Assessment 1

1. Explain self-appraisal and how it contributea performance review.
It is the act of evaluation of one’s worth or status.

The Benefits of Self Evaluation 

Self-appraisals are the opportunities to show the employer that job and career are taken seriously. In a self-appraisal, responsibility of the performance is taken by the own self. 

2. Explain peer appraisal and outline benefit of peer appraisal.

It refers to the assessment of the employee’s performance which is provided by the employee’s colleagues in the work environment

 Advantages of peer appraisal

- it provides knowledge as workers are in the best position for appraising the performance of the colleague.

3. Outline benefits of planning work.

• Gives an organization a sense of direction: organizations can’t react to the daily occurrences if there are no plans and goals. For example: if solution which is good for the short term may not always be beneficial in the long run. 
• Focuses attention on objectives and results: plans keep the people focused on the results.
• Establishes a basis for teamwork: in joint projects, diverse groups can’t effectively cooperate without an integrated plan. Some of the examples are: carpenters, plumbers and many more. 

 
4. Outline each of the letters in the acronym SMART in relation to goals.

S.M.A.R.T.  stands for specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely.

• Specific (simple, sensible, significant).
• Measurable (meaningful, motivating).
• Achievable (agreed, attainable).
• Relevant (reasonable, realistic and resourced, results-based).
• Time bound (time-based, timely, time-sensitive).

 5. Discuss Pareto Principle in relation to time management.

The Pareto Principle is the helpful concept for the management of life and time. It is also known as 80:20 rule, the rule make sure that 20 percent of the activity will account for 80 % result.

6. Outline signs of stress.

• Problem of Memory
• Not able to concentrate
• Poor judgment
• Focusing only on the negative
• Racing thoughts

 7. Explain work-life balance.

Work life balance has become the centre of attraction for all the companies, and political institutes as well. In human resource management, work life insurance is an important topic, which means the combination of work and life.  

 
8. Outline strategies that can be used to manage stress and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

• Know what triggers the stress.
• Recognize the signs and symptoms that can help to reduce stress. 
• Meditate or Practise relaxation techniques.
• Include well-balanced, healthy diet.
• Exercise for 30 minutes every day.

 
9. Discuss negative effect of technology on work-life balance.

• Employees may not feel engaged but talked.  When managers communicate through gadgets, the lack of tone, lack of questioning, discussion and body language with their team, it leads to a superficial exchange. This affects the employe’s engagement level 
• Lack of real “connection”. Leaders and managers must connect with their employees at various levels. 

10. Discuss strategies that a business can use to ensure their workers maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Educate Employees

For the healthy work life balance, educate employees about it. To understand what work life balance is and why it is important, Offer seminars for it. 

Encourage Efficient Work 

It is not necessary to work more and being productive. Working more and being productive. For example: as compared to Europe, Britain has longer working hours, but they still have low productivity. 

Promote Health Initiatives

Health is the priority of an integral part of work-life balance. Employees often sacrifice their health and fitness when there are long working hours. As an employer, there are few things that can be done to maintain healthy lifestyle of the employees. 

 
11. Ways to develop new work skills

• Get & Be A Mentor. 
• Raise your hands for new challenges. 
• Solve the problems.
• Make Friends in other departments  
• Find The Learning Opportunities

 
12. Ways to more effectively manage time at work.

• Prioritization

This act assign the importance to various task and makes sure that the task that are of more importance is accomplished first before the other task. 

• Planning

Strong planning skill is required for effective time management to make sure that there is organized understanding of the responsibilities.

 
13. Explain personal development planning.

It is a written account of improvement and self-reflection, it doubles up as a detailed action plan which is used to fulfil academic, personal, or career based goals.

It is created within the workplace and works by establishing the aims also it recognize the strength as well as the weakness.

 14. Outline crucial components of a personal development plan

• Always be accountable. Everyone believes that rules are no longer applicable to them. Get yourself surrounded with the people who can call out when life becomes drifting
• Learn to balance risk and caution. Become increasingly wise and must know when to risk or not. When someone is willing to push forward without the fear, it is necessary risk

 
15. Explain behavioural assessment in a workplace context.

It is tool from psychology which is used for observing, describing and explaining the behavior. It is now used at educational and corporate sectors as well.  

         From generic personality traits and customer service orientation to workplace thinking styles, willingness to learn and leadership capabilities, behavioral and personality assessment can help evaluate different personality aspects of cand

 
16. Discuss the advantages of conducting behavioural assessments and appraisals.

• Improves Performance:

Behavioural assessment and appraisals focuses on enhancement of the workers capabilities and evaluates the opportunities.   

• Employee Development:

It helps to differentiate between the strength and weakness of the employees, and also finds who is in the need of the training.  

• Positive Candidate Reactions

Candidates can see the link between the assessment and the job which is being evaluated.
 
17. Explain learning styles and why it is important to identify learning styles

• Social Learner: It means that it is the groups which are involved in learning and also lead to work with others.
• Solitary learners: This term refers to as the self-study and working alone. In simple words they are tend to be independent.
• Verbal Learners: this term is being used for the learners who are preferring to use the words. 

Assessment 2

1. Prepare for a meeting with your assessor. 

Meeting date: 29th September, 2021

Time: 11:00 AM

Company Overview 

Lyft, Inc. works a portable application, offering vehicles for enlist, mechanized bikes, a bike sharing framework, and food conveyance.

Company goals or objectives

The goal is to improve individual’s life by providing best transportation. Lyft’s vision is ride by ride; they are changing the way our reality works. They envision a reality where urban areas feel little once more, where transportation and tech unite individuals, instead of separating them. They consider the future to be network driven and it begins with you.

Key responsibilities

The job responsibilities include following aspects:

1. My responsibility is to help construct and scale marketing endeavors at a neighborhood level.
2. The next step is to help with executing grassroots marketing activities that construct the Lyft brand and help Lyft get new travelers.
3. Further obligations include directing effort for new forthcoming neighborhood occasions, assisting with arranging events across Los Angeles and Orange County.
4. Thus, my job requires supporting the Marketing Lead in ideating, making and executing new brand activities in the nearby market.

 
2. Meet with your assessor to discuss your personal work goals. 

Meeting date: 29/09/2021

Time: 10 AM

Participants: 

In the meeting,

The points we have discussed:

• Overview of the business
• The purpose of the business 
• Company’s goals or objectives
• The position description for the job role and the responsibilities

3. Write a report on your personal work goals

Report on personal work goals 

Executive Summary 

Lyft, Inc. works a portable application, offering vehicles for enlist, mechanized bikes, a bike sharing framework, and food conveyance.

Company goals or objectives

The goal is to improve individual’s life by providing best transportation. Lyft’s vision is ride by ride; they are changing the way our reality works. They envision a reality where urban areas feel little once more, where transportation and tech unite individuals, instead of separating them. They consider the future to be network driven and it begins with you.

Key responsibilities

The job responsibilities include following aspects:

1. My responsibility is to help construct and scale marketing endeavors at a neighborhood level.
2. The next step is to help with executing grassroots marketing activities that construct the Lyft brand and help Lyft get new travelers.
3. Further obligations include directing effort for new forthcoming neighborhood occasions, assisting with arranging events across Los Angeles and Orange County.
4. Thus, my job requires supporting the Marketing Lead in ideating, making and executing new brand activities in the nearby market.

4. Send an email to your assessor.

To - Assessor 

From- 

Attachment: Personal work goals report

Respected Sir,

I’m writing this letter to inform you that I’m done with my personal work goal report and I have also attached the repost with this mail. 

Also I have explained I have explained how the goals are in corporation with the purpose. I have also mentioned the company’s goals and objectives in the document. I have also mentioned how these goals can be achieved as well. 

 

Thanks and kind regards

Assessment 3

 
1. Research Technology And Tools That Managers Can Use To Manage Their Work Priorities.

• Excel Templates

Demand excel Metric is a community that is built for the needs of excellent priority managers. 

• Key Information Dashboard

Starts mix helps with management by keeping all the key metrics in one place. Utilizing popular third-party services. 

 
2. Research the impact of workplace stress, as well as strategies to address this.

Impacts of workplace stress

• IT AFFECTS DECISION-MAKING

Stress will affect the decision making process. Stress will make you emphasize on the benefits and ignores the drawbacks. 

• IT COULD BE MAKING YOU SICK.

Stress effects the way of living. Chronic stress can make you sick. 

• IT AFFECTS YOUR RELATIONSHIP

Chronic stress changes the way to look at life and future as well.  Feelings of helplessness can harm the professional relationships. 

• EVERYTHING TAKES LONGER.

Stress makes a person less productive at work

Strategies to address them: 

• Design a Healthy Workplace

Everyone has a right to feel safe at his or her workplace. The path to design an environment that is free of unnecessary stressors. 

• Develop an Online Support Network

Online resources can help employees to stay up to date. Employees will engage in wellness.

 
3. Write a work priorities planning report.

Work Priorities Planning Report

Technology and tools

Name: Excel Templates

Demand excel Metric is a community that is built for the needs of excellent priority managers. 

Advantages:

Templates can save you a lot of time so it is worth taking a few minutes to look at the ones that are built in. 

Disadvantages:

• Difficulty in troubleshoot or test. 
• Not designed for collaborative work. .

 

Name: Key Information Dashboard

Stats mix helps with management by keeping all the key metrics in one place. Utilizing popular third-party services. 

Advantages:

• Dashboards provides visibility into all key business metrics. 
• Any change in data or values is reflected in dashboards.

Disadvantages:

• Predicts future events which is based on past data.

Prescribes a course of action

4. Impacts of workplace stress

• IT AFFECTS DECISION-MAKING

Stress will affect the decision making process. Stress will make you emphasize on the benefits and ignores the drawbacks. 

• IT COULD BE MAKING YOU SICK.

Stress effects the way of living. Chronic stress can make you sick. 

• IT AFFECTS YOUR RELATIONSHIP

Chronic stress changes the way to look at life and future as well.  Feelings of helplessness can harm the professional relationships. 

• EVERYTHING TAKES LONGER.

            Stress makes a person less productive at work

 
5. Write a weekly schedule.



6. Send an email to your assessor.

To: assessor@gmail.com

From: 

Subject: Regarding the work priorities report

 

Respected sir, 

 

I am sending this email to tell you about all of my work priories with the schedule to do them. For your acknowledgement, I have also attached the schedule and the priorities planning report with it. 

 

Please go through it once and share your views regarding it. 

With regards 


7. Meet with your assessor.

Meeting date: 27/09/2021

Time: 10 AM

Participants: 

Work Priorities Planning Report

Technology and tools

Name: Excel Templates

Demand excel Metric is a special community that is built for the needs of excellent priority managers. 

Advantages:

Templates will help to save time.   

An excel template will help in creating workbooks that are consistent 

Disadvantages:

• Difficult in troubleshoot or test. 

Name: Key Information Dashboard

Stats mix use a web user interface to help management by keeping all the metrics at one place.

Advantages:

• Single pane visibility is provided by the Dashboards. 

Disadvantages:

• Predicts future events that are based on past data.
• Course of action is prescribed.

Impacts of workplace stress

• IT AFFECTS DECISION-MAKING

Stress can affect the decision making process. It can force to ignore the drawbacks. It can also cause to act habitually.

• IT COULD BE MAKING YOU SICK.

Both short- and long-term stress impacts the way of living, chronic stress is constant over an extended period of time, and is harmful for the health.

• IT AFFECTS YOUR RELATIONSHIP

Chronic stress also changes the way of living. Feeling lonely can lead to sensitivity which can harm the professional relationships

• ITS MAKING YOU FEEL DISSATISFIED.

It is not possible to love the job if it is causing you stress. Because of this, there is a feeling of less optimistic.

 

Assessment 4

1. Prepare a self-assesment report.

Elements	Performance criteria	Self-assessment					Provide brief comments as to how you determined your assessment ranking
		1	2	3	4	5
	1.1 Analyze existing practices and information
Research diversity	1.2 Identification of potential benefits of diversity and analyze in relation to business objectives				4		Having experience  and Have already done similar work that makes  me  confident regarding
	1.3 Consulting stakeholders about the requirements for a diversity policy						it.
	2.1 Drafting diversity policy
Draft policy and plan for implementation	Developing action plans for policy Consulting stakeholders for feedback on draft policy  Determining relationships and links with other related policies			3			I have skills for drafting a policy.
	2.5 Revise policy for
	Implementation
	3.1 Explain policy to key stakeholders
Implement diversity policy	Promoting policies across the organization with the help of communication channels Identifying intended and unintended impacts of policy implementation Developing tools, benchmarks and other indicators for planning and measuring impact of policy implementation				4		After a thorough research I will be able to identify indicators
	3.5 Monitoring business activities
	4.1 Gathering and analyzing information about diversity
Review diversity policy	Consulting key stakeholders to provide feedback on the policy Developing and approving recommendations for changes to the policy				4		This area is of my expertise.
	4.4 Refinining diversity policy in
	accordance with feedback and
	Recommendations

2. Professional competence research

Interview response 1

Name of person participating in interview: Payal

Job role: Engineer assistant

Company employed with: TENDA investments

Date of interview: 28/09/2021

Time of interview: 12 noon

Duration: 30 minutes

 

What does current job role involve? 

Design and engineering teams help define and execute the projects and not only develop. 

 

What skills and knowledge are most important to a manager? 

Good Communication skills is the most important skill of all for managers to have.

Which development activity has to participate in recently? 

Trainings that are skilled based. 

Interview response 2

Name of person participating in interview: Preeti

Job role: Assistant 

Company employed with: Bolshoi Russian ballet 

Date of interview: 28/09/2021

Time of interview: 3 pm

Duration: 20 minutes

What does current job role involve? 

It includes helping with time and daily routine.

What skills and knowledge are most important to a manager? 

Leadership is the most important skill as a manager needs to solve the problems and also to prove that he/she is committee to the team goals

Which development activity has to participate in recently? 

Improvement in job performance 


3. Write a career review

For promoting specialist, I wish to accomplish the degree, for exhibiting the information that I wish to do and also exhibit the information that is gained along. It also help the organization to develop the inside commercial center. 

As my course is finishing, I have the option to obligate the supervisor on an organization. 

 
4. Write a networking review

Networking opportunity 1

Organization name and contact details 

 

BNI Australia – Business Networking Group 

Date and time: 28th September, 2021, 8 am to 6 pm

Contact subtleties 

Telephone: +1300 788 286 

Email: adming@bni.com.au 

The costs:

$500 every year for enrolment 

The benefits: 

• Strength of business associations
• New thoughts. 
• Advance vocation.

Networking opportunity 2

Organisation name and contact details 

Networked Organisation – Global Integration

Date and time: 30th September, 2021, 9 am to 5 pm

Contact details

Phone: 0422453678

Email: networked@organisation@gmail.com

The services offered by the networking organisation.

• Developing business contacts globally
• Joining of industry associations globally
• Networking groups globally
• Personal contacts and social events 

The costs involved:

$650 a year for membership 

The benefits:

• It will allow to make business contacts and help other people 
• It will open gate for new chances  

 
5. Write a Professional Development Plan

Professional Development Plan 

Name
Date of development	28th September, 2021	Date to be reviewed	02nd October, 2021

 

Goals 

Timeframe	My personal goals are:	My professional goals are:
Next 12 months	Development of emotional intelligence. Cultivating resilience. Listening actively.	Productivity: Getting More Done. Efficiency: Doing it faster.
Next 5 years	Developing a growth mind-set. Development of a reading habit. Learning new things.	Education: New Technical Skills.  Personal Development: Improvement in  Soft Skills

Professional development priorities 

Identified area of improvement or gap	Briefly describe why you have identified this as a priority	By when?
Standardize and Work Requests	Because of the decreasing work score day by day and no improvement is shown in it.	3 days
Aligning Team Goals with Company Objectives	There gap between the required outcomes and the actual outcomes.	3 days
Encouraging Team to Make Time for Important work	There is need for the management of time and work	days

 
6. Create a PowerPoint presentation.

1. Conduct presentation

Feedback I got after presentation:

• Always be prepared before making presentation, whether it is formal or informal.
• Deliver clearly when making a presentation. 
• For using proper language, get to know the audience well.

Questions that are asked at the end of the presentation:

• Will you participate in one of our events in the future?
• Will you tell a friend about this event?
• Why you choose to attend our event?
• Was the event up to the expectations? 

 

7. Evaluate your presentation

EVALUATION:

The presentation was good. All the professional goals and plans for next 12 months as well as for next 5 years have been set. 

Communication skills were good, it includes:

• Body language. 
• Active listening. 
• Conflict resolution. 
• Authenticity. 
• Emotional intelligence. 
• Articulation and tone of voice. 
• Mirroring. 
• Ask great questions.
• And ability to achieve objectives within time has been shown. 

 
8. Update your professional development plan

Updated Professional Development Plan 

Name
Date of development	28th September, 2021	Date to be reviewed	02nd October, 2021

Goals 

Timeframe	My personal goals are:	My professional goals are:
Next 12 months	Development of emotional intelligence. Cultivating resilience. Listening actively.	Productivity: Getting More Done. Efficiency: Doing it faster.
Next 5 years	Developing a growth mind-set. Development of a reading habit. Learning new things.	Education: New Technical Skills.  Personal Development: Improvement in  Soft Skills

Professional development priorities 

Identified area of improvement or gap	Briefly describe why you have identified this as a priority	By when?
Speed of handling task and taking decisions	For the position of manager, analytic skills are important	4 days
Adapt to working environment	I could be more stress free if it is adopted once.	5 days
Encouraging the Team to Make Time for Important work.	There is need for the management of time and work	days

 9. Send an email to your assessor.

To:assessor@gmail.com

From: 

Subject: Overview of the important development documents

Respected assessor,

This mail is written with in reference with successful conduction of presentation. In the presentation, we discussed about professional development plan and also about the self-assessment report. Some changes have been made in professional development plan. Kindly find the report that has been attached to the mail. 

Thank you.

Assessment 5

1. Participate in a professional development activity.

Professional Development Report

Date: 01st October, 2021

Time: 10:00 AM 

Length: 4 hours

What skills are developed through participating in the professional development activity?

• Identification of Strengths and Weaknesses: distinguish proof of qualities and shortcomings are the viewpoints, which are to be improved. It is to be considered that sometimes it speaks negative as well as positive. 
• Own Knowledge: sometimes the characteristics are disregarded, there is a chance to differentiate the viewpoints which are overlooked, thus have a significant impact on the presentation. 
• Analysis Capabilities: examination abilities are lessened and are disregarded.
• Achievement of Objectives: to know what is the need, goals need to be set

What is most liked about the professional development activity? 

The way that it revives the ideas that are learned and disregarded sometimes all through the expert turn of events, remembering of the subtitles that are neglected.

What is least liked? 

Deficiencies in each person that impacts everybody’s outcomes of activities that was done in an unforeseen manner. 

Benefits of participation in professional development opportunity

• Satisfaction: participating in development recommends having individual satisfaction through growing master effort. 
• Incentive: by extending new development, possible affirmation by the business. 
• Productivity: extension in new development, productivity for the business that extends the impetus as an agent. 

 
2. Write a professional development report

Professional Development Report

Date: 01st October, 2021

Time: 10:00 AM

Duration: 5 hours

Outline the skills that have developed by participating in the professional development activity.

• Own Knowledge: characteristics are sometimes disregarded, therefore there is a chance to differentiate the viewpoints which are overlooked. 
• Achievement of Objectives: set the goals to know what is your need, goals will help to show the certainty to contact them. 

What is the most liked about the professional development activity? 

The most liked thing is a piece of action which is completed that revives the ideas learned and some of the time it is disregarded.

What was least liked?

Deficiency in each person and eventual outcomes of the activities. 

Benefits of participating:

• Satisfaction: participation of this sort recommends to have more individual satisfaction.
• Incentive: by extension of new development, Possible affirmation by the business

 
4. Send an email to your assessor.

To: assessor@gmail.com

From: 

Subject: Regarding the professional development activity

Respected sir, 

This mail is sent for giving an overview of the professional development activity. Many benefits have been noticed of this activity. So, I kindly request you to go through it once and share your reviews 

Thank you