COM10011 Innovative Business

COM10011 Innovative Business
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Step 1: What are your strengths and areas of expertise?

Using the findings from the pre-work and any supporting literature, describe your key strengths and areas of expertise. What did you learn about your core characteristics, your emotional intelligence, listening skills and your personal values? This will form Section 2.0 in your report.

Step 2: Develop a ‘future self’ LinkedIn profile

Identify three entrepreneurs or business leaders who you aspire to be like. You will paste copies of their LinkedIn profiles into the report as Appendix 1.

Reflect on the LinkedIn profiles you have collected. Identify three key elements to having a powerful and effective LinkedIn profile, and why you aspire to be like your chosen entrepreneurs or business leaders. You will use this reflection as part of Section 3.0 of your report.

Think about where you would like to be five years in the future. Start by identifying what experiences, skills and knowledge you would like your ‘future self’ to have. Imagine what the LinkedIn profile of your future self would look like. Using some of the elements that you identified as making a strong LinkedIn profile, write a mock-up LinkedIn profile that inspires you. Be sure that your ‘future self’ LinkedIn profile has:

captured the essence of Brand ‘You’ with the key strengths you have developed

a list of the professional experiences you have gained

organisations you have volunteered for

professional associations of which you are a member

notable achievements.

This profile will form Section 4.0 My future self in your report.

Step 3: A Development Action Plan (DAP)

Complete the Employability Skills Audit (Table 1 in Section 5.1 of your report). Take particular note of any areas you identify as needing further development in the final column of the report. This table will not form part of your final word count.

Use the Employability Skills Audit table (in particular where you answered ‘YES’ in the final column) to prepare a Development Action Plan (Table 2 in Section 5.2 of your report).

The aim of your DAP is to help your future self become a reality. You need to identify the skills, knowledge and experiences you feel that you need to gain or develop over the next few years in order to have the future self profile of which you will be proud. Take a look at the following student exemplar at an HD standard: DAP Exemplar (DOC 38 KB).

Your DAP will form part of your final word count.

Step 4: Reflect

Write a reflection on what you have learned in this unit and everything you have learned about yourself from the previous sections of the report including:

your personal strengths and areas of expertise (from Section 2.0)

what makes a good LinkedIn profile (from Section 3.0)

what skills and experiences you want to gain over the coming years (from Section 4.0)

how this unit has assisted you to identify your personal strengths and inspired your personal and professional development (from Section 5.0).