Course Title: Manage personal work priorities and professional development
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2011
Course Code: EMPL5626C
Course Title: Manage personal work priorities and professional development
School: 650T TAFE Business
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5221 - Diploma of Business Administration
Course Contact : Hazel Sims
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 1316
Course Contact Email:hazel.sims@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
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
There are no formal pre-requisites or co-requisites for this course.
Course Description
This course focuses on the skills and knowledge required to manage one’s own work performance and professional development. Particular emphasis is on setting and meeting priorities, analysing information and using a range of strategies to develop further competence.
If you are undertaking this course in Melbourne from semester 2, 2012 onwards your teacher will advise you if you require access to a computer for the course. It is recommended that you have access to a mobile computing device to allow greater flexibility in terms of where you can work on campus outside class times.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
BSBWOR501A Manage personal work priorities and professional development |
Element: |
Develop and maintain professional competence |
Performance Criteria: |
Assess personal knowledge and skills against competency standards to determine development needs, priorities and plans Seek feedback from employees, clients and colleagues and use this feedback to identify and develop ways to improve competence Identify, evaluate, select and use development opportunities suitable to personal learning style/s to determine development needs, priorities and plans Seek feedback from employees, clients and colleagues and use this feedback to identify and develop ways to improve competence Identify, evaluate, select and use development opportunities suitable to personal learning style/s to develop competence Undertake participation in networks to enhance personal knowledge, skills and work relationships Identify and develop new skills to achieve and maintain a competitive edge |
Element: |
Establish personal work goals |
Performance Criteria: |
Serve as a positive role model in the workplace through personal work planning and organisation Ensure personal work goals, plans and activities reflect the organisation's plans, and own responsibilities and accountabilities Measure and maintain personal performance in varying work conditions, work contexts and contingencies |
Element: |
Set and meet own work priorities |
Performance Criteria: |
Take initiative to prioritise and facilitate competing demands to achieve personal, team and organisational goals and objectives Use technology efficiently and effectively to manage work priorities and commitments Maintain appropriate work-life balance, and ensure stress is effectively managed and health is attended to |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
Learning activities will involve classroom discussions, online discussions based on textbook theory and experience, internet research, quizzes and reflective learning practice. Importantly, the two week practical placement is the central work based learning experience. Scheduled meetings with the teacher will take place.
Teaching Schedule
| WEEK | ELEMENT/LEARNING OBJECTIVES | ACTIVITIES | ASSESSMENT |
| 1 | Introduction to course/Overview/Textbook/Assessment What is time? Why is time important? |
Induction
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| 2 | Establish personal work goals |
FACE TO FACE CLASS
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Work logbook |
| 3 | Establish personal work goals |
Chapter 26: Understanding how people learn
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Work logbook |
| 4 | Establish personal work goals |
Chapter 7: Establishing effective working relationships
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Work logbook |
| 5 | Set and meet own work priorities |
Chapter 7: Establishing effective working relationships
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Work logbook |
| 6 | Set and meet own work priorities |
Chapter 8: Managing priorities
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Work logbook |
| 7 | Set and meet own work priorities |
Chapter 8: Managing priorities
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Work logbook |
| 8 | Set and meet own work priorities |
Chapter 11: Unlocking peak performance: the five keys
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Work logbook |
| 9 | All elements | PRACTICAL PLACEMENT | PP Journal |
| 10 | All elements | PRACTICAL PLACEMENT | PP Journal |
| 11 | Set and meet own work priorities |
Chapter 9: Understanding leadership
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Work logbook |
| 12 | Develop and maintain professional competence |
Chapter 9: Understanding leadership
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Work logbook |
| 13 | Develop and maintain professional competence |
Chapter 26: Encouraging a learning environment
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Work logbook |
| 14 | Develop and maintain professional competence | Assessment due: Practical Placement workbook |
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| 15 | Develop and maintain professional competence | Assessment due: |
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| 16 |
Develop and maintain professional competence
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Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Kris Cole, Management Theory and Practice, Fourth Ed, Prentice Hall, NSW |
References
The Learning Hub is a learner source. It is essential that the student has gained access to a workplace to perform administrative tasks forming the two week practical placement in Weeks 9 and 10. |
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Assessment may incorporate a variety of methods including in-class exercises, problem-solving exercises, assignments, group or individual projects, work log book, work journal and practical placement. Activities may include the production of technical requirements such as documents, direct observation of workplace practices and the presentation of a portfolio of evidence. This portfolio may include documents, photographs, video and/or audio files.
Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met. Students will be provided with feedback throughout the course to check their progress.
Assessment Tasks
Practical placement journal
This assessment is due in Week 14 and is based on the two week work placement experience in an administrative role in weeks 9 and 10.
You should use an academic reflective journal writing style which demonstrates how the you managed your own personal work priorities using time management skills and techniques in order to meet your own goals and objectives as well as those of your practical placement organisation.
Work logbook
This assessment is due in Week 15. You will download the marking guide for the Work Logbook from the Learning Hub. Based on the weekly activities described in the logbook you should answer the questions related to class discussions and textbook theory read during the semester. You will maintain your own collection of work completed over the semester in an organised and secure manner. Your logbook will be collated (together with your supervisor’s observation form) and this should be submitted to the Assignment Drop Box on Level 13 in Week 15.
Please note:
- The work logbook and practical placement journal will be assessed according to the grade matrix shown below
- Please do not use plastic folders or sleeves when submitting assessable work (as we wish to follow sustainable work practices during the program)
Assessment Matrix
| NYC | CA | CC | CDI | CHD |
| Not yet competent | Competency achieved | Competency with credit | Competency with Distinction | Competency with High Distinction |
The critical aspects of evidence are a summary of the evidence which must be produced to achieve competency in this unit. This is included in the matrix below:
| BSBWOR501A Manage personal work priorities and professional development |
Practical placement journal | Work logbook |
| Critical aspects of evidence | ||
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Systems and processes (electronic or paper-based)
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Y | Y |
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Personal development plan, with career objectives and an
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Y | Y |
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Knowledge of relevant legislation
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Y | Y |
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