As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit a Digital Skills and Professional Development assignment. Please refer to your Student Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on preparing and submitting assignments. Learning Outcomes: After completing the module, you should be able to:
1. Explain the advancement of business automation technology and the associated range of digital skills required to demonstrate professional competency within an organisation
2. Identify a range of ‘soft’ skills that are key requirements in demonstrating progression in terms of personal and professional development
3. Reflect upon own current levels of digital and soft skills applicable to the workplace
4. Lifelong Learner: develop and justify a Professional Development Plan that will facilitate an increased level of digital skill attainment suitable for effective management and leadership in the contemporary workplace
Task One Analysis and evaluation of a range of soft and digital skills, knowledge and competencies required for a chosen career goal within the modern and digitalised workplace. Try to follow the structure below.
Briefly discuss, with the appropriate underpinning, how recent changes driven by Industry 4.0 so digitalisation, business automation innovation diffusion, etc. impacted a chosen sector that you are interested in pursuing career within.
Then identify a range of soft and digital skills required by that sector for your chosen career goal within the modern and digitalised workplace. This section needs to be underpinned by academic and business research to support your arguments.
Finally self-assess yourself against those skills, identify and discuss the areas of weaknesses and skill-gaps based on the results from your self-assessments.
Note: The evidence of a range of self-assessments undertaken, should be presented with the Appendices. You are required to engage with personal SWOT, Skills diagnostics and one online self-test of your choice.
Design and deliver a Professional Development Plan (PDP) related to the career goal identified within Task One and a range of well explained, developmental and SMART objectives. Follow the instruction below:
Here you are expected to deliver a Professional Development Plan (PDP) related to the career goal you previously identified, that aims at developing your current skill -gaps. PDP needs to be presented in a tabular format and with use of SMART framework, explain how you are planning to develop in the areas of 3 soft and 2 digital skills in which you are currently underperforming.
