Organise Personal Work Priorities and Schedules

This document provides insights on how to assess and prioritize personal workload, deal with contingencies, elicit and interpret feedback, and set goals. It also discusses the importance of time management, communication skills, and personal assessment of learning and development needs. Additionally, it covers topics such as monitoring work quality, addressing work that does not meet organizational requirements, and identifying sources of stress. Lastly, it explores personal learning and professional development needs, including skills gaps and strategies for addressing them.

Organise personal
work priorities and
schedules

PART A Written questions.................................................................................................................3
PART C Personal workload...............................................................................................................6
PART D Project...................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................................10

PART A Written questions
1. Three specific areas of legislations that apply to your work role. Detail what the legislation
is and it applies to work
There are several legislations which play important role in working of business firm.
Explanation of these are as follows :-
Employment law – An business firm have legal obligation when they employ staff
and it include several factors such as pay correct wages to staff (Thomas and et. al., 2019).
Along with this, they have to ensure worker’s compensation insurance for each and every
staff members. Most important is that company should not have to act in manner which may
seriously damage reputation of staff or cause mental distress or humiliation.
Anti-discrimination act – In Australia it is legislation to discriminate individual on the
basis of number of protected attributes which involve age, race, sex, disability, intersex
status, gender identity as well as sexual orientation within specific area of public life that
including education and employment.
Gender equality act – It is important act for an business firm to implement gender
equality in their working because discrimination on the basis of this may result in creating
negative working environment.
2. Provide table for addressing each area and how it related to work role
Law Daily Weekly Monthly Yearly
Employment
law
It is
implemented
within daily
activities of
business firm
also so that
things will
manage in
effective
manner without
facing any
Needed on
weekly basis for
ensuring that
things are
conducted
according to
employment
law
Required at
monthly basis
also fore
making sure
that activities
are performed
in appropriate
manner as per
the need.
Employment
law is required
on yearly basis
within an
organisation
while hiring
employees
(Kossek,
Rosokha and
Leana, 2020).

difficulty.
Anti-
discrimination
act
Required on
daily basis so
that any activity
will not be
conducted
which result in
discrimination
Needed on
weekly basis
also
Required at
monthly basis
Anti-
discrimination
act is required
at yearly basis
also for
conducting
activities in
better manner.
Gender equality
act
Required on
daily basis
while allotting
task to
employees
Gender equality
act required at
weekly basis
also while
taking
feedbacks from
employees.
Gender equality
is needed on
monthly basis
also while
giving salary to
employees.
In most of the
organisation
awards,
promotions and
many more are
given on yearly
basis. In that
situation it is
important for an
organisation to
implement
gender equality
act.
3. In two to three paragraphs for each part of questions explain:
a. how you assess and priorities your own workload
It is important to assess and prioritise workload in effective manner so that thigs will
manage in effective manner and better outcomes will gained. There are some step which help
in assessing and prioritising their workload explanation of these are as follows :-
 Collect list of all your task
 Identify urgent vs. important
 Assess value
 Order task through estimated efforts

 Be flexible and adaptable
 Know when to cut
b. How you deal with contingencies that affect your workload
Business environment is dynamic in nature and while working in it several
contingencies may take place which required to be manage in effect manner because it may
affect workload of individual (Al‐Turjman, Hasan and Al‐Rizzo, 2019). Thus, by making
contingency plan individual will be able to deal with things in effective manner as well as it
will not affect their workload.
c. How you elicit, analyse and interpret feedback when communicating with other people in
workplace.
Getting feedbacks from other people is one of the most common way for me to known
what team think of them and how they have to improve themselves. But getting honest
feedbacks from other is not easy as well as it include some najor steps which are mention
below :-
 Make people comfortable while talking to them for taking feedbacks
 Make sure anonymity
 For taking feedbacks it is important to ask insightful questions
 Last step is to follow ups
d. Principles and technique of goal setting, measuring performance, time management and
personal assessment of learning and developing needs
Goal setting – It have some principles and techniques explanation of these are as follows:-
 Techniques – There are several techniques of setting goals such as set goals that are
SMART, set “HARD” goals, involve management and staff in goal setting process so
they will be more committed to achieve it and individual have to chart their progress.
 Principles – There are some principles of goal setting such as clarity, challenge,
commitment, feedback and task complexity.
Measuring performance – It have some principles and techniques explanation of these are
as follows:-
 Techniques – There are mainly two performance measurement technique balance
scorecard and benchmarking.

 Principles – For measuring performance there are some principles such as expose
weakness, facilitate collaboration across functional boundaries, Be highly visible and
kept current, balance lagging and leading indicators as well as matter.
Time management – It have some principles and techniques explanation of these are as
follows:-
 Techniques – For managing time in proper manner its is important to implement some
techniques such as delegation, prioritize, freedom and work must be done anyway.
 Principles – There are three main principles of time management such as planning,
checking and organizing (Rasheed and et. al., 2019).
PART C Personal workload
1. Provide two specific examples for each of the following
a. What affects you achieving your daily task?
In an organisation daily basis tasks are allotted to every individual and for them it is
important to achieve these task in proper manner. But these are several things which result in
wide impact on accomplishing daily task such as improper time management and
contingency which take place in company. For instance, if proper time is not allotted to
priorities activities which required to be accomplish on daily basis then it may affect in
achieving daily task.
b. What do you do to address these issues?
It is important for me to manage issues which affect my daily task and there are some
ways through which I can manage. Explanation of these are as follows :-
 By doing contingency planning
 By proper time management and giving priority to important task.
2. Answer both of this question, providing specific examples:
a. How do you monitor the quality of work you produce, ensuring it meets organisational
requirements?
Every organisation motive is to accomplish their requirement, goals and objectives in
better manner. Along with this, they want quality work produced by their staff member

because this is the way which help in making customer satisfy. In addition to this, there are
several ways of monitoring that quality work has been produced such as monitoring
performance on regular basis, Focusing on working, self evaluation and many more. By
ensuring all these things business firm will be able to accomplish their goals and objectives in
better manner.
b. What do you do if you identify your own work, or the work of others, does not meets
organisational requirement?
It is important to meet organisational requirement but if some employees are not
meeting it then they can conduct gap analysis for identifying different within actual and
standards performance (Shao and et. al., 2019). This can be conduct by everyone as well as it
provide assistance in managing things and accomplishing organisational needs and wants in
more effective manner.
3. Stress can be a common occurrence with workplace
a. How do you identify signs and its effect on you?
Stress is common while working within an organisation and there are several signs of
stress such as headache, mental pressure, chest pain and many more. All these signs have
wide effect on life on individual as their personal life also get impact and they will not able to
pay attention on their family and friend. Thus, it will have wide impact on their personal and
professional both life in negative manner.
b. How do you identify sources of stress in others and what do you do to address this?
There are several sources of stress which have wide impact on individual in their life
such as increasing work level pressure, difficult task and many more. All these result in
creating stress as well as wide impact in individual life. For particular person it is essential to
manage these things in effective manner this can be possible by proper time management and
giving prioritise to things which are important.
c. Identify the individuals within your organisation who provide you with support and various
methods used as part of resolution strategies.
In organisation there are several people who support me such as manager, suppliers as
well as other higher authority. In addition to this, they design strategies for resolving stress in
effective manner.

PART D Project
1. Five areas of your own personal learning and professional development needs, including
skills gaps to address organisational requirement
a. Explain how you determined these needs
By conducting skill gap analysis individual will be able to determine needs which
required for addressing organisational requirement in better manner (Lefrançois and Probst,
2020). Thus, area in which I have to develop is communication and time management.
b. Who did you talk to?
I will mainly talk to manager and leader related to the skills need so that things will
conduct in better manner and effective outcomes will gain.
c. What other sources were/could be used to identify these needs?
By conducting own analysis Through SWOT individual will be able to identify needs
which require to be develop. Here, SWOT stands for strength, weakness, opportunity and
threats.
2. For each of the development needs you have identified:
a. Prioritise these in order of importance
Communication and time management for are important for gaining better future
opportunities. It is important for me to develop these skills in effective manner so that I can
gain better job opportunities in effective manner.
b. Identify what is required to address these needs
For addressing communication needs it is important for me to interact with more and
more people. In addition to this, I have to take participation in presentations and group
discussion because these will help in developing my skills in more effective manner. On the
other hand, time management is also essential which can be only possible when time will set
for completing each and every activity as well as priority also given.
c. Plan how these will be addresses
For addressing communication needs it is important for me to interact with more and
more people. For developing communication skills I can join online classes because these

will provide assistance in more effective manner. In addition to this, I have to take
participation in presentations and group discussion because these will help in developing my
skills in more effective manner. On the other hand, time management is also essential which
can be only possible when time will set for completing each and every activity as well as
priority also given.
d. How will you document progress?
By conducting skills audit on timely basis I will able to document my progress in
more effective manner. Along with this, it will also assist in accomplishing person and
professional goals in more effective manner.
3. How will you review these needs to ensure they are completed?
It is important to ensure that each and every activity will accomplish in proper manner
within required duration. By identifying needs in more effective manner I will be able to
address these in effective manner and accomplish in proper manner.
4. Once these are completed, how will you identify further learning needs?
It is important for me to identify needs on timely basis so that things will manage in
better manner and further or future goals will be accomplishing in better manner. I will be
able to identify future needs by conducting SWOT analysis in better manner.

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