Reference no: EM133748448

Leading Contemporary Organisations

Assessment: Leadership Development Report

Overview:
The purpose of this assignment is to help you understand leadership as a learning process; and develop a leadership development plan.

Details - Part 1: Report Leadership Development
You will prepare a 1-5-year Leadership Development Plan for yourself. The plan should be based on reflection of current leadership practices and identify actions to be taken to enhance future leadership practices.

Since this is a development plan, it will require substantial amount of thinking, reflection, and library and online database research of academic (scholarly and practitioner-oriented) journals or books.

No Wikipedia or unauthenticated website information should be used for writing this plan. Please start working on this assignment earlier in the semester to ensure you are able to write a high-quality paper.

You are required to include a minimum of 10 recent academic sources. Also be careful not to over-rely on any single source.

Your plan must be written 1500 words, excluding references and appendices. It must include the following sections:
A title page, including your full name, title of the paper, submission date and course title/number;
An abstract of less than 250 words on a separate page (not included in word count);
Body of the paper that provides:

Introduction: Please provide background information about your strengths and improvement areas, leadership needs, including how these were assessed and when.

(If you are writing a plan for leading social innovation, provide information on what the social problem is, what is its scope/ context globally, what benefits are likely to occur if you find a solution and what challenges do you foresee).

Develop a current and future development plan including:

Explain your overall future leadership goals and how the development plan aims to fulfill these goals [Your focus should be on ‘development' and not simply training];

Analyse current/emerging theoretical views and industry trends on leadership practice relating to your leadership goals [Please note that your plan must reflect ‘future' leadership practices including leadership of diversity that links with your goals];
Evaluate current leadership development trends as they relate to your leadership goals {Consider how other organisations are pursuing leadership development including leadership of diversity];

Make recommendations on your future relevant leadership development opportunities linked to your leadership goals including potential exposure to global opportunities? [Be specific and identify who would assist you with the leadership development (coaches, mentors, programs, instructors). Identify how your organisation and the manager (or the family) might support the plan?];

References (on a separate page and alphabetical and not included in word count)

Appendices (not included in word count)
An outline of how many years your plan covers (3, 4 or 5 or less or more);
A step-by-step guide of the detailed action plan

A step-by-step guide to monitoring, evaluation and measurement of results: How (and how often) would you continue to track the performance and ensure effective implementation of the plan? How would you continue to evaluate your leadership capabilities?