This task begins as part of Week 1 and continues throughout the course, leading to the development of a personal leadership development plan (PLDP). Leadership Self-insight: Every week you were asked to do a short self-assessment quiz from your text. You were asked to reflect carefully on the outcome of each quiz and to identify some practical actions you can take to improve your own leadership ability. The objective of this exercise was to help you to build self-awareness and identify leadership attributes that represent strengths and weaknesses and opportunities to improve. You were expected to go beyond your own leadership development needs and consider future challenges you or your organisation could face. What leadership skills would you need to address these challenges? You were also asked to discuss this issue with an experienced colleague and/or mentor. PLDP requirements: Bring together the outcomes from your leadership self-insight quizzes (700 words). Interpret the results of the self-insight quizzes. You need to do this holistically and see how the insights from individual quizzes can be comprehensively presented. Consider the implications for leaders in todays complex and turbulent environments. Acknowledge sources as required. The purpose of this step is to gather information on your key leadership strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement that you need to present as part of your PLDP. 2. Provide a succinct summary of your key strengths and weaknesses (300 words) Include a brief summary of your key leadership strengths and weaknesses at the beginning of your plan (based the outcomes of your leadership self-insight quizzes). This can help to link your developmental objectives and actions with your developmental needs. It is also a useful communication mechanism when you discuss your plan with a supervisor or mentor. There are several options for doing this: causal conversations, informal interviews, previous performance evaluations. Consider how your perceptions of yourself are similar/different from the perception of your colleagues. 4.Articulate your vision for developing as a leader (25-50 words) In one sentence, describe your aspiration as a developing leader. For example, you may wish to be a leader who is ethical, collaborative and continuously learning. 5.Specify your developmental objectives (125-150 words) Write down your developmental objectives. These should be specific and written in a way that allows progress to be measured (e.g. to become a more effective team player, as assessed by my team members). It is recommended that you include 3-5 objectives in your plan 6. Specify actions to achieve each developmental objective (500 words) For each developmental objective, describe the actions you plan to take in order to achieve them. These actions should be SMART (i.e. specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and linked to a timeframe). They could be a once-off action (to establish a mentoring relationship with Anne Smith by 30 September, or an ongoing action is (to ask my colleagues for feedback on my leadership behaviours after major projects are delivered) 7. Describe the resources that you will need to implement your plan (300 words) As you draft your plan, consider the resources you will need to fully implement it. Resources include assistance from key people (e.g. mentors and human resource specialists), time to implement actions, funds (e.g. to pay for specialist training or a coach) and guidance materials such as books 8. Describe the mechanisms you will use to get feedback on your (200 words) leadership behaviours and track your progress Such mechanisms may include: discussions with mentors or feedback from peers 9. Describe your strategy to review and revise your plan in future (200 words) Your plan will need to be reviewed and updated in future. Describe how and when you will do this. Annual reviews are typical. You may wish to link this review process to an existing one. For example, if you currently have a professional development plan that is regularly reviewed as part of your organisations human resource management system, you could link your leadership development plan to this system. 10. Discuss your plan with your supervisor/mentor. What recommendations were made? What revisions did you make? (300 words) Check your draft plan and then finalise it. You can use tables to present a part of your plan for example points 5, 6 & 7 above. There are no prescribed number of references required for this assessment. Acknowledge sources that you use to help you with your leadership plan. You will need to acknowledge your text book and perhaps a few readings. Online submission via Turnitin is required for this assignment. Details will be provided by your subject lecturer. Rationale back to top This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s: be able to critically analyse, in the context of the framework of relevant theories and research, current and projected issues which impact on organisational leadership and organisational success. be able to explain the relationship between effective leadership and the success of organisations. be able to develop a leadership plan and implementation strategies. Marking criteria and standards back to top Criterion HD (85-100%) D (75- 84%) C ( 65-74%) P (50-64%) F (< 50%) Content & knowledge of key leadership theories and frameworks demonstrated through the interpretation of the results of the leadership self-insight quizzes 10 marks PLDP demonstrates appropriate selection and integration of theory. Able to consider and expand on topics and issues in the broader disciplinary context. Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding and has insights and awareness of deeper more subtle aspects of the topic content. Ability to apply these in a consistent and appropriate manner to the PLDP PLDP demonstrates good selection and integration of theory. Able to consider topics and issues in the broader disciplinary context. Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding and has insights and awareness of many of the deeper more subtle aspects of the topic content. Ability to apply these in a consistent and appropriate manner to the PLDP Sound knowledge of principles and concepts. Relevant key theories, ideas are included in the work in an appropriate manner. Ability to apply these in a consistent and appropriate manner to the PLDP Knowledge of principles and concepts sufficient to communicate intelligently about the topic. Content acknowledged but not really taken into account. Some ability to apply these in a consistent and appropriate manner to the PLDP Does not meet the minimum requirements for this criterion Demonstrates a willingness and ability to engage in self- reflection. Demonstrates a willingness and ability to take steps towards personal change and the ability to develop a personal leadership plan and implementation strategies 20 marks Excellent ability to evaluate strengths and weaknesses and to identify barriers and opportunities to developing a personal leadership plan and implementation strategies Good ability to evaluate strengths and weaknesses and to identify barriers and opportunities to developing a personal leadership plan. Some good discussion of implementation strategies. Good ability to evaluate strengths and weaknesses. Limited identification of barriers and opportunities to developing a personal leadership plan and implementation strategies Satisfactory effort made to evaluate strengths and weaknesses. Very limited identification of barriers and opportunities to developing a personal leadership plan and implementation strategies Does not meet the minimum requirements for this criterion Written Composition: The PLDP is professionally presented: well-organised REPORT and well written (including spelling and grammar) 10 marks Highly developed skills in expression and presentation of ideas. Fluent writing style appropriate to assessment task/document type. Grammar and spelling accurate. Well-developed skills in expression and presentation of ideas. Fluent writing style appropriate to assessment task/document type. Grammar and spelling accurate. Good skills in expression and clear presentation of ideas. Mostly fluent writing style appropriate to assessment task/document type. Grammar and spelling accurate. Some skills in expression and presentation of ideas. Meaning apparent but writing style not always fluent or well organised. Grammar and spelling contain errors. Does not meet the minimum requirements for this criterion Presentation back to top Please note the word count recommendations provided for each section are for your guidance only. You can vary them as you see fit as long as the you keep to the 3000 (+/- 10%) overall Report format: Title page, Executive Summary, Introduction, Body ( use relevant sub-headings here), Conclusion, List of references The word count does NOT include the title page, executive summary and list of references. Words in tables are included. No appendices should be used Requirements back to top Assignments must be submitted on Turnitin to be marked.
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