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Learning Outcome 1 Identify and critically analyse their own personal values, character, motivation and responsibility in their own professional/entrepreneurial practice in the light of relevant theory and models.

Learning Outcome 2 Critically analyse and debate on different theories and models in leadership, persuasion without influence, communication, vision and strategy that can lead to powerful new outcomes for their own ventures.

Learning Outcome 3 Critically examine their own emotional reactions to the stresses presented by entrepreneurial challenges with enhanced insight.

Learning Outcome 4 Research, critically review and design new action-learning interventions to further enhance their individual effectiveness.

Assessment Component 1: Self-Assessment (Individual Reflection Assessment)

You are required to assess yourself on a range of skills and competences relevant to entrepreneurial leadership, for example persuasion without influence, networking and strategic insight; In order to do this, you are asked to use your results from the following ‘Entrepreneur Test' the basis for this assessment, together with reading from the core texts for the Module. The questionnaire measures five key personality traits which have been found to correlate with those of successful entrepreneurs. Your 1,500-word self-reflection report should be structured as you feel necessary. You are required to reflect on ‘where you are' before you begin your learning and development journey on the MSc Entrepreneurship and Business Development' programme.

Your report should demonstrate how you have developed your sense of self-awareness and an understanding of your own strengths and weaknesses as entrepreneurs. You should explain how you have developed and improved a range of skills and competences that are of great importance to being an entrepreneur. You should reflect on your development during the course delivery so far and consider how, and in what ways, you have developed and how you could develop in the future. You will have taken part in the block delivery workshops for the Module and covered Critical Thinking, Mindfulness Decision Making, Problem Solving, and Public Speaking. The learning and teaching activities throughout the workshops were designed for you to develop an understanding of the complex relationship between learning and development as vital in order to develop a broader understanding of how entrepreneurs change and evolve during their careers. You should critically consider implications for practice in your own context.

Presentation and Structure of Your Report

• Word count - 1,500 words excluding bibliography etc.
• Your Assessment should have a title page with a title, your names and student numbers.

Assessment Component 2: Detailed Self-Assessment Report
In order to complete this assessment task, you will need to seek feedback from a range of relevant others on your skills and competences. The rationale is to enable entrepreneurs to assess the differences between their own assessment of their levels of necessary skills and competences - and the assessment of others about them. This will enable you to formulate and begin work on a plan for professional development which will become a lifelong learning journey. You will produce a report outlining the results of these; this will include a reflective piece on the gap between these, and how or why such gaps may have arisen. You are required to show how you plan to address the gaps. The 70% component word count will be 4,500 words.

Guidelines to Write the Detailed Self-Assessment Report

Your report should demonstrate how you have developed your sense of self-awareness and an understanding of your own strengths and weaknesses as entrepreneurs. You should explain how you have developed and improved a range of skills and competences that are of great importance to being an entrepreneur. You should reflect on your development during the course delivery so far and consider how, and in what ways, you have developed and how you could develop in the future. You have taken part in the first block workshops for the Module and covered Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Public Speaking Workshop, Mindfulness Decision Making. The learning and teaching activities throughout the workshop were designed for students to develop an understanding of the complex relationship between learning and development as vital in order to develop a broader understanding of how entrepreneurs change and evolve during their careers.

Component 1 Assessment Criteria: Individual Self-Reflection

In order to perform well on this assessment task, students should seek to include in their assessment the following (in order to meet Learning Outcome 1):
- Identification of own personal values, character, motivation and responsibility own professional/entrepreneurial practice in light of relevant theory and models
- Critical analysis of own personal values, character, motivation and responsibility own professional/entrepreneurial practice in light of relevant theory and models

Component 2 Assessment Criteria: Detailed Self-Assessment Report
In order to perform well on this assessment task, students should seek to include in their assessment the following (in order to meet Learning Outcomes 2, 3 and 4):
- Critically analysis and debate on different theories and models in leadership, persuasion without influence, communication, vision and strategy that can lead to powerful new outcomes for their own ventures.
- Critical examination of emotional reactions to the stresses presented by entrepreneurial challenges with enhanced insight.
- Researching, critically reviewing and the design of new action-learning interventions to further enhance their individual effectiveness.

Attachment:- Review and design new action-learning.rar