Task
The purpose of the assessment is to develop knowledge of some of the key concepts addressed in this unit and to demonstrate reflective practice, intercultural sensitivity, social awareness and writing skills. The practical focus for the portfolio has been devised to develop the attributes identified as most important by Australian business leaders. These include Continuous Professional Development (the ability to reflect and learn from experience) and Communication Skills.
Part I of the portfolio focuses on your intrapersonal effectiveness and identifies areas for professional development. We expect your reflections to be informed by the reading you have done from the material on the CMD, text book and journal articles.
Here is a guide to how you should allocate the word limitfor each part:
• Introduction: 100words
• Body: 800words
• Conclusion: 100 words
The content of the portfolio should be based on the activities conducted in lectures and tutorials. You should reflect on what you have learnt about your intrapersonal effectivenessin this unit; how you learn bestand the implications of this for your effectiveness in an organisational setting. You should reflect on your personal attributes that will serve as professional strengths and weaknesses in the workplace. You should also specify actions you need to take in order to develop areas that are not your natural strengths. You also need to set some goals based on the goal setting approaches covered in the unit.
Source Material
You need to draw on wider reading to support your analysis and reflection. In addition to reading the material on the Course Materials Database (via Blackboard link) you should also make use of the Library databases to find relevant journal articles, and other books, to add weight to your discussion in each section.
There is no magic number of sources that you should use but we are looking for a RANGE of good quality academic material to underpin your reflection.
Portfolio Structure requirements
Title page
• Title of the assessment and your name and your student ID
• Tutor’s name; date and semester assessed and word count (Portfolios that do not include a word count on the cover will be assumed to be over the limit and receive a 10% penalty)
Contents page
Introduction
• Identify the purpose and structure of the portfolio
Body of the report
• The content of the portfolio should be based on the activities conducted in lectures and tutorials. You should reflect on what you have learnt about your intrapersonal effectivenessin this unit. You should reflect on your personal attributes that will serve as professional strengths and weaknesses in the workplace. You should also specify actions you need to take in order to develop areas that are not your natural strengths. This should be done in the context of what professional skills and competencies are likely to be important in your chosen profession. You also need to set some goals based on the goal setting approaches covered in the unit.
Intrapersonal effectiveness(also refer to ‘steps to complete the body of the portfolio below)
Reflect on your effectiveness by drawing on the material covered in the first part of the unit. Focus on ONE of the following:
• Your learning style (see for example Kolb & Kolb 2005 or the Learning Style Profiler – Jackson 2009)
• Your Emotional Intelligence (see for example Schutte’s Emotional Intelligence Scale)
• Your personality traits based on the Big Five model of personality (see the International Personality Item Pool: NEO IPIP Questionnaire)
Clearly identify an area for Professional Development (e.g. you might focus on developing your Emotional Intelligence), your strategy for doing so, and how you are going to track your progress.
Steps to complete the body of the portfolio:
1. Review the relevant theory and research related to your reflection. It is not necessary to report all dimensions and definitions; instead, articulate clearly the relevant dimension and “explain” why and how they are relevant to your reflection (based on the skills and competencies required in your profession). An additional literature search of “peer reviewed” journal articles from the Library databases is needed to better understand the theories you choose to review.
2. Report your test scores in a table or figure and describe what the results reveal about you. Follow this with a discussion of your learning from the test scores about yourself. Remember to link the test scores back to the theory and research when you discuss your learning. This is how you show your “application” of the theory.
3. If the results are surprising, search for additional information from the Library databases to either dispute the results or add more in depth understanding about the theory and your results.
4. Identify areas of development and design executable strategies to achieve your goal(s). SMART is a good framework to utilize for this purpose. You are expected to research career development strategies and discuss how and why they will help you achieve your career goal. Please consider using the resources on blackboard to help you set and describe your SMART goals.
5. Finally, think about a way of measuring and monitoring your progress towards achievement of your goals (again see blackboard for resources developed to help you with this).
Conclusion
Briefly summarise your key learnings from your reflections on intrapersonal effectiveness, and provide a statement about what you have learned more generally in BSB124 this semester and what it means for your on-going professional development
References list
Please use APA format for all referencing (see Cite/Write on the Library website for guidance). We expect you to use a RANGE of references (books, journals, newspapers and professional publications). Please only include references for material that you have USED in the portfolio – not material that you have simply read.
Appendices
Please keep these to a minimum
Format requirements
• Use numbered headings and sub headings
• 12font, 1.5 spacing
• Write in the first person (I) as this is a reflective portfolio
• Ensure that you use non-discriminatory, inclusive language
• Number all pages and section headings
• The word limit for Part I is 1000 words – generally the convention is that 10% over/under the limit is acceptable. Portfolios that do not include a word count on the cover will be assumed to be over the limit and receive a 10% penalty. WE WILL STOP READING PAST the WORD LIMIT
• You are expected to draw on a range of academic sources to support the discussion in your reflection; the materials on the CMD should be your starting point.
• Appendices are acceptable and will NOT count in the word limit – however make sure that you refer to key content in the body of your portfolio
• The marking criteria and level descriptors are overleaf (please DO NOT ATTACH a copy of these to your submission). The feedback on your report will be created on-line using the ReView software.
• All words (excluding the title page, contents page, appendices AND references list) are included in the word count. Further guidance in report writing is available from your tutor, lecturer, e tutor and Information Services web site (see QUT Write). You will NOT get marks for anything you put in the appendices.
• Submit the report in WORD or PDF formats ONLY(other formats will not be accepted)to Safe-Assign (electronically). Do not submit to assignment minder.
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