This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
The Business skills and Personal Development programme provides a firm foundation for continuing managerial development within your chosen career. The programme will help you enhance your business skills, define your career goals and create a personalised career action plan. It also offers you the opportunity to acquire life-skills to attain the jobs that are relevant to your career plan immediately after graduation and in the future.
The module comprises the following activities:
Business Skills:
-Consultancy Week
-Business Simulation
Personal Development:
-Induction
-1 to 1 executive coaching
-Careers and Employability, and volunteering events
-International trip
-Guest Speaker Series (in collaboration with various organisations and clubs)
Workshops – 120 hours
Private study – 30 hours
Main assessment method:
Individual reflective report – 5000 words – pass/fail (80%)
Workshop participation – pass/fail (20%)
Reassessment method:
100% coursework
Arthur,M., Khapova, S., Richardson,J. (2017) An Intelligent Career: Taking Ownership of your Work and your Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Gratton, L. and Scott, A. (2016) The One Hundred Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity, London: Bloomsbury
Ibarra, H. (2015). Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader. Boston, Mass: Harvard Business Review Press.
Horowitz, B. (2015). The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. New York: Harper Business
Kahneman, D. (2012). Thinking, fast and slow. London: Penguin
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
- Analyse and reflect on a range of key business, consultancy, employability, and volunteering skills in the context of personal and transformational leadership development;
- Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the issues and barriers surrounding responsible management and developing the capacity and innovative mindset to engage with complex change, and sustainability related business issues that affect key stakeholders;
- Critically reflect upon own personal preferences and practice skills allowing for enhanced personal insight into coping with and managing change responsibly;
- Critically evaluate the links between facilitation, personal preferences and group dynamics and transformational leadership.
The intended generic learning outcomes. On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
- Research a topic independently to extract and synthesise information from a range of academic and online sources;
- Make informed judgements to distinguish between fact and opinion, what is relevant and what is not and between opposing views based upon conflicting evidence;
- Critically evaluate and interpret information from a variety of sources to formulate and support a well- reasoned and structured line of argument;
- Research, identify, find, record, organise and manipulate knowledge and innovative ideas relevant to the development and management of organisations.
- Demonstrate in-depth numeracy and quantitative skills including the use of models of business situations; business simulations and qualitative research skills;
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