Course Title: Manage Personal Work Priorities and Professional Development
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2008
Course Code: BUSM6008C
Course Title: Manage Personal Work Priorities and Professional Development
School: 650T TAFE Business
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5137 - Diploma of Business Management
Course Contact : Seymour Jacobson
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 1563
Course Contact Email:seymour.jacobson@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Teacher
Name: Zlatko Muhvic
Phone: 9925 5441
Email: zlatko.muhvic@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 60
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Experience in frontline, senior supervisory or management positions.
Course Description
This unit specifies the outcomes required to manage own performance and professional development. Particular emphasis is on setting and meeting priorities, analysing information and using strategies to develop further competence
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
BSBFLM501A Manage personal work priorities and professional development |
Element: |
1. Establish personal work goals |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Personal work planning and organisation serve as a positive role model in the workplace |
Element: |
2. Set and meet own work priorities |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Initiative is taken to prioritise and facilitate competing demands to achieve personal, team and the organisation's goals and objectives |
Element: |
3. Develop and maintain professional competence |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Personal knowledge and skills are assessed against competency standards to determine development needs, priorities and plans |
Learning Outcomes
Refer to competency elements
Details of Learning Activities
Students are required to attend all classes to participate in class activities. The class activities provide an opportunity to develop skills and apply theory to real life situations. The learning activities students will take a role in are:
• Case studies
• Project work
• Collaborative classroom activities
• Team activities
• Peer interaction
• Games and simulations
• Reflection and discussion and debating
• Reading the text book
• Accessing materials on line
Teaching Schedule
| Week beginning | Weekly Schedule | Competency/References |
| Week 1 11 Feb |
Introduction and Course Overview | Introducing Assessment 1 Learning Lab |
| Week 2 18 Feb |
Personality and Learning Profiling | Develop and maintain professional competence Handouts |
| Week 3 25 Feb |
Workplace Learning | Develop and maintain professional competence Cole: Chapter 22 |
| Week 4 3 Mar |
Managing Personal Work Priorities | Set and meet own work priorities Cole: Chapter 6 |
| Week 5 10 Mar |
Stress Management | Set and meet own work priorities Develop and maintain professional competence Handouts |
| Week 6 17 Mar |
Planning and Goals Setting | Establish personal work goals, Develop and maintain professional competence Cole: Chapter 13 Introducing Assessment 2 & 3 |
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MID START 20TH MARCH |
SEMESTER RETURN 27TH MARCH |
BREAK
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| Week 6 24 Mar |
Planning and Goals Setting | Establish personal work goals, Develop and maintain professional competence Cole: Chapter 13 Introducing Assessment 2 & 3 |
| Week 7 31 Mar |
Change and Conflict Management | Establish personal work goals Cole: Chapter 15 |
| Week 8 7 Apr |
Solving problems | Establish personal work goals Develop and maintain professional competence Cole: Chapter 16 |
| Week 9 14 Apr |
Providing Leadership & Motivating Others | Establish personal work goals Cole: Chapter 7 & 8 |
| Week 10 21 Apr |
Team Management | Develop and maintain professional competence Cole: Chapter 9 Assessment 2 Due on class day |
| Week 11 28 Apr |
Leading by Example | Develop and maintain professional competence Cole Chapter: 3 |
| Week 12 5 May |
Personal and Professional Development Plan | Handouts |
| Week 13 12 May |
Communication and Presentation Skills | Establish personal work goals, BSBFLM501B/03 Develop and maintain professional competence Cole: Chapter 2 |
| Week 14 19 May |
Course Review | |
| Week 15 26 May |
Class presentation | Assessment 3 due on class day |
| Week 16 2 June |
Class presentation | |
| Week 17 9 June |
Class presentation | |
| Week 18 16 June |
Assessment 3 Feedback | Opportunity for students to discuss results of the assessment with a teacher |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Cole, K. 2005, Management: The Theory and Practice, 3rd edn, Pearson Education Australia, Frenchs Forest, NSW |
References
Covey, R S 2004,The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, Free Press, New York, USA |
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
There are a variety of assessments that may include reports, oral presentations, journals, development plans, group activities
Assessment Tasks
Assessment 1, Reflective e-journal From Week 2 to Week 5, value 30%
Students will make a regular weekly entry during four consecutive weeks commencing in the week 2 and finishing in the week 5 using the following structure:
a) Describe a weekly topic or a theme
b) Comment and reflect on it providing your personal response
c) Relate to theory, prescribed readings and class activities
d) Relate its relevance to your professional practice
e) Possibilities for doing it differently or taking a different angle
f) What is the learning outcome, what have you learned?
Each entry should be maximum 500 words.
Assessment 2, Case Study & Oral Presentation, Due in Week 10, value 30%
Individual Report 20%
Oral presentation 10%
Application of concepts, theories and models from:
1. Leadership
2. Managing Change
3. Solving Problems
4. Planning and Goals Setting
You are required to:
Select a current or past change management issue within your organization that directly or indirectly affected your job, duties, work relationship, performance etc. In that context explain correlation between organizational and your personal and professional goals. Using the above concepts, theories and models, from the course analyse and evaluate the change and your response to it. Recommend what you would do differently next time to get a better outcome for yourself. Deliver an oral presentation for 10 minutes and write a Report, addressing and analysing the following areas about the issue:
a. Background information
b. Situation analysis
c. Problem identification
d. Solution evaluation
e. Recommendations
Students should demonstrate originality in their work because a mere reiteration of the course material will earn no credit. There is no word limit. Students can take as many or as few words to express themselves without being penalized. However, just as a guide, expectation is it to be within 1000-1500 words range.
Assessment 3, Written Report, Due in Week 15, value 40%
Students will develop their individual personal and professional development plan especially addressing performance criteria and following guidelines provided by a teacher by utilising knowledge, skills and planning tools obtained during the class and by individual learning and research.
There is no word limit. Students can take as many or as few words to express themselves without being penalized. However, just as a guide, expectation is it to be within 1500-2000 words range.
Assessment Matrix
Students will be assessed directly against a mixture of the elements and performance criteria listed in Key Competencies Unit.
| Element | Task 1 | Task 2 | Task 3 |
| BSBFLM501A Establish personal work goals | X | X | X |
| BSBFLM501A Set and meet own work priorities | X | X | |
| BSBFLM501A Develop and maintain professional competence | X | X | X |
Other Information
Online Learning Materials
Online learning materials can be accessed by going into the RMIT web site, clicking on Students, under IT Information and Services there is a link to the Online Learning Hub.
Log in and click on BUSM 6008C Manage Personal Work Priorities and Professional Development.
It is essential to have access to an internet connected computer outside of class times. Internet connected computers are available in the Business Labs on Level 3 of Building 108, 239 Bourke Street, Melbourne.
Useful Websites
http://www.rmit.edu.au/library
This website is a useful resource for your assessment tasks
http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/
The Learning Lab is a learning and study skills site developed by the Learning Skills Unit offering online interactive tutorials, printable handouts and an email Learning Query service. The site is designed to assist students develop the capabilities for tertiary study.
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