Instructions:
REFLECTIVE ESSAY – Submit 3500 words. Academic References : 25.
Imagine that you were a Technical Lead or SME (Subject Matter Expert) during your previous job experience. Now, write an essay to think about your leadership & management styles and to assess your strengths & and areas that you might wish to develop further. In other words, what you have been doing(in previous job) and what you wish to develop / do better in future roles regarding leadership / management.
With specific reference to the DAC theoretical framework (Drath et al 2008), critically reflect on your effectiveness as a manager and leader and discuss how you might continue to enhance your leadership and management capability.
Your answer should draw on at least two of the following topics:
Values and Ethics in Leadership:
Define Values.
Shall talk about Schwartz’s Universal Values.
Define Ethical leadership.
Discuss ethical / unethical leadership qualities.
Above are all just idea, feel free to add more academic concepts.
Emotional Intelligence:
Talk about Emotion, Stress, Resilience, Wheel of life.
Above are all just idea, feel free to add more academic concepts.
Developing your Team:
Talk about why global business teams fail?
Talk about clarity, structured communication, virtual culture in teams.
Talk about STOP(stop, think, organise, plan) model.
Above are all just idea, feel free to add more academic concepts.
Your answer should make appropriate and detailed reference to a range of academic literature (references should be from 20 to 25. Minimum is 20.) You are also welcomed to draw on practitioner sources and personal and other examples to amplify your key points but the balance in your writing must fall more heavily in relation to academic sources.
Assessment Criteria:
This reflective essay is to really reflect on what you do well and discuss and critique this and also to explore what you might like to improve. Talk about your leadership and management capability and competence. Some of you might not have had an opportunity to reflect on what resilience should mean for you or your team; some of you might be very skilled at coaching others, and others less so, etc.
Thus, your work is not compared to others, nor is there an expectation that you should be at a certain ‘stage’ in terms of leadership or management. The assessment criteria centre around the coherence of your discussion, your ability to critically evaluate and reflect, the use and integration of a range of relevant (academic) literature and the quality of the analysis.
