Assessment Information
Welcome to your Student Assessment Workbook for BSBWOR501 Manage Personal Work Priorities and Professional Development.
This Workbook is where you will write all your responses for the knowledge questions and simulation tasks. Please refer to the Student Assessment Guide for more information.
This assessment has the following two events:
Assessment Event 1 – Knowledge Questions:
There are six questions that will provide us with evidence of your general knowledge of tools and techniques for prioritising your work and undertaking professional development.
Assessment Event 2 – Simulation: My Study Unlimited
You will complete a number of tasks that will provide us with evidence of your skills with your planning and implementation of a work plan and professional development with a unit from your course of study.
To complete the Simulation, you will need to refer to the following resources:
Work Plan Template
This is an Excel template to be used in Task 2.1 to produce a work plan.
College Student Plan
This plan provides information on how the College is intending to support students and is used in Task 1.2
Competing Demands Prioritisation Template
You will use this template when prioritising between competing tasks in Task 2.3
Please note that your responses for both assessment events can (where appropriate) use dot point format. See below an example of a dot point response and a full sentence response.
Dot point format
Presentation Plan includes the following:
· outcomes
· needs of the audience
· context.
Full sentence format
When you are preparing for a presentation, there are a number of tasks that must be ca
ied out. These are listing the outcomes that you want to achieve, followed by the identification of the needs of your audience. When you have completed these two tasks you then check on the room that you will be conducting the presentation in.
To Achieve Competence
To be deemed competent for this unit, you will need to meet the following requirements:
· complete all the questions and tasks listed in the Student Assessment Workbook
· meet all the requirements listed in this Student Assessment Guide
· your responses to the questions and tasks must be relevant, accurate and specific
· submit your completed Student Assessment Workbook to your Assessor within the set timeframes
· your work must be in your own words
· where you use an external source of information, you must provide citation.
Pre-assessment Checklist
Your assessor will go through the assessment for this unit, BSBWOR501 Manage Personal Work Priorities and Professional Development. It is important that you understand this assessment before taking on the questions and tasks. To confirm that you have been given this overview, we ask you to complete the following Pre-Assessment Checklist.
You are required to carefully read each checklist item provided below and tick either ‘Y’ to confirm your understanding or ‘N’ if you disagree. In case you disagree with an item, please provide your reason under the ‘Comments’ column.
When you have done this, we ask you to sign this Pre-Assessment Checklist. This acknowledges that your Traine
Assessor has discussed all of the information with you prior to undertaking this assessment.
Pre – assessment Checklist
Comments
Y
N
I, the student, understand the purpose of the assessment.
Y
N
I understand when and where the assessment will occur, who will assess and in what format the assessment will be submitted.
Y
N
I understand the methods of assessment.
Y
N
I understand what resources are required to complete this assessment.
Y
N
I understand the performance level required for each assessment event.
Y
N
I understand that it must be my own work. I have been explained and understand the serious consequences in case this work is found plagiarised.
Y
N
I understand the process if I am deemed not yet competent.
Y
N
I understand the feedback process and the appeals process.
Y
N
The assessor has discussed with me if I have any special needs and if so what a
angements have been made.
Student Full Name
Student ID
Student Signature
Date
Assessment Event 1 – Knowledge Questions
The information contained in this section lists the questions that you will need to develop a written response. These questions are theoretical and provide evidence of your understanding of work prioritisation techniques and professional development methods.
Note you must answer these questions in your own words. Remember, you must get a satisfactory result with each question to be deemed satisfactory for the whole of Assessment Event 1.
Question 1
Describe methods that could be used for achieving a healthy work-life balance.
Insert your response here:
R 1. describe three strategies to maintain a healthy work life balance
R 2. word count is approximately 50 words.
Question 2
Describe types of work strategies that can improve individual performance.
Insert your response here:
R 1. describe five types of work strategies that will improve performance
R 2. word count is approximately 50 words in total.
Question 3
Using the table below, describe the principles and techniques for each of the listed work planning principles:
R 1. provide an explanation of the principle
R 2. word count is approximately 25 words per explanation
R 3. provide two techniques for each principle
R 4. word count is approximately 25 words per technique.
Insert your response in the table:
Explain the following principles:
Explain the techniques:
Personal goal setting:
Performance measurement:
Time management:
Personal development plan:
Question 4
Explain a learning styles model and how it relates to behaviour.
Insert your response here:
R 1. provide an explanation of one model
R 2. word count is approximately 30 words
R 3. provide an explanation on how style leads to behavio
R 4. word count is approximately 50 words.
Question 5
Explain management development opportunities that an individual could undertake.
Insert your response here:
R 1. explain three management development opportunities
R 2. word count for each development opportunities is approximately 30 words.
Question 6
In the table below, explain the concepts and techniques with self-awareness and personality trait identification.
R 1. word count for concept is approximately 75 words
R 2. word count for technique is approximately 75 words.
Insert your response into the table:
Concept of personality trait identification
Techniques
Concept of self-awareness
Techniques
Assessment Event 2: My Study Unlimited Simulation
In this assessment, you will undertake a number of tasks associated with prioritising your work and then developing a professional development plan as Student. In this simulation, you will perform the following actions:
· establish goals that are aligned to the College
· prioritize tasks in the development of a work plan
· plan and implement your professional development.
Please ensure that you familiarise yourself with this set of requirements that underpin this simulation. This includes understanding the background of the simulation and the criteria you will be assessed on. These are located in the Appendix of this document.
Task 1: Establish personal work goals
In this task, you will demonstrate your skills in developing and implementing a work plan covering a period of one week, for the achievement of a cu
ent unit of competency (excluding BSBWOR501) within the qualification that you are enrolled.
1.1 Establish work goal
Insert your response here:
R 1. develop a work goal for a unit of competency:
· must relate to performance
· provide a rationale for this goal
· summarise how this goal will be achieved
R 2. word count is approximately 100 words.
1.2 Ensure work goal aligns to the College plans and student responsibilities and accountabilities
Insert your response here:
R 1. review and summarise the key goal of the College’s Student Plan (separate document)
R 2. review and summarise three key responsibilities for students
R 3. explain how your work goal aligns to the College plan and student responsibilities
R 4. the word count is approximately 90 words in total.
Task 2: Set and meet own work priorities
In this task, you will develop a detailed work plan to achieve your goals, plans and activities identified in task 1. This will involve using technology to prioritise tasks, monitor results and make contingencies to achieve goals. In addition, you will maintain a work life balance that manages stress which is sustainable in your role as a student.
2.1 Develop a Work Plan
Insert your responses into the Work Plan Template which is a separate document provided to you by your Assessor.
R 1. list a minimum of five tasks that need to be achieved in the two weeks and enter these into the Work Plan Template
R 2. list what outcomes are required for each task
R 3. list potential contingencies if a task is not achieved
R 4. word count is not critical.
2.2 Implement Work Plan and measure personal performance
Insert your responses into the Work Plan Template which is a separate document provided to you by your Assessor.
2.3 Prioritise competing demands
Insert your responses into the Competing Demands Prioritisation Template which is a separate document provided to you by your Assessor.
2.4 Monitor and implement contingencies in the Work Plan
Insert your responses into the Work Plan Template which is a separate document provided to you by your Assessor.
2.5 Maintain appropriate work-life balance
Write your response here:
2.6 Ensure stress is effectively managed
Write your response here:
2.7 Ensure health is managed
Write your response here:
Task 3: Develop and maintain professional competence
In this task, you will demonstrate your skills to plan and implement strategies to develop your professional competence for the unit that you selected in Task 2. This will also include delivering a session where you will seek feedback from key stakeholder(s) on your cu
ent performance.
3.1 Assess personal knowledge and skill against competency standards to identify development needs
Write your response here:
3.2 Seek feedback from stakeholders on your knowledge and skill
Upon the receipt of the feedback from your two stakeholder(s)s, make the necessary adjustments to your self-assessment:
3.3 Use self-assessment and stakeholder(s) feedback to plan competence development
Write your response here:
3.4 Implement your Personal Development Plan
Write your response here and attach the evidence from the stakeholder(s)s:
For Assessor Use Only
Appendix B: Observation Check Sheet for the Observation
The criteria below are the actions that the student must demonstrate in their Observation. Assessors, tick ‘S’ if the student demonstrates a particular performance requirement to a satisfactory level and