Personal Development Growth of an Individual

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

K1 Identification of work related skills, competence and value and its impact on behaviour.

K2 Determine  the conceptual underpinnings of behaviour in the  context of business.

Skills

S1 The ability to appraise and determine individual personal and professional qualities in a business environment.

S2 Implementation of concepts of self-reflection to evaluate personal and professional behaviour and effectiveness.

Reflective Essay

Write a reflective essay and identify what you consider to be significant personal quality and your reflection should be based on this. The essay should evaluate the key personal quality that emerges from various workshop exercises and module experiences and examine how this personal quality is demonstrated across a range of those activities. You should choose one personal quality that you consider to be your key strength and explore this in detail. You are advised to write approximately 2500 words.

Things to include:

• Describe the quality- use theory
• Evaluate this quality – use theory. In what ways quality proves to be strength for you? Provide examples
• What attributes, behavioural preferences and values underpin this strength?
• What did you find challenging in the workshop exercises and the experiences and why might this be? Explain this with theory.
• Are there any contradictions evident from experiences and how these explained? For Instance, your strength may be your communication skills but are there certain contexts where you communicate more or less effectively than others – why might this be?
• How this quality benefit you in the future? Reflect upon what are you going to do to develop and exploit this strength as part of the conclusion and summary of the work.

Must use concept and theories to explain your personal qualities. For instance:

• How you used concepts of reflection and reflexivity?
• How might concepts of happenstance, efficacy and locus of control explain approach to challenges, your behaviour in different situations and your relative success?
• To what extent you possess attributes which enable you to exploit happenstance events?

Supporting Evidence

During the course of the module you will be asked to complete a number of exercises. You will also needed to engage with employability related activities and experiences during the course of the year. These workshop exercises together with the employability activities and experiences will form the basis of your evidence. The discussion of your strength in your essay should be supported by evidence from the module and experiences.

Evidence that must be included in project.

Value added elements

As a part of module  you are required to engage in and complete “value added “elements, choosing ONE subject from enterprise, creativity & critical thinking, computing technologies or a language which will be part of module.

The Value Added element will be assessed and that assessment will form part of the evidence for your reflective essay and must be included as an appendix to the essay. Assessment of the Value Added element will vary according to the option you choose but is likely to comprise a 1000 word reflective piece or equivalent artefact as appropriate.

Experiential elements

• Descriptions of the professional experience
• A short reflection upon what you have learned about yourself through engagement in workshop activity. The reflection section of each piece of evidence will normally be between 250-300 words and should link to substance to essay.

Workshop activities elements

• Completion and presentation of the workshop based diagnostic.
• A short reflection upon what you have learned about yourself from engagement in each workshop activity. The reflection section of each piece of evidence will normally be between250 and 300 words.