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Assessment 3 Information  Subject Code: MBA600 Subject Name:  Capstone: Strategy Assessment Title: Reflective Essay  Assessment Type: Length: Individual Written Analysis and Reflections  2500 words (+/- 10% allowable range) Weighting:  40% Total Marks: Submission: 100 Online Due Date:  Week 13Your task  Individually, you are required to reflect on the learnings gained from undertaking the capstone subject and assessments by writing a 2500 word reflective essay.Assessment Description. The purpose of this assessment is to foster students ability to coherently reflect on their undertaking of the Capstone: Strategy subject together with a reflection on their entire MBA.Assessment Instructions You are required to look back at their MBA course as a whole and identify the specific skills developed that will assist them in becoming effective practitioners in the workplace.Learning is a persistent change in performance or potential that results from experience and interaction. Reflective learning is the process of stepping back from the experience and reflecting on how skills, attitudes, mindset and behaviours have evolved.Your reflective essay must cover the following:  • Introduction. • A ief discussion on the value of relective practice for managers and leaders • A personal reflection on learnings from the capstone subject and consultancy research process. • A personal reflection on skills developed over the MBA. • A personal reflection on how these will assist in future career endeavours. • Conclusions. • References.  The reflective essay should include discussion of learnings from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Additionally, insights from undertaking assessments and research, capstone lessons as well as group activities from this and other subjects over the duration of the course. Specific examples should be cited to support and justify all points.  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Kaplan Business School Pty Ltd ABN 86  XXXXXXXXXXis a registered higher education provider CRICOS Provider Code 02426B.MBA600 Assessment 3 Marking Ruic – Reflective Essay 40%  Marking Criteria (__/100) F (Fail) 0 – 49% P (Pass) 50 – 64% C (Credit) 65 – 74% D (Distinction) 75 – 84% HD (High Distinction) 85 – 100% Introduction__/10 marks Provides poor context and does not link to the assessment in a clear and coherent way. May be missing entirely.  Provides satisfactory context but links to the assessment in only a partially clear and coherent way.  Provides reasonable context and links to the assessment in a fairly clear and coherent way.  Provides solid context and links  to the assessment in a clear and coherent way.  Provides excellent context and links to the assessment in an extremely clear and coherent way.  Discussion on the value of reflective practice__/15 marks Discussion is poorly constructed, not thorough and does not truly identify the concept and value of eflective practice. Discussion is competent and makes a reasonable attempt to identify the concept and value of eflective practice..   Discussion is competent and makes a good attempt at identifying the concept and value of reflective practice.. Discussion is comprehensive and clearly identifies the concept and value of reflective practice. Discussion is comprehensive and persuasively argues for the meaning and value of reflective practice. Personal Reflections – MBA Capstone__/15 marks Reflections poorly explained, poorly analysed, and poorly applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.  Reflections reasonably well explained, reasonably well analysed, and reasonably well applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.   Reflections well explained, well analysed, and well applied with espect to the own learnings and objectives.   Reflections very well explained, very well analysed, and very well applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.   Reflections excellently explained, skilfully analysed, and thoughtfully applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.  Personal Reflections – MBA Course__/15 marks Reflections poorly explained, poorly analysed, and poorly applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.  Reflections reasonably well explained, reasonably well analysed, and reasonably well applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.   Reflections well explained, well analysed, and well applied with espect to the own learnings and objectives.   Reflections very well explained, very well analysed, and very well applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.   Reflections excellently explained, skilfully analysed, and thoughtfully applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.  Personal Reflections – Future Caree__/15 marks Reflections poorly explained, poorly analysed, and poorly applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.  Reflections reasonably well explained, reasonably well analysed, and reasonably well applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.   Reflections well explained, well analysed, and well applied with espect to the own learnings and objectives.   Reflections very well explained, very well analysed, and very well applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.   Reflections excellently explained, skilfully analysed, and thoughtfully applied with respect to own learnings and objectives.  Conclusion__/10 marks Provides poor context and does not link to the reflections in a clear and coherent

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REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Table of Contents
Introduction	3
Value of Reflective Practices for Managers and Leaders………………………………………………...………………………………….……3-4
A Personal Reflection on Learnings from the Capstone Subject and Consultancy Research Process………………………………………………………………………………………….4-6
A Personal Reflection on Skills Developed Over the MBA…………………………………6-7
A Personal Reflection on How This Will Help in Future Endeavors………………………7-8
Conclusion	8-9
References	10
Introduction
This essay sheds light on the importance of the strategy making and the strategy subject on the understanding and concepts of the student. The also focuses on the learning gained from the capstone subject and the consultancy research process. This essay also observes and accounts the set of skills and understanding that a student grow during their MBA program, it channelizes the aspects which is enhanced by the overall MBA program in a student. It also procures and talks about that how the skills outgrown during the MBA program will be beneficial for the students and will be helping them into their future endeavors. It channelizes and focuses on all the aspects that need to be	 enhanced and outgrown in a student due to the capstone, strategy and the overall MBA program.
Value of Reflective Practices for Managers and Leaders
Reflective practice is termed as the practice which considers the experiences and the work carried out by a person in the past. Humans have a very natural tendency to think about what has happened with them in the past that is much of a casual thinking but what makes a reflective thinking different is the reflective thinking helps a person in analyzing how he carried out his past activities, what the essentials he lacked there which lead that event to be an unsuccessful one. He clearly analyzes those past activity get to know where he is lacking and changes his approach towards it the next time (Farrell et al., 2017).
Using objective to achieve results
The reflective practice is considered sheer effective from the managers and leaders point of view. The reflective practice outgrows the quality in a leader which tend him to use objectives to achieve results. For achieving an expected result a clear and sheer objective is required without persisting to the objectives an exact result could never be obtained. The reflective practice make the leaders aware of the ongoing situations where they should clearly use the objectives to achieve the expected result for the organization.
Make them ready to tackle tough situations
The reflective practices prepare the managers and the leaders to tackle the tough situation with an ease. As the managers and leaders e termed as the in charge of the company who are responsible for formulating strategies, tackling the tough situations and providing the guidelines to their subordinates. The reflective practice make them fight the tough situation by adopting the best analyzed strategies among the all. It help them in gaining the insight that would be considered helpful for them in tackling all the tough situations with an ease (Johnston et al., 2017).
Creating attentiveness
The managers and leaders are those pillars of an organization who have to be really attentive regarding all the past, present and the future capabilities of the business. The reflective practice help them to be attentive towards what is ongoing in the business world and what recent changes may occur in the nearby future. It provides them a probable insight of the situations that may arise in the upcoming future and would surely affect the business as well. The reflective practice make them aware of the all the possible outcomes faced by the company in the nearby future.	
Not committing the same mistake
Committing the same mistakes constantly is something which reflects a person has not learnt anything from his past experiences. This degrades the value of the human as well as the work carried by him. Repeating the mistakes degrades the work quality and increases the workload and make the schedule hectic. The reflective practice helps the managers and the leaders to analyze their mistakes and ensure them towards not repeating those mistakes again in their work. As the managers and leaders are followed by their subordinates and committing same mistakes would nearly set a wrong example for its subordinates (Dixon, Lee. and Ghaye, 2016)
Make them choose the best decision
As for every problems that occurs in the business world has several different approaches and solutions to tackle them but the foremost duty of the leaders and the managers is to choose the best decision among the all. The reflective practice helps them to analyze the whole situation and compare among all possible alternatives available and chose the best among the rest. The reflective practice help the managers and leaders in gaining an insight that would be used by them effectively during the decision making (Sherwood et al., 2020).
A Personal Reflection on Learnings from the Capstone Subject and Consultancy Research Process
The reflective capability and the learnings includes knowing, being,

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