BUSM4177 Leadership Assessment 3: Leadership development plan - Management Assignment Help

Overview

You are required to reflect on your own leadership using diagnostic tools that will measure three specific areas of leadership and from what you learnt about the person you chose as an effective leader in Assessment 2. You will then consider and plan how to improve your own leadership qualities drawn from the diagnostic tools in a development plan, which will incorporate industry feedback before your final submission. Note that if you cannot get feedback on your leadership development plan from the leader you chose for Assessment 2, you must specify a different leader who can perform this task.

Purpose

This assessment aims to build on the knowledge and skills gained from Assessment 2 and apply them in a practical situation through a real workplace context and engaging with feedback from industry. This is a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) assessment.

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What do you need to deliver?

• 1 x 2500-word development plan

Course learning outcomes

This assessment is linked to the following course learning outcomes:

Marking criteria

This assessment will measure your ability to:

• diagnose leadership strengths and weaknesses as a result of self-assessment (10 pts)

• create a leadership development plan based on self-assessment (10 pts)

• describe how to incorporate the feedback into the plan (10 pts)

• identify plan evaluation approach/es and explain how the plan makes an impact on future lives and careers (10 pts)

• acknowledge sources of information (format, quality, and quantity of references) (10 pts)

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Assessment details

This assessment moves from critically analysing and reflecting on the person you chose as an effective leader in Assessment 2 to reflecting and planning on how to improve your leadership qualities and effectiveness.

Before starting this assessment, you will need to have nominated a leader to seek feedback from who has agreed to be involved and must be approved by your online facilitator. This leader can be anyone you know who holds a business leadership position.

1. Assess your current strengths and weaknesses

For the leadership development plan, you are asked to reflect on your own leadership based on what you learnt from the person you chose as an effective leader in Assessment 2, and then consider how your own leadership qualities might be improved.

Assess your current strengths and weaknesses as a leader (or potential leader). Complete three (3) of leadership diagnostic tools provided in week 8 or on the Assessment 3 page in Canvas. In this task, you will need to analyse and explain the results of the tests.

2. Create a draft of your leadership development plan

Create a draft of your leadership development plan using the ‘Leadership development plan template’ provided in week 9 or on the Assessment 3 page in Canvas. The plan must at least maintain or further develop the leadership strengths and improve on the weaknesses identified in the leadership diagnosis. You must review the leadership theories and concepts explored in this course and describe how they relate to you and your leadership development plan. The plan should consist of key components such as timeframe, activities, goals, and measurement indicators.

3. Seek industry feedback

In this stage, you must seek feedback on your plan from the chosen leader. After completing the draft development plan, you will need to submit the plan and provide the ‘Industry feedback checklist’ provided on the Assessment 3 page in Canvas. to your nominated leader.

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After receiving the industry feedback checklist back from your nominated leader, you will need to incorporate their feedback into your development plan. As you update your plan, consider the following questions:

• What did the leader have to say about your draft of the leadership development plan?

• How have you modified your draft because of the feedback? For example, if the leader you consulted said that your timeframe to achieve your leadership goals was unrealistically short, did you extend the timeframe to achieve these?

4. Answer question prompts

Next, you will need to answer the following prompts as part of the industry feedback task in your assessment:

1. Describe what and how you have incorporated this leader’s feedback into your plan.

2. Describe how you will evaluate whether you have or have not reached the level of development set out in your plan (e.g. how will you know that you have achieved the goals set out in your leadership development plan? What kind(s) of data and information will inform this?) and describe how the plan make an impact on future lives and careers.