
You must not include your name in your submission because Arden University operates anonymous marking, which means that markers should not be aware of the identity of the student. However, please do not forget to include your STU number.
Maximum word count: 4000 words
Please refer to the full word count policy which can be found in the Student Policies
section here: Arden University | Regulatory Framework Please note the following:
Students are required to indicate the exact word count on the title page of the assessment.
The word count includes everything in the main body of the assessment (including in text citations and references). The word count excludes numerical data in tables, figures, diagrams, footnotes, reference list and appendices. ALL other printed words ARE included in the word count.
Please note that exceeding the word count by over 10% will result in a 10-percentage point deduction.
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Assignment Task
Consider the content and theory that you have learnt in the Module - Managing Self and
Others and apply this to answer the following questions: Question 1 - Career Development and Lifelong Learning
a. Create your own individual PDP that shows evidence of your development achieved in the past 12 months and applies your planned development for the next 12 months.
To achieve this, you must demonstrate how you manage yourself. This should include how you manage stress, positive thinking and assertiveness to produce your own career development plans. You should create plans for goal setting, a personal skills audit and a personal SWOT. From this, you can then create your PDP.
Within your PDP include examples and evidence that demonstrate advanced learning methods, learning resources, learning timescales, expected outcomes and any necessary communications that may support your learning and development. Please read Lesson 3 Career Development, Future Planning and Reflective Practice for information on how to complete your skills audit, SWOT and PDP.
(800 words) (20 marks)
(LO5)
b. Produce an illustrated report that assesses how strategies for skills development and lifelong learning may enable career development for you and your team colleagues.
To achieve this, evaluate concepts associated with career development strategies in order to consider how the skills and career development of employees through integrated personal development planning may support employee motivation and, ultimately, employee retention and progression.
(1200 words) (30 marks) (LOs 1 & 2)
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Question 2 - High Performance Individuals and Teams
a. Create your own blog to produce a concise summary to answer the following:
How may high performance people be developed by effective performance management?
To achieve this, you must undertake a series of postings and exchanges using either the ilearn Discussion Forum (with students) or your own blog site (with work colleagues) using examples from your workplace or previous experience. It will be important to engage with other students or colleagues from as early as week 2 of this module to promote collaborative learning and gain different perspectives.
The blog content should be pasted into an appendix and referred to in your summary.
Please see your Tutors weekly posting + Live Chats for additional guidance for this task.
(1000 words) (25 marks) (LOs 3 & 4)
b. Produce an illustrated report that evaluates how high-performance strategies enable you to reflect on how you may work effectively as part of a team.
To achieve this, consider how strategies intended to develop high performance may enable you to meet your personal development needs when working with individuals (individual differences, perceptions and attitudes, learning, development and motivation communication skills) and, in doing so, help create high performing teams.
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(1000 words) (25 marks)
(LOs 3, 4 & 5)
(Total Marks: 100) (Total words: 4000) (LOs 1 - 5)
Formative Feedback
You have the opportunity to submit your DRAFT outline / plan for question 1 and 2 to
receive formative feedback.
The feedback is designed to help you develop areas of your work and it helps you develop your skills as an independent learner.
If you are a distance learning student, you should submit your work, by email, to your tutor, no later than 2 weeks before the actual submission deadline. If you are a blended learning student, your tutor will give you a deadline for formative feedback and further details.
Formative feedback will not be given to work submitted after the above date or the date specified by your tutor - if a blended learning student.
Referencing Guidance
You MUST underpin your analysis and evaluation of the key issues with appropriate and wide ranging academic research and ensure this is referenced using the AU Harvard system(s).
Follow this link to find the referencing guides for your subject: Arden Library
Submission Guidance
Assignments submitted late will not be accepted and will be marked as a 0% fail.
Your assessment can be submitted as a single Word (MS Word) or PDF file, or, as multiple files.
If you chose to submit multiple files, you must name each document as the question/part you are answering along with your student number ie Q1 Section A STUXXXX. If you wish to overwrite your submission or one of your submissions, you must ensure that your new submission is named exactly the same as the previous in order for the system to overwrite it.
You must ensure that the submitted assignment is all your own work and that all sources used are correctly attributed. Penalties apply to assignments which show evidence of academic unfair practice. (See the Student Handbook which is available on the A-Z key information on iLearn.