OM6005 Leadership and Management-Oct 2018 intake

Assignment 2
Team presentation and individual reflections on leadership
This is a two-part assessment: Each part’s contribution to module mark is 20% (Total 40%)

Part 1)
A team presentation on an aspect of leadership chosen by your group. You need to provide
the name of the group member to you lecture by first week of March 2019. You must submit
the presentation in Power Points to the Ulearn before your presentation date. IF YOUR
PRESENATION IS ON W/C 11 MARCH YOU NEED TO SUBMITE MONDAY 11TH MARCH
BEFORE 10 AM OR IF IT IS W/C 25 MARCH YOU NEED TO USBMITE ON MODAY 25TH MARCH
BEFORE 10 AM

Part 2)

A 1200-word individual summary and reflection on the topic and group processes involved in
preparing the presentation. You need to submit this part to the Unlearn by Monday 6th May
2019 before 10 AM

Part 1: Team Presentation

This assessment requires you to research and present on a particular aspect of leadership
working in a small team. You should organise yourself into a team of 4 (max 5) people for
preparing the presentation. All group member must contribute to the presentation and talk
for about 5 minutes. The presentation will be in the classroom. Dates are in your handbooks.
There will be a group mark unless there is a problem within the group.

Your presentation should be a clear, engaging and thoughtful introduction to a particular

aspect of leadership – for example challenges in a particular industry or sector, learning from
unusual cases and situations, requirements in particular roles or positions, crossing cultures
or countries, exploring different pathways to lead effectively. You can use examples from
leaders in Industry, political, social, etc.

Part 2: Individual Reflection

This is a 1200 words individual reflection.

A: First part (approximately 600 words) should be a summary in your own words of the key
points being made in your team presentation. You should provide a short overview and a
summary of the main points and conclusions that have been covered in the presentation.
(Please use in-text citations and references using the Harvard referencing style.

B: Second part (approximately 600 words) should reflect on the working process of
producing the group presentation. In this part you should provide a personal reflection of
your group activities detailing the challenges faced, lesson learned, knowledge acquired, and
the skills that you need to improvement in order to enhance future team work.

MARKING CRITERIA FOR TEAM PRESENTATION

Assessment Fail 0 - 39% D 40 - 49% C 50 – 59% B 60 – 69% A 70 -100%
Criteria Poor Quality Pass Quality Fair Quality Good Quality Outstanding
Knowledge and Key concepts are Mostly adequate Demonstrates a Clearly and Authoritative and
Understanding misunderstood. explanations and sound grasp of all convincingly confident coverage
Explanations are coverage of the (or nearly all) of covers the of all the required
often confusing. required elements. the required required elements. elements. Excellent
Little or no relevance Some occasional elements. Very good understanding shown
to themes explored misunderstandings or Satisfactory understanding of relevant concepts
on the modules. confusing understanding shown of relevant and literature, with a
explanations. shown of relevant concepts and clear ability to digest
concepts and literature. and present complex
literature. ideas/arguments.
Analysis and Little or no evidence Attempts to analyse, Some key issues Clear evidence of Very clear evidence
Approach of analysis. Few or but not much identified. analysis. of high quality
no examples or evidence or many Arguments and Arguments backed analysis. Excellent
evidence to back up examples to back up statements are up with effective examples and
statements. content. backed up evidence and evidence provided.
adequately with examples.
evidence and
examples.
Presentation The presentation is The presentation is The presentation is The presentation is The presentation is
skills –Structure, poorly organised. fairly clear. Flow of clear. very clear. Care of an excellent
how fluently The structure is presentation quite The work is well and thought has standard - very
content is confusing. The poor. presented. gone into structure clearly and
expressed, presentation flows and flow of the professionally
dealing with any poorly. presentation. delivered.
questions etc.
Integration and The amount of audio- Audio-visual material Audio-visual Audio-visual Audio-visual material
use of audio- visual content does is integrated material may material is is highly original,
visual and other not meet the ineffectively, and is of contain some inventively used, excellent and
presentation aids assessment brief. a poor standard. original elements, integrated very integrated seamlessly
is integrated well, well, and is of a into the overall
and is of a good very good presentation.
standard. standard.

MARKING CRITERIA FOR INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION

Assessment Fail 0 - 39% D 40 - 49% C 50 – 59% B 60 – 69% A 70 -100%
Criteria Poor Quality Pass Quality Fair Quality Good Quality Outstanding
Summary: Key content areas are Mostly adequate Demonstrates a Clearly explains An authoritative
Quality of written misunderstood. explanations and sound grasp of the the main areas of delivery of the
summary in Explanations are coverage of key range of the the presentation. presentation
communicating often confusing. content areas. Some presentation Coverage is content. Very
presentation Major aspects of minor content. Some balanced and carefully
content content missing. misunderstandings or variability in clearly structured. constructed
missing elements. coverage but main The discussion summary that
points are flows well and is maximises the
 delivered clearly. coherent. range of concepts
delivered within
the word count.
Reflection: No or very little Some aspects of group Clear description Good description Excellent
Quality of personal reflection on the working are described of activities with of group activities description of
reflection in group activities. No or clearly but with some evaluation of and reflection group processes
evaluating group very little analysis of limited analysis. positives and across a range of and dynamics
processes in group processes and Description focuses on negatives. Some technical and extending across a
preparing very limited basic steps. Limited deeper analysis of interpersonal range of issues.
presentation indication of lessons reflection on relevant interpersonal issues. Relevant Report shows deep
learnt. theories but some dimensions. aspects of theory insight into team
lessons learnt. Reflections on are brought into processes and
possible future the discussion. reflects carefully
strategies are Clear lessons are on strategies for
presented and learnt and leadership and
clear lessons evaluation of the directions for the
learnt. process extends future.
across the issues
covered.
Referencing: Major errors in A number of errors in Referencing is Referencing is very Referencing is very
Accuracy and referencing. referencing. mostly accurate, accurate and accurate and is
appropriateness of assists arguments. supports text well. skilfully and
referencing appropriately
throughout used.
Written Major improvements Major improvements Some errors in Hardly any minor No noticeable
Communication: needed in more than need to be made to at spelling, errors in spelling, errors in spelling,
Spelling, one of: spelling, least some of these 4 punctuation, punctuation, punctuation,
punctuation, punctuation, areas: spelling, grammar and grammar and grammar and
grammar and grammar and punctuation, grammar paragraphing, but paragraphing. paragraphing.
paragraphing paragraphing. Hard and paragraphing. these are fairly
to read due to the minor.
amount of errors.