Manage Your Personal Development in a Construction Related Workplace

Learn how to manage your personal development in a construction related workplace. Understand the aims and objectives for undertaking development, analyze current personal levels of knowledge and performance, measure achievement of personal development needs, prepare personal development plans, and more.

Unit QCF740 Manage Your Personal Development in a
construction related workplace
Q1 Explain what are aims and objectives for undertaking development and how
personal aims can be defined. (AC1.2)
In the aim of carrying out the aimed development in the construction
site an organization should formulate there aim and objective.
i. Fill up the gap of knowledge on the issues of safety site.
ii. Provide best handy reference for practicing management teams
of frontline.
iii. To offer management for site safety and tools that could be
used.
Q2 Describe how to analyse current personal levels of knowledge and
performance against selected and recognised standards. (AC3.3)
To analyse the personal level at present of performance and knowledge
at personal level against recognized and selected standards, there are numbers
of path, which could be followed:
i. Task incorporation in the learning plans of individuals where
the members of the team are needed to plan about learning or
training activity of development that could support the
improvement of knowledge and skills.
ii. Asking the members to note down the aimed result they are
desiring to reach and the solution of the problems they required
to have before joining the development activities of learning
and session of training.
iii. Asking the individual to report their fruitfulness of their every
day’s activities, and discussion about the need of individual as
well as the team in weekly meeting of the team.
Q3 Explain how achievement of identified personal development needs can be
measured (AC6.3)
Achievement of the personal needs that that is identified could be
measured by following three unique stages, in the construction sector-
i. Identification of the parameters: Knowledge, behaviour and
skills which is required by the individual to participate in the
organization’s work process smoothly.
ii. Properly identify the knowledge, behaviour and skills a unique
employee is already having.
iii. Identify the gap by comparing the recent-actual and required-
future.
Those are the needs of the personal development.
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Q4 Describe ways that personal development plans can be prepared. AC4.2)
The personal development includes 9unique steps:
i. Definition of the goal.
ii. Prioritization of the goal.
iii. Deadline selection of the project.
iv. Understand the individual strength.
v. Acknowledge the related threats and opportunities.
vi. Development of the new skills.
vii. Taking required action.
viii. Get needed support.
ix. Measurement of the progress.
Q5 Explain why a personal development plan should be prepare (AC4.3)
Individual plan of development (IDP) is an approach to the experiences
of learning that is organised that support improvement of a personnel in his
working environment. The purpose of preparing the plan is-
i. Adoption of modified or new technology.
ii. Take part in the new assignment.
iii. Meet the need of suture staffing.
iv. Development of the leadership.
v. Building of relationship.
Q6 What factors influence personal development needs? (AC 3.4)
The main factors that plays the key role in influencing the
need of development are:
i. Biological Factor: Indirect and limited, includes fctors
of hereditary, physical appearance, genetic, maturation
rate and physics.
ii. Personality determination depending upon culture.
iii. Influence of the family in the development of
individual.
Q7 Give reasons why aims and objectives should be defined. (AC1.3)
 Aim: Statistician plays a vital role of ensuring the
design of the strategy planning is focused on
achieving the desired output of the organization that is
known as aim, without which there is a huge
possibility that the methodology will get proved to be
inadequate as well as fail to achieve the desired
outcome.
 Objective: Objective helps in stating the overall goal
of the procedure that is needed to reach closer to the
potential solution and carry out the methodology of
research. It is also needed to define the project’s
structure.

Q8 Explain the methods that can be used that reviews and records
progress and evaluates effectiveness of activities. (AC5.5)
The methods that could be used to record, review and
evaluate a project is as followed:
i. Outcome assessment: The process that provides
credible evidence that prove the fact of obtaining the
instructor’s objective.
ii. Analysis of primary trait.
iii. Direct questioning.
iv. Instruction diagnosis in smaller group.
Q9 Explain ways that evidence of personal knowledge and competence
against identified national standards can be recorded. (AC6.4)
The knowledge of personal and against INS can be notices
through some ways:
 Hypothetical way: Situations, which are either
embellish or ‘make up’ in the aim of point illustration.
 Anecdotal way: Way to avoid informal and anecdotal
experience.
 From the reviews of other.
 Reaching closer to aimed goal.
Q10 Explain methods that allows for the revision, reviewing and
updating of personal aims and objectives that suit changing
circumstances. (AC7.4,7.5)
The method, which allows the reviewing, updating and
revision of personal goal and objectives, which suit modified
circumstances:
i. Time allocation for review.
ii. Identifying the original plan, with planned activities
and goal.
iii. According to each activity, find out the potential
impact of it with respect to the plan.
iv. Compare the outcome with the set goal.
v. Planning about future activities.
Q11 Explain how the reviewing of the cycle of updating personal aims and
objectives can be undertaken. (AC7.3)
The method, which allows the reviewing, updating
and revision of personal goal and objectives, which suit modified
circumstances:

i. Time allocation for review.
ii. Identifying the original plan, with planned activities
and goal.
iii. According to each activity, find out the potential
impact of it with respect to the plan.
iv. Compare the outcome with the set goal.
v. Planning about future activities.
Q12 Explain ways that development activities to achieve personal development
needs can be undertaken. (AC5.4)
The personal development includes 9unique steps:
i. Definition of the goal.
ii. Prioritization of the goal.
iii. Deadline selection of the project.
iv. Understand the individual strength.
v. Acknowledge the related threats and opportunities.
vi. Development of the new skills.
vii. Taking required action.
viii. Get needed support.
ix. Measurement of the progress.
Q13 Explain how to contact sources of support and guidance to identify recognised
standards. (AC2.2)
It could be done through some procedure-
By communicating with at least three sources of guidance and support that
mentioned bellow:
i. National bodies
ii. Industry bodies
iii. Professional organization.
iv. Line manager
v. Colleagues
vi. Electronic sources.
Q14 Give reasons why recognised standards for undertaking personal development
should be identified. (AC2.3)
Individual plan of development (IDP) is an approach to the experiences of
learning that is organised that support improvement of a personnel in his
working environment. The purpose of preparing the plan is-

i. Adoption of modified or new technology.
ii. Take part in the new assignment.
iii. Meet the need of suture staffing.
iv. Development of the leadership.
v. Building of relationship.
Q15 Explain ways that personal development needs can be profiled. (AC3.5)
The personal development includes 9unique steps:
i. Definition of the goal.
ii. Prioritization of the goal.
iii. Deadline selection of the project.
iv. Understand the individual strength.
v. Acknowledge the related threats and opportunities.
vi. Development of the new skills.
vii. Taking required action.
viii. Get needed support.
ix. Measurement of the progress.
Q16 Give reasons why personal development plans should be reviewed,
revised and updated (AC7.5)
It is important to review, update and revise the personal plan, because:
 Find out the effectiveness of the plan.
 Track down the improvement.
 Implementation of Monitor.
 To improve the plan continuously.
 Improve the strategy of decision making.
 Progress towards the project’s objective.
Q17 Give reasons why a profile of personal development needs should be
developed (AC3.6)
Individual plan of development (IDP) is an approach to the experiences
of learning that is organised that support improvement of a personnel in his
working environment. The purpose of preparing the plan is-
i. Adoption of modified or new technology.
ii. Take part in the new assignment.
iii. Meet the need of suture staffing.
iv. Development of the leadership.
v. Building of relationship.