Demonstrate a high level of knowledge and understanding of the hard and soft skills of employability; demonstrating a range of work-based competencies

Learning Outcomes:
After completing the module, you should be able to:
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Demonstrate a high level of knowledge, skills and competences required for management and leadership, and for personal and professional development, and processes for developing them.
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Demonstrate a high level of knowledge and understanding of the hard and soft skills of employability; demonstrating a range of work-based competencies including the ability to work in teams and other general interpersonal skills such as leadership and report writing skills.
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Demonstrate skills in using a range of reflective models to reflect on decisions, behaviours and actions to inform future personal, professional and leadership development for contemporary managers.
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Critically analyse factors that influence career development such as complex political and socio-economic considerations, drawing from personal experience.
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(GA) Contextually innovative: through applying skills of critical, creative, and evidenced based analysis and/or personal reflection to current real-world situations and future challenges.You have completed your MBA program, and you are now in the process of applying for a senior consultancy position at the CPD Certification Service which was established in 1996 and has now positioned itself as the world`s leading and largest independent CPD accreditation institution operating across all industry sectors. As part of your interview, you are expected to submit a portfolio of evidence demonstrating your academic writing and employability skills. Use the tasks below as a guide to compile the portfolio of evidence needed for this role:
Assignment Task
Part 1-Report:
Worth 50% of your overall grade for this module
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Carry out a critical review of continuous professional development activities and skills needed for contemporary managers; this should be informed by academic literature and otherwise authoritative professional sources.
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Critically evaluate the importance of contemporary managers using a structured model of reflection to reflect (such as Gibbs reflective cycle, Kolb reflective cycle and Driscoll model) on ways of improving their employability skills.