Assessment
In 4000 words and has 4 sections, every section is clearly explained below
“””you are required to carry out an analysis of yourself in order to assess your
relative strengths and weaknesses as a leader in the digital age. You should assess
yourself with regard to a number of leadership models and frameworks and discuss the
importance of self- awareness and continuous professional development, demonstrating
critical reflection.”””
SECTION 1 : Leadership & Self Analysis – 35% (suggested word limit for this section is – 20 Marks
1400 words)
a) Critically review various leadership models/theories in light of digital
leadership
e.g. Trait Theory or Contingency Theory.
Guide:
You need to select two or three leadership theories (based on the word
count). Try not to select theories which are already outdated e.g. great man
theory, transactional theory etc. You should begin by explaining the theory in
few lines and then critically review it with digital leadership traits and
characteristics
b) Identify digital leadership traits and conduct a thorough self-analysis, using – 15 Marks
a range of diagnostic tools and frameworks (available on the blackboard),
to demonstrate your overall leadership strengths and areas for
development in the context of digital technical leadership.
Note: Your tutor will guide you on how to enroll on Blackboard to access
diagnostic tools such as:
– Personality Insight
– Workplace Culture
– Management Skills
– Strengths
– Emotional Control
– Motivation at Work
Guide: After completing the proposed self-assessment, generate a list of
Strengths and areas of weaknesses. Keep the ones that is related to digital
leadership traits and remove the rest. You are not required to produce a list of
digital leadership traits
SECTION 2 – Leadership Capabilities and Behaviours – 25% – 25 Marks
(suggested word limit for this section is 1000 words)
Provide examples of the leadership capabilities and behaviours that can be
applied to the management of geographically dispersed teams, and evaluate
how your examples can be applied in your practice or within a role to which you
aspire to which requires this competence. Highlight ethical, social and legal
responsibilities for a digital leader in the selected scenario.
Guide: This part of the assessment requires you to demonstrate your
leadership capabilities and behaviour. Consider yourself working as a digital
leader in an organisation, having a geographically dispersed team working
under you. How will you manage that team? You need to provide the problems
you will face and then propose a solution to these problems. Also highlight your
ethical, social and legal responsibilities towards that team
SECTION 3- Business Transformation – 20 % (suggested word limit for this section is – 20 Marks
1000 words)
Identify and critically evaluate a contemporary issue from your professional
practice or research and provide an evaluation as to how digital technical
leadership can enhance business transformation and performance of this
issue.
Guide: This part of the assessment requires you to demonstrate, how will you
apply business transformation working as a digital leader. Hence you need
either consider (or take an example from you work place) working as a digital
leader. During your role how will you transform the business, how this will
benefit the organisation and what resources will be required for the
transformation.
SECTION 4– Personal Development Plan – 20% (600 words) – 20 Marks
Complete a personal development plan identifying a range of personal
development objectives that would evidence your ability to demonstrate the
competences to be an effective leader in the digital age. You should draw on
your findings in the earlier sections to contextualise and justify how these
objectives will enable you to be an effective Leader in Digital Age to your
current role or role to which you aspire.
This plan should set out objectives for your future approach to leadership with
a range of learning activities, success criteria and timescales.
Guide: This part of the assessment requires you to produce a list of goals and
objectives. Follow the template/ Guidance provided by the lecture
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