Reference no: EM133127903
BSBPMG633 Provide leadership for the program
Assessment Task - Leadership and learning
Task 3.1 Support staff learning
Schedule a meeting with the project managers in week 5 of class.
The project managers will be played by a group of classmates (Role-Play). The meeting will be an opportunity to:
• Reinforce the program vision
• Identify learning needs and opportunities
• Communicate and agree on individual program roles
• Present plans for knowledge management
• Encourage learning as a key to program success
• Demonstrate leadership
• Coach the program managers to work towards the attainment of program benefits
• Answer questions from the program team and provide the information required
Duration: 20-30 minutes
The trainer and assessor will evaluate your performance during the Role Play.
If you are absent from class, it is your responsibility to make alternative arrangements with the trainer and assessor to perform the Role-Play.
Before the meeting
• Prepare a detailed PowerPoint presentation to address ALL the following:
1. Explain what the team can expect from you as a leader and as an experienced Program Manager (3-4 expectations).
Include an explicit commitment to leading them effectively (you could use an inspirational quote).
List your behavioural expectations for constituent project managers.
2. Structure and illustrate the program roles (4-5 key roles in total).
During the meeting you will ask if the team agrees or if they would change anything.
Use the table below for this slide.
3. Develop a list of identified learning needs and opportunities.During the meeting you will ask if the team agrees or if they would add/change anything.
4. Develop and present a training plan for project managers. You will negotiate and finalise the plan during the meeting.
(4-5 formal training opportunities and two informal)
5. Develop and present a knowledge management strategy: what knowledge is essential to the program, how it will be collected, shared, and recorded.
Use the table below for this slide.
6. Plan for the involvement of project managers in program planning and implementation.
Mentor the project managers by explaining when they will be involved in program planning and implementation for feedback and inputs, and outline how this is a crucial learning process.
Use the table below for this slide.
7. Coach the project managers by explaining how errors can be a learning opportunity, encourage project managers to be open about the errors they make. Explain how learning supports working towards the attainment of program benefits. You could use an example from your own experience, a case study or a quote to illustrate your point.
8. Encourage the project managers to reflect on and review practice as a basis for learning.
Ask them to complete the stinky fish reflection exercise (adapted for the presentation); see the template below to use in this slide.
9. Prepare a Q&A slide.
• Prepare to ask the project managers who attended the meeting to complete the review form below (Template 1).
You will have to make sure that the participants complete the form and give it back to you to be submitted with your assessment.
Task 3.2 Evaluate leadership
Reflect on the learning in this unit, the work performed in the assessment, and your role as a program manager. Address all the following in the form of personal notes:
• Describe what leadership style, skills and behaviours are needed to manage the program effectively
• Describe what leadership style/s and skills you possess and what leadership style/s and skills you wish to develop
• Review the feedback received by the project managers and ask the project sponsor (trainer and assessor) for further feedback.
• Outline a plan to address improvement needs for future leadership roles and opportunities.
(80-150 words)
Attachment:- Leadership and learning.rar