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Leadership Development Final Assessment - Reflective Essay

The Reflective Essay counts as the final examination for the Leadership Development module.

Each student is required to submit a reflective essay of between 8 000 and 10 000 words (excluding introduction, references and appendices). The purpose of the assignment is to integrate and capture your development as a leader during the leadership module and beyond. The objective is to integrate personal learning aspects from all sessions, from all three main categories of the leadership module (personal, interpersonal and organisational leadership) into the growth of yourself as a leader and culminate in drafting a personal development plan going forward. It has a strong focus on your understanding of yourself as an authentic leader and the exercise of this as a leader in terms of personal, interpersonal, and organisational leadership.

There are no correct answers, just critical, reflective thought, combined with high levels of critical thinking and argument, substantiated by academic literature. Your assignment must deliver an in-depth personal analysis, sense-making and critical, researched, reflective, and within a coherent document.

The material and topics covered in all the sessions of the Leadership Development module should be your guide and foundation for completing this assignment. Make use of a selection from all of the theoretical material, exercises, models, theories, etc. to reflect on your development as a leader during the module.

Also, evaluate your own competency gaps and discuss the potential and real derailments. Reflect on and identify those areas of good/excellent competence (enablers) in your life relating to your leadership competencies and development, then discuss how you would enhance the enablers to grow. Provide a personal leadership development plan (what you can, and will do) for shifting the stumbling blocks and leveraging/further enhancing the enablers. Additionally, it would be useful to see a table in the appendices that provides timelines for the implementation of the recommendations.

This assessment will also include a peer review assessment from 3 - 4 syndicate members, reflecting on your growth as a leader and a team member over the course of the module. Feedback will be anonymous and we can assign who gives feedback to whom. This feedback gives evidence of applied leadership competency and is not scored separately, but forms part of the overall assessment. You are strongly encouraged to view the Reflective Essay as an opportunity to develop your learning (and as a first-step to a process of lifelong learning). Your final grade should be viewed as a by-product of that learning, rather than its cornerstone.

Attachment:- Reflective Essay Assignment File.rar