Develop and Demonstrate Effective Leadership Skills - Assignment

You are to actively assess your present leadership and management skills and then actively engage in the development, planning, participation and execution of leadership activities that will enhance and close the skills gap in your leadership capabilities.

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

Develop and demonstrate effective leadership skills

You are to critically assess your existing leadership and management capabilities using a range of academic and theoretical models in order to identify your leadership strengths and weaknesses.  You are to then develop and plan a range of leadership and management development activities to address any specific weaknesses and extend and enhance any existing strengths. You will build a supporting e-portfolio of evidence outlining activities and events that your led or participated in that will inform and support your 1,000-word self-reflection report.Assess your existing leadership and management capabilities using a range of academic and theoretical models.

Develop and plan a range of leadership and management developmental activities individually and as a member of a team.

• This assessment takes the format of a 1,000-word, self-reflection report. You are to complete the task set. The report must apply models and theoretical concepts and be supported by evidence, with references, from reputable sources throughout and with clear links to your e-portfolio.
• You should also refer to contemporary data sources as well as market data insight from sources such as CIPD, ILM, McKinsey, Harvard Business Review and other such reputable sources including content drawn from the core texts and lecture series.
• Front cover, executive summary, contents page, reference pages and appendices are NOT included in either the page count or the word count that have been allocated. Words used in tables, charts, diagrams are also NOT included in the word count. Note we do not expect to see any Wikipedia, Investopedia, Business Balls, Slide Share, and Essays4U, Term Papers or other spurious non-academic non-reputable sources within your work or in the reference list. Font size should be 11 with single line spacing. Reference list should be presented in the Harvard format along with in text referencing and there is a maximum of 4 pages allocated to appendices should you need them.

Research should use journals and texts sourced through the university e-learning resources database and professional journals/resources only. The use of spurious and non-core materials and references will be investigated and, if necessary, referred to the university academic misconduct panel.

How your work will be assessed

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria as defined by your programme team.

See marking criteria grid provided below for how each element/task of the assessment will be marked and the corresponding weighting of marks for each element/task required.

Have you read and understood the assessment criteria?

Have you met the learning outcomes? You will lose marks and your work may even be failed if you have not.

Have you demonstrated you can think and write critically in the completed work?

This means you have supported your arguments/explanations appropriately e.g. using relevant academic sources and you have offered discussion points which extends your own or others’ viewpoints to make reasoned conclusions/judgements.

Have you maintained an academic tone throughout your work? Is your work formal, focused, developed and clear?

Have you checked that the referencing in your assignment is in line with your programme requirements?

Have you proof-read your work and used spellcheck software to check your spelling and grammar?

Have you checked the presentation of your work is as specified by your tutor, for example, are font size, colour,style, line spacing and margins as the tutor specified?

Have you kept to the word count (or equivalent)? If you are not sure, check with your tutor.

Can you confirm that the work submitted is your own and not plagiarised?