BUSM4177 Assessment 3: Leadership development plan – Leadership, Assignment, RMIT University, Singapore

Overview

You are required to reflect on your own leadership using diagnostic tools and on what you learnt from the industry dialogues about the quality and skills you should develop to become a good leader. You will then consider and plan how to improve your own leadership qualities drawn from the diagnostic tools in the form of a development plan, which will then incorporate industry feedback before your final submission.

This is a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) assessment task, the purpose of which is for you to build on the knowledge and skills gained from Assessment 2 and apply them in a practical situation through a real workplace context and engaging with feedback from industry.

Assessment criteria

This assessment will measure your ability to:

• diagnose leadership strengths and weaknesses as a result of self-assessment
• create a leadership development plan based on self-assessment and reflection from the industry dialogue
• describe how to incorporate the feedback into the plan
• identify plan evaluation approach/es and describe how the plan makes an impact on future lives and careers
• acknowledge sources of information (format, quality and quantity of references) Course learning outcomes

This assessment is relevant to the following course learning outcomes:

CLO1 Critically analyse and apply leadership theories and models in various organisational situations.

CLO3 Use critical self-reflection as a tool for leadership development.

CLO4 Apply feedback of others to enhance leadership capabilities and to act on opportunities for leadership development.

Assessment structure

The assessment should use the following structure. A template of the structure is also provided and can be used as a guide (see ‘Suggested Assessment 3 structure template’ in the Resources section of this document):
1. Title page
2. Table of contents
3. Introduction
4. Body with headings and sub-headings (e.g. Leadership development plan; Industry feedback)
5. Conclusion
6. References
7. Appendices, which will include: (your leader’s feedback in the Industry feedback checklist; your Leadership diagnostic tests results; initial Leadership development plan (before feedback from chosen leader); final Leadership development plan (incorporating feedback from chosen leader).
Note: Sections 1, 2, 6 and 7 are not included in the word count.

Resources

The following resources must be used in this assessment:

•  Diagnostic tools ↓
• Leadership development plan template ↓
• Industry feedback checklist ↓
•  Assignment Suggested Structure ↓

The following resources may help you in this assessment:

• Management, Human Resources and Entrepreneurship library guide: This library guide provides a list of useful journals and databases that hold academic articles on leadership.