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MN50339: Personal leadership & careers

[Page last updated: 05 August 2021]

Academic Year: 2021/2
Owning Department/School: School of Management
Credits: 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Modular (no specific semester)
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Coursework (CW 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: In taking this module you cannot take MN50657
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, workshops, and one-to-one career coaching. This unit aims to develop self-awareness, and the capacity for self-directed career development.

Learning Outcomes: Successful completion of this unit should result in participants who:
* Are developing self-awareness with regard to challenging professional development issues, based on a range of self-assessment activities;
* Are developing greater awareness of others and how they and their environment influence each other;
* Are purposefully developing career competencies and strategies;
* Are able to analyse leadership scenarios systematically.

Skills: Self-awareness - facilitated and assessed
Analytical and critical thinking - facilitated and assessed
Career planning and development -facilitated and assessed
Reflection on skill development - assessed
Interpersonal skills - developed
Based on the student's choice of workshops the development of a range of competences will be facilitated, developed and assessed, including:
(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 planning and development: e.g., Career strategy; Networking; Image & self-presentation; CV preparation; Interview technique, Assessment centres; Job search research, etc.

Content: This unit is delivered through the following elements:
Core Lectures: Understanding People at Work Parts 1 and 2.
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 Optional on the following programmes:

School of Management

Notes:

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