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.