All the steps and guidelines for everything are kept in a PowerPoint I made that is basically a step by step tutorial on what to do for each thing. 1.2 Explain the purpose of planning work, and being accountable to others for own work. Planning is essential to manage your time in a constructive way to complete the actions to be carried out. Planning helps to be organised on a day-to-day, weekly and monthly basis. While planning you have to obtain as many details about the piece of work you are doing to enable you to produce your work as efficiently as possible.
Managing Own Performance in a Business Environment Learning outcome 1: Understand how to plan work and be accountable to others 1.1 Outline guideline, procedures codes of practice relevant to personal work There are a number of guidelines and procedures in place to enable me to do my job not only to the best of my ability but in a professional manner. In my role there are procedures that need to be followed relating to various aspects of the job including correct procedures to answer the telephone, dealing with IT issues, as well as many other procedures. 1.2 Explain the purpose of planning work and being accountable to others for own work Planning is essential to manage your time in a constructive way to complete the actions to be carried out. Planning helps to be organized on a day to day, weekly and monthly basis. While planning you have to obtain as many details about the piece of work you are doing to enable you to produce your work as efficiently as possible.
Manage own performance in a business environment The purpose of planning work is to ensure that I make the most effective use of my time and knowing what I have got planned throughout the day the lowers my chances of my work clashing with a meeting or other tasks. If I make a written account of my plans and my manager asks what I have done, I am easily able to show them and be accountable for my work. The purpose of agreeing realistic targets for work is to complete my tasks to a good standard, if targets are set too high I may feel under pressure or incapable of completing them. It is always important to agree targets so I know I am able to complete and reach them. I should always keep people informed about progress as they may need to know about changes in targets as it allows them to make amendments to the way they handle their work, if they are not informed it may affect their working abilities.
Supervisions are regular, between myself and my manager. They are designed to help improve the way I work, they offer practical and guidance and support in areas that I need to improve. After supervisions are the appraisals. They evaluate what was covered in the supervisions to make sure that improvement is occurring and to set new goals. My supervisions are taken on shift, my manager will watch how I work, how I integrate with the team of staff and with the clients in the care home and put forward any ideas on what I could do differently but also explain what I am doing well.
I want my employees under me to be able to learn from me and how I work and deal with situations in the work field. If I learn more about my learning skills I will be able to improve myself as well as the people who work around me. Usually in a work environment people usually follow by example and if I am doing what I am suppose to do then the people under me follow suit. My personal learning style influences my career competencies' more than what I thought. So I found out I need to become more of a thinker and work on my analytical skills.
Business Administration L2 Questions Unit 201:- Manage own performance in a business environment Q1:- Outline guidelines, procedures and codes of practice relevant to personal work (1.1) The guidelines procedures and codes of practice relevant to my work are important as they give me information on how to carry out my job effectively and safely. Guidelines: - How to answer the phone, dress code, how to answer customer queries, how to use company software to give quotes to customers, how to handle e-mail, how to store and retrieve information, both electronic and paper based information, how to use office equipment correctly and safely and how to follow all Health and Safety guidelines to ensure the safety of myself and others in the workplace. Procedures: - I must follow the correct procedures for fire drills and fire safety in general, reporting and recording accidents at work, contacting work if I am going to be absent and first aid procedures. Codes of practice:- Health and Safety at work, The Data Protection Act, Trading Standards; good customer service, working safely, freedom of information and privacy of personal data and ensure that I follow all legislation relevant to my job role. Q2:- Explain the purpose of planning work and being accountable to others for your own work (1.2) Planning is essential to time management and involves organising and prioritising work.
As we are involved in an organizational setting, our main duty is to perform our work smoothly and perfectly. Most professions have internally enforced codes of practice that members of the profession must follow to prevent exploitation of the client and to preserve the integrity of the profession. This is not only for the benefit of the client but also for the benefit of those belonging to the profession. Disciplinary codes allow the profession to define a standard of conduct and ensure that individual practitioners meet this standard. Professional ethics or behavior whatever we call it can be defined through the bellow encompasses criteria.
When writing a list of tasks to complete they need to reflect upon the businesses and team goals. That way everyone is on task focusing on the main important jobs and not wasting time on other tasks unrelated to the main goal. Although, writing lists may take up time, but it provides a reference of the
When it comes to project managers there will always be two kinds of project manager, those who get the work done and those who don’t do so well in other word success or failures. When it comes a project manager the basic characteristics and skills that all project managers should have is the ability to plan a project, to build a team and focus it on the task at hand. And of course, the ability to disband the project team smoothly while retaining what was learned. "Managers are concerned with setting objectives, forecasting, planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, controlling and communicating. They perform these tasks with different emphasis according to their functional specialism and level in the hierarchy."
It is very important to ensure that all staff members have the necessary skills and have undertaken suitable developmental activities to complete the work they are given. As a manager it is important to look over and carefully calculate the time and cost on a regular basis to make sure it’s cost effective so the organization isn’t losing money. Having regular consultations (meetings, brainstorming sessions, project groups etc.) are also highly expected from a manager as it provides prompt and constructive feedback to the employee. Which will help to suggest improvements that will increase resource efficiency and effectiveness; as employees use resources everyday to get there job done and will know what works and what doesn’t.