PPD1 Portfolios Overview Portfolio 1 Term 1 weighting 50%

The Electronic Information Trace is a 400 word formative assessment – students may not progress until a pass mark (40%) is achieved.

Please complete the following 8 tasks:
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Task

Details of Tasks

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1

Create your professional signature. (this should include your full name, students ID Number and Program You Studying)Send an e-mail (using your University account only), with the caption “PPD assignment 1”, to your tutor introducing yourself and briefly explaining why have you decided to study your program at university of Greenwich. You will receive a brief reply “with history” ….cut-and-paste the reply into your assignment

5%

2

Find and record 2 (printed) text books on the topic of “Project Management” giving: Catalogue No. Author, surname, initials, (date of publication), title, Edition (if not first), place, publisher
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5%

3

From the library link on the UG website main page go to electronic data bases and access and record TWO articles on “Risk Management” (2005-2007) from A-Z electronic databases to Business Source Premier (intranet access) to EBSCO host – publications link citing: Author, surname, initials, (date of publication), article title, journal title, Edition (if not first), place, date of publication; Vol. No. page No. (unless located on a bibliographic database in which case also provide ‘core’ URL, e.g. www.sciencedirect.com [accessed 21,February,2011] ).

5%

4

From the library link on the UG website main page go to electronic databases then to Emerald full text (intranet access) and cut-and-paste one complete abstract (one page) of a single article on “Innovation Management” and attach it to your assignment
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5%

5

Research the term ‘Circular Economy’ as it is used in a management/ social research context. Write a short (150 words) paragraph – in your own words – explaining what this term means and list the books (including dictionaries) and/ or electronic (web) sites you used to write your definition in the format listed for Q2 or Q3 as appropriate

30%

6

Using the Google search engine find TWO sites which could be useful to business managers (such as finding market information or looking for employment): Record their addresses (provide ‘core’ URL, e.g. www.sciencedirect.com [accessed 21,February,2011]) and write one paragraph on each (150 words each paragraph) to explain why they might be useful to marketers.

30%

7

A further 10% of marks will be awarded to those students who have generated the correct Banner Header for this assignment and attached it properly (5%) and who have laid-out the report in a readable fashion (5%) (with headings for each element etc.)

NB the word-count for this will exclude the abstract from Q4

10%

8

Login to the Business School Employability Dashboard find a workshop or one to one session that can help improve your employability skill you, sign up for relevant activity and attend. The attendance certificate/email from BSEO is a proof that you completed the activity.
Copy and paste this into your assignment

10%

100%

Summative assessments

Task (1)

In term 1 you are required to attend at least 2 academic or employability events and collecting at least 40 employability points. The activities that could be considered include part-time work, volunteering or attendance at a conference, training events, BSEO or GET workshop. (Please check full list of GEP activities)

Task (2)

Task requires you to undertake a ‘self-assessment’ of your learning capabilities in order to provide you with a learning and development profile for your studies. You are required to go online into the PPD1 Moodle site, download and complete the ‘Learning styles questionnaire”. Once completed calculate your results and read your summary.

Task (3)

Based on the results from your Learning styles questionnaire you are required to summarise and identify the key results into a SWOT analysis table – downloadable from Moodle (see below). This requires you to summarise your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Your summary should provide an honest assessment of your current level of skills, both positive (strengths) and negative (weaknesses). In addition you will need to evaluate the ‘opportunities’ available to you both within the University and outside that will help you to develop and improve your skills further (i.e. GET, GPC, volunteering etc.) Finally, what are the ‘threats’ that will prevent you from becoming a more effective learner? How will you minimise these threats?

You will be ask to present your SWOT analysis on one of the tutorials.

SWOT Analysis Table

You are required to complete this table with at least 4 points in each section. Your strengths/Weaknesses should be taken directly from the results of your ILP assessment. Careful thought will be required to assess what ‘opportunities’ are available to you to be more successful in your personal and professional development goals. Finally, what is going to prevent you from meeting your goals? What are these ‘threats’?

NAME; Tutor Group No.

I N T E R N A L

Strengths

Weaknesses

What do you do well?
What unique resources can you drawn on? What do others see as your strengths?
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What could you improve?
Where do you have fewer resources than others? What are others likely to see as weaknesses?

E X T E R N A L

Opportunities
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Threats

What good opportunities ae open to you? What trends could you take advantage of? How can you turn your strengths into opportunities?
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What trends could harm you?
What is your competition doing?
What threats do your weaknesses expose you to?

For instruction on using SWOT Analysis visit

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_05.htm
Copyrights Mind Tool Ltd (2006) http://www.mindtools.com/
The completed SWOT table needs to be included in the appendix of your report.

Task (4)

Based on your SWOT analysis table what personal and professional developmental goals have you set yourself in Year 1? What will you do to ensure that these targets are met?
You are required to complete the SMART goal-setting table (available for download from Moodle) and provide clear and concise goals that will help you improve your employability and transferrable skills in Year 1.

You are required to include your SWOT analysis table in the appendix of your report.
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Task 3; SMART Goal Setting Table

GOAL 1

GOAL 2

GOAL 3

GOAL 4

SPECIFIC GOAL

How is this MEASURABLE

ACHIEVABLE
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REALISTIC

TIME FRAME for completion

Completed table must be included in the Appendix of your Portfolio1

Task (5)

Individual Presentation

You will give a 3 minute presentation in which you will present the outcome of your personal SWOT and the SMART goals that you set for yourself to achieve by the end of year 1 of your studies.

Task (6)

Reflective report

Based on your evaluations from tasks 2–4 write a 1,700 words report on ‘Employability and Transferrable Skills’. You are required to discuss what employability and transferable skills you already have and how you can demonstrate them. What have the results from the ILP, SWOT and SMART tables revealed about your future career aspirations and what skill and abilities you need to develop to become more employable in the future? You are required to reflect how the GEP extracurricular activities that you undertook in term 1 helped you improve your employability prospect.

Your report should have an introduction, main body, conclusion and an appendix. The appendix must include your ILP results, SWOT analysis and SMART goal-setting tables. You are required to make use of Gibbs Reflective Cycle.

Portfolio 2

Compulsory for all departments:

Task (1)

In term 1 you are required to attend at least 2 academic or employability events and collecting at least 40 employability points. The activities that could be considered include part-time work, volunteering or attendance at a conference, training events, BSEO or GET workshop. (Please check full list of GEP activities)

Task (2)
MyWrittingLab 30% weighting of Portfolio 2

Throughout term 1 and term 2 students are required to practice exercise and complete quizzes in MyWrittingLab There are 12 areas in MyWrittingLab and 5 are compulsory to be completed:

Planning and Writing an Assignment

Types of Academic Writing

Critical Thinking in Academic Writing

Referencing

Academic Writing: Avoiding Plagiarism and Synthesising Arguments

Task (3)

You are also required to complete an online job application. BSEO will provide series of workshop that will help you with this process. You can sign up for those workshops via BSEO dash board.

Task (4)

You are required to write a 2,500 words report on a specific subject (to be announced)