BSBWOR501B: Manage personal work priorities and professional development
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to manage own performance and professional development. Particular emphasis is on setting and meeting priorities, analysing information and using a range of strategies to develop further competence. No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of endorsement.
This unit applies to managers and focuses on the need for managers to be organised, focussed and skilled, in order to effectively manage the work of others. As such it is an important unit for most managers, particularly as managers serve as role models and have a significant influence on the work culture and patterns of behaviour.
Performance criteria
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Establish personal work goals |
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Serve as a positive role model in the workplace through personal work planning and organisation |
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Ensure personal work goals, plans and activities reflect the organisation's plans, and own responsibilities and accountabilities |
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Measure and maintain personal performance in varying work conditions, work contexts and contingencies | |
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Set and meet own work priorities |
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Take initiative to prioritise and facilitate competing demands to achieve personal, team and organisational goals and objectives |
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Use technology efficiently and effectively to manage work priorities and commitments |
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Maintain appropriate work-life balance, and ensure stress is effectively managed and health is attended to | |
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Assess personal knowledge and skills against competency standards to determine development needs, priorities and plans |
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Seek feedback from employees, clients and colleagues and use this feedback to identify and develop ways to improve competence |
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Identify, evaluate, select and use development opportunities suitable to personal learning style/s to develop competence |
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Undertake participation in networks to enhance personal knowledge, skills and work relationships |
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Identify and develop new skills to achieve and maintain a competitive edge | |
Skills and Knowledge
Required skills
- communication skills to receive, analyse and report on feedback
- literacy skills to interpret written and verbal information about workplace requirements
- organisational skills to set and achieve priorities.
Required knowledge
- principles and techniques involved in the management and organisation of:
- performance measurement
- personal behaviour, self-awareness and personality traits identification
- personal development plan
- personal goal setting
- time management
- management development opportunities and options for self
- organisation's policies, plans and procedures
- types of learning style/s and how they relate to the individual
- types of work methods and practices that can improve personal performance