Learner Pack

Unit – Personal Development: Self and Work

UNIT CODE - H18P 44

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Personal Development: Self and Work

In this section we will think about our strengths and weaknesses and how we can setourselves targets for undertaking the work placement activity. We will then monitorour own performance in the work place and review it when we have completed.

Activity: What are your strengths and weaknesses?

We all have strengths and weaknesses but sometimes we are not fully aware of what they are. We can look at these to create realistic targets for ourselves in relation to our employability skills.

In this section you will undertake a few exercises and use some specially designed web quizzes and “tools” to help you think about what our strengths are and what you need to do to ensure that you are work-ready:

Your personality/ personal qualities can influence the strengths that you have. Your tutor will help you undertake My DNA1 on the My World of Work web site. Your tutor can go through the results of this with you.

List two things that you learned about yourself from this exercise:

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Activity

Log on to My World of Work and undertake the My Strengths2 - it should take you about 15- 20 minutes to complete this exercise. Answer the questions as best you can. When you get to the results page discuss these with your tutor and consider what your strengths are for the workplace and where you might need to develop.

1 http://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/strengthtest2 http://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/landing-mystrengths

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1. List two strengths that you have realised that you have in relation to the world of work from using the strengths tool

2. List two areas where you think you need to take action in relation to the world of work from using the strengths tool

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Activity: Finding a placement that is right for you

In My World of Work you will have been given a list of “careers that match you”. Explore these careers/jobs on the Internet. What do you think?

Write down below some thoughts on the type of work placement you would like to do and discuss these with your tutor.

Placements that I am interested in:

Placement type Choice rating (1,2 or 3) Reason why chosen

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Activity – Produce a Plan

Whenever you set a target you should always develop a plan of how you are going to achieve this.

Choose one target and ask yourself.

1. What is my target? Be realistic, can your target be achieved?

2. What do I need to achieve it? What resources do I need e.g. Time, money, equipment, advice etc.

3. How long can I give myself to achieve the target?

This can be a little difficult to break down but it is important to learn the skills of identifying what you need to achieve a task.

You are now ready to complete Assessment Personal Development Outcome 1

The next section of this unit cannot be completed until you are established in your work placement for at least 2 weeks

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Activity: Monitoring your progress against the targets that you set yourself for the work placement

Once you have got well established at your work placement, your tutor will discuss your progress with both your supervisor and you and give you feedback on how well you are doing in relation to your targets and what is expected of you by your placement provider.

Using this information, use the table below (using ticks) to identify how good your skills are in relation to the world of work:

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Profile 1. POOR 2.UNSATISFACTORY 3. GOOD 4. EXCELLENT

My core skill use in the workplace (comms., ICT and numeracy)

My attendance at the work placement

My timekeeping at the work placement

My safety awareness in the work place

My ability to follow dress codes in the work place

My attitude to learning in the work place

My team work on the work placement

My willingness to do what asked in the work place

My Ability to follow instructions and ask for assistance when unsure in the work place

You are now ready to complete Assessment Personal Development Outcome 2

Your tutor will provide you with this.

You will not be able to complete the next section of this unit until you have completed and received feedback from your work placement

At the end of your work placement, you will have been given some useful feedback from your employer in relation to your work place skills generally and these should help you also to think about how you met the specific targets you had when you started the Self and Work unit.

You are now ready to complete Assessment Personal Development Outcome 3

Your tutor will provide you with this.

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Learning

To what extent do you feel you have learned from the programme? (Please ring the score number that you feel most closely represents your views)

Learned a lot being a 6Learned nothing being a 1

6 5 4 3 2 1

If you have rated 6, 5 or 4 please describe

a) what you have learned

b) what you intend to do with this learning when you are on work placement?

If you have rated 3, 2 or 1, please state as fully as possible the reasons why you gave this rating.

Well Done

You have now completed Personal Development: Self and Work and should now feel more confident that you are able to identify and achieve personal goals.

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