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Applied Leadership Skills and Behaviours

Module description

The module consolidates and expands on the content delivered in the compulsory modules of the PGDip or MBA Strategic Leadership and Management (Higher Apprenticeship), providing you with practical support to develop your apprenticeship portfolios and successfully evidence the skills and behaviours required by the Senior Leader Apprenticeship Standard. The content of the module encourages critical reflection and critical thinking by adopting a student-led and peer-to-peer learning approach. You are empowered by sharing lived experience and gathering peer feedback to change behaviour, accept personal accountability and enable better performance in yourself and others. To succeed in a complex and unpredictable global context successful senior leaders need: high levels of self-awareness, to lead by example whilst developing a culture of trust and challenge, and to balance the interest of your organisation with the needs of your customers, society and the environment. To foster these skills and behaviours the module content combines three professional development perspectives:

• Self – knowing our own thoughts, actions and effectiveness,
• Others – understanding how we develop and influence others, and finally,
• Organisation – understanding our contribution and impact within and beyond the organisation.

Using these perspectives you are guided to complete your portfolios and prepare for End Point Assessment.

Module aims - intentions of the module

The module aims to provide a bridge between theory and practice. It runs concurrently with the first three modules in the PGDip or the MBA Strategic Leadership and Management (Higher Apprenticeship), culminating when the Strategic Business Proposal scoping document is submitted. During the module you will complete a portfolio that evidences your learning across the programme. The portfolio will comprise a series of case studies designed to showcase your achievement of the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours outlined in the Senior Leader Apprenticeship Standard; these case studies will be supported with accompanying examples from your working practice of how you have applied your learning in the workplace. Your final portfolio will inform the Professional Discussion as part of your End Point Assessment for your apprenticeship. It is a valuable record of how you have embedded knowledge and developed skills and behaviours throughout your learning journey.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

ILO: Module-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 1. Construct a portfolio evidencing professional competency as outlined in the Senior Leader Apprenticeship Standard Knowledge Skills and Behaviours.

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 2. Complete case studies in OneFile evidencing applied practice.

ILO: Personal and key skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 3. Record engagement with Continued Professional Development (CPD).

Syllabus plan

The syllabus is interwoven with the compulsory modules drawing from and building on content and materials covered in: BEMM114DA Leading People and Organisations, BEMM181DA Leading High-Performing Organisations and BEMM116DA Strategy and Innovation. The module will include taught masterclasses, one following each of the compulsory modules and associated self-guided learning activities and peer-led action learning groups. The syllabus content will reflect current leadership debates and direct the application of senior leader skills and behaviours in the workplace. The module will provide protected time for portfolio development with guidance and support from Academic Mentors to evidence academic and vocational learning in the portfolio

Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)

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Formative assessment

Summative assessment (% of credit)

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Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Indicative learning resources - Basic reading

• Chartered Management Institute. (N.D.). Students & learners. https://www.managers.org.uk/education-and-learning/students-and-learners/
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE). (n.d.). Senior Leader Apprenticeship: Details of the standard. IfATE. https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/senior-leader-v1-2
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE). (n.d.). Senior Leader assessment plan. IfATE. https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/media/7242/st0480_senior-leader_l7_epa-plan-for-publication_23522.pdf

Additional suggested reading:

• Hargreaves, J., & Page, L. (2013). Reflective practice. Polity Press.
• Schon, D. A. (1984). The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. Basic Books. 
• Thompson, N., & Pascal, J. (2012). Developing critically reflective practice. Reflective Practice, 13(2), 311–325. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2012.657795
• Thompson, S., & Thompson, N. (2018). The critically reflective practitioner. Macmillan International Higher Education. 

Key words search

Leadership behaviours, PDP, CPD, Portfolio, Apprenticeship