You have been a senior manager for several years and have decided that your next career move should be to take responsibility for an aspect of strategic management in an organisation. Some interesting posts have

Unit 5 Personal Development for Leadership and Strategic Management Assignment

Assignment Scenario

You have been a senior manager for several years and have decided that your next career move should be to take responsibility for an aspect of strategic management in an organisation. Some interesting posts have been advertised recently and you have registered with a recruitment agency, Harris Hall, which specialises in senior positions.

Task 1

Harris Hall has sent you a guidance pack titled ‘Preparation for Application and Interviews’ which includes some tasks for you to complete. This will provide the foundations for the applications you will make. You are required to produce a file of information. In section 1 of your file, you must:

 Analyse the knowledge and skills in leadership and strategic management which are required to support the creation and achievement of organisational vision and strategy

Extension activities

To achieve a Merit, you should also include an assessment of how strategic leadership knowledge and skills support achievement of organisational vision and strategy.

To achieve a Distinction, you must add content which evaluates the leadership and management knowledge and skills required for the successful achievement of organisational operations versus the creation and achievement of organisational strategy.

Learning outcomes and assessment criteria

LO1 AC 1.1, 1M1, 1D1

Task 2

Harris Hall has sent you an email about an interesting post which is advertised in Management Today and you have decided to apply. As part of the application, the organisation wants you to send a CV and a paper titled ‘Developing and Communicating Organisational Vision’. The employer will use this information in the shortlisting of applicants for interview.

Prepare a paper which:

•        Analyses the factors which impact on the creation of organisational vision

•        Assesses the different approaches to developing vision

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•        Evaluates the key factors which impact on the communication of vision to external stakeholders

Extension activities

To achieve a Merit, you must include an additional section in the paper which evaluates the key factors needed to gain the commitment of internal stakeholders when communicating vision.

Learning outcomes and assessment criteria

LO 2 AC 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2M1

Task 3

The final part of the information file enables you to manage the development of your own personal knowledge and skills in leadership and strategic management. This will support achievement of personal and organisational vision and strategy. This assessment must be done in the context of an organisation where you are employed, where you work in a voluntary capacity, where you wish to gain employment or where you are studying. You must:

•        Assess the benefits of different self-evaluation techniques that can be used in the achievement of personal and organisational strategy

•        Assess your own leadership and management knowledge and skills. The knowledge and skills identified must facilitate the creation and achievement of organisational vision and strategy

•        Devise objectives to meet your personal development needs to support the achievement of personal and organisational vision and strategy

•        Prepare a personal development plan to develop own leadership and management skills to meet personal objectives aligned to the creation of organisational vision and strategy

Extension activities

To achieve a Merit, justify how the objectives and the plan prepared for personal development support achievement of organisational vision and strategy.

To achieve a Distinction, you must:

•        Implement personal development activities to develop knowledge and skills identified in the personal development plan

•        Review your progress and outcomes in relation to the objectives of your personal development plan

Learning outcomes and assessment criteria

LO3 AC 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3M1, 3D1

LO 4 4.1, 4D1

Note: When citing sources of information that you have used, provide a reference using an appropriate format, e.g., Harvard.

Unit 5 Personal Development for Leadership and Strategic Management Assignment v1.0 13/02/22

Guidelines for assessors

The assignments submitted by learners must achieve the learning outcomes and meet the standards specified by the assessment criteria for the unit. To achieve a merit or distinction grade, the learners must demonstrate that they have achieved all the criteria set for these grades. Where work for the pass standard is marginal, assessors can take account of any extension work completed by the learners. The suggested evidence listed below is how learners can demonstrate that they have met the required standards. The command verbs contained within the AC are highlighted in bold in the suggested evidence boxes.