This unit will allow you to critically reflect on your existing competence in basic management skills developed as a result of experience, or those typically found in organisation-based training programmes.

The unit will encourage you to explore your leadership capability starting with self, critically reflecting upon their impact and experience, developing a matched action plan focused on two objectives a personal professional, and organisational focused improvement outcomes. 

During this unit you will learn to access a range of strategies and behaviours that will help you to achieve and maintain effectiveness in managing self and the performance of others and will apply appropriate theoretical issues and frameworks in a critical way to reflect on and analyse a complex, work related situation.

You will learn through formal presentations and workshops, a workbook designed specifically for this unit with readings, teaching materials and questions for discussion in groups and you will reflect on your own experiences of managing self and others in small group discussions related to activities undertaken between sessions.

During the unit, you will cover the following course content:

• Health and social care change, vision and values
• Current challenges in meeting the new health and social care agenda
• Implications for managing self and others in changing climates
• Management and leadership behaviours
• Skills analysis using the leadership framework (or TOPPS competencies)
• Study skills Use of electronic library resources
• Modes of reflective practice
• Personal development planning.

Your course will be supported via formal presentations and workshops. You will also be asked to reflect on your own experiences of managing yourself and others and in small groups you will discuss related to activities undertaken between sessions.

This will help you in applying theoretical concepts to practice. A workbook designed specifically for this unit will contain readings, teaching materials and pose questions for discussion in groups.

Learning Outcomes

Having completed this unit, the student is expected to demonstrate:

• An ability to evaluate the effectiveness of their existing practice in managing self and others, using evidence based knowledge, an understanding of legal and policy contexts and the policies and procedures of their own organisations.
• An ability to access a range of strategies and behaviours that will help them to achieve and maintain effectiveness in managing self and the performance of others.
• A critical application of appropriate theoretical issues and frameworks in reflecting on and analysing a complex, work related situation.
• That they have met appropriate professional standards and requirements. 

This unit is intended to develop leadership and management skills and therefore, students undertaking this unit will need to be able to ensure that they are in a role were they can clearly meet all the ILO criteria which includes being able to evaluate their existing practice in managing self and others.

This course requires 100% attendance.  All the teaching is delivered online. 

Assessment

Action plan with no word limit.

Reflection and critical analysis of the implementation of the action plan 3,500 words.