2. Assessment Brief
The required submission for this assignment is a 2500 words “Personal Effectiveness Report”. Your report will include reflection on skills for a chosen career, comparison of own skill set/habits to choice of career, and analysis of methods for enhancing personal effectiveness.
Students are required to complete Three tasks:
1. Reflect on your own skill set in relation to a career goal.
2. Assess your habits/behaviours and how they may impact your career.
3. Analyse methods of enhancing personal effectiveness and improving personal branding. The Learning Outcomes to successfully pass this assessment are:
(LO1) Critically evaluate how people learn for professional development.
(LO2) Appraise the key skills and behaviours required to be effective in a professional context.
(LO3) Demonstrate understanding of a range of methods of supporting personal effectiveness in a professional environment.
Your Personal Effectiveness Report should contain the following:
Introduction
You should begin by an introduction to concept of personal effectiveness.
You should also give a brief overview of tasks 1, 2 and 3.
TASK 1
a) Using a model of reflective practice, reflect on a task that you completed at work or university to identify your own skill set. Identify both your strengths and weaknesses.
b) Analyse the skills you identified with reference to your choice of career or job.
N.B. To support your answer, you should refer to the reflective model by Gibbs or Schön and additional reading resources from this module. You should also include ideas from articles on wider leadership concepts and personal effectiveness from the online library.
(This task meets LO2)
TASK 2
a) Using the Covey self-assessment questionnaire, identify your own strengths and weaknesses. Explain these with examples from your own life. (Include a screenshot of the results from the questionnaire in the appendix).
b) Discuss how your weaknesses can impact your chosen career.
N.B. You should support your analysis with references to additional reading resources from this module. You should also include ideas from articles in the online library.
(This task meets LO1)
TASK 3
Choose a maximum of two areas for improvement (weaknesses) from Tasks 1 and 2. Develop a concise short-term plan using the SMART model or the Agile model to improve these areas. Explain how these plans will enhance your personal brand.
N.B. You should support your answer with references to additional reading resources from this module. You should also include ideas from articles in the online library.
(This task meets LO3)
Conclusion
You will need to summarise the key points of the assessment tasks.
You should end with a concluding statement on the main topic of the report. Structure
Your Personal Effectiveness report should contain the following:
• BPP assignment cover sheet (including SRN and word count)
• Personal Effectiveness report title page
• Contents page
• Introduction (200 words)
• Task 1 (800 words)
• Task 2 (800 words)
• Task 3 (500 words)
• Conclusion (200 words)
• References (Correct Harvard Referencing applied throughout, including in-text citation and reference list)
• Appendices (if required)
• Glossary (optional)
3. Marking Guide
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Numerical Grade
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30-39%
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40-49%
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50-59%
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60-69%
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70-79%
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80-100%
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Final Grade
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Fail
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Low Fail
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Pass
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Merit
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Distinction
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High Distinction
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LOs
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LO1 (Critically
evaluate how
people learn for professional
development.)
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Inadequate or
weak idenfication and discussion of own
weaknesses/poor habits. No clarity in the link to personal development and chosen career.
Does not include questionnaire
results Provides a weak explanation of personal
strengths and
weaknesses
without examples.
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Limited
identification and discussion of own weaknesses/poor habits. Limited
clarity in the link to personal
development and chosen career.
Questionnaire
results are
missing or
incomplete.
Provides limited explanation
without
examples.
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Satisfactory
identification
and discussion of own
weaknesses/po or habits with
some examples included. Link to personal
development
and chosen
career is
evident. Results of questionnaire included but
lacks depth in
analysis.
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Good identification and discussion of own
weaknesses/poor habits with clear personal
examples included
illustrating their list of habits. Results of
questionnaire included and clearly referred to throughout the task with satisfactory depth in analysis. Clear links to personal development and chosen career.
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Excellent
identification and discussion of own weaknesses/poor habits with explicit
personal examples included. Results of questionnaire
included and
explicitly referred to throughout the task with good level
depth in analysis.
Explicit links to
personal
development and chosen career.
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Outstanding identification and discussion of own
weaknesses/poor habits with explicit personal
examples used to illustrate identified skills/habits.
Results of questionnaire included and explicitly
referred to throughout the task with exceptional depth in analysis. Explicit links to personal development and
chosen career with a clear understanding of the links between personal
development and career growth.
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LO2 (Appraise
the key skills and behaviours
required to be
effective in a
professional
context.)
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Weak reflection
and limited clarity in appraising key skills and
behaviours
required in a
professional
context. Doesn’t apply any reflection
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Limited reflection with some clarity in identifying
personal skill set. Applies Schon or Gibbs reflective model effectively to some extent. Identifies both
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Satisfactory
reflection with explicit
identification of personal skill
set. Applies a
reflective model effectively.
Identifies both
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Good reflection with clear identification of personal skill set and personalisation. Applies
the reflective model effectively. Identifies both strengths and
weaknesses with depth and clarity in analysis
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Excellent reflection with a deep and
balanced
understanding of
personal skill set
showcased through personalisation and examples. Applies the reflective model
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Outstanding reflection with an exceptional and
comprehensive
understanding of personal skill set with clear
personalisation and
examples. Applies the
reflective model with
excellent depth and
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or applies a model but lacks depth.
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strengths and
weaknesses but lacks depth in
analysis.
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strengths and
weaknesses
with a
satisfactory
level of depth
and analyses
with reference to a chosen
career.
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with explicit reference to a chosen career.
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exceptionally well. Identifies both
strengths and
weaknesses
comprehensively. Analyses skill set
with explicit
reference to a
chosen career which includes exceptional depth and precision.
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coherence. Identifies both strengths and weaknesses with exceptional clarity and coherence. Analyses skill set with explicit reference to a chosen career, including exceptional depth and
precision.
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LO3
(Demonstrate
understanding of a range of
methods of
supporting
personal
effectiveness in a professional
environment.)
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Inadequate or
weak identification of areas of
development with limited relevance to the previous
tasks. Creates a
short-term plan
with some gaps
and limitations.
Identifies and
analyses some
methods but lacks depth and
relevance. Doesn’t link to personal
branding.
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Limited
identification of areas of
development
with relevance to the previous
tasks. Creates a short-term plan with some
elements but
lacks depth and specificity.
Identifies and
analyses some
methods but has limited depth and relevance.
Limited link to
personal
branding.
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Satisfactory
identification of two areas of
development
with explicit
relevance to the previous tasks. Creates a short term plan with a satisfactory
level of depth
and specificity. Identifies and
analyses
methods with a satisfactory
level of depth
and relevance. Links personal development to personal
branding
satisfactorily.
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Good identification of two areas of
development with clear and coherent relevance to the previous tasks. Creates a short-term plan with depth and clarity in objectives and actions. Identifies and analyses methods with good depth and clarity in analysis. Clearly links personal development to personal branding.
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Excellent
identification of
areas of
development with a thorough
understanding of
their relevance to the previous tasks. Creates a
comprehensive
short-term plan with exceptional depth, precision, and
feasibility.
Comprehensively
identifies and
analyses methods with Excellent depth and precision.
Explicitly links and explains personal
development to
personal branding.
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Outstanding identification of areas of development with an exceptional and comprehensive
understanding of their
direct application to the previous tasks. Creates a short-term plan with
exceptional clarity,
coherence, feasibility, and innovation. Identifies and analyses methods with
Outstanding clarity,
coherence, feasibility, and innovation. Links personal development to personal branding with exceptional clarity, coherence,
feasibility, and innovation.
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Academic skills
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Inadequate or
weak
academic/intellect ual skills with few difficulties. Largely original work with some evidence of reflection and
critique. Structure and accuracy in
expression
beginning to
emerge.
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Limited
academic/intellec tual skills. Original work with
personal
reflection and
broad evidence based critique.
Solid structure
and accuracy in expression.
Practical/professi onal skills
evident.
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Satisfactory
academic/intell ectual skills.
Wholly original work with good reflection and solid, well
reasoned
judgements
forming from
evidence-based critique.
Consistent
structure and
accuracy in
expression.
Practical/profes sional skills
established.
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Good
academic/intellectual skills. Demonstrates intellectual originality and imagination
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Excellent
academic/intellectua l skills. Demonstrates intellectual
originality, integrity, coherence and
imagination.
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Outstanding
academic/intellectual skills. Demonstrates intellectual originality, integrity,
coherence, creativity and imagination working
consistently in the higher cognitive domains to a
professional standard.
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Referencing
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Inadequate or
weak references and notes with
minor or
insignificant errors or omissions.
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Limited and full and appropriate references and
notes with minor or insignificant
errors
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Satisfactory
with precise, full and appropriate references and notes.
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Good with precise, full and appropriate
references and notes at a high standard.
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Excellent with
precise, full and
appropriate
references and notes at near-publishing standard.
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Outstanding with precise, full and appropriate
references and notes at publishing standard
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