1594486716575-31009-Unit 03 - Professional Practice-Holistic Assignment (K.sathurcigan)
1594486716575-31009-Unit 03 - Professional Practice-Holistic Assignment (K.sathurcigan)
1594486716575-31009-Unit 03 - Professional Practice-Holistic Assignment (K.sathurcigan)
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Unit 03: Professional Practice
Assignment 01
General Guidelines
1. A cover page or title page should be attached to your assignment. Use page 1 of this assignment
brief as your cover page and make sure all details are accurately filled.
2. The entire assignment brief should be attached as the first section of your assignment.
3. The assignment should be prepared using a word processing software.
4. The assignment should be word processing in an A4 sized paper.
5. Allow 1” margin on top, bottom and right sides of the paper and 1.25” on the left side (for binding).
1. The font size should be 12 point, and should be in the style of Time New Roman.
2. Set line spacing to 1.5. Justify all paragraphs.
3. Ensure that all headings are consistent in terms of size and font style.
4. Use footer function on the word processor to insert your name, unit, assignment no, and page
number on each page. This is useful if individual sheets get detached from the submission.
5. Use the spell check and grammar check function of the word processing application to review the
use of language on your assignment.
Important Points:
1. Carefully check carefully the hand in date and the instructions given with the assignment. Late
submissions will not be accepted.
2. Ensure that sufficient time is spent to complete the assignment by the due date.
3. Do not wait till the last minute to get feedback on the assignment. Such excuses will not be
accepted for late submissions.
4. You must be responsible for efficient management of your time.
5. If you are unable to hand in your assignment on time and have valid reasons such as illness, you
may apply (in writing) for an extension.
6. Failure to achieve at least a PASS grade will result in a REFERRAL grade.
7. Non-submission of work without valid reasons will lead to an automatic REFERRAL. You will then
be asked to complete an alternative assignment.
8. If you use other people’s work or ideas in your assignment, it must be properly referenced, using
the HARVARD referencing system, in your text or any bibliography. Otherwise, you’ll be found
guilty of committing plagiarism.
9. If you are caught plagiarising, your grade will be reduced to a REFERRAL or at worst, you could be
excluded from the course.
Student Declaration
I hereby, declare that I know what plagiarism entails, namely to use another’s work and to present it as
my own without attributing the sources in the correct form. I further understand what it means to copy
another’s work.
Submission format
The submission is in the form of an individual written report about. This should be written in a
concise, formal business style using single spacing and font size 12. You are required to make use
of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate, and all work must be supported with
research and referenced using the Harvard referencing system. Please also provide an end list of
references using the Harvard referencing system. Please note that this is an activity-based
assessment where your document submission should include evidences of activities carried out
and of team working. To carry out activities given on the brief, you are required to form groups,
comprising not exceeding 15 individuals.
The recommended word count is 4,000–4,500 words for the report excluding annexures. Note
that word counts are indicative only and you would not be penalised for exceeding the word
count.
Unit Learning Outcomes:
Follow the guidelines given below assuming that you have recently joined as a
management trainee at a non-for profit organization, which is specializing in Soft
Skills and Information Technology development in the local community.
Scenario:
• You have been asked to support your training and development executive
with the planning and implementation of a professional development
event targeted at a suitable audience to develop their soft skills and/or
Information Technology related skills. Assume that you have to complete
the design and delivery within a period of three months.
• The training event you are to design can be scheduled to be delivered over
a single or multiple sessions based on the requirements given by the target
audience at a location agreeable to the target audience.
• The training programme you develop can include a number of workshops,
coaching sessions and team-building activities. The institution/audience
you are planning to conduct the programme for would require a schedule
of the types of activities proposed so that plans can be finalised.
Working in small groups (Not exceeding 15 individuals per group):
Working individually:
• Following the event, your training and development executive has asked
you to provide some feedback and include it in your “Work Related
Learning Report”. In the report, produce a written evaluation of the
effectiveness and application of interpersonal skills during the design and
delivery process. You should also include an evaluation of your
performance in this project and evaluate your contribution to the team you
worked with. Further, assume that you have been asked by the training
and development executive to produce evidence in the report that you
have designed and delivered the training event based on the dynamics of
team working.
• The report you produce also should have section allocated to discussing
problem solving and its importance in planning and running the event you
have conducted. Your report should include a discussion of various
problem-solving techniques and justify the solution methodologies used
during your project. You should also include a critique of the application of
critical reasoning and your experiences of it.
• Having completed the Training Event Management project, you now need
to reflect on your experience and consider your Continuous Professional
Development (CPD) needs add a section on the to your “Work Related
Learning Report” containing following subsections.
a. Consider your personal and/or career goals and identify your CPD
needs and what actions would put you in a position to achieve these
goals. Produce a development plan outlining your future goals and
identifying how these can be realised.
b. Conduct some research into motivational theories and how they can
be used to improve employee performance. Compare a number of
theories and report on them.
c. Write a section on the usage of CPD within organisations and what
evidence would be required to measure how effective this CPD is in
helping employees achieve their goals while using their time and
resources effectively.
Grading Rubric
As specially taught the professional practise course and helped to solve all doubts concerning
the lesson of the students also helped to make the professional practise assignment systematic
through her help, for these things Susmitha miss I extend my sincere gratitude.
Table of Tables........................................................................................................................... 7
1.0 The training event - Video games are an employing industry ............................................. 8
1.2.3 Video games are an employing industry training event schedule ........................... 13
Self-Criticism ........................................................................................................................... 44
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................... 45
References ................................................................................................................................ 47
1.1 Introduction
One of our hobbies is video games, which is a favourite activity for most people. The video
game gives a very different feel from music and film. This is why most boys are attracted to
video games. But in the beginning, no one knows about the hidden opportunities in the video
game. Originally seen as a casual hobby, the video game has grown into a very popular game
industry due to the people’s interest in that. There are currently thousands of games producing
companies worldwide. Also, the video game has employed tens of thousands. Video games
have grown into a large video game industry in the last 60 years.
The beginning of all great events is a small activity. The beginning of the video game, as well
as a simple video game called Tennis for two. And Tetris is the first mobile game, Space war
is the first computer game. All of the video games that were originally installed were very
low graphics and simple compared to the current video game. The first reason for the
advancement of video games in computers, mobile, play station, etc., is that people are
interested in video games and another reason is technological advances.
(Microsoft Devices Team, 2013 )
However, the hard work of the workers in the video game industry is the main reason for the
growth of the video game. One of the reasons that these workers are engaged in the video game
is money and workers are interested in video games. That is why workers also able to create
innovative different video games. This is why everyone working in the video game industry is
a part of its success.
Despite the tremendous growth reached in the video game industry, there is no complete
knowledge of the video game among our countrymen. That’s why people see video games as
just a simple hobby but people don’t understand the hidden employment. There is no doubt
when people realize this, people will not only recognize the video game but also will like to
work on the video game industry.
Jobs Qualifications
Game Developer • Degree in Computer science
Understand the broad vision of game creators and have
the technical expertise to implement that.
Artist • Bachelor of the Game Art and Design (Online
course)
Experience with game or art, or training
Animator • A bachelor’s degree is common, but a high school
diploma, experience, and technical skills are
sufficient.
Audio engineer Music, Computer science, and Electrical engineering.
Game Designer • Bachelor’s degree in Video game design or
Computer science, a high school diploma is a
minimum requirement.
Professional gamer • Bachelor’s degree in Game development, Computer
science, Object-oriented programming.
(Careeraddict, 2019)
The video game industry provides employment based on these qualifications. With the
inadequate knowledge of the video game industry in our country, students are less likely to
choose this profession. This situation will change when students become fully aware of that.
With this in mind, our group has chosen this topic. Our main purpose is to provide students
with a description of the video game department.
Communication is the transfer of information from one group or person to another group or
person. Everyone has a unique communication style because this is varying from person to
person. This communication style is changing day by day because the world is improving every
day. An example of this is the fact that information shared by letter in the past is currently being
transmitted in the form of SMS. Both are examples of how the communication style varies
between two persons.
How information is communicated varies from person to person and the way the person
understands the information varies accordingly. That’s, attempts to clarify each person’s
thoughts to the next person vary from person to person. However, information the
communication style is classified as four according to some common features of the exchange.
Verbal, nonverbal, written, and visual are the four classified communication styles.
Verbal communication is a type of speech that is like a memorized speech because that has no
facial expressions or gestures. That is, information reaches out to others through mere
negotiation. But having nonverbal communication facial expressions and gestures makes
communication easier than verbal communication. Which like how an actor conveys
information, not by word of mouth, but through body language and facial expressions. That’s
why nonverbal communication is much clearer to people than verbal communication. Written
communication is the conveying of information into a font. Similarly, visual communication
is a way of sharing information with the help of videos, photos, and graphs. This is as effective
as nonverbal communication.
(SkillsYouNeed, 2011 - 2020)
Time management is the process of dividing the activity into parts and determining their
deadlines and executing the stated function on time. Using this, even the biggest events can be
easily accomplished on time. Time management helps protect their reputations by making their
work easier and efficient. That’s why this is seen as the most important of the big companies
and the main reason for their improvement.
A project schedule is like a schedule, that had divided the work into several parts and there
would be stored information about the group or person to be executed. This saves job-related
information, thus minimizing the forgot of important functions in the job. This helps to make
the job more efficient. As the above work is divided into parts, that is easy to identify which
parts of the job will be corrected in the event of a mistake.
Upon completion of the job, the next job will be divided into parts and automatically updated
for each person or group. This is easy to instruct on the task through this system, as this can be
explained to the person or group responsible for each area, as well as to the other person or
group. This makes the job easier to manage. Large companies can utilize this method to
accomplish jobs and improve themselves. A project schedule like this helps to perform larger
tasks.
Gantt chart
Table 2 Gantt chart
1 Mar 2020 8 Mar 2020 15 Mar 2020 22 Mar 2020 29 Mar 2020
ID
Basic Gantt Chart
Task Name Start Finish Duration
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
This is a Gantt chart for our presentation. Due to the making presentation time what are the
activities that happened details show on this chart.
A stakeholder is a part of the action, who may affect or can benefit from that action. Common
examples of stakeholders include employees, customers, shareholders, suppliers, communities,
and governments. The stakeholders are the most important for probably finish anything.
(CFI Education Inc., 2015 to 2020)
Figure 4 Stakeholders
Our team and Esoft resources are included in internal stakeholders. Because these Take part in
prepare the presentation. Whoever benefits from this presentation is included in external
stakeholders. This is expressed by the graph above.
First, two topics related to information technology were selected. Then everyone was allowed
to choose topics students thought were relevant to them. Accordingly, the students were divided
into groups. Subsequently, all of us who chose our topic (Video games are an employing
industry) collectively shared the positions of chairman, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and
member.
Then the responsibilities of everyone was discussed. Finally, everyone shared information on
how to reveal our topic to the congregation and the benefits and detriment in our title. Our
group discussion came to an end after discussing what should be said about the topic in the
assignment.
Getting everyone’s phone numbers, our group leader formed a WhatsApp group called Gaming
PP. This group helped share information on ways to gather information for assignments and
presentations. Through this, everyone was able to share responsibilities more easily. So, the
WhatsApp group was found to be very effective in gathering information about assignments
and presentations.
Interpersonal skill is the basic nature of all. interpersonal skill varies from person to person.
This will help you deal with others more effectively and solve problems more easily.
Teamwork can be accomplished efficiently through interpersonal skills. Helps communicate
with all in group activities and helps to create understanding among the member.
1. Group-based:
• Communication skills: - As a result, members were able to interact naturally and express
their views effectively.
• Emotional intelligence: - This ability enabled them to identify the moods of the members
and make them did their activities with happiness.
• Team-working: - This ability enables us to work with everyone at all times. This is the
most important nature of group activities.
• Negotiation - This skill helped to make the best decision when the problem comes to
teamwork.
• Persuasion - This skill enabled them to continue to do their best more, through give their
appreciation to the efforts of others.
• Influencing skill - This ability has helped to solve problems that arise by interacting
naturally with everyone.
• Conflict resolution - This ability enabled team members to work together to solve personal
problems and to finish the presentation promptly.
• Problem-solving - This ability has helped to identify the problem and resolve that properly.
• Decision making - This ability, helped to make the best decisions possible to achieve the
goal.
These skills enabled the team to work more efficiently and achieve the desired result.
• Emotional intelligence - This ability helped me to understand and act on the mindset of
others.
• Team working - This ability, along with my team members, enabled me to create a
successful presentation.
• Negotiation - This ability enabled work together with group members, like teamwork.
• Persuasion - This ability helped me to continually motivate and give the instruction about
the goal to my team members when members have negative thoughts.
• Influencing skill - This ability gave me the ability to work with other members of friends
in a short period.
• Conflict resolution - This ability helped to find special solutions in case of problems.
• Problem-solving - This ability has helped me to solve problems on the part of mine and
others.
• Decision making - This gave me the ability to make the right decision from the opinions
of others.
Analytical has some special skills such as contrasting, comparing, ordering, selecting, and
evaluating. This gives a logical structure for problem-solving and helps get the best alternative
to reduce the possibilities, which is a sequential activity. Analytical thinking frequently takes
a big part in solve shut issues, where the numerous potential causes should find and must be
analysed to locate genuine reasons.
Creative thinking is different from analytical thinking, mostly the imagination related thoughts
are used for deciding here. In case this will create the thought like unusual or non-related for
the problem at the beginning. so, if want to get the final decision, don't think about the unusual
and have to check the problem deeply.
At the presentation heading selection time, our group faced a big problem that is how to put
heads in the presentation. which means, all members of the group already selected the content,
but no one has an idea about what is our main heading of presentation. That time brainstorming
method was helped us.
Step 03 - After, allowed everyone to give their ideas in our WhatsApp group.
SWOT means Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. This is mostly used to find
where to start the business, at the same in helping to make the right decision. This is utilized
for easily deciding if there more different ideas in the environment. An example of this method
follows.
Our group members already decided, if our group present any presentation, that should be
related to the Gaming. But the lecturers or others don't like to allow to present a gaming-related
thing. So, our group has to make some changes to the main heading of the presentation. When
making changes on that, some doubts created about the fit of the heading. How to solve this
problem through this SWOT analysis method is given below.
Finally, a heading gave satisfaction to everyone. So that was chosen as our presentation's
heading. That is Video games are an employing industry.
This method only based on always asking "why". If there any problem, have to ask a question
is why, which is only enough, can find the answer to that. Continually do like this, finally can
get the main reason for this problem, which is called root cause. At least maybe five steps (with
why) utilized to find the root cause, so this called five Why analysis. An example of this method
follows.
Our group faced another big problem is poor communication. This problem made a huge
impact on our presentation. This problem has been how to solve by five whys method is shown
below.
How to make an effective presentation, which is the problem, and how to solve this through
the Drill down technique is shown below.
In this way, after following these kinds of techniques our presentation created.
Everyone divided within the two groups based on topics of presentation before starting the
presentation related works. After
As shown in the image above, our group achieved the desired goal by following the instructions
on how to achieve the goal through the presentation.
In this way, sharing the position and responsibilities. And, doing some work one after the other
and doing some simultaneously. In here each circle shows a particular activity, Which circles
are found in the same straight line denotes continuous operations, Other circles do refer to
parallel events. Depends on the time the arrows finish the activity, can do better by planning a
presentation like this.
Huge work also can be done easily by team dynamics. This means that the video game history,
job, education, pros & cons, under the heading 'videogames are an employing industry' should
be collected. Doing this as an individual will result in more time and workload. But this was
only made easier and quicker due to teamwork by doing this part wise. As in, many in the team
got a variety of ideas and found the best in it and was able to make the presentation better. This
is considered as a success of team dynamic.
When parts are distributed to everyone in the team, in some cases require them may do without
their liking the part members have been given. This is seen as a failure of the team
dynamic. During these conditions, some areas may be enough, and some that are not enough. In
this case, this will be a major setback to the operation. And many people in the team, so not
everyone's expectations can be met, this can lead to conflicts.
• Team dynamics is the most important thing in doing work as a team. If the teamwork wants
to succeed, this should identify the others' skills and be friendly with them. which is
possible by Team dynamic.
• The work's success depends on the Team dynamic. If the Team dynamic will failure, the
work is never finished correctly.
Cannot bring the students together and present the presentation, because of the coronavirus
problem. That's why our group planned the online presentation but that is possible for limited
counted people. This is seen as a drawback of online presentation and also Internet strength is
the major problem.
4.2.1 Motivation
Motivation is helping the procedure starts, controls, and keeps up objective arranged practices.
Motivation is the thing that makes everyone act. This helps to focus on their activities and do
that continuously.
2. Safety needs - After the finishing of basic needs, security and safety-related needs are
included in the next step. Because The people consider this another important after the basic
things. For example, financial issues, law, and order, freedom for fear, etc.
3. Love and belongingness needs - After the first two steps, the social and personal involve
feelings of being included in the third step. for example, friendship, intimacy, trust, love,
etc.
4. Esteem needs - In Maslow’s hierarchy fourth step is included evaluating needs. Maslow
showed that the requirement for regard or notoriety is generally significant for children and
youths, which is genuine self-esteem.
5. Self-actualization needs - Self-completion needs are the most topper level in Maslow's
chain, which is included command, and allude to the acknowledgement of an individual's
latent capacity, self-satisfaction, looking for self-awareness. Maslow (1943) portrays this
follows, level as the longing to achieve everything that one can, to turn into the most that
one can be. For example, one man like to achieve the goal of athletic or his study.
(McLeod, 2020)
That is, the first step includes the projector, laptop, whiteboard, marker needed to perform the
presentation. Secondly, if someone cannot come up with the main reasons for the presentation
day, the presentation can be completed without the problem by someone else willing to fill his
role. Thirdly, minor problems can be solved by being friendly to everyone who performs the
presentation. Fourthly, that can improve not only their area but also others' part by providing
constructive thinking. Finally, Presentation can be completed at the right time by helping others
to complete parts of their work that are not completed after completing their section.
Thus, the presentation could be finished more effectively by preparing considerations with
everything from the basic necessity based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory.
2. Hygiene Factors - If the hygiene factors may absence will make worker work less hard.
Hygiene factors are absent in the real employment itself yet surround the activity.
• The work itself - The activity itself must be fascinating, differed, and give a sufficient
challenge to keep employees spurred.
• Responsibility - Employees should "own" did their work, who should consider them
liable for this finishing and not feel just as they are being micromanaged.
• Growth - The activity should offer employees the chance to learn new abilities. This
can happen either at work or through progressively formal preparation.
• Company policies - These oughts’ to be reasonable and clear to each employee, which
should likewise be equal to those of contenders.
• Work conditions - Gadgets and the workplace ought to be fit for a reason, and healthy.
• Salary - The salary structure ought to be reasonable and sensible. This ought to
likewise be competition with different associations in a similar industry.
• Status - The association ought to keep up the status of all employees inside the
association. Performing important work can give a feeling of status.
• Security - Important that employees feel that their job is secure and who are not under
the danger of being laid-off.
Include in the motivating factors are Giving away, Helping, and Encouraging. These are the
factors that will help to finish the presentation properly. Include in the hygiene factors are
Difference of opinion, Missed the time, and Apathy. These are factors that can cause a backlash
in the presentation.
Accordingly, I have mentioned the first goal is to complete HND in computing. Because I'm
currently studying HND in computing, my first step is to succeed. I mentioned finishing the
top up a degree as the second goal. After completing the HND, I can get a job completely easy
by completing the top-up degree. So, I chose that into my next goal. My next goal is to go
abroad. Because I have had the desire to live abroad since my childhood. After completing the
top-up degree, that will help to easily find a job abroad. Next, my goal is to work at a company
and develop my skills. After going abroad, it is compulsory to find a job. Working in my study-
oriented industry can help me develop skills through more empirically. Job-related experience
is also important when looking for a job. My top goal for the still present is to complete a
master's degree. Because I can increase my self-income by completing a master’s degree. It
will also help me to get a higher position in the field. As I cross each stage, my quality of life
will go up. Through this, I can achieve a good position.
And what I have skills details were included in the Personal development plan. First, Good
communication, which means communicate with others friendly. Second, manging challenge
means to face the problems very intelligently. Third, good teamwork, Work with everyone
friendly. Fourth, giving motivational support, which means if anyone has a problem with their
work, encourage them. Fifth, interpersonal awareness, this is everyone needs to know about
others and manage their activities. Sixth, thinking skills, when making decisions should think
of everything related to things. Seventh, building a collaborative relationship is like Good team
working. Eighth, learning new skills and knowledge which means when seeing the new good
skills, just build up personally. Ninth, Critical thinking, this similar to Thinking skills but a
little bit advanced from that. last, Time management, if need to do any work, do it within the
deadline. I filled the above form-based what are the skills now I have and when I will inbuild
that in myself.
Types of Feedback
• Informal feedback - Informal feedback can happen on any occasions as this is something
that develops unexpectedly at the time or during activity. In this way, Informal feedback
requires the structure of affinity with understudies to viably support, mentor or guide them
in every day the board and dynamic for learning. This may happen in the study hall, via
telephone, in an online discussion or virtual homeroom.
• Student peer feedback - This a type of feedback. This is given for, who have finished a
task or something, for that his friend gives the feedback for this task.
• Student self-feedback – This feedback is given by his self. If the student has done any
activity, the student gives this feedback for this activity.
(feedback, 2020)
The learner needs to identifies what are the strengths he has. In this way, the strengths of mine
• Mostly, I consider the time management through this to finish the assignment before the
deadline.
• Consider others talks, through this can built the efficient teamwork.
• Skill of Find the specific topic related notes quickly, this also helps to finish the task on
time.
• Fast learning skill, this helps to understand the topic and do work correctly.
At the same time, the learner needs to identify his weakness, in this way, weakness of mine
• Deep thinking, this can drag to away from the task to a different way.
• Also finding more is create a problem same like this.
In this case, can achieve the decided goal through avoiding the weakness and develop the
strengths.
So, this professional practice subject is very useful and which has more important contents.
Through studying this subject, can get more valuable skills for working in a group or individual
in a company. And in here, some of the features like CPD and CPA is the most important for
develop a person's life or grow up the company. In here could we get like this kind of important
skills. In my view, this is seen as a very impressive subject.
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