Combining work ad study effectively

Effective management of work-based projects 
Most of the academic aspects are work based projects and use variety of skills. Before understanding the work-based project, check whether you need employer's agreement. If the project need to conduct an informal  observation or experience no need to get the permission from the employer (Cottrell
 ,2008). If is in other way around means that if you are using the employer's working time and resources for the projects, using the official documents of the particular company you need to get the permission from the employer (Cottrell,2012).

Project-management-templates.lastdownload (2011)

Organize yourself for the project

• Check legal data protection and how you will meet these
• Gain permission for use of workplace data
• Think whether you are needed to use the workplace materials, photos etc.
• Schedule the time for conducting interviews or observations and remind them before you go to meet them on the right day. 

Workplace support team

If there is a support team that's easy to negotiate access to data, relevant work tasks, study time or other resources, know the pressure of the work of  the student,  can provide current professional and practical perspectives on issues.

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How to get use of Workplace support team

• Build the relationship with the  support team and be friendly with them
• Clarify what you need from the support team and check are they able to provide these information
• Arrange times for the meeting or observations by talking to the support team
• Arrive prepared for the sessions 

According to author effective management of projects need the following skills

1. Team work skills in order to work with others in  group.
2. Research skills before go to a particular workplace to collect information.
3. Managing the time for the best days plan for the interviews etc.
4. Prepare a note what you need from th work place.

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Effective management of study-release time 
Employers may offer study-released time at work.If you can manage this its extremely valuable.

• I prefer taking a whole study day once a fortnight rather than a half day each week.

Half day release can be more difficult to manage effectively. It means afternoon is wasted for travel, provide less opportunity for study. This tends to suit the people who prefer short time bouts of study, little travel to undertake, manage time for study well. 

Effective-time-management-strategies (2012)

Making best use of time for study

• Plan ahead at least for a week so that you make most of the time available. So that by identifying the activities which is being needed to be complete in the week helps to achieve success.
• Check whether there is a quite room for the work with your favor of the situation. 
• If you have negotiated the study time in the workplace, see whether you can connect to online study resources from there.
• If you find it better to use the release time for non-study purposes by planning that time effectively. 

CREAM strategy for learning

* C- Creative 

Have the confidence to use individual strategies, applying imagination to learning. (Cottrell, 2008, P55)

* R- Reflective

Able to sit with the own experience, analyze and evaluate the performance and draw lesson from it. (kcl.ac, 2007)

*E- Effective

Organize space, time, resources to maximize the benefits.(kcl.ac, 2007)

*A- Active

Personally involved in doing things physically and mentally.(kcl.ac, 2007)

*M- Motivated

Aware of own desired outcomes keep track in short and long term goals.(Cottrell, 2008,P55)