BSBWOR501 Manage personal work priorities and professional development

MANANGE PERSONAL WORK PRIORITIES AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BSBWOR501 Manage personal work priorities and professional development
Assessment Task 1
Student Name:
Student ID:
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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
1. Review your job description and your organization’s business plans, business goals, policies and
procedures...............................................................................................................................................3
2. Based on your job description (and following your organisation’s business plans, goals, and
applicable policies and procedures), establish four to five goals (including both personal and team
goals).......................................................................................................................................................4
3. Develop KPIs to measure performance related to work goals.............................................................4
4. Consider a range of activities to advance work goals. Prioritise possible activities. Choose two work
goals to develop work plans for...............................................................................................................5
5. Referring to the template provided in Appendix 1 as an example, use Microsoft Word to develop two
work plans to achieve the two goals you have prioritized........................................................................7
6. In your journal, describe:.....................................................................................................................9
a. How you will ensure you serve as a positive role model through work planning and organisation.
Give examples. Describe how your work plans serve as examples to follow in your workplace.............9
b. How you will maintain appropriate work–life balance, manage stress and maintain health............9
7. Specifications..........................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................9
References.................................................................................................................................................10
Appendix...................................................................................................................................................11
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Introduction
The key purpose of this report focuses on describing the performance outcomes, requisite skills
and knowledge for managing own performance and professional development besides
emphasizing on to set and met priorities, evaluate information and using different strategies for
developing further proficiency. To study revolves around managers focusing on their need of
being organized, systematic and skilled for managing the others work effectively.
1. Review your job description and your organization’s business plans, business goals,
policies and procedures.
It is assumed that I work in the Event Centre at Star Sydney as Assistant Manager.
Job Description
Positioned as an Assistant Manager in the Event Centre manage staffs, providing leadership and
supporting the team members are what my primary responsibilities besides the management of
operational and administrative functions for ensuring efficient delivery of various events with
exceptional customer service and quality. Additionally, looking after the venue setting
communication and maintain timelines and event priorities, clients, suppliers and other
stakeholders relationships on also part of the responsibility.
The Star Sydney has announced many development plans for transforming the harbour side
property over next five years, with currently investing $130 million in refurbishing Astral Tower
& Residences besides proposing development plans for the Event Centre and adding a new hotel
tower. According to Shen, Cotton & Kram (2015), making profits like any other business is the
business goal of Star Sydney by fulfilling the entertainment needs of its customers and the
principles of corporate governance are strongly supported by its policies and given the highly
regulated environment it operates into, is committed to maintain the standards within the Group
besides ensuring sustainable businesses. For meeting the best practices and company needs, the
policies (compliance policy, minimum shareholding policy, diversity and inclusion policy,
securities trading policy, privacy policy, environment management policy and whistleblower
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policy) are annually reviewed. According to Theodore (2014), the Group’s support procedures
and plans are helpful in fostering increased vertical alignment and horizontal integration and
coordination across all departments contributing into setting the personal and team goals required
to attain improved outcomes through an effective and efficient business planning process.
2. Based on your job description (and following your organisation’s business plans, goals,
and applicable policies and procedures), establish four to five goals (including both
personal and team goals).
Personal and Team Goals
Goal 1 Getting promoted to General Manager
Goal 2 Increasing the Event Centre’s revenues
Goal 3 Creating best working culture for staffs in the workplace
Goal 4 Seek opportunities of advertising the Event Centre
According to Lasker, (2016), for personal and teams success goal are critical in making both
responsible for achieving certain organizational outcomes. Setting goals helps in deciding where
the team wants to go and what is needed to be done for getting there. Working with teams in
designing definite and challenging goals literally helps them in achieving high performance
levels. Goal-setting is important for clear direction and the assessment of organizations progress
and are established for increasing the performance of employees and tying them to company’s
overall strategy. The goals, according to Postuła & Majczyk (2018) are established by
considering what is wanted to achieve and committing to it by setting SMART goals (specific,
measureable, attainable, relevant and time-bound) for keeping both self and team motivated.
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