Assessment Task 2

BSBWOR501A Manage personal work priorities and professional

development

Report
Submission details

Candidate’s Phone
Nele Faavae
Name No.
Assessor’s Phone
Rebecca Seibert
Name No.
Assessment
Loganlea
Site
Assessment
2nd of September 2010 Time/s
Date/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 learner is to use the information gathered in Assessment Task 1

to complete a needs analysis report.

Assessment description

Review a range of information sources to help you complete a needs

analysis that considers:
• your personal goals and needs
• your team’s objectives and needs
• your organisation’s plans and needs
• priorities
• professional development opportunities.

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Procedure

Gather a wide range of relevant information and complete a report

identifying professional development goals and needs, under the
headings below. Refer to the evidence gathered to support your
claims.
Each section of your report should be approx 300 words:
1. Personal goals and needs:
o what are your personal work goals?
- Be promoted
- Minimise loss of time
- Change jobs
- Retire by 60
- Save money
- Get an international job
o what are your strengths and weaknesses in your
work role?

Strengths Weaknesses

- learning - Getting nervous

agility and around people
effective - Being a debater
personal
communicati - Going out of
on skills one’s way
- self - Lack of some
motivated skills
and - Sensitive person
determined
- Too helpful –
- Success crossing limit
oriented and when helping
natural team mates
leader
- Team player
- Hardworking
- Intelligence
and self
confident

o What are the mandatory training requirements for

your role?

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Mandatory training requirements for the position of
Finance Officer are:

- Finance qualification

- Undergo medical and criminal history background

check

2. Team objectives and needs:

o what are your team’s objectives?
To put in place and operate systems and procedures
which safeguard the assets of the Correctional facility
and which process transactions effectively and cost-
efficiently.

These will include:

- Processing of financial transactions

- Recording of financial transactions

- Maintenance of internal control procedures such

as Financial Regulations, checking routines

- across the following functions:

- Payment of supplier invoices (including staff and

student claims)

- Payments to staff in respect of payroll and

pensions

- Collection of income from all relevant sources

- VAT/Tax compliance

- Insurance claims and cover

- Financial administration of Research Grants and

Contracts

- Accounting for other sponsored projects

o what are your team’s strengths and weaknesses?

Strengths Weaknesses

- decisive and - may reject new ideas

outspoken

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- bases decisions on - may not be aware of
known facts new trends

- structured and - may override

organised important long-rang
factors in favour of
- has clear short term goals
performance (often financial)
expectations
- may make decisions
- achieves practical without knowing all
results the information

- keeps bottom line - may fail to consider

in sight how decisions will
affect important
stakeholders

3. Organisation’s plans and needs:

o what is your organisation’s corporate strategy?

- Analysis of the external environment of the company

- Key stakeholders’ expectations and objectives related to the

company

- Analysis of internal environment of the company

- Analysis of the company’s customers

- Analysis of the company’s competitors

- Analysis of the company’s resources

- Analysis of the company’s suppliers

- Analysis of the external environment of the company in view

of the given functional strategy

- Key stakeholders’ expectations and objectives related to the

company and functional strategy

- Analysis of the internal environment of the company in view of

the given functional strategy

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o what are your organisation’s strengths and
weaknesses?

Strengths Weaknesses

- More control over - The decision making

the employees with and all the other
clear rules processes are very
and regulations slow

- No confusion as the - The jobs may become

reporting relationship boring for the
s is clear and well employees
defined
- The communication
- The system is has to go through so
centralized and all many levels that it
the decisions can gets distorted.
be monitored
- Too much control
- There is discourages
standardisation and innovation and
everyone has to creativity.
follow the same
procedure - There are too many
levels in the
hierarchy

o does your organisation have current schemes or

directives that require employees to undertake
professional development?

Yes, they are committed to developing a well-qualified,

skilled, confident and agile workforce to deliver the best
possible education and training to the community.
Professional development enhances the individual’s
capacity to deliver current and future departmental
objectives and to further their own career plans.

4. Professional development priorities:

o consider the information gathered and determine
your professional development priorities
My professional development priorities are:
- complete my business diploma
- continue study at university

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- take short courses to keep my skills and
knowledge updated as the workplace/technology
is always evolving
o why have you prioritised these needs?

I have prioritised these needs because, that is what I

need to do in order to get a better position in the field I
am seeking to pursue.

5. Available professional development opportunities:

o to conclude, identify development opportunities
you could access to help you achieve personal,
team and organisational goals and objectives.

Development opportunities I could take to achieve

personal, team and organisational goals are:

- taking a course

- talking with others in the field

- having a mentor

- having regular performance appraisals with

managers

- seeking feedback on different tasks completed

- further study

- prioritising

- managing time

- communicating

These are some of the ways that I could undertake in

order to help achieve personal, team and organisational
goals and objectives.

Specifications

Classroom-based learners
• You must complete a word processed report, organised under
the headings provided. Each section should be approximately
300 words in length.
and

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• Your report needs to demonstrate that you have accessed
appropriate information sources on which to build your
opinions and write your report. Your report needs refer to
information gathered to support your arguments.
• The portfolio and journal you are completing for Assessment
Task 1 will need to detail the information sources you access
and your decision making as you complete your report.

Distance-based learners
• Your report must meet the same criteria laid out for
classroom-based learners above. You may submit it by
attaching it to an email, or by any other means your assessor
determines to be suitable.

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