Qualifi L5 Unit 702: Manage Team Performance to Support Strategy Assignment Brief 2026

Qualifi Level 7 Diploma In Strategic Management And Leadership

Unit 702 Assignment Brief 

Unit 702: Manage Team Performance to Support Strategy

 Unit code: Y/506/9067

RQF level: 7

Aim

The unit will explore how team performance can be evaluated and optimised to realise strategic objectives.

Learning Outcomes And Assessment Criteria

Indicative Content

In this unit learners will study a number of models, concepts and ideas that can be used to manage team performance. These include:

• Setting the context for team performance
• IMPAQ Performance Management Approach
• Performance Management System & Performance Appraisal Context
• Elements of the Change Framework
• Adair – action centres leadership
• Scope & Objectives of change
• Motivation Models and Concepts
• Tuckman – Stages of team development
• Latham and Locke 1990
• The Performance Management Cycle
• Aligning Team Goals with Organisational Strategy
• The Performance Appraisal Cycle
• The GROW Model and Coaching
• Belbin – Team Size
• Blended Performance Measures
• Building Blocks for Highly Effective Teams
• Managing the Psychological Contract
• Adams 1965 Expectancy Theory
• Current issues in performance management Some Other Measurement Systems
• Employee Engagement.

Learners will further be introduced to, and encouraged to discuss, some of the management models, concepts and ideas that could be used to help you set departmental, project, team and their own objectives.

Core Text

Leading, Managing and Developing People, Rees, G. and French, R. 2010

Suggested Resources

http://www.cipd.co.uk/hr-resources/factsheets/identifying-learning-talent-development-needs.aspx Empowerment

http://www.economist.com/node/12497834 Coaching and mentoring

http://www.cipd.co.uk/hr-resources/factsheets/coaching-mentoring.aspx Managing stakeholders

http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/dinamic-content/media/CR%20Stakeholder.pdf CMMI

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/

Nadler and Tushman – Organisational congruence model http://super-business.net/knowledge-management/853.html Porter’s Value Chain http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/research/dstools/value-chain-/ http://super-business.net/knowledge-management/853.html Mintzberg – Crafting strategies

https://hbr.org/1987/07/crafting-strategy/ar/1 TRIZ UK

http://www.triz.co.uk/ Guānxi

http://www.worldlearnerchinese.com/content/what-guanxi The 7 Habits of Effective Managers, Stephen Covey https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits.php General systems model

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/computing-and-ict/systems-

computer/systems-thinking-and-practice/content-section-0 Problem structuring methods http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221703000560 The Core Competence of the Corporation, Prahalad and Hamel 1990

http://www.enterrasolutions.com/media/docs/2013/08/Prahalad_Hamel_1990.pdf Emotional intelligence

http://psychology.about.com/od/personalitydevelopment/a/emotionalintell.htm

https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits.php Kakabadse

http://www.kakabadse.com/

Neuroscience for Leadership: Harnessing the Brain Gain Advantage (The Neuroscience of Business)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neuroscience-Leadership-Harnessing-Advantage- Business/dp/1137466855

Belbin

http://www.belbin.com/rte.asp?id=73&pressid=31 Emotional intelligence

http://psychology.about.com/od/personalitydevelopment/a/emotionalintell.htm Win-win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Lo2fgxWHw

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Game_Theory/Prisoner%27s_Dilemma

5 conflict management styles

http://sourcesofinsight.com/conflict-management-styles-at-a-glance/