Assessment Guidance for Personal Effectiveness Report Coursework Submission

1. General Assessment Guidance
Your summative assessment for this module is made up of this Coursework submission which accounts for 100% of the marks.
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A total of 100 marks are available for this module assessment, and you are required to achieve minimum 50% to pass this module.
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The required submission for this assignment is a 3500-word business report. Students are required to complete TWO tasks:
Evaluate the personal effectiveness strategies of Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Google, and
Discuss how you intend to apply personal effectiveness principles your own personal development
The Learning Outcomes that you have to meet in order to pass this assessment are:
(LO1) Critically evaluate how people learn for professional development.
(LO2) Appraise the key skills and behaviours required to be effective in a professional context.
(LO3) Demonstrate understanding of how to be successful in a competitive job market.

Your management report should contain the following:

a) A brief introduction giving:

A definition of Personal Effectiveness
An explanation of the importance of Personal Effectiveness to professional development
An overview of the main body of report, which MUST mention the key points of task b (case study review) and c (reflective statement) below (5 marks)
b) Case Study Review: a critical evaluation of Sundar Pichai’s skills and behaviours In this section you must:
Present an outline of Sundar Pichai’s key skills and behaviours
Discuss and give examples of Sundar Pichai’s positive qualities and the effects they have
Discuss and give examples of Sundar Pichai’s negative qualities and the effects they have For your critical evaluation you must link the outline, positive qualities and negative qualities to at least TWO theoretical frameworks covered in this module, e.g. Covey’s 7 Habits, the CEO Genome Project, the CMI Code of Conduct or others (This task meets LO1 and LO2)
c) Reflective Statement: an analysis of your personal skills and behaviours, with a plan to improve on your weaknesses
In this section you must conduct a self-assessment test using any self-assessment tool from the Topic Workbooks:

Summarise the results of your self-assessment test, explaining your key weaknesses as identified by the test
Discuss the effect these weaknesses have on your employability prospects
Present a clear and structured plan to improve on these weaknesses
Critically evaluate the impact of your planned improvements on your professional development
For your critical evaluation you must link your key weaknesses, their effects and the plan to improve on them to at least TWO theoretical frameworks covered in this module, e.g. Covey’s 7.