Msc Management Personal Effectiveness Assignment - BPP

Assessment Brief

The required submission for this assignment is a 2500 words “Personal Effectiveness Report”. Your report will include reflection on skills for a chosen career, comparison of own skill set/habits to choice of career, and analysis of methods for enhancing personal effectiveness.

Students are required to complete Three tasks:

1.   Reflect on your own skill set in relation to a career goal.
2.   Assess your habits/behaviours and how they may impact your career.
3.   Analyse methods of enhancing personal effectiveness and improving personal branding. The Learning Outcomes to successfully pass this assessment are:

(LO1) Critically evaluate how people learn for professional development.
(LO2) Appraise the key skills and behaviours required to be effective in a professional context.
(LO3) Demonstrate understanding of a range of methods of supporting personal effectiveness in a professional environment.

Your Personal Effectiveness Report should contain the following:

Introduction

You should begin by an introduction to concept of personal effectiveness. You should also give a brief overview of tasks 1, 2 and 3.

TASK 1

a)  Using a model of reflective practice, reflect on a task that you completed at work or university to identify your own skill set. Identify both your strengths and weaknesses.
b)  Analyse the skills you identified with reference to your choice of career or job.

N.B. To support your answer, you should refer to the reflective model by Gibbs or Schön and additional reading resources from this module. You should also include ideas from articles on wider leadership concepts and personal effectiveness from the online library.
(This task meets LO2)

TASK 2

a)   Using the Covey self-assessment questionnaire, identify your own strengths and weaknesses. Explain these with examples from your own life. (Include a screenshot of the results from the questionnaire in the appendix).
b)   Discuss how your weaknesses can impact your chosen career.

N.B. You should support your analysis with references to additional reading resources from this module. You should also include ideas from articles in the online library.

TASK 3

Choose a maximum of two areas for improvement (weaknesses) from Tasks 1 and 2. Develop a concise short-term plan using the SMART model or the Agile model to improve these areas. Explain how these plans will enhance your personal brand.

N.B. You should support your answer with references to additional reading resources from this module. You should also include ideas from articles in the online library.

(This task meets LO3)