You will then incorporate industry feedback on that draft plan from a chosen leader, before revising the draft into your final submission.
Assignment 3
Leadership development plan
Weighting
50%
Word Count
2,500 words (+/-10%)
Learning outcomes
CLO 1, 3, 4
Rubric/Marking Criteria
Task
The marking rubric is posted on Course Canvas.
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
· describe how to incorporate the feedback into the plan
· describe how the plan can make an impact on your future life and career
· acknowledge sources of information (format, quality and quantity of references)
Overview
You are required to reflect on your own leadership qualities using diagnostic tools. These will measure three specific areas of leadership, and provide an indication of potential strengths and weaknesses. Alongside these, you will reflect on what you learnt about the person you chose as an effective leader in Assessment 2.
Based on your self-discovery from the diagnostic tools and your leadership reflections, you will then consider how to improve your own leadership qualities. You will capture your ideas in the form of a draft leadership development plan.
You will then incorporate industry feedback on that draft plan from a chosen leader, before revising the draft into 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 details
This assessment acknowledges the critical analysis and reflection of the person you chose as an effective leader in Assessment 2. It requires you to then move ahead from that base, to reflect and plan on how you will improve your own leadership qualities and effectiveness going forwards. This will be done through two stages:
1. Leadership development plan
2. Industry feedback
Before you start this assessment, you will need to have nominated a leader who will provide you specific feedback on your draft Plan. They must agree to be involved, commit to your timings, and may be approved by your teacher earlier in this course. This leader can be anyone you know who holds a leadership position in an organisation. This leader could be the same person as Assessment 2 or a different leader.
1. Leadership development plan
For the leadership development plan, you are asked to reflect on your own leadership based on what you learnt from the person you chose as an effective leader in Assessment 2. Then, you will consider how your own leadership qualities could be improved.
Your first step is to assess your current strengths and weaknesses as a leader (or potential leader). Complete the three (3) leadership diagnostic tools listed in ‘Diagnostic tools’ (see Canvas). In this task, you will need to analyse and explain the results of the tests.
Next, create a draft of your leadership development plan using the ‘Leadership development plan template’ (see Canvas). The plan must at least maintain the leadership strengths or improve on the weaknesses or further develop your leadership skills identified in your leadership self-diagnosis.
Using the template as a guide, your leadership development plan must identify three leadership strengths/weaknesses/skills and outline the steps you plan to take to achieve them.
Specifically, you must address the following:
Explain why you chose those particular strengths/weaknesses/skills
Describe any challenges you anticipate and how you might overcome them, or provide justification if do not anticipate any
Outline activities that you will undertake (or are currently undertaking). These might include trainings, readings, courses, etc.
Suggest real-world situations where you can practise and apply your developing skill (internships, jobs, volunteering, etc.)
Plan a date by which you want to achieve your goal
Identify the measurements to evaluate whether you reach your goals.
You must review the leadership concepts, models and theories covered in this course to describe how they relate to you and your leadership development plan. The plan should consist of key components such as goals, measurement indicators, specific activities, timeframes, etc.
2. Industry feedback
In this stage, you must seek feedback on your plan from the leader you have chosen. After you have completed the draft development plan, you will need to submit the plan and provide the ‘Industry feedback checklist’ (see Canvas) to your nominated leader.
After receiving the Industry feedback checklist back from your nominated leader, you will first need to reflect on their words. Then, you will incorporate relevant feedback they provided into your development plan. As you update your plan consider the following questions:
· What did the leader have to say about your draft of leadership development plan?
· How have you modified your draft because of the feedback? For example, if the leader you consulted said that your timeframe to achieve your leadership goals was unrealistically short, did you then extend the timeframe top achieve these?
· Were there any feedback that you thought were not relevant? What made them less relevant to you and your Plan?
Next, you will need to answer the following prompts as part of the industry feedback task in your assessment:
1. Describe what and how you have incorporated this leader’s feedback into your plan.
2. Describe how the plan makes an impact on future lives and careers.
Your assessment must have at minimum 10 academic references from academic sources such as peer-reviewed journal articles and books. Websites, such as Wikipedia and blogs can provide a useful starting point for general details. However, these sites do not contain academic content, are not peer-reviewed, and are therefore not considered as strong sources. They are not acceptable, and will not be counted in the minimum references required.
Correct and thorough referencing and the quality of your sources will also be considered in the evaluation of your assignment. Please ensure that your spelling, grammar and syntax are correct before you submit your personal reflection.
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):
Title page
Table of contents
Introduction (~150 words)
Body with headings and sub-headings:
Leadership development plan (~1,100 words);
Industry feedback (~1,100 words)
5. Conclusion (~150 words)
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).
For this assessment, the word count includes the body of the report. The Title Page, Table of Contents, References, Appendices and Leader Background Information are not included in the word count. Your analysis should refer to the theories covered in this Course.
Important Note:
You are required to submit background information of your leader who will provide feedback on your plan via the Course Canvas (~200 words). You do not need to identify the person (e.g. by name). However, you must provide background information of your role model (e.g. position, leadership experience, organisation information etc.). A penalty of 5% out of 50% may apply if you fail to submit the background information.
Resources
The following resources may help you in this assessment:
· Management, Human Resources and Entrepreneurship library guideLinks to an external site.: This library guide provides a list of useful journals and databases that hold academic articles on leadership.
Referencing guidelines
Use RMIT HarvardLinks to an external site. referencing style for this assessment.
You must acknowledge all the courses of information you have used in your assessments.
Refer to the RMIT Easy CiteLinks to an external site. referencing tool to see examples and tips on how to reference in the appropriated style. You can also refer to the library referencing page for more tools such as EndNote, referencing tutorials and referencing guides for printing.
Submission Instructions
You are required to submit your Assignment 3 through the online submission in Canvas by the due date. Refer to Canvas Assignment 3 link for specific details.
The soft copy of your assignment (including a reference list and appendices) must be submitted online to Canvas of this course by 7.00 pm on the due date.
Double-check and make sure that the documents you are submitting are correct before hitting the submit button.
Your assignment will be submitted for a Turnitin check for academic integrity purpose.
Multiple submissions to the Canvas are allowed. However, only the latest submission will be assessed.
You need to note that the Canvas system might not be able to process your submission in the case of a large volume of submissions at the same time (for example: if many students submit their assignments just right before the due time). Therefore, you need to allow yourself enough time to submit the soft copy.
LINKS TO RELEVANT INFORMATION RELATING TO ASSESSMENT TASK THREE: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Leadership Diagnostic ToolsDownload
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