Level 5, Unit 1 - Developing Professional Practice

Do other qualification providers not provide much information in relation to format and structure then?
I was very lucky in that AheadHR provided a template with Learning outcomes and indicative content of what should be covered , although it is 'neither prescriptive or exhaustive' as you would go over the word count! It also appears that you don't always get a reading list either, as I was provided one with key texts and other journals/books etc which may be helpful.
I found the study guides I mentioned previously helpful for me to understand more about what the assignment title is asking for - i.e. clarifies 'Define' 'Evaluate', 'Assess' etc.
I did my CPP (now Level 3) just under 20 years ago so would have thought has changed significantly, but I do recall is quite different to what is expected at Level 5.

I’ve had it described as being led to the garden gate but I now have to step through and ‘go it alone’. I’m standalone along with a varied skill base and no other helpful colleagues are employed.
No template or reading list although suggestions. Online reading is fine but my company is a charity and would struggle to pay for lengthy text books, so I’m trying to find as much as possible online.
Any help is hugely appreciated
Thank you

Hi there
Some advice for you -
Create a cover page with the unit title, your name and date of submission.
Then look at Unit assessment page of the unit contents. It is right at the back.
You will see that there are 3 Learning Outcomes and each of those outcomes has a number of assessment criteria.
Use these to structure your report.
You will then need to research the areas such as group dynamics and conflict resolution methods. The CIPD website is helpful and also a Google search can also be helpful. Do use recognised sources. Your provider may have also given you the recommended book for the qualification as part of your package so that will help too.
You will also note for Learning Outcome 3 completion of the CIPD My CPD Map provides evidence for 3.1 and your CPD Plan does the same for 3.2 and your CPD Record does 3.3.
Hope this helps!

Hi Lisa
See my reply to another candidate and again even though Carol is on holiday you can contact me!!

I think it is just the starting of the work itself, like i just cant get my head around it. what did you use to define what professionalism is?
Also, did you do all your references at the end?

For professionalism I quoted CIPD, the HR map is great to use in 1.1. As you have gone straight to level 5 you may not have come across the map. The link to this is: www.cipd.co.uk/.../profession-map. This will help for 1.1 as this will help you pick professional behaviors and also areas. Pick some of the areas and behaviors and see how you can relate them to HR professionals and their skills and knowledge base. e.g. skilled influencer and using this in a meeting to assure that everyone comes to a fair agreement even if it wasn't the expected outcome.

Regarding references, i always did these as I went along, as i found it easier to advise on my point when i had a reference to back it up. I used about 6 references for my first assignment but by the last one i was on about 15-20 references per assignment.

The hardest part is always starting, but once you start you'll be fine.

Hope this helps

Thank you Maureen... much appreciated

Thats handy to note Luigina, the amount of refereces. This is new to me because we didnt need them for L3

I had already done a degree but in an unrelated subject. I was used to providing up to about 10 references, but was told I should be including at least 20 and to quote from original source rather than the text book. My 1st assignment (1 of the optional modules) references ended up being pages long!
Definitely agree hardest part is starting it as honestly it does get easier as you work through the assignments.

As you can see this forum is only too willing to help and advise etc.
That is the issue I had as well doing Mixed mode learning whereby I had no access to an academic library and was quite shocked about how much the cost of buying new books was (always asking for Amazon vouchers for Christmas etc!). My county library service did have some books which were useful to borrow, but were often rather out of date (like over 10 years old!).
I was lucky in that I work in a large team and a number of them had studied (albeit Level 7) so could borrow text books from them. Otherwise always worth an ask to see if anyone is selling them 2nd hand on the forum (I did manage to get 2 Level 7 books that way but struggled getting hold of Level 5 ones).
I also found the online CIPD fact sheets, Journal articles etc very useful