Reference no: EM133905115 , Length: word count:1500 + 5 min PPT

Instructions: The purpose of this assignment is to help you understand leadership as a learning process and develop a leadership development plan.

Part 1: Report Leadership Development

You will prepare a 1 to 5 year Leadership Development Plan for yourself. The plan should be based on your reflection on current international leadership practices and identify actions to be taken to enhance future leadership practices. Get assignment help with expert guidance now.

Since this is a development plan, it will require a substantial amount of thought, reflection, and research in academic (scholarly and practitioner-oriented) journals and online databases. No Al or unauthenticated website information should be used for writing this plan. Please start working on this assignment earlier in the semester to make sure you can write a high-quality paper.

You are required to include a minimum of 10 recent academic sources. Also, be careful not to over-rely on any single source.

Your plan must be written 1500 words, excluding references and appendices. It must include the following sections:

A title page, including your full name, title of the paper, submission date and subject title/number;

An abstract of less than 250 words on a separate page (not included in word count);

Body of the paper that provides:
Introduction: Please provide background information about your strengths and areas for improvement, including your leadership needs and the assessment of cultural diversity, along with the timeframe for these evaluations.

Develop a current and future development plan including:
Explain your overall future leadership goals and how the development plan aims to fulfil these goals (your focus should be on 'development' and not simply training);

Analyse current/emerging theoretical views and industry trends on leadership practice relating to your leadership goals (please note that your plan must reflect 'future' leadership practices, including leadership of cultural diversity that links with your goals);

Make recommendations on future leadership development opportunities relevant to your goals, including potential exposure to international business and/or multinational corporation opportunities. (Be specific and identify who would assist you with the leadership development, such as coaches, mentors, programs, etc.)

Reference list following the WesternSydU Harvard Guidelines available on the Library website (on a separate page and in alphabetical order and not included in word count)

Appendices as follows (not included in word count)

Appendix 1: Outlines how many years your plan covers (3, 4 or 5 or more) and a step-by-step guide to the implementation of your action plan.

Appendix 2: A step-by-step guide to monitoring, evaluation, and measurement of results: How (and how often) would you continue to track the performance and ensure effective implementation of the plan? How would you continue to evaluate your leadership capabilities?

Details - Part 2 Leadership Development Presentation/Reflection

Many academics and practitioners have emphasised the importance of leaders (and other professionals) reflecting on both their practice and learning. Reflection involves people becoming aware of who they are and developing a critical awareness of how they interact with others and make decisions, among other things.

There have also been comments from academics and practitioners about the 'usefulness' of an MBA. One of the main arguments is that more reflective thinking is critical, allowing leaders and potential leaders to optimise the benefits of such learning.

Therefore, Part 2 of this assessment requires you to deliver a short (5-minute) individual presentation/reflection on:
what has made an impact on you so far in this subject;
why you reflected on that practice or learning; and
how you plan to implement and monitor this new practice in the future, including cultural diversity leadership.
You do not necessarily need to agree with what has been presented to you in either the readings, lectures, or sessions; however, the most important aspect is to be able to critically appraise the learning experiences and your own learning.

To be able to appraise a learning experience critically, you will need to evaluate the argument/s made for embracing (or dismissing) what you have learned by being able to acknowledge credible sources and what they have proposed.

By doing this, you will have a critical basis on which to form your views. This takes it beyond purely personal opinion.

To reiterate, you are asked to deliver a brief five-minute presentation to complement the written report, as reflection is an essential part of the learning process. Here, you will have the opportunity to see what other people have acknowledged as important, thus enabling you to have numerous accounts of the reflective process and possible outcomes.

1,500 words and 5 minutes

Note: The Leadership Development Report will act as a moderating assessment. In other words, similar to an exam, you will not get a specific mark back for the Report until after the final results have been released, but the mark will be added to your total mark for the quarter.