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Print & Graphic Communication NTO - Fibreboard Manufacture & Conversion Units

C1 - Overview
Manage yourself (MCI)

This unit is about developing your own skills and managing your time so that you can meet your objectives.This unit is for you if you are a manager or supervisor with:

  • a tightly defined area of responsibility
  • some limited opportunity for taking decisions and managing budgets
  • responsibility for achieving specific results by using resources effectively, and
  • responsibility for allocating work to team members, colleagues or contractors

To achieve your unit certificate, you must show that you can 

C1.1 Develop your own skills to improve your performance
C1.2 Manage your time to meet your objectives


As a manager, you should continuously develop your own skills and manage your time effectively.

In order to develop your own skills to improve your performance, you need to assess your current level of skills, identify, plans and take action to meet your development needs. You also need to review and update your development plans in the light of your progress or changing circumstances.

To manage your time to meet your objectives, you need to agree and prioritise your objectives, plan your time, take decisions, and review and reschedule your activities as appropriate.

Collecting the evidence for this unit

Your performance evidence must show that you have covered all of the statements in the You must show that section in each element, and must be the result of real work activities in actual production situations. Simulation is not acceptable for this unit.

Your assessor will need to be satisfied that you have the necessary understanding specified in each 'K' list. Where this is not evident from your performance, you may be asked oral or written questions, or to write a short report.

You may need to provide other information to support your performance evidence. Here are some examples:

  • Work activities
  • consulting relevant people for feedback
  • reviewing your work with others
  • decision making on work objectives and priorities
  • handling interruptions and digressions from your planned work
  • reviewing progress and reviewing activities


Products or outcomes

  • assessment reports
  • plans for developing your own skills
  • written objectives and work schedules
  • reviews and progress reports
  • letters, memos and reports about justifying decisions

Written or spoken reports, describing

  • how you identified your development needs
  • how you matched your plans for developing your sills to your needs
  • how you agreed your objectives
  • how you set work priorities
  • how you estimated the time needed to complete activities
  • how you analysed information when making decisions
  • how you dealt with interruptions and digressions

Witness testimony

  • statements from people who were asked for, and provided feedback
  • statements from people involved in reviews of your progress

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