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Professional Portfolio Management
60% Assignment
In this reflective assignment, please give a summary of the key lessons you have learned from the team assignment (12%) and provide detailed discussion and evaluation on two of the following scenarios that you have found most applicable/ relevant to you (48%). ● Identify one aspect of the assignment that you found most challenging. How did you overcome that challenge? Explain. ● There is a conflict of opinions in the team regarding a decision. How did you as a member of the team help in managing the conflict? ● There are practical challenges in applying one particular theory. Discuss the trade-off in your decision making in implementing the theory in your practice. ● There is limited amount of resource and skill in your team. What steps did you take to make sure you were working as an effective team? ● You have proposed an important initiative during the project. Explain what it is and evaluate its contribution critically. ● One decision that you wish you and/or your team could have made differently. Describe the context of the decision. Explain what alternative actions could have been taken. Reflect objectively on what has prevented such decision to be made. ● On hindsight, how may you approach the task differently? Why do you think this different approach will be better? ● Any other ‘critical incidents’ that you find valuable to your learning. Explain. Successful Criteria In general, a good piece of reflective assignment is demonstrating that on reflecting on what you have done, you gain new insights about either the subject knowledge/practice or yourself. It is important to present the context clearly and then analyse what has happened (why a decision is made or why one member of the group would think differently from others etc.) using evidence and perhaps theory about decision making and teamwork. Based on the analysis, you should try to summarize what new understanding you gain from this experience (what lesson have you learned? How to do things differently?) These lessons need to be logical and are not wishful thinking. One bad example of lessons learned from previous students’ work is that they wish they have sold the security before its price declines. However, there is no clear evidence that at that time they have the information or method to convince themselves that the security price will drop.
For each ‘critical incident’, consider the following questions: ● How did you behave (individually / as a group)? ● What can you learn from this about your own / group’s performance? ● What would you do differently in the same situation next time? What lessons have you learned? See detailed criteria at the end. If you are in doubt, please contact the module leader for clarification. |
Assignments should be a maximum of 1500 words in length.
All coursework assignments that contribute to the assessment of a module are subject to a word limit, as specified in the online module handbook in the relevant module area of the MINERVA. The word limit is an extremely important aspect of good academic practice, and must be adhered to.
Unless stated specifically otherwise in the relevant module handbook, the word count includes EVERYTHING (i.e. all text in the main body of the assignment including summaries, subtitles, contents pages, tables, supportive material whether in footnotes or in-text references) except the main title, reference list and/or bibliography and any appendices. It is not acceptable to present matters of substance, which should be included in the main body of the text, in the appendices (“appendix abuse”). It is not acceptable to attempt to hide words in graphs and diagrams; only text which is strictly necessary should be included in graphs and diagrams.
You are required to adhere to the word limit specified and state an accurate word count on the cover page of your assignment brief. Your declared word count must be accurate, and should not mislead. Making a fraudulent statement concerning the work submitted for assessment could be considered academic malpractice and investigated as such. If the amount of work submitted is higher than that specified by the word limit or that declared on your word count, this may be reflected in the mark awarded and noted through individual feedback given to you.