Course Description (1) : MGT 203: Professional Development
Course Description (1) : MGT 203: Professional Development
Course description(1)
designed to introduce students to a range of business skills including interpersonal, oral and written communication, time management, problem solving using creativity and lateral thinking and information gathering. It provides an opportunity for them to practise these skills at an introductory level.
Course description(2)
Through the introduction to ideas on learning theory and the development of the Personal Portfolio students are encouraged to attempt to understand their own learning experience and are also introduced to the skills of analysis and self evaluation.
Course description(3)
The importance of developing skills as a preparation for business is emphasised and students are given advise on preparing for the job seeking process and career development.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The aims of this course are to enable student to: introduce students a range of personal and interpersonal skills provide opportunities for students to practice some of them inform students of the importance of these skills in a business context assist students in making considered option and career choices
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Successful students will be able to: retrieve, use, analyse and evaluate secondary data from the library and a range of other sources including from websites design a poster, 3D model or artifact to be displayed in the presentation analyse and evaluate their Personal Development Portfolio with the results of a range of Psychometric instruments on learning styles and strategies, personality and behaviour produce a personal SWOT/ SWAIN analysis and identify and evaluate possible personal learning strategies prepare and rehearse material for group presentation to be presented in front of the peers communicate effectively verbally by making an effective presentation to their peers
STUDENT EVALUATION
REFERENCES
Cameron, S. 2002. Business Students Handbook. 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall Other appropriate references and websites.
Students are required to include a bibliography for every assignment. 100% Coursework: 70% Individual Assignment and 30% Group Assignment (15% Research project report of 2,500 words with the appendices and references, 15% group presentation with visual aids for public exhibition).
Business skills
Interpersonal skills Communication skills Presentation skills Time management skills Research skills Information gathering skills Creativity skills Report and essay writing skills Problem solving skills
Be responsible Be respectful Keep a balance between your studies and your leisure Join in Keep us informed
E.g. If you are ill or for any other reason that affects you personally or studies
So, Challenge
Whatever you hear Whatever you read Whatever I say
always
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
Research skills
Formulating a research topic How to go about the research Questionnaire design Basic data analysis How to present data
How to write
Management reports Essays Issues
Plagiarism Harvard referencing Proof reading Spell-checking
Written Reports
The three main purposes of report writing:
1 2 3
Difficult to read
Verbs mainly passive, Sentences long and involved, Excessive use of special vocabulary.
Count the number of words of 3+ syllables Count the number of sentences Divide the number of 3+ syllable words by the number of sentences
4-5 6+
Dear Sirs, I am sorry to say that we have lost the statement and summary enclosed with your cheque for 1000 sent on 26th July. Since we need these particulars for tax purposes, I should be grateful if you would send us a copy when making the next payment due on 30th November. Yours faithfully,
DRAFTING
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Personal/management development
FITness and the secret of the universe
Responsibility Ethics Balance Fearlessness Awareness
Learning styles
We all have different ways of learning Teachers have different ways of teaching How do we cope with the misfit between the two?
Leads to:
Greater efficiency Stress management strategies
Communication
Your ability to communicate in both a written and oral manner will to a large extent how successful you are:
At university At work and socially
Presentations
You will all be required to provide a presentation to the teaching team and your peers. Yes it might seem scary We will help you to de-scare it
Group processes
In organisations, people spend most of their time in groups Groups are the fundamental building blocks of organisations There are however issues which inhibit group productivity
Coursework(1)
You MUST attend lectures/tutorials You will be put into groups
4 or 5 people in a group For the first of two assignments Assignment one
A RESEARCH PROJECT supported by, A GROUP PRESENTATION
Coursework(2)
Individual Assignment (70%)
Assignment 1: Study Plan (20%) Assignment 2: Career Plan (30%) Assignment 3: Mock Interview (20%) Refer to the individual uploaded assignment component.