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BH6010 Leading and Change
Assignment Briefing 1
Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session you should be able to:
 Identify what an academic reflective essay is
about
 Identify the key components of Assignment 1 –
Reflective Essay
 Assess your own level of understanding of
leadership theories
 Create your own reflective essay outline
 Identify key assessment criteria
Session structure
1. Why a reflective essay?
2. Assignment
iefing – clarifying tasks and
equirements (Part 1)
3. Quizz – your leadership knowledge
4. Break
5. Early module review
6. Assignment
iefing – clarifying tasks and
equirements (Part 2)
7. Assessment criteria – demonstrating your knowledge
and effort
8. Class activity – essay outline
Part 1: Why a reflective essay?
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Module learning outcomes
 On successful completion of the module, you should
e able to:
 Critically discuss major leadership theories and apply
these to practical situations in organisations and other
settings.
 Recognise the importance of leadership and its
potential to impact organisational outcomes, processes,
elationships and morale.
 Identify the challenges associated with leading change
in today’s complex and uncertain external environment.
 Evaluate what constitutes effective and responsible
leadership.
 Appraise your own leadership style and capacity to
ecome a successful change agent in different work
and social settings. 5
Learning outcomes and your
eflective essay
 Critically discuss major leadership theories
and apply these to practical situations in
organisations and other settings.
 Recognise the importance of leadership and
its potential to impact organisational
outcomes, processes, relationships and
morale.
 Identify the challenges associated with
leading change in today’s complex and
uncertain external environment.
 Evaluate what constitutes effective and
esponsible leadership.
 Appraise your own leadership style and
capacity to become a successful change
agent in different work and social settings.
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Reflective
essay
Leadership
a process whereby an individual influences a
group of individuals to achieve a common goal.
Leadership defined
Peter G. Northouse, Leadership: Theory and Practice, Seventh Edition. © 2016 SAGE Publications, Inc.
 The introduction or experience of something that is
different
 Making something different, in some particular way
 An opportunity to become different
Difference can be small (incremental) or radical
(transformational)
Conceptualizing ‘change’
Some definitions view change as:
Hodges, J., & Gill, R XXXXXXXXXXSustaining Change in Organizations. London: Sage.
Assessment 1 (TB1)
Reflective essay
You will have the opportunity to use your
Leading and Change knowledge to
evaluate your own leadership capabilities
in a change situation.
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Academic reflective essay
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An analytical piece of writing
Description
Set the scene:
describe the facts
that made up the
experience
Reflection and
Analysis
Evaluate the
experience using
leadership theory
+
Why is reflective practice
eneficial to you
“Reflective practice can enable professionals to
learn from experience about: themselves; their
work; the way they relate to home and work;
significant others and wider society…
Professionals face complex and unpredictable
situations... Engaging in these critically will be
eflected in the quality of their work…” (Bolton,
2014, p. 2)
11Bolton, G XXXXXXXXXXReflective Practice. London: Sage
Part 2: Assignment requirements
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Academic reflective essay -
Task
 Write a reflective essay (1,500 words +/- 10%) on a
eal change situation you are cu
ently facing or have
dealt with in the past. The chosen change challenge
has to be important to you and needs to involve the
execution of your leadership capabilities.
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Choosing your topic (1)
 Think of a challenge:
 at Kingston University (e.g. group assignment),
 in the organisation you work for (e.g.
implementing a new process),
 in the neighbourhood you live in (e.g. creating
a mentoring program for the disadvantage),
 in extra-cu
icular activities or clubs you
participate in (e.g. sports team)
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Choosing your topic (2)
 Think of a challenge:
 at Kingston University (e.g.
group project; improving your
career prospects),
 in the organisation you work for
(e.g. implementing a new
process),
 in the neighbourhood you live in
(e.g. creating a mentoring
program for the
disadvantaged),
 in extra-cu
icular activities or
clubs you participate in (e.g.
sports team)
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Ask yourself,
did this situation
involve influencing
others to achieve a
goal?
Yes – good topic
No – reconside
Structuring your reflective essay
Your reflective essay should include 3 sections:
1. A
ief introduction to the situation you
wanted to change (+/-300 words)
2. A critical analysis of your own leadership
capabilities in the situation (+/- 900 words)
3. A leadership development plan (+/- 300
words)
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Part 1: Introduction (+/-300 words)
 Introduce the change challenge you
faced.
 Include specific detail about the situation:
 What was the initial situation/problem?
 Where and when did it take place?
 What was your role?
 Who were the key people involved?
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- where, when, to/with whom, how and why -
Example – Introduction
"In reflecting upon a time where I have not been
successful with influencing a group, I immediately
thought of my experience with a FME project. About half
way through our spring semester, my company was in a
lull as we were getting close to the Business Fair, the
main event of the year. We were falling behind in ticket
sales and were failing to get vendors to commit to our
event…"
Note: This assignment asked a different essay question
and is based on someone else’s experience. It also
co
esponds to level 4, not level 6. Do not attempt to
use same content/theories in your own essay. 18
Part 2: Analysis of your leadership
capabilities (+/-900 words) (1)
 Focuses on the analysis of your leadership
capabilities in the chosen change situation.
 For your analysis, it is required that you
apply TWO leadership theories/topics
covered in TB1 TW1-TW12.
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Part 2: Analysis of your leadership
capabilities (+/-900 words) (2)
 In analysing the situation critically discuss:
 What exactly did you want to change?
 Why did you consider the change necessary?
 What was your goal? What needed to happen in order
for the change to take place? (e.g. influence others, find
esources, find collaborators/supporters, etc.)
 Were you successful in
inging about change?
 If so, what leadership capabilities do you have that were
valuable to making change?
 If not, what leadership capabilities did you lack to make the
change happen?
 What have you learned about your leadership
capabilities through this experience?
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Part 2: Analysis of your leadership
capabilities (+/-900 words) (3)
 In analysing the situation critically discuss:
 What exactly did you want to change?
 Why did you consider the change necessary?
 What was your goal? What needed to happen in order
for the change to take place? (e.g. influence others, find
esources, find collaborators/supporters, etc.)
 Were you successful in
inging about change?
 If so, what leadership capabilities do you have that were
valuable to making change?
 If not, what leadership capabilities did you lack to make the
change happen?
 What have you learned about your leadership
capabilities through this experience?
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Part 2: Analysis of your leadership
capabilities (+/-800 words) (4)
 Were you successful in
inging about change?
 If so, what leadership
capabilities did you
demonstrate?
 If not, what leadership
capabilities did you lack to
make the change happen?
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Part 2: Analysis of your leadership
capabilities (+/-800 words) (5)
 You must use leadership
theory to ca
y out your
eflection.
 You must use literature to
ack up all your claims.
HOW????
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Part 2: Analysis of your leadership
capabilities (+/-900 words) (6)
For example, ask yourself:
 Was I being conscientious, extrovert or open?
 Trait approach
 Was I successful/not successful because I exploited
didn’t use my technical/conceptual/people skills?
 Skills approach
 Did I focus on people more than on completing the task?
 Behavioral approach
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Part 2: Analysis of your leadership
capabilities (+/-900 words) (7)
For example, ask yourself:
 Was my intention to serve others?
 Servant leadership
 Was I taking others’ opinions and perspectives before
making a decision?
 Authentic leadership
 Emotional Intelligence
 What type of power was I using?
 Powe
 etc., etc., etc. 25
 Further recommendations:
 Do not only describe “what happened” or “what you
did”, but critically analyse why and how you behaved
or reacted in specific ways, or why the situation
unfolded as it did.
 Focus on your own behaviour and leadership
capabilities, not on those of others.
 Define and apply those leadership theories that are
most relevant to the chosen change situation.
“Applying theory” requires you to draw out links
etween theory or academic evidence and your own
experiences.
 Show how theories are linked together. This will
make your reflective essay more insightful.
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Part 2: Analysis of your leadership
capabilities (+/-900 words) (8)
Example 1 – Analysis of
leadership capabilities
"First, my self-management was lacking. Self-
management is defined as one‘s ability to manage
internal emotions through self-control (references
here). In this situation, I did not manage my emotions
well, lashing out and yelling at... "
Note: This assignment asked a different essay
question and is based on someone else’s
experience. It also co
esponds to level 4, not level 6.
Do not attempt to use same content/theories in your
own essay.
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Example 2 – Analysis of
leadership capabilities
“One of the reasons I failed at influencing people in my company was
due to my lack of relational power. Relational power is a
measurement of the authority an individual has or earns based on
the ties he create within his own personal networks with others;
whether it is with coworkers, managers, friends, or family
(references here)... Since my network was weak, I had few direct
contacts with whom I could voice my concerns about the company
and try to influence them to get us back on track…”
Note: This assignment asked a different essay question
and is based on someone else’s experience. It also
co
esponds to level 4, not level 6. Do not attempt to
use same content/theories in