M1.8 – Work Placement 1

M1.8 – Work Placement 1

Competences:

• Evaluate own work placement experience
• Identify ways to apply a pro-active approach and use own initiative at the work placement organisation
• Solicit and act upon feedback for self-development
• Apply a range of strategies to integrate and contribute effectively to the workplace team

Knowledge:

• An understanding of the work environment
• Ways of researching the placement organisation and generating an organisational profile
• The key steps to planning and executing work tasks
• Understanding of own role, fit and contribution within the placement organisation

Skills:

Applying knowledge and understanding

• Analyse the placement organisation using at least two models and/or theories and academic research to support findings
• Assess current personal strengths and weaknesses in relation to the workplace organisation
• Assess work-related internal challenges encountered at the placement organisation
• Assess work-related internal relationship challenges encountered at the placement organisation
• Develop strategies to overcome work and relationship challenges

Judgement skills and critical abilities

• Reflect on at least three skills developed during the work placement experience
• Justify time management strategies used

Module-Specific Communication Skills

• Use relevant and appropriate terminology when discussing and exchanging views in a business context.
• Communicate and articulate their ideas clearly in writing and orally.
• Confidently give a formal presentation to a variety of audiences

Module-Specific Learner Skills

• Develop work-related goals and action setting
• Appropriately and accurately apply the Harvard referencing system.
• Acknowledge all sources of information
• Individually carry out further research in this area

Module-Specific Digital Skills and Competences

• Search, gather, communicate and share related information using digital resources
• Identify reliable, authoritative, and current digital sources