A: Assessment Details
Module Title Leadership, Development and Change
B: Learning Outcomes
1. Critically evaluate the knowledge, skills and attitudes of leadership to become an effective leader within the organisational context and wider health and social care environment.
2. Critically appraise the relevance of team leadership theories and models for the successful implementation of change.
3. Critically interpret and evaluate challenges to and opportunities for leadership that will stimulate and facilitate effective service change and sustainability within the context of national policy directives and social inclusion agendas.
4. Lead and create practices and partnerships that empower and enable clients and carers to make decisions and participate in their own management of care.
C: Assessment Task
Utilising a leadership framework and toolkits, students will conduct a self-analysis of their personal leadership style and skills. This will then be used to reflect on/plan the leadership of change.
D: Specific Criteria/Guidance
• Students are advised to use three or four tools in order that the results can be analysed and triangulated and used in the development of a SWOT analysis.
• Students will critically evaluate the strengths and limitations of their leadership style and skills in relation to theories and models of leadership in leading change, team working and project management at a strategic level.
• Construct an action plan of their personal leadership areas for development to be included as an appendix.
• Students will critically appraise the leadership and management structure and style of their own organisation and identify a scenario where an organisational change or a change in clinical practice was either implemented or proposed.
• Discuss the underpinning theory, processes and the leadership skills required to achieve successful change implementation. Students may take a retrospective evaluation or anticipatory approach.
• Students should ensure that they maintain confidentiality within the assignment.