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MGT601 Dynamic Leadership - Laureate International Universities

Part B: Reflexive Report

Learning Outcome 1: Explore and reflect on self- development as a leader to build self-awareness

Learning Outcome 2: Through critical reflection on key leadership theories develop a personal leadership development strategy.

Learning Outcome 3: Analyse and develop the capacity to influence, motivate and inspire others in your workplace and/or community organisations.

Context:

The learning design of this subject is to focus on your own leadership journey and not to study leadership as some remote, theoretical concept that applies to other people. This assessment enables you to build self-awareness and a clear sense of how you came to be the person and emerging leader that you are today. It encourages deep reflection on your life and leadership journey to your present position. It helps you to increase your understanding of your current leadership capabilities and potential. The assessment requires you to establish a mentoring relationship with another student in the class so that you can provide mutual learning support and exchange constructive feedback with each other.

Your Task:

Your task in Assessment 1 Part B is to reflect on you own leadership journey up until now, your current role or position, how you influence others, how you lead, contribute to or react to organisational and cultural changes and your current level of self-awareness and self- confidence to lead others in your organisation and/or community.

Assessment 2, which is due at the end of the subject, builds on the first and asks you to prepare a plan for the next stage of your leadership journey. The assessments are integrated pieces of work and you should bear in mind the final part as you work on this part. All assessments need to be strongly based on the established theories and models of leadership to help you interpret and explain your leadership challenges.

Working with Your Partner:

Partners will be allocated by your Learning Facilitator after you post your personal introduction on the "Welcome and Introductions" Discussion Forum. Partners will be allocated on the basis of maximum diversity of backgrounds to enrich your learning experience. Where possible, partners will be in similar time zones. More detailed guidelines for working with your partner are provided at the end of this section.
• You should include a summary of the feedback you receive from your partner and others, combined with your reflection and interpretation of this feedback in the context of your leadership journey.
• You may wish to also include a summary of the feedback that you gave your partner and reflect on it. Feedback often says as much about the person who gives as the person who receives it. The feedback summaries can be included as appendices, where they will not be included in the word count.

While the assessment includes feedback from the interaction with your partner, each person is to submit his or her own, individual report.
More detailed guidelines for working with your partner are shown at the end of this brief.

Possible Structure:

A possible structure for your report is shown below. This is a suggestion only and is not mandatory. Other structures would be appropriate, provided that they enable you to demonstrate your learning according to the rubric shown in the brief for the first assessment.

1. A clear logic flow, using a "Contents" page and section headings, will help your readers to follow your thinking.
2. The use of an "Executive Summary" as a précis or abstract of your report.
3. An "Introduction" to set the context
4. The body of your report should address the following issues. The percentages in brackets indicate a suggested proportional length of each section.
• Who has recognised your leadership in the past? This is not about jobs you have held, this is about recognising the people you have influenced.
• Key "moments of truth" in your background to date. This should not be a chronology or a CV. It is a reflection on a small number of the most influential aspects or turning points in the establishment of your natural leadership behaviours. This is not to be fictional or invented - please reflect deeply on the nature of your interactions with others around you over time and consider the moments when you felt empowered or aligned with the moment.
• Summarise the results of two other personality or leadership style inventories that you have completed, and your interpretation of the results. Are they basically aligned with the results from Gallup? Identify and explain any variances you identify.
• Explain the process of giving and receiving constructive feedback with a peer, and the outcomes and the of that activity.
• The implications of the feedback and your reflection on its significance. It could include your preliminary thinking on how you might use these insights in future, to be expanded in your second submission.
• Links to theory and conceptual frameworks discussed specifically in the topics in this subject that relate to your experiences and feedback. This is to happen throughout the report and be consistent with the topic areas of this subject. The important point is that you anchor your submission with appropriate models or theories that have been presented in this subject as a minimum.

5. A "Conclusion" to capture your key learnings is desirable in a business subject. Detailed, supporting information such as psychometric results and planning templates should be placed in an appendix, where they will not be included in the word count.

Attachment:- Dynamic Leadership.rar