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CPD1102 Professional Development & Ethics

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PART 5

APIC COURSE AS

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

PLANNING PROCESS

Leadership, PM, Business and General

Management Competencies

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Professional Development Planning

• Follow a structured process to develop own learning

and development (L&D) plan

• Define target role and nominate an industry coach

• Work closely with mentor for training and application of

newly acquired knowledge

• Include formal performance assessment at designated

milestones

• KPIs relate to effectiveness and efficiency of developing

own competencies

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Peer Assessment

L&D Goals

Competencies Possessed

L&D Plan

Competencies Needed

Values & Ethics

Competency Gaps Opportunitiesfor

Development

ProfessionalBenchmarking

Overall Process

BigPicture

The Planning

Process

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Performance Assessment And Development

(PA&D) During Training

• Focus is on accelerated competency development

• As well as application of knowledge to

projects/organisation.

• Submit summarised regular progress reports based

on L&D plan – (after each assignment)

• Mentor shall receive and analyse progress reports

• Mentor shall interview the learner and discuss the

above results with him/her, agree on the progress

and other points

• Mentor shall provide regular feedback and advice to

the learner

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Process To Developing Own L&D Plan

C3

C4

C6

C5

S-C

Ci

C2

C1

C2

C4

C5

C6

T1

T2

T3

T4

IndividualLearning & Development(L&D)Plan

Considercareer goals,employerand personalneeds

Chart ofCompetencies Select the most relevant

competencies plussocio-cultural competency

Determine targetcompetenciesrequired/role

Determine optimalSolution /L&D Plan

Assessmentresults foran individual

S-C T5

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Systemic training to Role/Standard

• Most need to undertake development to reach the

minimum competency levels of the target

Role/Standard – Understand competencies

• Most need to follow an experiential & reflective

learning approach - Project/problem based

assignments

• Learning projects should have the potential to

improve performance at work front – Real life

projects

• Competency in knowledge engineering &

management is a core competency

• Ad-hoc training does not work!

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CAT

• online tool for self assessment

• CAT is for competency assessment. The user can obtain various types

of reports that can be copied to clipboard and then pasted onto

normal reports

• Need an account

L&D Planner

• develop own L&D Plan

• user needs to have an account

• L&D Planner provides a template for users to develop their own

(personalised) learning and development plan

CAT and L&D Planner are integrated for user’s convenience

• CAT and L&D Planner are used extensively during the 1) professional

development planning workshop, 2) after each submission, in your

3) Final Individual Report and 4) at your Viva.

Users can send their queries to [email protected] for help

Tools and Templates for PDP

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Online

Competency

Assessment

Tool

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APIC offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enable any student or

practitioner in the field of project, program, portfolio and organisation

management to:

� assess their competencies systematically

� develop their learning and development plan

� generally manage their stock of competencies

http://tools.apicollege.edu.au/

Click here to enter

CAT


http://tools.apicollege.edu.au/Cat

Enter your user

name and

password and click

on Login

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you are using. You can do this by going to “Tools” in IE and then selecting “Pop-up blocker”

and then turning it off. Also go to Tools in IE then select “Internet Options” then select

delete files. Please delete all temporary files from Cache for faster and better performance.

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Select Project Management to view PM assessment

results or Business Management to view BM

assessment results or All programs to view all results.

List of all your previous assessments

appear here. Completed results are for

the assessment sessions completed and

Paused are for those which have been

interrupted.

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Select any of the Completed records to

be able to view the respective text and

graphic reports or review the matrices as

checked during the assessment session.

Function Description

Resume Selected Use this function to resume a Paused Assessment.

It will not work for Completed Assessments

Review The user can view the checked assessment matrices and read comments related to

each matrix

Bar/ Line Chart View a graphic report of assessment vs. targets in column or line charts

Select a given competency area to view the related detailed results

Area Chart This function shows the results summarised in terms of competency areas

Peer Assess Chart This function shows the results of any assessments done by peers

Peer assess chart is not used for PDP purposes

Text Reports This function shows text reports for both targets and results

You can select the type of text reports you wish to view

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You can start a

new assessment

anytime

Select either PMGP to conduct a new assessment in

project management or BMPG to conduct a new

assessment in business and general management. If All

Programs are selected then the system will display both

PM and BM competencies for user selection.

To conduct assessments

for PDP purposes select

PDP Workshop

Enter a title and a

short description

and click Start

Assess

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For PDP the system

displays all

competency areas and

their corresponding

competency units to

select. In its present

form none is selected.

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Enter a target value

between 0 to 100 points

Enter comments and

justification for the

selected value

Click to select a

competency area

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Sample Competency Assessment Matrix

VERY IMPORTANT: List your evidence and

justification for selections made in this box.

Normally the list must cover all items in the highest

level of competency ticked in the matrix.

You need to read the questions from left to right on a

column by column basis. Tick those items that are true in

your case and for which you can cite evidence. Stop the

process when you cannot tick an item in a column.

Please make sure you click on the “Save” button under each matrix when you have completed it. Otherwise the information you entered will be lost!

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Select the area to view

the competency

assessment result in that

area in terms of its

respective units

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Sample Scorecard from CAT – Emotional Intelligence

Bar titles :

1: Generic

2: Leadership

3: Commitment

4: Attitude

5: Self Direction

6: Learning

7: Cultural Empathy

8: Creativity &

Innovation

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Sample Scorecard from CAT – Project Management

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Click here to enter L&D

Planner

Then click on New Plan to

start the planning template

(shown in next slide)You can select a previous plan from the list

and then click on Edit Selected to edit it or

Get Report to download it to your local

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L&D Planner

automatically imports

the results of socio-

cultural competency

assessment related to

the selected assessment

from CAT

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L&D Planner is a template containing several sections and Annex to be filled in

according to the Guidelines and Specifications provided

(see http://tools.apicollege.edu.au/LandD/L&D_Plan_Specification_General.pdf).

Please make sure you click on the “Save” button after completing each

section. Otherwise the information you entered will be lost!

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L&D Planner

automatically imports

the results of

assessment in all

areas from CAT (based

on the selection by

the user). It is in the

form of area chart.

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• Systemic professional development is essential

• Must follow a proper process involving:

– Adopt targets related to actual field performance of peers in similar

situations

– Obtain a systemic assessment of current competencies

– Develop a realistic L&D plan

– Undertake professional development to reach target competencies

• APIC provides an integrated system that covers both project

management and functional and general management

Part 5: Summary

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