Organizational Leadership Discussion and Plan

Task 1 Organizational Leadership Discussion and Plan

Instructions to Learners:

This summative assessment can be completed in class or at any other convenient location.

Students are required to complete this task using digital tools and ensure to submit in an acceptable format, e.g. .docx, .pdf, .pptx, or as advised by your assessor.

Please use the following formatting guidelines to complete this assessment task:

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Assessment activities can be completed either in real workplace environment or in a simulated environment such as your classroom. In both cases, appropriate evidence of the assessment activities must be provided.

Instruction to Assessors:

You must assess students assessment according to the provided Marking Criteria.

You must complete and record any evidence related to assessment activities including role-plays and presentations using appropriate forms which must be attached with .

You must provide students with detailed feedback within 10 working days from submission.

Your task is to discuss how you would provide leadership across an organisation. Your discussion must answer the following questions:

How you would communicate with stakeholders about the organisational mission and goals?

How you would influence groups and individuals in the organisation?

How you would build and support teams in the organisation?

How you would demonstrate personal and professional competence?

Contextualise your answers by providing examples to a specific organisation (either your workplace, a workplace you have access to or a simulated workplace). In doing so, outline how you evaluated and identified any leadership challenges and specify the recommendations to address those challenges. This includes developing a plan to effectively encourage the team to work together, share tasks, communicate and work positively to resolve specific workplace and leadership issues.

This assessment must be presented in a professional manner and should be comprehensive.

Present your report using the following suggested outline. Ensure that your assignment is well structured and thateach sectionis explicitly analysed in relation to the literature and research.

1. Identify and describe the industry you work in (e.g. health care – nursing, mining, education etc)

2. Identify and describe the current practices around the identification of leadership skills required and the strategies adopted to develop leadership capacity in staff. (You could consider consulting with your HR section.)

3. Reflect on your own leadership development and identify what processes and experiences have aided the development of your leadership capacity.

4. Conduct some informal research with colleagues to identify how they would like to develop their leadership capacity and report on your findings.

5. Relate your discussions to one or more of the Leadership frameworks you have studied.

6. Develop an action plan for the development of Leadership capacity within your staff. (Included in this action plan will be strategies adopted to engage staff and overcome obstacles.)

In the development of this assignment you might like to consider the following:

What can you do (as a leader) to address the key issues of the future?

What do you anticipate your workplace to be in 2020 and beyond?

What will be the for leaders of the future?

How can you develop these leadership skills in your staff?

Approved by: : 09 Jul 2021Created by: Task 1Doc #: DOC11477Next Review: 09 Jul 2022Revision: 1.0Revision Date: 07 Jul 2021

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