Scenario: You are a management trainee in a medium-sized Hong Kong organisation. You will need to acquire a number of necessary skills before you can expect to be promoted to a junior managerial position. The company expects you to take responsibility for your own personal and professional development. The choice of organisation is the student's but the student should choose one that the student is familiar with or a well-known organisation as information about the organisation would be easier to obtain. Before attempting to cover all the assessment criteria, the student should introduce the organisation chosen, explain the student's role in the organisation, and discuss its business. The student is encouraged to fully research the chosen organisation. Whatever the choice of organisation, the student is expected to demonstrate a good degree of research skills and to be able to make recommendations based on a sound and in-depth analysis of the chosen organisation and its strategic planning process. Task 1: How self-managed learning can enhance lifelong development: 1.1. Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning 1.2. Propose ways in which lifelong learning in personal and professional contexts could be encouraged 1.3. Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organisation Task 2: Take responsibility for own personal and professional development: 2.1. evaluate own current skills and competencies against professional standards and organisational objectives 2.2. identify own development needs and the activities required to meet them 2.3. identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs 2.4. devise a personal and professional development plan based on identified needs Task 3: Implement and continually review own personal and professional development plan: 3.1. discuss the processes and activities required to implement the development plan 3.2. undertake and document development activities as planned 3.3. reflect critically on own learning against original aims and objectives set in the development plan 3.4. update the development plan based on feedback and evaluation Task 4: Demonstrate acquired interpersonal and transferable skills: 4.1. select solutions to work-based problems 4.2. communicate in a variety of styles and appropriate manner at various levels 4.3. evaluate and use effective time management strategies