Chartered Management Institute Approved Centre

Candidates are to write an essay of between 2500 and 3000 words excluding appendices about how to improve their own management and leadership skills and competencies to help meet your performance objectives. You should also write about how you develop effective working relationships to help you deal with a variety of situations in the workplace which will require you to support and promote staff welfare. Your essay should be based on research, investigation and analysis which you have carried out yourself making sure that you acknowledge sources and include appropriate references, bibliography and appendices in support of your investigation and argument.

The essay should answer the following questions demonstrating your knowledge and understanding of the topics covered by this unit.

1. Identify the importance of continual self-development in achieving organisation objectives. Also assess your current skills and competencies against your defined role requirements and the organisational objectives.

2. Construct a personal development plan including achievable but challenging goals, you must also identify the development opportunities to meet the current and defined needs.

3. Identify the resources required to support the personal development plan and develop a business case to secure the resources required to support the personal development plan. You should then review and update the personal development plan.

4. Discuss the processes needed for you to be able to implement your personal development plan and evaluate the impact it will have on your achievement of define role requirements and organisational objectives.

5. Discuss the relationship between staff welfare and organisational objectives and explain the process for assessing staff welfare. Also explain the actions to be taken by a manager in dealing with a staff welfare issue.

6. Discuss how to communicate the responsibilities for staff welfare to the team and discuss records that may be maintained to demonstrate that staff welfare is supported.

General Instructions

When you present your work for assessment, the completed and signed statement of authenticity must be attached. Your Tutor will then countersign this before it is submitted for assessment.

PLEASE NOTE THAT NO PROJECTS OR ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE MARKED UNTIL EVERY CANDIDATE HAS HANDED IN THEIR WORK. IT IS IMPORTANT THEREFORE TO KEEP TO THE DEADLINE AS A LATE SUBMISSION WILL AFFECT OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COURSE.

To be awarded a pass you must be successful (pass) in each section of the assignment. If your assignment is assessed as unsatisfactory, notification will be given to you by your tutor, with an indication of the shortfalls in it. You may resubmit the assignment, or submit a new assignment, on up to two occasions during your period of enrolment with the CMI. If there is anything in these instructions or in the assignment itself which you do not understand, please seek guidance from your tutor.

Candidate statement of authenticity:

I confirm that the attached completed assignment is all my own work, and does not include any work completed by anyone other than myself. I have completed the assignment in accordance with the Institute’s instructions and within the time limits set by my Centre.

Centre confirmation of authenticity:

On behalf of Cofley Fabricom GDF Suez, I confirm that the above mentioned candidate:

Is registered at this Centre on a programme of study leading to the Chartered Management Institute Extended Diploma in Management and Leadership (Level 5)

Was given instructions to complete this assignment between the 13th May 15 and the 26th June 15, and has handed in the completed assignment within the time allowed.

The candidate is, to the best of my knowledge, the sole author of the completed assignment attached.

The right-hand column, enter the page number, section and/or paragraph where you believe you have met the Learning Outcome that is being assessed in this piece of work. Enter “Not Assessed” for Learning Outcomes that are not covered by the work you are submitting. ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS/ LEARNING OUTCOMES

Where Learning Outcome is met: (Page, Section, Para etc)
Be able to assess and plan for personal professional development. Identify the importance of continual self-development in achieving organisational objectives. Assess current skill and competencies against defined role requirements and organisational objectives 1.2 Identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs

 Construct a personal development plan with achievable but challenging goals.

Be able to plan for the resources required for personal professional development. Identify the resources required to support the personal development plan. 2.2 Develop a business case to secure the resources to support the personal development plan

Be able to implement and evaluate the personal development plan. Discuss the processes required to implement the personal development plan. 3.2 Evaluate the impact of the personal development plan on the achievement of defined role requirements and organisational objectives. 3.3 Review and update the personal development plan.

Be able to support and promote staff welfare.
Discuss the relationship between staff welfare and organisation objectives. Explain the process for assessing staff welfare
Explain the actions to be taken by the manager in dealing with a staff welfare issue.  Describe how to communicate responsibilities for staff welfare to the team. Discuss records that may be maintained to demonstrate that staff welfare is supported.