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AK3 Develop your own resources and protect the interests of others

AK3.1 Develop yourself to improve your performance

Performance Required

This will involve

1. assessing your performance and identifying your development needs at appropriate intervals
2. basing your assessment on your current objectives and likely future requirements
3. ensuring that your assessment takes account of the skills you need to work effectively with other team members
4. ensuring that your plans for personal development are consistent with the needs you have identified and the resources available
5. ensuring that your plans for personal development contain specific, measurable, realistic and challenging objectives
6. obtaining support from relevant people to help you create learning opportunities
7. undertaking development activities which are consistent with your plans for personal development
8. obtaining feedback from relevant people and using it to enhance your performance in the future
9. updating your plans for personal development at appropriate intervals.

Occupational Context

1. Assessments take account of:
   • work objectives
   • personal objectives
   • organisational policies and requirements
2. Future requirements
   • for information
   • for technology
   • for learning, education
   • for training and skills
   • for professional development
3. Relevant people
   • team members
   • colleagues working at the same level as yourself
   • higher-level managers or sponsors
   • specialists

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know and understand how to:

• Assess your own current level of competence
• Develop a personal action plan for learning and self-development with realistic but challenging objectives
• Identify the need for support, select an appropriate source and obtain required help
• Assess your personal progress and update your plans accordingly

You need to know about:

Communication

• The importance of getting feedback from others on your performance and how to encourage, enable and use such feedback in a constructive manner

Management competence

• The principal skills required for effective managerial performance
• The types of interpersonal skills required for effective team work

Organisational context

• The current and likely future requirements and standards within your job role and how they correspond to your level of competence as a manager
• Appropriate people from whom to get feedback on your performance

Training and development

• The importance of continuing self-development to managerial competence
• The types of support which may be available from your team members, colleagues, line managers and specialists
• The types of development activities and their relative advantages and disadvantages to your own situation

Required Skills

You should demonstrate:

• Self assessment
• Critical evaluation of performance

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can develop yourself to improve your performance

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore how they:

• develop yourself to improve your performance

Observation of the candidate or witness testimony will be essential as evidence of performance

Documentary evidence may be presented in the form of a personal development plan, appraisal documentation, etc.

Evidence Rules

N/A

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