BSBWOR404 Develop Work Priorities: Develop a Professional Development Plan

This is an assessment task for HLT54115 Diploma of Nursing students to create a 12-month professional development plan including goals, timelines, and ways of measuring progress. The assessment modality, competency checklist, strengths and weaknesses, and professional development activities are included. The identified gaps are communication, performance measurement, negotiation and agreement, change management strategy, and lack of strategic choice during framing the objectives. The ways of measuring progress include collecting feedback from peers and subordinates and performing in a real-life situation.

BSBWOR404: Develop work priorities: Develop a professional development plan
Assessment 3 Development Plan
Course: HLT54115 Diploma of Nursing
Intake (month and year):
Student Name:
Email Address:
Mobile Number:
Unit code and title: BSBWOR404 Develop Work Priorities
Assessment task 3 Develop a professional development plan
Unit code and title: CHCPRP003 Reflect on and improve own professional practice
Assessment task 3 Create one personal development plan that includes:
Goals
Timelines
Ways of measuring progress
Date submitted:
Submission mode: Online
Assessment conditions Assessment modality
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Satisfactory rate – All questions must be answered
in accordance with the assessment guide. If this is
not achieved the student has the opportunity to
resubmit the assessment after receiving feedback
and re-training as confirmed by their
trainer/assessor
Assessment location: In-class & simulated
environment
Assessment 3
 Develop a professional
development plan – [BSBWOR404]
 Create one personal development
plan – [CHCPRP003] this
assessment]
Assessment 1
 A work Schedule – [BSBWOR404]
Assessment 2
 Seek and evaluate feedback -
[BSBWOR404]
Ref: as listed in the Course Unit
Outline and Assessment Due Dates
List for the course
Assessor Instructions
Student will identify and evaluate professional development opportunities and create a 12
month professional development plan to build on their skills and knowledge. The
development plan will include goals; timeframes and ways of measuring progress.
Sample templates are provided in the appendices of the assessment task for students to
use in planning and development of their work. The student may use these templates or
their own versions provided that these cover the essential information.
The recommended date for assessment: After Session 3 (it is suggested that the student
finalises their topic after Session 2).
Time required for assessment: No less than 3 hours conducted in class and in the
student’s own time.
The student must submit:
competency checklist
strengths and weaknesses template
a 12-month Professional Development Plan (PDP) including goals; timeframes and
ways of measuring progress
The assessment is made according to the marking guide and decision making rules. Final
decision is to be made and recorded on Assessment result below and on the results
template via the Course Coordinator.
Ref: Marking Guide for the Assessment & Mayfield Education Assessment Guide: Planning
& Conducting Assessment Policy
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Student Instructions
This assessment is clustered to include Assessment 3 in BSBWOR404 Develop work
priorities and CHCPRP003 Reflect on and improve own professional practice.
The student will assess and identify their own level of skills and attributes and evaluate
their own strengths and weaknesses according to the workplace requirements. The
student will then list professional development opportunities and create a 12-month
professional development plan to build on their skills and knowledge. The development
plan will include goals; timeframes and ways of measuring progress. Using the sample
templates you will build a plan based on self-assessment, insight and evaluation of current
requirements.
The assessment task is due on the date specified by your assessor. Any variations to this
arrangement must be approved in writing by your Course Co-ordinator.
Submit this document with any required evidence attached
Ref: Student Information Handbook (5) & Student Assessment Policy and Procedure
Student Declaration
I, ……………………………………………… (Student to print name) state that the work I submit
is my own and I have not copied this in any form except where due reference has been
made to this. If you are completing this form electronically, please type your name as an
acceptable form of your signature.
Student Comments:
Ref: Student Information Handbook (5.6)
Student Signature:
If you are completing this form electronically,
please type.
Date:
Assessment Result (tick √):  Satisfactory
 Unsatisfactory
 Resubmit
Ref: Student Information Handbook (5.6)
Reassessment Appeals
Outcome recorded on Results sheet (tick
√):  Yes
Date entered:
By whom:
Results are entered into the electronic
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Results Sheet
Assessor Feedback and Comments to Student:
Assessor Name (printed): Date received:
Assessor Signature (signed):
Ref: Trainer and Assessor requirements as listed in the Sessional Trainers and Assessors
Policy and the Policy – Guidelines for Planning and Conducting VET Assessment &
Student Assessments Policy.
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Competency checklist:
Competency checklist 1. Establishing team performance plans
Skills and
knowledge
I don’t
know
Somewhat I can do
this
Notes
Writing a clear
vision statement
Writing team
purpose
statements
Writing SMART
objectives
Defining a team’s
responsibilities
and expected
outputs
Aligning team
roles/strengths
to team action
plans
Creating a team
action plan
Effectively
planning
processes and
techniques
Developing team
member
performance
Competency checklist 2. Developing and facilitating team cohesion
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Skills and
knowledge
Don’t
know
Somewhat I can
do this
Notes
Running team
meetings
Methods for gaining
the team’s input
(focus groups,
brainstorming)
Strategies for
ensuring team
member
accountability
Giving effective
feedback
Planning for team
member
performance
Developing
processes to
support team
members in
resolving issues
Writing a
complaint/grievanc
e policy or
procedure
Problem-solving
methods and
techniques
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Competency checklist 3. Facilitating teamwork
Skills and
knowledge
Don’t
know
Somewhat I can do
this
Notes
Identifying the
dynamics within
my team
Establishing
agreed team
values and
behaviours
Acting as a role
model for my
team
Identifying steps
to making clear
decisions
Coaching for
performance
Identifying my
own leadership
strengths
Motivating and
empowering my
team
Ways to survey
my team
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Competency checklist 4. Liaising with stakeholders
Skills and
knowledge
Don’t
know
Somewhat I can do
this
Notes
Techniques to
gather data on
effective team
communication
Reporting and
presenting to
stakeholders
Barriers to
effective
communication
Knowing my
team and ways to
build trust
Conflict
resolution
methods
Ways technology
can support
communication
within my team
Using mediation
processes to
resolve team
communication
issues
Ways to
negotiate a
resolution
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Strengths and weaknesses
Element Personal Professional
Required knowledge and
skills
Consider:
● Required
competencies
● Job description
● Service plans and
frameworks.
● Consult your most
recent position
description
Communicational efficiency
Process adaptation
Cooperative approach
Problem Identification skill
Planning and mapping
Implementation of
management tools
Understanding of
operational compliance
Panning strategic
framework
Change management skill
Strengths
Consider:
● your views
● recent
tests/appraisals
● other people’s views
● Consult your most
recent performance
review
Self analysis skill
Building self motivation
Synthesising periodic
events and risks
Knowledge in social
psychology
Maintaining organisational
culture
Developing effective work
process interaction
Performance measurement
and resource allocation
tool
Gaps, obstacles and
Solutions
 Consider:
● gaps in
knowledge/skills
● changes to
systems/services
requiring new skills
● what will help you to
progress in your role?
Lack of communication skill
Lack of cooperative
understanding
Lack of environmental
adaptation
Lack of situational
approach
Lack of clear plan making
capability
Lack of management
knowledge
Lack of knowledge in
strategic tool utilisation
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Professional Development Plan
Name Communicational improvement
Date of
development
20-July-2018 Date to be
reviewed
20-October-2018
Organisational
storage
requirements?
1. Group of worker who can willingly participant in the simulation
procedure
2. Professional milestones that are archived within my professional
profile
3. Acknowledgement from superior authority allowing me to complete
few correspondence course
4. Interview based feedback about my previous work improvements,
gaps and potentialities
5. Set of organisational roles and regulations which can contribute to
build a compatible development plan as an employee
Discussed with mentor/colleague Discussed with manager
Name Implementation Team management tools
Date of
development
25-September-2018 Date to be
reviewed
25-February-2019
Organisational
storage
requirements?
1. Set of organisational sample frameworks and plans that are
successfully used for many projects
2. Handbook or organisational business policies and regulations that
determines the terms and conditions
3. Set of ethical considerations enlisted in organisational work process
4. Detail description of work environment related health and safety
policies
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5. Organisational work plan structure with detailed responsibility
distribution.
Discussed with mentor/colleague Discussed with manager
Name Change management program
Date of
development
30-December-2018 Date to be
reviewed
20-June-2019
Organisational
storage
requirements?
1. Current organisational conflict management policies
2. Existing potential way in workforce negotiation
3. Simulated work environment with volunteers
4. Manager’s feedback on situational leadership
5. Leader’s opinion about effective approach and implementing
framwork
Discussed with mentor/colleague Discussed with manager
Goals
Timeframe Learning objective/s and action/s
required
These should relate to objectives in
the individual performance plan.
Professional goals
These should relate to
objectives to maintain current
competence in the job role or
future career paths.
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20-July-2018
To
20-October-
2018
25-
September-
2018
To
25-February-
2019
30-
December-
2018
To
20-June-
2019
1. Communicational improvement
2. Implementation Team management
tools
3. Change management program
Developing communication skill;
learning socio-psychological
intervention in organisation
environment; verbal and
nonverbal communicational
identification; measuring the
influence
Leadership and management
theories; tools of implementing
the conceptual frame;
developing performance
improvement plan for team;
analysing situation while
choosing proper leadership
strategy; review and control
management
Learning negotiation procedures
and theories; learning
implementation of performance
regulation tools; Gauging the
potentiality of team and
members; developing clear
objectives and work process
framework
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Professional development activities
Identified gap Development
activity
Details
(provider
,
location,
etc.)
Objective of
development
activity
Timeframe Cost
Communication
gap
Online and
offline courses
IT
platform
Increase
leadership
capacity
20/7/18
To
14/9/18
150
Performance
measurement
gap
Reading the
theories and
appropriate
case studies
Online
journals
and
articles
Increase
decision
making skill
25/9/18
To
14/11/18
158
Negotiation and
agreement
Handling the
simulated
situation
Work
premises
Enhance
conflict
management
skill
20/10/18
To
14/1/19
180
Change
management
strategy
Reading the
theories and
appropriate
case studies
Online
journals
and
articles
Enhance the
efficiency of
work process
20/1/19
To
18/3/19
165
Implementation
of management
tools
Consulting with
experience
officials and
managers
Work
premises
Increase the
proficiency of
chosen
strategy
19/3/19
To
14/5/19
170
Lack of
strategic choice
during framing
the objectives
Developing a
simulated
feasible
environment
IT
platform
Developing
clear and well
organised
framework
12/5/19
To
20/6/18
120
Measuring progress of the development plan
Identified
gap
Development activity Ways of measuring progress
1. Online and offline courses Collecting feedback from peers and
subordinates
2. Reading the theories and Perform in a real life situation
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appropriate case studies
3. Handling the simulated situation Perform in a real life situation
4. Reading the theories and
appropriate case studies
Collecting feedback from supervisors and
peers
5. Consulting with experience
officials and managers
Collecting feedback from supervisors
6. Developing a simulated feasible
environment
Perform in a real life situation
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