Course Title: Manage personal work priorities and professional development

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5215

Course Title: Manage personal work priorities and professional development

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 60.0

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.

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

EMPL5884C

City Campus

TAFE

365T Global, Urban & Social Studies

Face-to-Face

Term1 2012,
Term1 2013

Course Contact: Bronwyn Tanti

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 9079

Course Contact Email: bronwyn.tanti@rmit.edu.au


Course Description

This unit of competency  describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to manage own performance and professional development. Particular emphasis is on setting and meeting priorities, analysing information and using a range of strategies to develop further competence.

This unit of competency applies to managers and focuses on the need for managers to be organised, focussed and skilled, in order to effectively manage the work of others. As such it is an important unit of competency for most managers, particularly as managers serve as role models and have a significant influence on the work culture and patterns of behaviour.
 


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

There are no pre-requisites for this unit of competency.



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

BSBWOR501B Manage personal work priorities and professional development

Elements:

1 Establish personal work goals
2 Set and meet own work priorities
3 Develop and maintain professional competence


Learning Outcomes



On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements.
 


Overview of Assessment

Assessment in this unit of competency will be through a mix of in-class tasks, workplace based projects, responses to a range of underpinning knowledge questions and the development of an evidence portfolio linked to the unit elements and workplace practice. An upfront assessment to develop an individual learning plan will occur. Individual assessment appointments will be undertaken with each student to allow students to present and discuss workplace evidence.