Unit 2: Managing Self Development
QCF level 3: BTEC Professional
Credit value: 4
Guided learning hours: 20
Unit aim
The aim of the unit is to give
learners an understanding of how to manage self- development so that it contributes
to their achievement of career and personal goals in respect of their work role
and professional development.
Unit introduction
This unit gives learners the knowledge
on how to manage self-development so that it contributes to the achievement of career
and personal goals and learn how it links to the work role and professional development. Learners will consider how to identify own development
needs by understanding how to carry out a skills audit and how to evaluate the current
and evolving requirements of the work role in order to inform self-development.
Learners will understand how to identify
the gaps between current knowledge and skills and those required for achieving personal
and professional objectives before using this as a basis for producing an effective
self- development plan that relates to job role and professional development. Learners
will be able to set objectives which are SMART (specific, measurable, achievable,
realistic and time-based) and recognise how different types of learning style contribute
to own learning and development. Consideration will be given as to how to monitor
and evaluate performance in achieving development targets and matching them against
the requirements of the work role. Understanding how to use different sources of
feedback to review performance will help inform modifications to their self-development
plan.
Self-development allows individuals
not just to achieve their career and personal goals, but also helps to support the
achievement of business objectives since skilled, fulfilled employees make effective
contributions to the activities of businesses.
Learning outcomes and assessment
criteria
In order to pass this unit, the evidence
that the learner presents for assessment needs to demonstrate that they can meet
all the learning outcomes for the unit. The assessment criteria determine the standard
required to achieve the unit.
On completion of this unit a learner
should:
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Learning
outcomes
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Assessment
criteria
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1 Understand own values,
career and personal goals in relation to a work role and professional development
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· describe why it is important to consider own values,
career and personal goals and how these relate to your job role and professional
development
· describe how to evaluate the current requirements
of a work role and how the requirements may evolve in the future
· describe how to identify gaps between current knowledge
and skills required for achieving objectives
·
explain how to set objectives which are SMART
· explain how to identify your own development needs
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2 Understand how to plan
development effectively
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·
describe how to develop an effective development
plan
·
identify the different types of learning styles
and how these contribute to own performance systems
·
describe a range of development activities and
how these contribute to performance
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3 Understand how to monitor
and evaluate development activities
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· identify how to monitor the quality of own work
and progression against plans
· identify how to evaluate your performance against
the requirements of your work role
· explain how to use feedback on your own performance
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Programme of suggested assignments
The table below shows a programme
of suggested assignments that cover the criteria in the assessment grid. This is
for guidance only and it is recommended that centres either write their own assignments
or adapt assignments to meet local needs and resources.
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Criteria
covered
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Assignment
title
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Scenario
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Assessment
method
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1.1, 1.2,1.3,
1.4,
1.5
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Personal and
Professional Development
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You have been
asked by your line manager to produce plans for your professional development
to bring to an appraisal and review of your performance at work. You should identify:
your goa ls
the
requirements
of your work
a skills gap
analysis on which to base a self- development plan
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A document setting
out your values, career and
personal goals
in
relation to your
work role and professional development
The assignments
in the unit can be combined and carried out in stages
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2.1, 2.2, 2.3
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Planning Professional
Development
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You have been
asked by your line manager to produce plans for your professional development
and to discuss how
these can be
put in to action
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Notes for the
discussion
Discussion on
planning professional development
Learning styles
inventory
This could be
stage two of a three-part assignment
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Criteria
covered
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Assignment title
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Scenario
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Assessment method
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3.1, 3.2, 3.3
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Evaluating Development
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You have been
asked by your line manager to produce plans for your professional development
and to discuss how to monitor and evaluate development activities
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Notes for the
discussion
Discussion on
how to monitor and evaluate development
activities
This could be
stage three of a three- part assignment
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