CMI External Assessment Marking Sheet:Unit 5001V1 - Personal development as a manager and leader

Learner Name: / Learner Number: / Centre:
Date: / Part of Batch: / Qualification:
CMI Marker’s Result: Passed / Referred / CMI Lead Moderator’s Result: Passed / Referred
Introduction
This unit is concerned with improving management and leadership skills to support personal and team achievement of objectives.
Learning Outcomes
The Learner will:-
  1. Be able to assess and plan for personal professional development
  2. Be able to plan the resources required for personal professional development
  3. Be able to implement and evaluate the personal development plan
  4. Be able to support and promote staff welfare

Task 1 / Assessment Criteria / Pass/Refer / Comments
Complete an audit of your current personal skills and competences against those required of your current and potential future job roles. Construct a personal development plan for the forthcoming year which includes five achievable but challenging SMART objectives, their link to organisational objectives and how they will support your future career aspirations. Identify the development opportunities to meet the identified gaps in your skills and competences.
Explain why continual self-development is important to you as a manager and how the organisation can benefit from having a workforce which is committed to continual self- development.
Guideline word count: 1,000 - 1,050 words / A.C. 1.1 - Identify the importance of continual self-development in achieving organisational objectives
A.C. 1.2 - Assess current skills and competencies against defined role requirements and organisational objectives
A.C. 1.3 - Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs
A.C. 1.4 - Construct a personal development plan with achievable but challenging goals
Task 2 / Assessment Criteria / Pass/Refer / Comments
With reference to your personal development plan, discuss the processes required to implement your plan identifying the required resources, and developing the business case to secure these resources and the likely communication channels and protocols involved in securing that resource.
Evaluate your success against your personal development plan and how this has contributed to the achievement of organisational objectives. Review and update the personal development plan based on your findings.
Guideline word count: 900 - 950 words / A.C. 2.1 - Identify the resources required to support the personal development plan
A.C. 2.2 - Develop a business case to secure the resources to support the personal development plan
A.C. 3.1 - Discuss the processes required to implement the personal development plan
A.C. 3.2 - Evaluate the impact of the personal development plan on the achievement of defined role requirements and organisational objectives
A.C. 3.3 - Review and update the personal development plan

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Task 3 / Assessment Criteria / Pass/Refer / Comments
In your role as manager discuss how staff welfare responsibilities can support overall organisational objectives. Explain the process you would follow to assess the welfare of your team, and identify the actions you would take to deal with a staff welfare issue that comes to your attention.
Describe how staff welfare responsibilities should be communicated to the team and what records you may keep to demonstrate that staff welfare has been supported.
The use of practical examples where possible would enhance your answers.
Guideline word count: 1,000 - 1,050 words / A.C. 4.1 - Discuss the relationship between staff welfare and organisational objectives
A.C. 4.2 - Explain the process for assessing staff welfare
A.C. 4.3 - Explain the actions to be taken by the manager in dealing with a staff welfare issue
A.C. 4.4 - Describe how to communicate responsibilities for staff welfare to the team
A.C. 4.5 - Discuss records that may be maintained to demonstrate that staff welfare is
supported

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