Personal Development: Self and Work
This unit is designed to help you set personal targets for developing your skills for life and work (task management skills).
You’ll learn to do this by being involved in a vocational (work related) project. You may be working on this project on your own or as part of a team.
Your tutor will support and guide you all the way. So that you get the most out of the project it should:
- suit your skills, personal qualities and interests
- be related to your future career plans.
The learning outcomes for this unit are (click to expand):
Evaluate my task management skills
For this outcome you will:
- prepare for taking part in a vocational project
- assess your own task management skills (the skills you need to get a job done successfully)
- identify skills you could improve while you are taking part in your project
You will learn about the task management skills that are important for your vocational project, but are also important skills for work and life:
- Punctuality: being on time
- Completing tasks to an appropriate standard: doing a job properly
- Keeping records of task completion: keeping track of what you achieve
- Seeking advice to enable progress: asking questions to help you understand and get on with your project
You will work out your strengths and weaknesses in these skills and you will then set targets for improving two task management skills during your vocational project.
Review, reflect, record
To show what you have learned you should identify your strengths and weaknesses and your two personal targets.
Your tutor will discuss this with you, give you advice and make comments before you use the blog to record evidence.
Form(s) for this outcome:
If you wish, you can complete the following activity(s) to support your learning and use the blog to record evidence.
Produce a development plan
For this outcome you will:
- produce a plan for the development of your own task management skills within a vocational project
Now that you have picked the skills you want to work on during your project, you will work out how you will develop them and make a plan to show how you are going to do it.
You will think about how you could develop your task management skills. Your plan should include details of the aims of your project.
You will:
- identify your own straightforward tasks which will enable progress towards achieving your personal targets: think of things you could do to improve the two skills you have identified
- identify the resources required to complete these tasks: work out how you will achieve them
- identify timescales to complete these tasks: work out how when you intend to carry them out
Your tutor will support you to work through this learning outcome.
If you wish, you can complete activities to support your learning.
Review, reflect and record
To show what you have learned you should fill in your development plan.
Your tutor will discuss this form with you, give you advice and make comments before you use the blog to record evidence.
Form(s) for this outcome:
If you wish, you can complete the following activity(s) to support your learning and use the blog to record evidence.
Carry out your development plan
For this outcome you will:
- carry out your plan for for the development of your own task mangement skills within a vocational project
This is when you put your plan into action, check how you’re getting on with it and make changes if you need to, with advice from your tutor/teacher along the way.
You will:
- monitor your progress: show how you are getting on with your plan mid way through and towards the end of your project and getting advice if you need it
- identify action taken as a result of this monitoring: whether you made any changes or carried on as planned
- Complete the tasks you identified in the plan: successfully achieving the tasks you identified
Review, reflect and record
To show what you have learned you should fill in your monitoring form. Your tutor will discuss your form with you, give you advice and make comments before you complete it and save it to your blog.
Form(s) for this outcome:
If you wish, you can complete the following activity(s) to support your learning and use the blog to record evidence.
Review progress
In this outcome you will:
- look back at what you learned from taking part in your vocational and reflect on the success of your plan for developing your task management skills. And you will think about improvements you could make in the future
- look at the strengths and weaknesses you identified and compare them to see how you got on in your project
- look at the strengths and weaknesses of your plan and of the tasks you carried out
- make conclusions about the plan: could it have been better, was it OK, could you have changed anything else?
- identify areas of further development of task management skills in the light of progress made: look ahead and see if there are other skills you could work on in the future
Your tutor will support you to work through this learning outcome. If you wish, you can complete activities to support your learning.
Review, reflect and record
To show what you have learned you should fill in your Evaluation form. Your tutor will discuss the form with you, give you advice and make comments before you complete it and save it to your blog.
Form(s) for this outcome:
If you wish, you can complete the following activity(s) to support your learning and use the blog to record evidence.
