School of Management, Unit Catalogue 2006/07

MN50339 Developing your managerial competence

Credits: 6

Level: Masters

Academic Year

Assessment: CW 100%

Requisites:

Before taking this unit you must take MN50340

Aims: Students will be able to develop their own professional managerial competence throughout the degree by working intensively within a learning set guided by a learning coach. This unit aims to develop self-awareness, personal and interpersonal effectiveness through action learning.
Learning Outcomes:
Successful completion of this unit should result in participants who are:
* Self-aware and have explored challenging individual development issues
* Have developed their individual portfolio of managerial skills,
* Have devised an outline plan for their own career and personal skills development over the duration of the MBA, based on a range of diagnostic activities.
Skills:
Critical thinking - facilitated and assessed
Self-awareness - facilitated and assessed
Interpersonal skills - developed
Leadership skills - developed
Managing conflict - facilitated
Communication - developed
Reflection on skill development - assessed.
Content:
This unit is delivered through three elements
The Individual in Context (DyMC1)
The first course element personalizes key contextual factors impacting on contemporary careers. It offers students a range of activities to help them identify their own learning objectives. This initiates the self-reflective development of professional competence which runs throughout the degree.
Learning sets
Students will then be members of learning sets through which they will develop their competence as self-reflective practitioners and engage in specific learning projects. They will report and reflect on these verbally and through writing interim learning papers.
Leading in Context (DyMC2)
The third course element will draw theory and practice together through an exploration of leading in context. Combined with learning set experiences, this unit seeks to develop leadership awareness and skills needed in organizational situations.
Students will be expected to collect evidence of their practice and present a development portfolio which will be assessed.

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