Assessment Task 3:

Develop and maintain professional competence

Performance objective

The candidate (you) will demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to develop and maintain professional competence.

Assessment description

You will develop a professional development plan with career objectives and an action plan. To assist in the development of your plan, you are required to seek feedback on your professional competency. You are required to keep a journal containing your refection on, and explanation of, the process of planning professional development

Procedure

1. Assess your personal knowledge and skills against competency standards such as enterprise specific competencies or nationally endorsed units of competency.  In your journal, describe the process you undertook to assess your professional competency.

2. Meet with two people who are familiar with your work and can assess aspects of your professional competency, such as employees, colleagues, clients or supervisors to seek feedback on your work performance. Take notes to submit as evidence of your meeting.  In your journal, describe the meeting, and the questioning and active listening techniques you used to elicit the feedback.

3. Using the template provided in Appendix 1, develop a professional development plan. You should include:

a. development opportunities, such as training; include opportunities to undertake within one year and within five years

b. new skills you aim to acquire to achieve or maintain a competitive edge

c. planned participation in networks or professional associations to enhance professional development

d. timeframes in which to achieve development opportunities, new skills, participation in networks

4. In your journal, you should discuss:

a. how you analysed and applied feedback to your professional 

b. development plan

c. the process you undertook to identify, evaluate and select the development opportunities included in your professional development plan – discuss learning styles and application to your planning

d. new skills you plan to acquire – explain how acquiring these skills will provide a competitive edge

e. examples of networking you have undertaken or are currently undertaking to enhance knowledge, skills or work relationships

f. how these plans align to relevant organisational policies and procedures and how they align to organisational goals and your work role

5. Submit your professional development plan, feedback notes and journal to your assessor as per the specifications below. Ensure you keep a copy of all work submitted for your records