School of Management, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Academic Year Modular (no specific semester) |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| This unit is only available to students on MBA programmes. Students on the full-time MBA must take MN50340 before taking this unit. |
| Description:
| Aims: Successful careers in a dynamic global economy involve the capacity to construct a synthesis between personal interests and the opportunities and demands of the environment. This requires a high degree of personal leadership, in other words an ability to hold tensions between conflicting demands and aspirations. Students will be enabled to develop their abilities to do so strategically and in personally meaningful ways by participating in taught classroom sessions, tutorials, one-to-one career coaching and peer coaching. This unit aims to develop self-awareness, personal and interpersonal effectiveness, and the capacity for self-directed career development. Learning Outcomes: Successful completion of this unit should result in participants who: * Are self-aware and have explored challenging professional development issues, based on a range of diagnostic activities. * Have developed their personal leadership competence. * Have developed relevant career competence and strategies. Skills: Self-awareness - facilitated and assessed Critical thinking - facilitated and assessed Careers - developed and assessed Reflection on skill development - assessed Interpersonal skills - developed Based on the student's choice of workshops the development of the following competences will be facilitated, developed and assessed: (1) Personal leadership: e.g., Persuasion & Influencing; Managing Conflict; Coaching & Developing Others; Cross-cultural competence/working with diversity; Developing Self-awareness at work (e.g. MBTI) (2) Career development: e.g., Career strategy; Meaning at work (knowing why); Self-directed development (knowing how); Relational career development (knowing whom); Networking; Image & self-presentation; Presenting oneself; Assessment centres; Job research. Content: This unit is delivered through the following elements: Core Lectures: Developing leadership & career competence (Days 1 & 2, autumn session) Peer Coaching Groups: Students will be members of self-managed Peer Coaching Groups. Their purpose is to develop coaching skills and support each other in the development of management and career competences and the writing of their Professional Development Review (see assessment). We expect that students will schedule a minimum of four 2-hour PCGs in their own time, over a 6 months period. Tutorials: Two tutorials, scheduled during the autumn and spring sessions, provide opportunities for integration of learning, introduction into systematic methods of reflective practice, and guidance on assessment. Personal Leadership workshop: Full-time MBA students will be required to choose one 1-day workshop scheduled during the spring session (for topics see under Skills) Career development workshop: Full-time MBA students will be required to choose workshops at the equivalent of 1-day, scheduled during the spring session (illustrative topics listed under Skills). Executive MBA students will be required to choose one 1-day Personal Leadership workshop and one other 1-day workshop (either Personal Leadership or Career Development). Additional guest lectures and workshops will be available to meet particular interests and needs. One-to-one career coaching: Each Full-time MBA student is expected to attend two 50 minutes coaching sessions scheduled during the autumn and spring sessions. (Optional for Executive MBA students.) |
| Programme availability: |
MN50339 is Compulsory on the following programmes:School of Management
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