Bachelor of Business
BUSS701
Co-operative Education
Intake 3
Semester 2, 2023
My Development Plan
Student Name: Student ID:
Major(s) and Minor(s): Your contact no:
Workshop Supervisor: Academic Supervisor:
Workplace Organisation(s): Workplace Mentor(s):
Word Count:
Length: 3500 words (+/- 10%) (6000 including template, excluding reference list and appendices)
Overview
Your Development Plan is part of the academic programme of work you are required to complete for Co-operative Education.
It is designed to ensure that you have goals and objectives planned for what you want to achieve from your Co-operative Education Placement and to provide you with a solid foundation for the rest of the academic programme.
Please note that in your Development Plan you must:
Apply concepts, models, frameworks, theories and/or technical competencies from your business discipline knowledge from your major(s), minor(s), electives.
Use authoritative sources
Provide in-text references using APA (7th ed.)
Include a Reference List with the full reference (APA 7th ed.)
Throughout Co-operative Education you will be focusing on your Graduate Profile and how you are achieving the BBus Learning Goals set out below:
Learning Goal 1: Be inquiring, open, and agile thinkers able to seek out and address complex problems
Learning Goal 2: Be knowledgeable in a specialist area(s)
Learning Goal 3: Be adept at working in changing local and global contexts and environments
Learning Goal 4: Be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large
Learning Goal 5: Be able to work collaboratively
Learning Goal 6: Be effective communicators
The Development Plan is the first stage of the assessment programme that culminates in an Oral Brief and Co-operative Education Report. In the Co-operative Education assessments, you will critically reflect on, analyse and evaluate your development throughout the Co-operative Education Placement, and work on a contemporary issue which will form the basis of your Co-operative Education Final Report.
Instructions for completing this document
You must address all of the points in each of the sections.
Note: Do not delete any of the information or instructions from the template
** if you are completing Co-op in a nonstandard option e.g. Gigs, permanent roles, virtual internships you should think about the knowledge from your major(s) that will be relevant and guide you in your Co-op Experience
Preparation for your Development Plan
Complete the following table:
Your Graduate Profile: BBus Learning Goals self-assessment:
Where I am now – self evaluation What I still need to work on and why
Learning Goal 1: Be inquiring, open, and agile thinkers able to seek out and address complex problems: Be able to use critical, analytical, creative and reflective thinking processes to seek out and address complex problems and engage with other disciplines and perspectives. I am a good problem solver and analytical worker, and I am able to communicate and cooperate with my colleagues to get the job done. I need to analyse problems more carefully in the process of solving them, often ignoring certain conditions in the process. At the same time, because of the difference in the personal environment of my colleagues, I need to be more patient in explaining how to complete certain things and wait for my colleagues to finish their work.
Learning Goal 2: Be knowledgeable in a specialist area(s): Be able to evidence and apply in-depth knowledge of specialist discipline(s). Performs the majority of accounting tasks on the job as guided by staff and is able to successfully use accounting software xero as well as collaborate on balance sheets and income statements. Accounting statements need to be completed according to the nature of the business and will be somewhat different from the school’s statements. Also entries need to be made according to the business, for example, some accounts are not available and the business counts the money in another entry, which needs to be taken care of.
Learning Goal 3: Be adept at working in changing local and global contexts and environments: Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the key challenges in managing in bicultural and multicultural contexts, and in changing global and technological environments. Ability to communicate effectively as well as respect the cultural differences of co-workers. Because of the need to use English to communicate, it is often not possible to clearly explain the meaning of what needs to be stated, and physical speech, pictures or the use of translation software are used to do so.
Learning Goal 4: Be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large: Be able to discern the ethical dimensions and impacts of business activity and decisions, and advance arguments for socially responsible alternatives and outcomes. To be able to consider decisions and programmes in terms of the ethical dimensions of human beings and the sustainability of the environment. There are a lot of considerations that need to be taken into account in terms of company decision making, such as taking into account the differences in the local Māori culture, as well as refining the decision making based on the differences in state laws.
Learning Goal 5: Be able to work collaboratively: Be able to effectively collaborate with others in diverse teams and reflect on their contributions, and on the teams’ processes and ability to achieve outcomes. Ability to interact smoothly with co-workers as well as get work done together, while sharing your own stories and perspectives and patiently listening to those of others. Need to be more patient in listening to others as well as not interrupting others when they are talking.
Learning Goal 6: Be effective communicators: Be able to effectively communicate, negotiate and influence using modes and mediums of communication appropriate to the context.
Can clearly explain his/her point of view and will use body language or pictures to clearly demonstrate his/her point of view when others do not understand.
