University of Exeter Business School

Developing Self Awareness

Module titleDeveloping Self Awareness
Module codeBEM1030DA
Academic year2023/4
Credits15
Module staff

Mrs Claire Cahill (Convenor)

Duration: Term123
Duration: Weeks

7

Number students taking module (anticipated)

30

Module description

This module will enable you to understand the value and application of reflective practice for personal and professional development. You will gain knowledge on emotional intelligence, learning and behaviour styles, time management techniques and tools, problem solving and decision-making techniques and organisational values and ethics. You willbe encouraged to use the knowledge gained from this module and your analytical skills to reflect on your performance, working style and its impact on others and to create a personal development plan. Throughout the module, there will also be a focus on using analysis and evaluation to support your decision making. 

Module aims - intentions of the module

By sharingrelevant and research-inspired content and using play and problem-based learning, this module has 4 main aims.  

First, it aims to increase your self-awareness so that you can use this increased awareness toinform your personal and professional development.Your self-awareness will be increased through a focus onknowledge and application of emotional intelligence, as well as learning and behaviour styles, time management techniques and tools, problem solving and decision-making techniques and organisational values and ethics. You will put knowledge into practice through developing a personal development plan that you critically reflect on. 

Second, this module aims to enable you to gain and reflect on the knowledge, skills and behaviours that form the self-awareness part of your operations or departmental apprenticeship.  

Third, this module aims to will give you an appreciation and understandingof reflective practice that you can take forward into any area of your working or personal life.  

Forth, by assessing this module with a presentation, it aims to help develop your presentation skills for both your end point assessment and your employability.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

ILO: Module-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

  • 1. Present and apply knowledge of emotional intelligence, learning and behaviour styles, time management techniques and tools, problem solving and decision-making techniques, organisational values and ethics.
  • 2. Select, apply and evaluate a reflective model to reflect on own performance, working style, emotional intelligence, and its impact on others.

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

  • 3. Select relevant workplace evidence related to self-awareness and contextualise it using relevant module content.
  • 4. Apply critical analysis and evaluation to support decision making and use effective problem-solving techniques.
  • 5. Produce a comprehensive professional development plan informed by knowledge of own learning and behavioural style, that can be updated as skills develop.

ILO: Personal and key skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

  • 6. Select and reflect on some time management techniques used for personal and professional practice.
  • 7. Select and reflect on some time management techniques used for personal and professional practice.

Syllabus plan

2 day masterclass focusing on reflective practices, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, learning and behaviour styles, time management techniques and tools, problem solving and decision-making techniques and organisational values and ethics and PDPs.  

  

Weekly webinars to cement and extend learning from masterclass and discuss how it can be applied to professional and personal development. 

 

ELE content to provide background reading, tools and templates to enable apprentices to experiment and find strategies that improve their working practices as well as their understanding of the importance of self-awareness.  

 

Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)

Scheduled Learning and Teaching ActivitiesGuided independent studyPlacement / study abroad
201300

Details of learning activities and teaching methods

CategoryHours of study timeDescription
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities14Masterclasses
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities5Webinars
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities1121 tutorial time
Guided Independent Study130Independent Study and work based practice

Formative assessment

Form of assessmentSize of the assessment (eg length / duration)ILOs assessedFeedback method
Slide deck plan peer feedback exercise Plan for 15 min slidesdeck 1-8 Peer feedback and verbal feedback during webinar

Summative assessment (% of credit)

CourseworkWritten examsPractical exams
10000

Details of summative assessment

Form of assessment% of creditSize of the assessment (eg length / duration)ILOs assessedFeedback method
A narrated 15 minute presentation including PDP and critical reflection10015 minute presentation with 750 PDP attached as an apprendix (equlivalent to 2250 –2500 words +/- 10%) 1-8Written by tutor

Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Original form of assessmentForm of re-assessmentILOs re-assessedTimescale for re-assessment
Case study including reflective journalAs previous1,3,10,11Next re-assessment period
PDP including reflective journalAs previous2,4-6,7-9,12Next re-assessment period

Re-assessment notes

All passed components of the module will be rolled forward and will not be reassessed in the event of module failure.

Defer – as first time

Refer – capped at 50%

Indicative learning resources - Basic reading

The work developed for this module will attract its own specialist reading, most obviously texts, articles and websites that relate to the particular dimensions of the study which will be updated throughout the module. The complete reading list will be updated throughout the module andwill be found on the module’s ELE page.It will include: 

Reading 

  • Newton PM (2015) The Learning Styles Myth is Thriving in Higher Education.â?¯Front. Psychol.â?¯6:1908. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01908 

  • Emotional Intelligence – Why it can matter more than IQ – Daniel Goleman 

Cirillo, Francesco.â?¯The Pomodoro Techniqueâ?¯: the Life-Changing Time-Management System. Updated edition. London: Virgin Books, 2018. Print. 

  • McManus J. Emotions and ethical decision making at work: Organizational norms, emotional dogs, and the rational tales they tell themselves and others: JBE.â?¯J Bus Ethics. 2019:1-16. 

  • Alexander Haslam, S., 2014. Making good theory practical: Five lessons for an Applied Social Identity Approach to challenges of organizational, health, and clinical psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology 53, 1–20.. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12061 

Web-based and electronic resources:  

 

ELE– College to provide hyperlink to appropriate pages 

 

 

Videos 

This video featuresDr Inma Adarves-Yorno who is a senior lecturer here at the Business School talking about mindfulness and self-awareness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6EPUQDoRaE 

 

 

Dr Adarves-Yorno challenges you ask WHY WHYWHY when thinking about your aspirations. Dr Eurich suggests you ask WHAT not WHY to improve self-awareness when reflecting on things that have happened to you. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyQIx2p7Qe8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGdsOXZpyWE 

Key words search

Self-reflection. Personal development. Conflict resolution

Credit value15
Module ECTS

7.5

Module pre-requisites

None

Module co-requisites

None

NQF level (module)

4

Available as distance learning?

Yes

Origin date

25/07/2022

Last revision date

25/07/2022