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ASSESSMENT TWO

Assessment Title: Leadership Skills for Management

FIRST SEMESTER – Thursday 6th January 2022 before 1pm UK Time

MODULE CODE: 6LEAD001W

MODULE TITLE: Employability & Leadership

DATE AVAILABLE: Wednesday 29th September 2021 onwards

SUBMISSION DATE: Thursday 6th January 2022 before 1pm

SUBMISSION METHOD: Upload to Blackboard TurnitIn’s Submission Link

DATE AND FORM OF FEEDBACK: Friday 28th January 2022 for feedback
provided on the Blackboard Site on the feedback pane of the submission.

ASSESSMENT FORMAT: Individual Portfolio

ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING: 50%

WORD COUNT: 2000 words maximum

LEARNING OUTCOMES ADDRESSED:

Learning Outcome 2 and Learning Outcome 4

LO2 Work with ideas at a level of abstraction, arguing from competing

perspectives and identify the possibility of new concepts using existing
knowledge frameworks and approaches as taught on the module.

LO4 Reflect on learning, integrating relevant theory and concepts from

the module, relating this to their evidence when applying for graduate
roles or further education.

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1. ASSESSMENT SUMMARY:

Portfolio 2’s Assessment relies on Leadership Skills for Management and is the
final element towards the students’ ILM Leadership Certificate. By passing both
Portfolios on the module, students will earn an ILM Certificate in Leadership
which will be awarded from February 2022. Portfolio 2 develops reflective and
improvement skills from the previous Portfolio’s feedback and reflection on the
key mentoring themes. The Critical Incident Technique (CIT) is taught on the
module and practised in Week 12’s final seminar, to facilitate a practice to theory
transfer. Mapping models taught on the module to one of the 5 Leadership
Dimensions will help students to appreciate the theory to practice transfer of
academic input. By this stage goals are explicitly focused on career goals (x 2),
sustainability, wellbeing with another student’s own choice goal.

2. DETAILED ASSESSMENT GUIDE AND STRUCTURE:

Portfolio 2: Leadership Skills for Management: LO2 & LO4: 2k words:

due by Thursday 6th Jan 2022 before 1pm UK time: feedback 28th Jan 2022

Section 1
Review your feedback from Portfolio 1 and reflect on what you have learnt.
Include an improvement of one element in Appendix i).
Section 2
Reflect on two key themes emerging from your Future Ready Mentoring
sessions linked to chosen models from those taught on the module.
Structured around two Critical Incidents, this section includes both the mentoring
experience and how it has been mapped to the relevant theory from the module
[Appendix ii & Appendix iii].
The models should be from those taught on the module
Section 3
Consider how you could use your leadership skills to actualise one element from
the 5 Dimensions of Leadership: Authenticity, Vision, Achievement, Ownership,
Collaboration and show how you would use the theory from the module to
illustrate it. Choose your theory from the lectures on: Communication,
Teamwork, Culture, Change or Sustainable Leadership, referring explicitly to
organisations you have progressed in application with.

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Section 4
SMART goals: 2 x career related, 1 x sustainability 1 x well-being and 1 x own
choice

Goal Theme Short Interim Long Intended

Term Term Benefits
Career
Career
Sustainable
Personal
Development
Well Being
Student’s Own
Choice
*Appendices do not count towards the wordage
Appendix i) Update based on feedback from Portfolio 1
Appendix ii) Critical Incident Technique (CIT) timeline
Appendix iii) images of the models referred to Section 2
Appendix iv) Images of models used for Section 3

3. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Timeline for delivery

Portfolio 2 due before 1pm UK time on Thursday 6th January 2022
Weeks 9 & 10 Review your Future Ready Mentoring Experience for key themes.
Pick out two Critical Incidents to review against the models taught on the module
for Section 2. Give a timeline for the CIT (appendix ii) and images of the models
referred to (appendix iii)
Week 11 Develop your goals for Section 4 according to the 5 areas you have
been guided on. Ensure that you have relevant numbers and the level of detail
required for a SMART goal at each of the three levels.
Week 12 review your feedback from Portfolio 1 and revise one section to put
into appendix i)
Weeks 13 & 14 Revisit the relevant lectures listed for Section 3. Design and
craft your chosen approach with supplementary references from the journal
literature to illustrate your chosen Leadership Dimension.

After a short Christmas break you should be ready to submit in January:

Thursday 6th January 2022 before 1pm UK time with feedback scheduled for
release by midnight on Friday 28th January 2022.

4. MARKING CRITERIA: Portfolio 2: Leadership Skills for Management

Assessed Element Potential Mark

Revision of Portfolio 1 chosen element 10
Mentoring Reflective x 2 CIT 20
Models used in Mentoring Reflective 20
Leadership for Change ideas 10
Leadership for Change application with models 20
5 x SMART goals 10
References relevant (2016-2022) & in 10
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Westminster Harvard Referencing

 100

5. TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH SUBMISSION:

If you have a financial hold situation a hardcopy plus electronic version will be
accepted via the WBS Registry Coursework Lobby before the deadline. Please
contact the Marylebone Registry to clarify how you should submit assessment in
this situation: Marregistry@westminster.ac.uk You may have to submit earlier
than those submitting online, to ensure that your submission is accepted on
time.

Please do not email your module leaders or your seminar leaders your
coursework unless you have been asked to do so. The Marylebone Registry
does not accept such a submission in most cases.

If you are having technical difficulties on the date of submission and cannot
submit the coursework on time you need to log a call via the IT Service Desk
that can be found on this webpage: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-
students Please make sure that your message is very specific. The Service
Desk will then email you confirmation that you will be able to use as supporting
written evidence for your MC claim.

You can also email your module leaders to ask for advice.
Nuala OSullivan osullin@westminster.ac.uk or
Dr. Alireza Nazarian a.nazarian@westminster.ac.uk

6. PENALTIES FOR LATE SUBMISSION:

Any assessment submitted late online will be penalised unless you submit a
claim for Mitigating Circumstances (MC) and the claim is accepted by the
Registry. Check this page for more information:
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-students/guides-and-policies/
assessment-guidelines/mitigating-circumstances-claims

If you do not submit an MC claim or if your MC claim is rejected then the penalty
for assessments submitted individually online within the 24 hours late period is a
reduction of 10% of the overall marks available for the assessment, except for
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work which is marked in the range 40 – 49%, in which case the mark will be
capped at the pass mark (40%).

Assessments submitted individually online more than 24 hours late will be given
a mark of 0%, unless the Mitigating Circumstances claim has been accepted
officially by the Registry.

7. AVOIDING PLAGIARISM:

Your assignment must demonstrate your own work and ideas. You may use
graphs and clipart as appropriate.  All written work must be the work of the
individual student. Similarities between the work of students will be reported as
collusion. 

Any quotations and references that you include in your assignment will be
identified by the Plagiarism detection programme as being similar to other
sources. Therefore it is vital that you reference correctly.

Please check information about Westminster Harvard Referencing style here:

https://libguides.westminster.ac.uk/referencing

Westminster Harvard Referencing Style booklet can be downloaded here:

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/sites/default/public-files/general-documents/
referencing-your-work.pdf

Any evidence of plagiarism will be reported to the Academic Standards team. A

similarity content of 0% will be investigated by the Academic Misconduct Panel
as it is regarded as being an indicator of an attempt to circumvent the plagiarism
software. Since your document should have several different references the
plagiarism detection programme should identify them.

Please see more information about plagiarism here:

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-students/guides-and-policies/academic-
matters/academic-misconduct/plagiarism

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