Evaluate the importance of performance and engagement with followers in an organisation (8 marks) Be able to assess own leadership styles The second part of the task requires you to review your leadership styles by using

ASSIGNMENT TASK for Unit - Developing your leadership styles Centre Number

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The purpose of this unit is to be able to develop own leadership style to improve own and organisational performance.

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You should plan to spend approximately 21 hours researching your workplace context, preparing for and writing or presenting the outcomes of this assignment for assessment.

The nominal word count for this assignment is 2000 words: The suggested range is between 1500 and 2500 words, however individuals have different writing styles, and there is no penalty if the word-count range is exceeded.

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Assessment Criteria

Understand the outcomes of effective leadership

The first part of this task is to evaluate the importance of both performance and engagement with followers in an organisation.

Evaluate the importance of performance and engagement with followers in an organisation (8 marks) Be able to assess own leadership styles

The second part of the task requires you to review your leadership styles by using an appropriate diagnostic and to assess the effectiveness of your leadership style.

Review own leadership styles by using a diagnostic (8 marks) Assess the effectiveness of own leadership styles (8 marks) Understand the implications of own  leadership styles for self and for leadership within own organisation

For this section you are required to use the self-assessment of own leadership styles to evaluate and draw conclusions on  the implications of own leadership style for both self and own organisation, and to evaluate the impact on the effectiveness of the adopted style of two or more changes in the situation

Using the self-assessment of own leadership styles activity described in assessment criteria 2.1 and 2.2, evaluate the implications for self and own organisation (12 marks) Evaluate the impact of changes in the situation on the effectiveness of the adopted style (12 marks) Be able to assess own leadership  behaviour, in terms of the factors which determine effective leadership

This section requires you to evaluate two or more factors which impact on leadership effectiveness and to assess own leadership behaviour in terms of these factors.

Evaluate the factors which impact on leadership effectiveness (12 marks) Assess own leadership behaviour in terms of these factors (12 marks) Understand how to develop own leadership style and effectiveness

The final part of the task requires you to produce an action plan with priorities and timescales for developing own leadership style and effectiveness.

Two or more benefits of implementing the action plan must then be explained, together with a clear explanation of how the action plan is to be monitored and evaluated.

Produce an action plan for developing own leadership style and effectiveness (16 marks) Explain the benefits of implementing the action plan (4 marks) Explain how you will monitor and evaluate the action plan (8 marks)