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Unit 1: Personal Development
QCF Level: 5
Credit value: 5 credits
Aim
This unit provides the learner with the skills to take ownership of improving their own management/leadership performance to meet organisational and personal objectives.
Unit abstract
This unit introduces learners to the importance of continuous personal and professional development through self-learning and analysis. It focuses on learners understanding how to enhance the skills needed for effective management to meet work and personal objectives, as well as improving their performance for future career development. Learners will have the opportunity to identify their own development needs through carrying out a skills audit to inform the personal development planning process.
All managers need effective time-management skills to meet organisational and personal objectives. This unit will enable learners to use tools to evaluate how they currently spend their time, and where improvements could be made. Using different sources of feedback and conducting their own skills analysis will help learners identify any skill gaps. They will be able to make suggestions for filling identified skills gaps and the resources needed to achieve them. This will then inform the structure of a personal development plan. Learners will be able to demonstrate they have a regularly updated and realistic personal development plan which fits with their own preferred learning style. The unit will enable learners to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of their learning on their personal and work objectives.
Evidence to achieve this unit will be generated continuously throughout the learning programme, enabling learners to take ownership of their future development needs.
Learning Outcomes
To achieve this unit a learner must:
1 Be able to review time-management skills
2 Be able to complete a skills audit
3 Be able to produce a personal development plan
4 Be able to implement a personal development plan.
