BUSI4AS10: Careers and Professional Skills Development

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• To provide and develop the skills and competencies required to be employed in energy engineering management positions.

• Historical perspectives on management and engineering development;
• Foundations of management development: Strategy, culture, systems, structures and learning;
• Managerial effectiveness and organisational learning;
• Management development audits and measuring management performance;
• Professional standards and qualifications;
• Development and training strategies;
• Career progression and management;
• Coaching, counselling and mentoring;
• Personal development and auditing personal effectiveness;
• Transforming learning into practice and appraising performance;
• CV development.

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• Understanding of management concepts.
• Knowledge of development and training strategies for individuals and organisations.
• Understanding of effective leadership management evaluation.
• Knowledge of how to recognise the skills and development needs of others within an organisational context.

Subject-specific Skills:

• Ability to apply concepts and techniques of management development to their own career development.
• Ability to critically appraise key concepts and techniques of management development.
• Ability appraise own skills and development needs.

Key Skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively own qualities, skills and experience.
• Effective written communication.
• Strategic and operational planning, organisation and time management.
• Management problem solving, evaluation and analysis.
• Personal initiative.

• The module will be delivered through a combination of learning material, self-assessed exercises and a summative portfolio assignment on key topical issues, together with guided reading and learning.
• The assessment portfolio is built up over the course and students are encouraged to reflect on the links between different modules and their professional development.
• Each module element is delivered as a discrete unit, equivalent to a lecture or short lecture block. A unit normally consists of specially written material, directed reading, reflection through self-assessed assignments and guidance for further reading.

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