Managing Self and Professional Skills

This  is  a  module  which  aims  to  develop  your  skills  as  a  manager  by  analysing  your  existing
personal/management competencies and then identifying strengths and weaknesses.

You will work through a series of activities and reading (at your own pace) and complete a range
of Personal and Management Competence Checklists such as MCI, CIPD, Belbin and Honey and
Mumford  Learning  Styles  analysis.   You  are  also  encouraged  to  find  other  personal  and
management competence toolkits and use them in your work.

From the results of these checklists you should then critically analyse the results, highlighting how
you think your strengths have been developed and how they may benefit your role as a manager
(with theory and examples), and how you can overcome your weaknesses, identifying how these
weaknesses  could  limit  your  role  as  a  manager  and  suitable  methods  of  developing  yourself  to
overcome such skills needs.

The results of this analysis along with your understanding of appropriate theoretical models is the
basis of your assignment for this module.

1.  Explain  what  is  meant  by Self  Awareness/Self  Development.    Try  and  introduce  some
theory such as definitions.  Your work should demonstrate reading and referencing.
2.  Demonstrating your evidence of reading through the use of references, explain why self
awareness/self development  is important for a manager to undertake.  Explain the link
between  self  awareness  and  self  development.    Parts  one  and  two  should  be  around
500 words.
3.  Highlight  the  methods  you  have  used  to  analyse  yourself throughout  this  module,  for
example Johari, Learning Styles, Personality Tests, Appraisal feedback, MCI etc.
4.  Using appropriate theory and evidence of reading, as well as your own views, critically
evaluate two or three of the above Competence Models, for example what is good about
them,  what  are  their  deficiencies?      Justify  why  you  have  chosen  to  focus  your
assessment on a particular model(s).
5.  Attach your findings from your chosen (and any other) models.
6.  Highlight  the results of  your self assessment and critically evaluate your strengths and
weaknesses.    For  example,  if  you  identify  a  weakness  as  being  poor  at  oral
presentations, suggest how this could affect your role as a manager in your own place
of work.
7.  Attempt to relate all of your findings to your workplace and demonstrate how you have
used  your  strengths  to  best  affect  (and  the  results)  and  how  your  weaknesses  could
cause problems or how they can be minimised.
8.  Look at your weaknesses and make suggestions about how you can overcome them or
improve them.  Parts three – eight should be around 2500 words

Appendices

9.  Complete  a  self  development  plan which  aims  to  overcome  all  or  some  of  your
weaknesses.    Create your  own  or  use  a  standard  Self  Development  template such  as
the one available on the e-learning portal.  This self development plan can be added as
an appendix in your assignment
10.  You  may  also wish  to  look  at http://rapidbi.com/created/personaldevelopmentplan.html
website for more information.
11.  Complete  a  reflection  of  your  teamworking  traits  (using  a  tool  such  as  Belbin  Team
Roles  Analysis)  and  discuss,  using  example  your  strengths  and/or  weaknesses  in
relation to teamworking.  This should be around 500 words.
12.  Complete  a  reflection  of  your  verbal  communication/presentation  traits  and  discuss,
using  example  your  strengths  and/or  weaknesses  in  relation  to  verbal  communication
and presentation.  This should be around 500 words.
13.  Throughout the report you should include evidence to demonstrate your understanding
of  the  importance  of  self  analysis,  explanation  and  comment  on  the  different  self
analysis  toolkits/exercises  you  carried  out,  and  the  associated  theories  relating  to  self
analysis and development.
14.  Harvard  Referencing  should  be  used  throughout  and  a  comprehensive  list  of
references/bibliography should be attached.
15.  You  may  wish  to  include  evidence  of  your  self  analysis/findings/activities  etc  in
appendices.