leadership and change

Task:1500 words Harvard style referencing 

You are required to:

  • Critically reflect on your own effectiveness as a leader.
  • Produce recommendations for your own personal leadership development.

The reflection and recommendations should focus on one or two broad aspects of leadership (see the content list for the module as a guide to the various possibilities). Your reflection should ideally focus on current leadership experience and/or that of the recent past (i.e. the last two years).

Learning Outcomes 1-2

Weighting: 50% of final mark.

Important Considerations

Although the report will contain elements of description to outline the circumstances, the emphasis should be on critical evaluation of your leadership of the change process.

You should use relevant classical and contemporary leadership and change theories or paradigms reviewed during the course of the Module (covered in weeks 1-5) as a focus for your analysis.

You should, where possible, seek to produce evidence to support your points. The range of acceptable evidence might include: written feedback from colleagues etc. (where applicable), reflective exercises, surveys, appraisal reports etc. Evidence may be placed in appendices to the main report.

Mark

Learning Outcome

1.

Critical reflection of current/recent leadership effectiveness

40%

1 – 2

2.

Recommendations for future leadership development

40%

1 – 2

3.

Critical review of relevant theories & paradigms

20%

1 – 2

Total Marks:

100%

The resit for this assignment is to follow the same instructions but cover one or two different leadership topics to those covered in your previous assignment ie.

You are required to write a management report and: 

  • Critically reflect on your own effectiveness as a leader; 
  • Produce recommendations for your own personal leadership development.

The reflection and recommendations should focus on one or two different broad aspects of leadership (see the content list for the module as a guide to the various possibilities). Your reflection should ideally focus on current leadership experience and/or that of the recent past (i.e. the last two years).