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MBA8001 Leveraging Your Leadership Identity

Block 6, 2023 Online
Units : 1
School or Department : School of Business
Grading basis : Graded
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Staffing

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Requisites

Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: MBAL or GDBA or GCBA

Overview

The ability to manage self is fundamental to facilitating the translation of your learning into high performance for both you and your organisation. Increasingly, professionals will cycle more rapidly through different organisations and roles, with the expectation that they will build on their attributes and capabilities and manage their limitations to successfully transfer them to new workplace environments. Leveraging your leadership identity is about understanding yourself, your personal attributes and capabilities, your values and your limitations. As a strategic leader you need to recognise the contextual nature of leadership and that your leadership approach should be adjusted in different situations to achieve the desired outcome.  Creating a personal brand that reflects your leadership identity is more than just a marketing gimmick. It involves recognising how to translate that brand into actions and behaviours that result in effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to provide the best outcomes for you and your organisation.

This course is fundamental to your learning journey through the MBA as it provides the foundation for the whole program. You will begin the course by considering what it means to think strategically and how leveraging your leadership identity is part of being a strategic leader. You will have the opportunity to identify your personal attributes and capabilities, your personality, your values and your limitations and recognise how they shape your leadership identity. You will use this awareness to develop a contextually appropriate approach to leadership and a personal brand that reflects your leadership identity. You will draw from key leadership theories and styles to understand, strengthen and leverage your leadership identity through your personal brand.

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

  1. Explain what is meant by strategic thinking and how it informs strategic leadership
  2. Craft their leadership identity by drawing on and integrating leadership theories and styles considering their personality, capabilities, attributes, values and limitations
  3. Create a personal brand informed by their leadership identity
  4. Explain how to leverage their leadership identity in a range of contexts to effect positive outcomes for themselves and their organisations

Topics

Description Weighting(%)
1. Introduction to leadership and strategic thinking 10.00
2. Theoretical foundations of leadership 20.00
3. Self-awareness 15.00
4. Leadership identity 20.00
5. Your personal brand 20.00
6. Leveraging your leadership identity 15.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

There are no texts or materials required for this course.

Student workload expectations

To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.

Assessment details

Approach Type Description Group
Assessment
Weighting (%) Course learning outcomes
Assignments Written Workbook 1 No 30 1,2
Assignments Written Workbook 2 No 30 1,2,3
Assignments Written Essay No 40 2,3,4
Date printed 9 February 2024