Description
Solution
Learning Outcome 4: Be able to influence others during decision-making while showing courage and conviction.
Assessment criterion | 13 – Demonstrate appropriate influencing style to communicate and engage different audiences. |
Starting point | Initial ability rating:7
Justification for this rating: From my personal context, by promoting deep learning process, I feel that I am in a good position of passing my expertise to others based on what I know. This is particularly in regard to having an appropriate influencing style for communicating and engaging with various audiences. |
Development objectives | To improve my competence within this area I will:
a) To identify the different communication styles which I need to use in order to effectively communicate with different audiences b) Appreciating the role of technology in diversifying communication particularly to contribute to a successful communication c) Ensuring that I eliminate any misunderstanding in communication leading to challenges with making effective decisions which impact directly on my ability to engage all audiences |
Achieving your development objectives: Opportunities and obstacles | In practice, working as a people professional, there would be a need of understanding organisation goals and strategies and audience. This is since these aspect are critically involved in defining influencing style used and identified as holistic. In order to be influencing, this need to be defined by being charismatic, collaborative, assertiveness and inspirational.
As a best practice, the opportunities which I would leverage on to achieve these objectives would include; · Ensure that I can successfully classify all the potential misunderstandings which affect my organisation interrelationships and use them for informing learning needs areas within a period of 2 months · Improve the overall achievement of 80% of continuous development plan of the issues hindering my organisation successful operations being the most common barriers in communication · Use verbal and non-verbal cues in communication for success in the influencing others from different audience For the potential obstacles, they include; · Considering I am considering only the feedbacks sourced from my peers, there could be origin of biasness impacting my active practice. · Also, this would take immense time in its implementation and lack of customised practice of my roles. · Communication is challenging when language barriers are involved The success of achieving these objectives would be evaluated through; · I would have employees who are not ready to embrace their knowledge by being hard to embrace change process. · Further, some of the employees would have low capacity to embrace the shared knowledge to their optimum gain. This is a major challenge which would limit how the learning I share and acquire relevant insights to all the stakeholders is input and recognised. · It could similarly be a challenge/limitation in making sure that all the employees are understanding what is expected of them as they progress with their roles. This is in regard to making appropriate decision on the feedback issued and how to act on it. For the potential obstacles, they include; · Learning is time intensive with a lot of time required for the practice · There are resources required to pay for the learning and evidencing the curiosity for my learning process |
Please click the following icon to access this assessment in full
Related Papers
(Solution) 5HR02 (AC1.1) Explain how organisations strategically position themselves in competitive labour markets
(Solution) CIPD 5CO02 recommendations based on evaluation of the benefits, risks and financial implications of potential solutions. (AC 2.3)
(Solution) CIPD Avado AC 2.2 (Email 4) Discuss the legal requirements of equal pay
(Solution) CIPS Advanced Level Advanced Practitioner Corporate Award (APDP)
- In summary, this assessment, has focused on evaluating the process of leading a project team for implementing a new category management.
- For achieving this, British American Tobacco (BAT) in Malaysia has been used as an organisation of interest.
- The selected category of spend is technology and particularly the procurement of high speed machines for meeting the market demand. The rationale of this is that as an international organisation, BAT organisation engages both local and international suppliers in sourcing of technology.
- Considering this high demand, there has been challenges which sustainability of their sourcing approach. Therefore, BAT has been prompted to invest in a system which is modernised for ensuring modernisation of the procurement and supply process in BAT.
- For the Procurement and Supply Management (PS&M) tasked with the responsibility of procuring the technology system tend to take part in learning and development strategies, improving the suppliers relations, increasing alternation of the suppliers relations, high-level inclusion of stakeholders and to transform technology.
(Solution) CIPS Module 3 Sourcing Essentials (PSE)
- Streamline the PQQ process to reduce onboarding time and ensure suppliers meet compliance and quality standards more efficiently.
- Cultivate long-term relationships with key suppliers for critical infrastructure projects to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.
- Use data analytics to enhance supplier evaluation, improving decision-making accuracy and reducing supply chain risks.
- Increase the use of eSourcing tools to boost competition among suppliers, potentially reducing procurement costs.
- Regularly run mini-competitions to ensure competitive pricing and maintain high service quality.