MN7028 - Breakthrough Leadership Skills (2025/26)
| Module specification | Module approved to run in 2025/26 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Module title | Breakthrough Leadership Skills | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Module level | Masters (07) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit rating for module | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Guildhall School of Business and Law | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total study hours | 200 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Running in 2025/26(Please note that module timeslots are subject to change) |
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Module summary
The module equips students with a range of skills and knowledge essential to thinking and acting effectively as an inclusive leader. Students will review concepts and cases enabling the critical evaluation of organisational and team design for high performance. Increasingly, change and leadership go hand in hand in organisations and leaders constantly need to drive change as part of their role. The module will examine the nature and some of the inherent challenges of organisational change. Students will critically analyse what it means to be a change agent and they will gain the knowledge and understanding needed to design, initiate and lead change in diverse organisational settings.
Organisational culture has been described as the third interdependent element in an organisation alongside its Strategy and Operational model. Students will critically evaluate how Organisational culture can be used by leaders to engage the emotional commitment of workers to the strategy and to the operational logic of different organisations.
Effective leaders need to demonstrate self-confidence and self-awareness. Students will undertake a process of self-evaluation using the Strengthscope tool. They will be able to identify their ‘Significant Seven’ strengths and harness these to construct a personal development plan for career development. The module will also equip students to perform better in the team-working, cross-cultural contexts that are typical of contemporary workplaces and in settings requiring emotional intelligence, enhanced coaching skills and negotiation skills. Critical to the value of the module is the encouragement of continuous learning and reflection.
Prior learning requirements
None
Available for Study Abroad? NO.
Syllabus
· Introduction to leadership (1,2,3)
· Organisational design (2)
· Key leadership processes and modules (2,3)
· Goal setting and achievement (2,3)
· Motivation and Reward for High performance (2,3)
· Leading change (1)
· Leadership skills (1,2,3)
· Working across cultures (1,2)
· Coaching skills (3)
· Negotiation skills (3)
· Diversity and inclusion (1,2,3)
· Breakthrough leadership on action (1,2,3)
Balance of independent study and scheduled teaching activity
Students will attend weekly 3-hour workshops during which time they will receive material in the form of lectures/discussions, discuss case studies and current issues.
WebLearn will be used in support of blended learning to provide the reading list, lecture recordings, additional video material and items of topical interest
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will be able to:
1. Critically evaluate approaches to inclusive leadership within business organisations
2. Demonstrate competency in the use of reflection for critical self-evaluation, learning and change
3. Demonstrate competency in critically evaluating their strengths and planning their own personal development for leadership including team working, inclusion, coaching and negotiation.
Bibliography
https://rl.talis.com/3/londonmet/lists/5FF1F1AE-A552-59D7-1FAA-A8DA913DB561.html?lang=en&login=1
· Journals:
· Academy of Management Journal
· Harvard Business Review
· Human Resource Management International Digest
· Human Resource Management
· Journal of Leadership Studies Journal of Organisational Behavior
· People and Strategy
Websites:
www.globeproject.com