5CN010 Academic Leadership and Employment Skills

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the module, you should be able to:

Learning Outcome 1 - You will be able to develop and recommend strategies for the development of group dynamics including displaying team building skills, leadership qualities and self development.

Learning Outcome 2 - You will plan contributions and develop effective solutions to problems within your award discipline.

Learning Outcome 3 - You will produce a career development plan, reflect upon practice and provide improvements and demonstrate results

Learning Outcome 4 - You will be able to provide solutions to construction project problems by analysing information and recommending appropriate technical solutions

Your organisation is to prepare a report to the client describing your proposals and your reasons behind them along with a copy of the planning permission that you are proposing to submit. Remember that you will already have met informally with the client and the issues that were discussed in the meeting need to be reflected in your submission.

1)Prepare a planning application to convert The Apprenticeship Hub into student accommodation.

2)Prepare drawings relating to the proposed development. These should include floor plans drawn to scale and elevations (sketches of elevations will be sufficient) to meet the preferred Client option. You will also need to submit a location plan of the property with the boundaries edged red at a scale of 1:1250. At the same time ensure compliance with statutory requirements relating to access in and around the building, for the less-abled user.

3)Prepare a design and access statement to accompany your planning application.

You are also expected to include within your report to the client, a suitably detailed professional standard cover sheet, introduction to the report and key recommendations for the Client.

In order to help you with the group submission, you will be called to an informal meeting with the Client to discuss your initial findings. The Client is expecting you to lead the meeting and report on your findings prior to submitting the report. There will be a few key questions posed to the group which will help the group reflect on the investigations carried out so far as well as giving the group clear directions for the final submission. It will be very wise to record the main points as these will need to be addressed in your final report following the meeting. Please note for Assignment 1 you will need to include the following items even though the exercise is more of a practical document than an academic one:

(i)An appropriate range of references and bibliography items to indicate the extent of additional research undertaken in preparing the work needs to be included by each group, cited and listed in Harvard style.

(ii)Please make sure any assumptions are clearly stated at the outset of your submission.

Marking Criteria for Assignment 1

·Meeting with client

·Planning Application

·Plans and Drawings

·Design and Access Statement

·Report to Client

·Harvard Referencing and Additional Research

·Individual Reflective Practice Log

Individual Reflective Practice Log details

This part of the assessment forms 10% of Assignment 1. Each student within the group should write, on an individual basis, a one-page reflective practice log which should be submitted on Canvas.

Within the log, each student, on an individual basis, should demonstrate the ability to reflect upon group dynamics and performance.

The reflective log is an individual self-evaluation tool (albeit related to a group activity) and should not be seen by other group members.

Although not in any way prescriptive, the log could include:

Evaluation of individual team members’ performance during group activities

Positive and negative experiences during group activities

How you would change your approach to group working for future projects

How you dealt with allocating activities, meeting deadlines, group disagreement

The workings of the group: good, bad and how you dealt with missed deadlines, perceived poor work and uncooperative group members

Conflict resolution

How learning outcomes 1 and 2 were met.