Personal Management Skills

Personal Management Skills

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Assessment 2 – Major Essay (40%) Becoming a global manager – Personal management skills analysis and plan In this assignment you are asked to evaluate your managerial skills and create a plan for developing them in the future, in an essay format. Submission Information Weighting This assignment accounts for 40% of the assessment in this unit. Date/Week 2359pm Sunday 14th May 2017 Time Midnight on due date Place Blackboard via Turnitin Format Essay of 2750 words (plus or minus 10% is generally considered acceptable in academic work). Please indicate the word count on the first page of your assignment. Learning Outcomes and Graduate Attributes Completing this assignment will help you: • develop and communicate your understanding of your knowledge and skills for managing; and • develop strategies for improving your managerial knowledge and skills, including indigenous cultural competence where relevant. It will also help you develop the ECU Graduate Attributes: • ability to communicate clearly and effectively • ability to think critically • ability to generate ideas • mindset that is both cross-cultural and international in outlook. Preparation Before starting, you should make sure you understand the difference between this and other assignments. The focus here is on assessing your skills and competencies for managing and planning to develop them in the future. This requires understanding what management involves (how it is defined and understood in academic writing), what you currently think of your skills and abilities, and how you could develop them in the future. Instructions In a critical essay you are asked to present your viewpoint and to argue for it. This means giving evidence or justification for your conclusions (in this case your plan), and being clear where the evidence or arguments are uncertain or raise further questions.