Task one:
Conference presentation on ethical practice in business (briefing document approx. 1,000 words +/- 10% and presentation pack approx. 1,250 words +/- 10%, refer to CIPD word count policy): Your manager has asked you to prepare a presentation in readiness for delivery to colleagues on the importance of ethical practice and the business case for such people practices. Your Presentation Pack must include presentation slides, the evidence you have gathered, and presenter notes. It is expected that your presentation pack is aimed at the appropriate audience and is of business format.
You should ensure that your presentation includes a review of the various influences on ethical practice as well as details of a robust business case for the ethical people practices. You also need to provide a Briefing paper as a handout for delegates covering the main points of the presentation in an accessible, easy to read way.
Your presentation should include the following and should refer to the CIPD Profession Map wherever appropriate:
| AC1.1 | Define the term professional and explain the requirements of a people professional. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback | |
| AC1.2 | To help explain what is meant by ethical values, give at least three examples of your own personal values and how this affects how you work and develop working relationships. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback: |
Drawing on work or personal examples, analyse how you would/have:
| AC1.3/1.5 | Contributed to discussions to ensure people practices are applied. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback: | |
| AC1.3/1.5 | How you can effectively communicate to engage and influence others. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback: | |
| AC1.3/1.5 | How you might raise issues with situations such as organisational policies or the approach to leadership that conflict with legislation or ethical values. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback: |
| AC2.1 | Drawing on relevant theory provide a robust argument that includes both the business and human benefits of people at work feeling included, valued and that they are being treated fairly. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback: |
Using your own example of providing a people practice solution to meet a particular need, or a hypothetical example such as introducing a new policy or reward initiative, comment on how you would/have:
| AC2.2/2.3 | Identify a people practice initiative that has been put in place in response to some form of internal or external feedback, set out the purpose of this initiative and explain how you would evaluate the impact of this initiative paying particular attention to levels of engagement within the organisation. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback: |
Task two:
A CPD portfolio including:
- Activity 1: The Context of Professional Development
- Activity 2: Self-assessment
- Activity 3: Reflective practice
The purpose of this task is to evidence your approach to Continuous professional development as a people practice professional in conjunction with the CIPD Profession Map. The task combines a number of activities which should be presented as a CPD portfolio.
As an introduction to your portfolio, it is important to set the scene to your personal learning journey.
Activity one – The Context of Professional Development:
As an introduction to your portfolio, explain the following:
| AC3.1 | How the role of a people professional is changing? |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback | |
| AC3.1 | What impact are these changes having on our CPD? |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback: | |
| AC3.1 | What are the key characteristics of a good-practice CPD? |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback: |
Activity two – Self Assessment
The first stage of CPD is to understand where we are and where we want to be.
| Using the Standards from the CIPD Professional Map, carry out a self-assessment of your competency against a minimum of five core behaviours you identify as being most relevant to your context and learning journey. This can be in any format, but evidence is required to support that this activity took place (an example template is provided in Appendix 1). | |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback | |
| AC3.2 | From this Self-assessment, plus other forms of feedback identify your strengths and weaknesses setting personal development objectives to be included within a Professional Development Plan. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback | |
| AC3.3 | You now need to consider how you can meet these development objectives, to complete your PDP. Consider the range of learning opportunities available to you and for each development objectives decide on the most appropriate initiative to support your learning journey. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback |
Activity three – Reflective Practice
A key element of our CPD is reflecting on our everyday experiences to learn from these, capturing what went well or mot so well and how we can learn from such situations.
Your reflections should focus on the following scenarios.
| AC1.4 | Identify times when you have taken responsibility for your work/actions, paying particular attention to recognising any mistakes you might have made, how you rectified these mistakes and what you believe you learnt from these experiences. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback | |
| AC2.4 | Identify at least two examples that highlight your approach to working inclusively, plus how you have built positive working relationships with others. Your reflections need to focus on what you did, and the skills and behaviours demonstrated. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback |
Activity Four – Assessing the impact of your learning and CPD
The final part of our CPD is to measure the overall impact of our learning. To achieve this, you need to think about and capture the impacts, covering positive as well as negative.
| AC3.4 | What was the impact on you, your team, your colleagues, your customers, your stakeholders, the organisation or your department? To support this assessment, you will need to complete a record of your learning for the last 12 months. |
| Your words (195) | |
| BN Feedback |
