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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 |
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