BMGT 7046 Developing Skills for Business Leadership Assessment Brief 2023

About This Assignment

The Coursework assignments aim to enable you to produce your Action  Plan for your Personal Development and then execute it during the time of your studies. To do this, you will need to build a Portfolio of Evidence of your development and actively engage in Continuous Professional Development (CPD) including demonstrating your reflective practice as part of your CPD.

Assignment Task

This requires you to reflect on your personal and skills development and produce an Action Plan for the year. You should use the activities from the workshops provided by this module and from other sources that you have identified to prepare you for this task. 

Paper 1: Personal SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats).  This self–appraisal must include self-evaluation arising out of reflections on at least 3 of  the following:  

   1. Teamworking skills 

   2. Leadership skills – Influencing & Persuasion, Decision-making 

  3. Coaching

  4. Career management skills 

  5. Critical thinking skills 

  6. Presentation Skills 

  7. Wellbeing 

It will also be informed by reflecting on your MBTI profile. Your tutor may ask why you to  justify some of this self-analysis and so you need to be able to point to some evidence  or experience to justify why something is a strength or weakness  

Paper 2; An example of a Leadership Reflection or a Critical Incident Reflection  

Paper 3; Your Action Plan for 2023- 2024 identifying your key goals and  how you will achieve them 

THE SECOND ELEMENT: The Portfolio, is graded as a percentage out of 100 and forms the grade for the module. 

This is a written assignment, which is to be presented as a ”Portfolio” with appropriate appendices. Within the Portfolio, you should include: 

1. Curriculum Vitae (CV) 

2. Documentation from Viva including SWOT, CIL/LR and Action Plan 2023-2024 

3. Your 2 Leadership Reflections (LR) and 2 Critical Incident logs (CIL) evidencing regular active reflections. 

In addition to the LRs and CILs you may like to strengthen your portfolio by including other materials as appendices such as images, mind-maps, and diagram formats as well, if this is your preferred type of representation.  

You are expected to include 2 LRs from the following themes: 

   1. Teamwork 

   2. Leadership 

   3. Coaching 

You are expected to include 2 CILs from the following themes: 

     4. Wellbeing 

    5. Career Management 

    6. Critical Thinking 

    7. Presentation skills 

    8. Consultancy 

3. A Reflective statement  

The Reflective Statement is about your personal development. It will relate to your original action plan and will also acknowledge feedback from others: tutors and peers. 

The word count for the Reflective Statement is 1,000 words. The reflective statement is a review of your learning and development and should include. The Reflective  Statement is the main “academic” part of the portfolio and as such should have a bibliography and list of appropriate references used. 

1. A very brief introduction of yourself in terms of your personal and professional  development since joining Oxford Brookes and future ambitions 

2. An overview of your personal development including, where appropriate,  amendments and revisions to your goals as identified in the original Action Plan. You will be referring in your Reflective Statement to your LRs and CILs. 

It may also refer to the learning and development experiences you have as part of your development – workshops, readings, activities, self-evaluation questionnaires etc. In particular. 

You MUST include reflections/sections on at least 2 from: 

1. Teamwork 

2. Leadership 

3. Coaching 

And at least 2 from: 

4. Wellbeing 

5. Career Management 

6. Critical Thinking 

7. Presentation skills 

8. Consultancy 

3. A future-orientated action plan that includes three objectives for further self-development and/or career management also needs to be included as an appendix following your 1,000-word REFLECTIVE STATEMENT.

The Reflective Statement 

The word limit for the Reflective Statement is 1,000 words.  

The Documents need to be Word-processed in Arial font, 11 pitch and double-spaced.  Margins must be as follows: Top; 1.0 inch (2.5cm), Bottom; 1.0 inch (2.5 cm), Left; 1.25  inches (3.2 cm), Right; 1.25 inches (3.2 cm). All pages must be numbered. The assignment must have a front cover showing the programme title, module name and number, title of the assignment, and submission date. 

Words that exceed the maximum allowed will not be marked. If in doubt, you should discuss this with the Module Leader before submission.  

A student who attempts an element of assessment and achieves less than 50% in that element of assessment, will be permitted one opportunity to resit the failed element unless their performance on other elements of assessment within the module means they have passed the module overall.