Facilitator Guide Marking Guide
BSBWOR501 Manage personal work priorities and professional development 1st edition version: 1
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Marking Guide
Assessment Task 1: Manage personal
work priorities
Candidate’s Name Phone No.
Assessor’s Name Phone No.
Assessment Site
Assessment Date/s Time/s
Outcomes
Did the candidate submit:
Satisfactory
Yes No
A position description?
Two work plans produced (produced with word processing software)?
A journal?
All materials within the required timeframe?
Performance indicators
Did the candidate:
Satisfactory
Yes No
Work plans evidence
Use technology to create and/or complete work plan templates?
Set out goals and describe in journal how personal and team work goals
reflect job description, function of the team and organisational
requirements?
Develop KPIs for each goal that reflect goals?
Facilitator Guide Marking Guide
BSBWOR501 Manage personal work priorities and professional development 1st edition version: 1
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Did the candidate:
Satisfactory
Yes No
Journal evidence
Outline policies, procedures and plans that will inform team and
personal goal setting?
Describe:
● how the KPIs will be used to measure goal-related performance
● how performance will be maintained under varying conditions and
contingencies and provide specific examples
● how, given own personal strengths and weaknesses, the
candidate will capitalise on or minimise the effect of these
personal traits in work plans?
Describe the process taken to prioritise activities to advance work
goals?
Describe how they plan to manage competing demands?
Describe the how they will serve as a positive role model through
personal work planning?
Describe the how they will maintain an appropriate work–life balance?
For example:
● measures undertaken to manage stress.
Comments/feedback to participant
Outcome: Successful Unsuccessful
Assessor name:
Assessor signature:
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Develop and maintain professional
competence
Submission details
Candidate’s name Phone no.
Assessor’s name Phone no.
Assessment site
Assessment date/s Time/s
The assessment task is due on the date specified by your assessor. Any variations to this
arrangement must be approved in writing by your assessor.
Submit this document with any required evidence attached. See specifications below for
details.
Performance objective
The candidate will demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to develop and
maintain professional competence.
Assessment description
You will develop a professional development plan with career objectives and an action
plan. To assist in the development of your plan, you are required to seek feedback on
your professional competency. You are required to keep a journal containing your
refection on, and explanation of, the process of planning professional development.
Procedure
1. Assess your personal knowledge and skills against competency standards such as
enterprise specific competencies or nationally endorsed units of competency.
In your journal, describe the process you undertook to assess your professional
competency.
2. Meet with two people who are familiar with your work and can assess aspects of
your professional competency, such as employees, colleagues, clients or
supervisors to seek feedback on your work performance. Take notes to submit as
evidence of your meeting.
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In your journal, describe the meeting, and the questioning and active listening
techniques you used to elicit the feedback.
3. Using the template provided in Appendix 1, or one from your workplace, develop a
professional development plan. You should include:
a. development opportunities, such as training; include opportunities to
undertake within one year and within five years
b. new skills you aim to acquire to achieve or maintain a competitive edge
c. planned participation in networks or professional associations to enhance
professional development
d. timeframes in which to achieve development opportunities, new skills,
participation in networks.
In your journal, you should discuss:
a. how you analysed and applied feedback to your professional
development plan
b. the process you undertook to identify, evaluate and select the development
opportunities included in your professional development plan – discuss
learning styles and application to your planning
c. new skills you plan to acquire – explain how acquiring these skills will provide
a competitive edge
d. examples of networking you have undertaken or are currently undertaking to
enhance knowledge, skills or work relationships
e. how these plans align to relevant organisational policies and procedures and
how they align to organisational goals and your work role.
4. Submit your professional development plan, feedback notes and journal to your
assessor as per the specifications below. Ensure you keep a copy of all work
submitted for your records.
Specifications
You must provide:
● a professional development plan
● meeting notes
● a journal.
Your assessor will be looking for evidence of:
● communication skills to receive, analyse and report on feedback
● application of principles and techniques of planning professional development
● knowledge of management development opportunities
● knowledge of types of learning styles and application to professional development
planning.
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Adjustment for distance-based learners:
● no variation of the task is required
● a follow-up interview may be required (at the discretion of the assessor)
● documentation can be submitted electronically or posted in the mail.
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Appendix 1– Professional development plan
Name
Date of development Date to be reviewed
Discussed with mentor/colleague
Name:
Discussed with manager
Name:
Professional development opportunities/ training
Timeframe Description of opportunity/training Skills/ competency to develop
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Timeframe Description of opportunity/training Skills/ competency to develop
Networking activities
Timeframe Description of networking activities Opportunity/professional advantage
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Timeframe Description of networking activities Opportunity/professional advantage
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