Developing personal and interpersonal skills for effective teamwork: Reflective Journal and Personal

Understanding the range of personal and interpersonal skills and knowledge required for effective teamwork

1.Demonstrate an understanding of the range of personal and interpersonal skills and knowledge required to work effectively with others

2.Apply a range of approaches to develop your self-awareness and self-confidence within diverse teams and contexts

Reflective Journal including a personal development plan.

a)A brief commentary that explains how your amendments have addressed the feedback comments received on the first submission of work

b)Introduction and brief evaluation of psychological approaches to understanding self and others in the workplace

c)3 x Reflective journals comprising 3 core skills from the list provided –. You must choose 3 core skills and complete a pro-forma for each one of these skills.

d)Summary Action Plan: Identify and reflect of 3 areas for development. Please ensure that the chosen areas were identified from one or more of the four reflective journals

How we will support you with your assessment

You will receive formative feedback during the module in the form of:

·Formative feedback on one draft reflective journal entry (provided by your Tutor and peers) in Week 8

·Opportunities for reflection and reflective writing during your seminars

·Links to the assessment throughout your seminars and team-building session specifically

·Assignment hand-in checklist

·Team-building exercises

·Directed study reflections on learning

·Feedback/guidance on your self-assessment findings in seminars

·FAQs on Moodle

How will your work be assessed?

Your work will be assessed by your module tutor who will use the marking grid provided in this assessment brief. Specifically, we will be looking out for your ability to a) reflective using reflective models/theory;

b) identify and correctly reference the self-assessment tools you have used; c) and, lastly your use of in-text citations and correctly referenced (Harvard) sources of evidence. Feedback will be structured in terms of the ‘Stop, Start, Continue’ approach.  When you access your marked work it is important that you reflect on the feedback so that you can use it to improve future assignments

You MUST use the Harvard System.  The Harvard System is very easy to use once you have become familiar with it.

The Business School requires a digital version of all assignment submissions.  These must be submitted via Turnitin on the module’s Moodle site.  They must be submitted as a Word file (not as a pdf) and must not include scanned in text or text boxes.  They must be submitted by 2pm on the given date.  For further general details on coursework preparation refer to the online information via StudentZone http://studentzone.roehampton.ac.uk/howtostudy/index.html

Mitigating circumstances/what to do if you cannot submit a piece of work or attend your presentation

The University Mitigating Circumstances Policy can be found on the University website – Mitigating Circumstances Policy

Between you handing in your work and then receiving your feedback and marks within 20 days, there are a number of quality assurance processes that we go through to ensure that students receive marks which reflects their work. A brief summary is provided below.

·Step One – The module and marking team meet to agree standards, expectations and how feedback will be provided.

·Step Two – A subject expert will mark your work using the criteria provided in the assessment brief.

·Step Three – A moderation meeting takes place where all members of the teaching and marking team will review the marking of others to confirm whether they agree with the mark and the feedback that has been provided.

·Step Four – Work at Levels 5 and 6 then goes to an external examiner who will review a sample of work to confirm that the marking between different staff is consistent and fair and then we engage with external examiners who moderate the marking further.

·Step Five – Your mark and feedback is processed by the Office and made available to you