National Occupational Standards in
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AK3 Develop your own resources and protect the interests of others

AK3.2 Manage your own time and resources to meet your objectives

Performance Required

This will involve

1. ensuring that your objectives are specific, measurable and achievable within organisational constraints
2. prioritising your objectives in line with organisational objectives and policies
3. planning your work activities so that they are consistent with your objectives and your personal resources
4. ensuring that your estimates of the time you need for activities are realistic and allow for unforeseen circumstances
5. delegating work to others in a way which makes the most efficient use of available time and resources
6. taking decisions as soon as you have sufficient information
7. ensuring that when you need further information to take decisions, taking prompt and efficient measures to obtain it
8. minimising unhelpful interruptions to, and digressions from, planned work
9. regularly reviewing progress and reschedule activities to help achieve your planned objectives

Occupational Context

1. Organisational constraints
   • policy
   • resources
   • developmental capacity
   • legal/ political/ ethical/ social/ economic
2. Personal resources
   • time
   • financial
   • work-life balance
   • energy
   • skills and expertise
3. Delegate to
   • team members
   • colleagues working at the same level as yourself
   • support staff where appropriate
   • people outside your organisation

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know and understand how to:

• Delegate work to others and monitor progress
• Assess how much information is required before an effective decision can be taken
• Collect and check the validity of the information required for decision-making
• Set objectives for yourself which are specific, measurable and achievable
• Plan activities so that they are consistent with known priorities and your own resources
• Estimate the amount of time required to carry out planned activities
• Identify and minimise unhelpful interruptions to planned work

You need to know about:

Monitoring and evaluation

• The importance of regular reviews of activity and rescheduling of work to achieve planned objectives

Planning

• The kind of contingencies which may occur and how to assess and plan for these.

Time management

• The importance of effective time management to managerial competence

Required Skills

You should demonstrate:

• Time management
• Delegation
• Self assessment
• Planning and organisation
• Resource management

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can manage your own time and resources to meet your objectives

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

• manage your own time and resources to meet your objectives

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

Evidence Rules

N/A

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