Developing Business Skills through Major Challenges - Google Sites e-Portfolio

Challenges and Business Analysis

To develop a Google Sites e-portfolio as evidence of developing skills and knowledge through the participation in 4 major challenges.  The portfolio will summarise the business angle of each challenge and reflect on the personal skills developed and potential areas for continuous improvement

Develop business skills, including presentation skills, emotional intelligence, meeting skills and use of spreadsheets

The module will be organised around three compulsory challenges to help develop your skills required for success at university.  You must attend and get actively involved in each challenge.

You are required to populate an individual Google Sites e-portfolio to evidence your participation in the Challenges and to reflect on what you have learned through your involvement.  Please see document on VLE for how to create this Google Sites e-portfolio and a separate document on what to include in the e-portfolio.

The design of the e-portfolio is individual and the more creative the better with use of visuals and photos highly advisable to add interest. The e-portfolio must include coverage of the following –

The Challenges:  An analysis of each challenge which focuses on the business angle eg branding, finance, operations. What knowledge did you learn about how businesses actually work?

The Challenges are as follows-:

Apprentice Challenge (during Induction Week)

Presentation Challenge

T-shirt Challenge

The Skills: A reflection on the skills you have demonstrated during the challenges to include the following -

·Communication Skills/ Emotional Intelligence

·Teamwork

·Time Management and meeting skills

·Business skills and competencies developed e.g. presentation skills, use of Excel etc.

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s institutional grading descriptors. A proportion of your marks will also depend upon your use of the Harvard academic referencing conventions.

This assignment will be marked according to the grading descriptors for Level 4 with the grade breakdown as follows -:

You need to submit the “Submission form for e-portfolio” which is found on VLE under Assignment Brief information.  This document must include a link to your e-portfolio.  You must also have shared the folder permissions and e-portfolio with Sarah, Albert and Suzanne. (see Guide to create your portfolio for further information.)

·This submission form should be submitted electronically. Please use the relevant Turnitin submission point in the Submit your work area in your VLE module shell.

·Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment.

Work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be accepted as a late submission. Late submissions will be marked and the actual mark recorded but will be capped at the pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a passing standard. Work submitted after this period will not be marked and will be treated as a non-submission.